The structural data gap
Since 2022, controlled goods flow into Russia through CIS hubs via parallel imports. But there are no mandatory customs declarations between Eurasian-Union countries - so the diversion leg never generates the record incumbents depend on.
Incumbents index ownership, shipping and customs records well. Inside the EAEU corridor, that coverage collapses - and that blind band is exactly where the diversion happens.
From listing to evidence chain
We turn a single marketplace listing into a defensible, archived chain a compliance officer can act on. The scraper isn't the product; the resolution methodology is.
Match BIS High-Priority part numbers against regional marketplaces as they appear for sale.
HS 8542.31 · Kaspi.kzNormalize multilingual seller identities across platforms into one resolved actor.
seller_id → entityLink the seller to its registered company, owners and recent corporate changes.
owner · registry ΔHuman-reviewed risk indicator with a timestamped, archived evidentiary record.
risk: elevated ⚑The un-occupied intersection
The Western compliance world sees ownership and shipping - but has weak visibility into what's appearing for sale inside regional marketplaces and who the sellers are.
That intersection - Western-compliance-facing × marketplace-native - is empty. That's the opening we validate before we build.
// a gap exists ≠ a gap that's easy to monetize. Hence: validate first.
Who pays - by card & invoice
Priority order set by go-to-market. "Would pay" is weak signal - handing us their part numbers is the strong one.
Why now
Comparables & landscape
Sells Russia sanctions-evasion detection to NYT, Bloomberg, government. Blind to the intra-EAEU corridor - our wedge.
Trade / ownership risk graph, US-gov customers. Too big to fight head-on - a potential buyer of our feed.
Selected by the US Treasury. Signals durable government demand for this category.
Built by a solo founder into a compliance / journalism standard over ~a decade. Reputation is the moat.
The defensible asset
Anyone can scrape the same page today. Nobody can retro-actively acquire two years of archived listings, resolved identities and human-reviewed case labels.
Historical listing archives, part/model normalization, seller→company→owner→RU-entity resolution, alert accuracy tuned by customer feedback - compounding into defensible evidentiary records.
Guardrails - credibility is part of the product
We surface signals and evidence chains. We never claim we've proven a legal verdict.
Public sources only, everything archived for a defensible record.
Western entity, early sanctions-lawyer read, domain advisor recruited early.
Any Russia-based person kept away from Western-government-facing work.
A product's availability is a starting indicator, not a conclusion. Our output stops at "elevated risk - review" and hands over the evidence chain.
✕ we never output: "this entity is guilty"Financial staging - slow-trust, high-value
Validation phase - not a company yet
Manufacturers, compliance-intelligence vendors and investigators: bring 15-25 part numbers and we'll build the evidence pack. If the signal doesn't move a decision, you'll know in two weeks.