Unicorn Intelligence: the complete guide to sanctions screening, company dossiers, regulatory, competitor and tender monitoring
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In short
- Unicorn Intelligence is a self-service platform with five services: sanctions and counterparty screening, dossiers on private companies, regulatory monitoring, competitor and startup intelligence, and international public tenders.
- Every match, news item and notice shows its official source and date, so your team can verify it in one click.
- You sign in with your business email or a Google or Apple account: $50 of free usage to get started, no card required. Then you continue pay as you go, charged every week, or choose a subscription.
- Results arrive in the dashboard, by email, by REST API and by signed webhook, with an audit log of every review decision.
- It is an information tool: decisions and legal obligations remain with your company.
Most companies already know they should check who they do business with, follow the rules that apply to them and keep an eye on competitors and public contracts. The hard part is doing it every day, with the same care, without a team reading hundreds of sources.
This guide explains what each Unicorn Intelligence service does, who uses it, why it matters, how it works from the first sign in to the API, and what it costs.
What Unicorn Intelligence is
Unicorn Intelligence is a B2B information platform by Unicorn Private LLC. It collects official and open sources, compares them with what matters to your company and tells you when something needs attention.
Everything is self-service. You sign in, add your names or your monitoring profile, and the checks run on schedule. There is no setup project and no contract to negotiate: standard terms, a data processing agreement and a DORA appendix are accepted online.
The interface, summaries and briefings are available in 16 languages, so teams in different countries can work on the same account.
The five services at a glance
| Service | What you get | Typical users |
|---|---|---|
| Sanctions and counterparty screening | Your customers, suppliers and partners compared every day with official sanctions lists, open sources on politically exposed persons and insolvency, and adverse news | Compliance, finance, procurement, sales |
| Dossiers on private companies | A PDF and JSON report in minutes: registers, sanctions, news, funding rounds, web presence and risk signals | Onboarding, procurement, corporate development |
| Regulatory monitoring | Official journals and authorities filtered on your profile and summarized in your language | Legal, compliance, public affairs |
| Competitor and startup intelligence | Weekly briefing and alerts on funding, products, hiring, patents and pricing changes of the companies you follow | Strategy, product, marketing |
| International public tenders | Tenders matched to what you sell, with translated summary, value, deadline and documents | Sales and bid teams |
Why companies need these checks
Sanctions apply to everyone
Sanctions are adopted by national governments, by regional bodies such as the European Union and by the United Nations Security Council. They can forbid dealing with listed people and companies, and with companies they own or control. In several jurisdictions penalties can apply even when a company did not know it was dealing with a listed party.
Lists change often. A customer that was clean at onboarding can be designated months later, which is why a one-time check is rarely enough.
Due diligence on counterparties
Anti money laundering rules in many countries require regulated companies to identify their business customers and understand who they are, a process often called KYB (know your business). Supply chain laws and large buyers increasingly ask the same of suppliers. A documented check, with source and date, is what auditors and partners usually ask to see.
Rules change every week
New laws, implementing acts and guidance are published in official journals every working day. Missing one can mean a late product change or a missed deadline. Monitoring the sources that matter to you, in a language your team reads, keeps the work manageable.
Markets and tenders move fast
Competitors raise money, launch products and change prices. Public buyers publish tenders with fixed deadlines. Finding them early leaves time to react and to prepare a good bid.
How it works, step by step
- Sign in. Use your business email (a single-use link valid for 20 minutes, no password) or a Google or Apple account.
- Start with $50 of free usage, no card required. For business email accounts it is given once per domain and is valid 90 days. Every use is counted at the pay as you go prices.
- Add your names. Paste a list, upload a CSV file or sync by API. You can also check a single name instantly without saving it.
- Set your monitoring profiles. Choose countries or areas, sectors, keywords, competitors, procurement codes and languages.
- Let the daily checks run. Lists and sources are updated and compared on schedule. You are alerted only when something new appears.
- Review matches. Each potential match has a score from 0 to 1 and the reasons behind it. Confirm or clear it with a note.
- Keep the audit log. Every decision is recorded with user, time and note, and can be exported as CSV for your auditors.
- Order dossiers. Enter a company name, and optionally its website, country or LEI. The PDF and JSON report is ready in minutes.
- Read briefings and alerts. Every Monday you receive a briefing for regulation, competitors and tenders, plus alerts by email (instant, daily summary or off).
- Connect your systems. Use the REST API with an API key, documented with OpenAPI, and webhooks signed with HMAC SHA-256.
Invite colleagues by email as admin (billing, team, API keys) or member (daily work). There is no limit on users.
Sanctions and counterparty screening
Upload your customers, suppliers and partners once. Every day they are compared with official sanctions and restricted party lists published by public authorities, with open official sources on politically exposed persons and insolvency where they exist, and with adverse news in 16 languages.
Matching works on names, aliases and transliterations, so a name written in another alphabet or with a different spelling is still found. You see the score and the reasons for each match, then decide.
The lists actually loaded, with their update date and number of entries, are shown below and on the status page. We do not describe lists that are not loaded.
Screening lists loaded today
| OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List | updated October 29, 2026 | 19,484 entries |
| OFAC Consolidated Sanctions List (non-SDN) | updated October 29, 2026 | 486 entries |
| EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List | updated October 29, 2026 | 6,269 entries |
| United Nations Security Council Consolidated List | updated October 29, 2026 | 1,007 entries |
| UK Sanctions List | updated October 29, 2026 | 6,418 entries |
| U.S. Consolidated Screening List (BIS Entity List, Denied Persons, Unverified, Military End User; State ITAR Debarred, Nonproliferation) | updated October 29, 2026 | 6,213 entries |
| UFLPA Entity List (forced labor) | updated October 29, 2026 | 191 entries |
Read more: why sanctions screening should run every day.
