About Red Flags
Built from the problems traditional due diligence often misses.
Red Flags Verification was created to help businesses investigate the companies and counterparties behind commercial opportunities before trust, contracts or money change hands.
What began with lessons from international trade has evolved into a broader business intelligence and risk verification platform.
Separate signals
- Registry information01
- Tax / VAT identifiers02
- Contact records03
- Website details04
- Sanctions & compliance screening05
One structured verification report
Compared, cross-checked and explained — including what could not be verified.
Origin
The problem came before the product.
Red Flags Verification began with around eight years of experience in the commodity industry, where a significant amount of time was spent sourcing and evaluating international counterparties.
A particularly important learning period came from roughly two years spent trying to source Brazilian chicken products for buyers in China. That work exposed recurring patterns in how questionable counterparties, fake offers and potentially fraudulent transactions tend to present themselves.
Over time, common denominators became apparent across very different deals and companies. The recurring problem was not simply that information was unavailable. The bigger problem was that important information existed in separate places, and inconsistencies between those places were easy to miss.
- How it developed
Industry experience
International commodity sourcing and counterparty evaluation.
Pattern recognition
Recurring inconsistencies and scam indicators become identifiable.
Red Flags Verification
Structured automated company and counterparty verification.
Business Intelligence & Risk Verification
Broader platform direction.
Real-world lessons
Patterns repeat.
Across international business, warning signs usually appear in combinations rather than as one obvious signal.
- Company details that do not align across sources
- Websites that appear more established than the underlying business
- Registration or tax information that does not match what was submitted
- Directors or contacts whose relationship to a company is hard to support
- Addresses that raise questions
- Documentation that appears credible in isolation but conflicts with other information
- Payment structures that require greater scrutiny
- Sanctions or compliance concerns
- Newly established digital infrastructure around supposedly long-established businesses
One inconsistency may have an innocent explanation. Several inconsistencies together can tell a very different story.
Why we built it
The goal was simple: bring the evidence together.
Traditional due diligence often requires users to search multiple sources manually and interpret each of them separately. Important detail gets lost in the gaps between those sources.
Red Flags Verification is designed to support your own due diligence process, not to replace professional due diligence, legal advice or regulatory obligations.
- 01Bring available business intelligence together
- 02Compare submitted information against independent information
- 03Highlight consistency and inconsistency
- 04Surface risk indicators
- 05Distinguish unavailable information from contradictory information
- 06Present findings in one structured report
- 07Help the user decide what requires further investigation
Founded by Sam Cutting
Founder, Red Flags Verification
Sam Cutting has worked in the commodity industry for approximately eight years, with experience in international sourcing, counterparty assessment and commercial due diligence.
Repeated exposure to difficult-to-verify businesses, inconsistent company information and attempted scams helped shape the methodology behind Red Flags Verification.
The objective was to turn those practical lessons into a structured verification platform that businesses outside the commodity sector could also use.
A lesson, not a case study
When paperwork isn't enough.
We became aware of a transaction where a company had a letter of credit issued in connection with a seller in Brazil for six containers of chicken paws.
The lesson was not about that specific transaction. It was that the presence of formal banking or trade documentation should not automatically cause a buyer to stop investigating the underlying company, transaction and counterparties.
Formal documentation can reduce certain risks, but it does not remove the need to verify the parties behind the transaction.
Principles
How we think verification should work.
- 01
Evidence before assumptions
The platform should distinguish what can be supported from what cannot.
- 02
Inconsistency matters
Information is more useful when data points are compared rather than presented in isolation.
- 03
Unavailable is not negative
Missing data should not automatically become a red flag.
- 04
Explain the finding
Users should understand why a signal matters, not just receive a score.
- 05
No false certainty
Verification can reduce uncertainty but cannot eliminate commercial risk.
Direction
Beyond one-off company checks.
Red Flags Verification is developing into a broader Business Intelligence & Risk Verification platform.
Available today
Company & Counterparty Verification
Structured verification reports covering business and compliance intelligence for a single company or counterparty.
Future direction — not available today
- Planned
Continuous Business Monitoring
Ongoing detection of meaningful changes in companies already verified.
- Planned
Digital Exposure Intelligence
Helping individuals and businesses understand where sensitive information is publicly exposed and where new exposure appears.
- Planned
Broader Risk Intelligence
Additional signals that help users assess companies, counterparties and commercial relationships over time.
Planned capabilities are in development or under consideration. They are not part of the product today, and no release dates are published.
Who we build for
Built for people making real commercial decisions.
Procurement & Supply Chain
Teams evaluating new suppliers and vendors.
Finance & Compliance
Teams reviewing businesses and counterparties before exposure.
International Trade
Buyers, sellers, brokers and service providers operating across borders.
SMEs & Professional Services
Businesses that need practical verification without building an internal intelligence function.
Transparency
Verification should create clarity, not false confidence.
Red Flags Verification does not claim to:
- Guarantee that a company is legitimate
- Detect every form of fraud
- Replace legal advice
- Replace regulatory compliance obligations
- Eliminate commercial risk
- Make decisions on behalf of the user
Instead, the platform is designed to give users better evidence before they make those decisions themselves.
Trust should follow verification — not replace it.
Investigate the business, review the evidence and make your commercial decision with more information.