Q1
IDENTITY — Which company or person does this record actually refer to?
Names and transliterations
EDRPOU and identifiers
Current and historical status
01The Ukraine thesis
Ukraine holds an unusually complete public record: ownership, officers, procurement, courts, tax, financial statements and sanctions are all documented.
The advantage belongs to whoever assembles it. Resolve those records to a single company or person, read them in Ukrainian, set them side by side, and the commercial reality behind a counterparty comes into view.
The information is there. Assembling it, and establishing what it means, is the work.
02The angle
Assembled record, read from inside the country.
Two things are required to read a Ukrainian counterparty, and they are rarely held together. The first is the record itself, resolved across inconsistent sources to one company or one person, with the source and date attached to every fact. The second is presence: people in Kyiv who read the sources in the original, and who can go and establish what the record leaves open.
Databases assembled abroad have the first without the second. Advisers on the ground have the second without the first. Ukraine 1 is being built to hold both, so that a finding can be traced to its source and, where the source runs out, to the person who went and checked.
Ukraine 1 is where the intelligence capability is built. Strategy — what the facts mean and what follows — and operations — the command to act and establish on the ground — sit around it, and neither carries far without it.
10Source families
DatedSource provenance
UA/ENNative-language sourcing
KyivOperating presence
Kyiv operations and Ukrainian technical leadership. This is what is in place today, and the ground the remainder is built on.
03How we work
From EDRPOU to determination.
The internal workflow for collection, signal review and assessment history. Every determination is reviewed before it is handed over; workspace access is invitation-only.
04What it establishes
Six questions it is being built to answer.
Answer these and Ukraine becomes legible. They are the standing brief for the build, and every answer must rest on evidence a committee can inspect.
Q2
CONTROL — Who ultimately controls it, and through which chain?
Ownership chains
Current and former relationships
Unresolved ownership
Q3
PERFORMANCE — Who has supplied, performed or won what?
Procurement history
Financial position
Evidence of capacity
Q4
CONNECTION — Who is commercially and institutionally connected to whom?
Courts and public records
Sanctions information
Institutional connections
Q5
POSITION — Where are capabilities and commercial positions forming?
Sector and regional patterns
Award and delivery records
Emerging counterparties
Q6
MEANING — What has materially changed, and what does it mean?
Dated evidence
Material developments
Uncertainty and gaps
The first five are established from evidence. The sixth is judgement, and it is answered with the client rather than for them.
05How it works
From a name to an inspectable evidence file.
Three steps behind every read: resolve the entity, connect its relationships, establish what the evidence supports. Where the record leaves a question open, our people in Kyiv go and answer it.
RESOLVE
QUERY · COMPANY / PERSON / EDRPOU
Resolved entity
Identifier · name · source match
Records across every source are matched to one company or person, through Ukrainian names, transliterations and identifiers.
CONNECT
CompanyPersonSubject
Relationships are traced across entities while current and historical links remain distinct.
ESTABLISH
EVIDENCE FILE
FACTS · SOURCES · DATES
Connections · material changes · gaps · confidence · next questions
You are told what is established, what is inferred, and what is still open — each with its source and its date.
06Sources
What we collect today.
Ten Ukrainian and international source families, read in the original language. Coverage and update cadence travel with every finding, so you always know how current a fact is.
See how those sources fit into a reproducible decision record in the Ukraine counterparty verification guide.
EDR registry (Unified State Register)
Prozorro procurement
OpenSanctions
NACP asset declarations
Court register (ЄДРСР)
NAZK corruption register
DPS tax & ESV debt
DPS financial statements
Minjust bankruptcy register
GDELT adverse media
The standard we build to: every claim carries its source, every attribution rests on a resolved identity.
07Current module
The first module, published in full.
The first module to reach working state: 27 rules covering company status, ownership and control, sanctions exposure, conduct and financial capacity. Every rule is set out below with its definition, severity and sources. We publish the method so it can be judged, and so a finding can be traced back to the rule that produced it.
Current signal reference · 27 rules
08What it is worth
What it is being built to change.
The capability earns its place when it changes an outcome: a deal signed at the right price, a committee satisfied, a position taken while it is still available. Four applications are under examination first.
01
Commit capital with the ownership chain established.
Lenders
Investors
Underwriters
02
Trade with a counterparty whose record you have actually seen.
Traders
Factors
Forfaiters
03
Award and subcontract to companies with the capacity to deliver.
Reconstruction
Industrial contractors
Public programmes
04
Find the partner, supplier or target before the market prices it.
Market entrants
M&A advisers
Portfolio holders
The work is delivered today as focused research, a scoped prototype or a commissioned investigation, shaped around the question at hand while we establish which of these warrants becoming a standing product.
09Work with us
Start a conversation.
Tell us what you are looking at and what needs to be established. Where the question warrants it, we will answer it — and you will see on your own case what better information is worth.
Salient One · Kyiv
Managing Partner · Technical Partner