Dossiers on private companies
A dossier collects in one document what you would otherwise search in many places: identity from open registers (GLEIF LEI, SEC EDGAR and open European business registers), a sanctions check on the company and on the names found, recent news and adverse media, funding rounds and reported valuations from Unicorn Watch, web presence and risk signals.
Every item is explained and linked to its source and date. The dossier is written in the language you choose and comes as PDF for your file and JSON for your systems.
Read more: company dossiers and due diligence on suppliers and customers.
Regulatory monitoring
The service reads official journals and authorities with open feeds every day, such as EUR-Lex, the Federal Register, legislation.gov.uk, Gazzetta Ufficiale, Légifrance (JORF), BGBl and BOE. It filters new items on your countries or areas, sectors and keywords.
Each item comes with a summary in your language and a direct link to the official text, in the weekly briefing and as alerts.
Read more: automated regulatory monitoring in your language.
Competitor and startup intelligence
Follow the companies and sectors that matter to you without reading hundreds of sources: funding rounds and reported valuations from Unicorn Watch, new products, press releases, job postings as a signal of where a company invests, patents and changes to pricing pages.
Every Monday you receive a briefing in your language, and alerts when something important happens.
Read more: competitor and startup intelligence.
International public tenders
Tenders from TED (European Union), SAM.gov (United States) and open national portals are matched to your profiles on keywords, CPV procurement codes, countries and minimum value.
For each tender you see a summary translated into your language, the value and currency, the submission deadline and direct links to the notice and the documents.
Read more: how to find public tenders early.
Prices
There are two ways to pay. With pay as you go there is no monthly fee and no minimum: when the $50 of free usage is over, you add a card and pay only for what you use, charged every Monday for the previous week, earlier if usage passes $1,000 within a week. You can set an optional weekly spending cap.
| Unit | Price |
|---|---|
| Monitored name, per month | $25 |
| Dossier, for each complete dossier generated | $690 |
| Country or area, per month (Regulation) | $900 |
| Competitor, per month (Sector) | $300 |
| Tender search profile, per month (Tenders) | $300 |
| API calls | $90 per 1,000 API calls, counted one by one ($0.09 per call) |
With a subscription you choose a service or a package. Monthly plans are paid by card and renew automatically; you can cancel whenever you want. Annual plans cost 10 months for 12, by card or bank transfer.
| Service | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|
| Screening Base | $1,500 | $15,000 |
| Screening Business | $2,500 | $25,000 |
| Screening Enterprise | $4,000 | $40,000 |
| Dossier 10 | $3,900 | $39,000 |
| Sector | $2,000 | $20,000 |
| Regulation 3 | $1,500 | $15,000 |
| Regulation 10 | $3,500 | $35,000 |
| Tenders | $900 | $9,000 |
| Sanctions and third parties package | $2,400 | $24,000 |
| Compliance package | $3,900 | $39,000 |
| Market and growth package | $3,400 | $34,000 |
| Complete package | $9,900 | $99,000 |
Prices in US dollars from the pricing page on October 29, 2026, taxes excluded where applicable. The pricing page always shows the current prices.
A single dossier can also be bought for $490, one-time payment, from the dashboard. A company uses either pay as you go or a subscription. See all details on the pricing page.
Security, data and procurement
The service runs on Cloudflare; payments are handled by Stripe and never reach our systems. Traffic uses HTTPS with TLS 1.2 or higher, data at rest is encrypted by the storage provider, and API keys and sign-in links are stored only as hashes.
Your data is not used to train models. After cancellation it is deleted within 30 days, except invoices and records that must be kept by law.
Your security and procurement teams find the sub-processors, the documents and a filled-in security questionnaire on the security page.
What Unicorn Intelligence does not do
Unicorn Intelligence is an information tool. It finds, organizes and documents information from official and open sources. It does not decide for you whether to work with a counterparty, it does not replace your legal advice and it does not make your company compliant.
Always verify a potential match on the official source before acting. Decisions and legal obligations, including sanctions compliance, due diligence and tender participation, remain with your company.
Frequently asked questions
What is Unicorn Intelligence?
A self-service B2B information platform by Unicorn Private LLC with five services: sanctions and counterparty screening, dossiers on private companies, regulatory monitoring, competitor and startup intelligence, and international public tenders. Every item shows its official source and date.
How do I start without a card?
Sign in with your business email or a Google or Apple account. You get $50 of free usage to get started, no card required: for business email accounts, once per domain, valid 90 days. When it is over, add a card to continue pay as you go or choose a subscription.
Which screening lists are used?
Official sanctions and restricted party lists published by public authorities. The lists actually loaded, with update date and number of entries, are shown live on the screening page and on the status page.
Can we connect Unicorn Intelligence to our systems?
Yes. There is a REST API with key, documented with an OpenAPI specification, and webhooks signed with HMAC SHA-256 for alerts and results.
Does the service make us compliant?
No tool can do that on its own. Unicorn Intelligence is an information tool: it helps your team find and document information, while decisions and legal obligations remain with your company.
Do we need to sign a contract or book a meeting?
No. Everything is online: you sign in, accept the standard terms and start. There are no meetings and no custom contracts.
Unicorn Intelligence is an information tool. Decisions and legal obligations, including sanctions compliance, due diligence and tender participation, remain with the customer.
Try Unicorn Intelligence: $50 of free usage to get started, no card required
Valid 90 days. For company accounts, once per email domain. Then add a card to continue pay as you go, or choose a subscription.