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A working collection of utilities for diligence, market intelligence, and web research. Each tool answers one question fast: paste an input, get an answer, leave with what you need. Built on public data sources.
Diligence & Verification
06 ToolsThe first questions on any deal memo — sanctions, registry standing, trademark conflicts, tax-ID validity, banking standing, non-profit filings. Each tool answers one of them.
Registry Lookup
Verify a company across 27 national registries — UK Companies House, Belgian KBO, German HRB, Dutch KvK — with a single search. Cross-border M&A research without seven open browser tabs.
LEI Lookup
Look up a company’s Legal Entity Identifier — the financial-system standard for "this counterparty is who it says it is." Issuer, status, parent-LEI graph, all sourced directly from GLEIF.
FDIC Bank Lookup
Look up any FDIC-insured bank by name. Returns charter type, total assets, return on assets, capital ratios, regulator, and branch count — the standard pre-deal banking diligence card.
Nonprofit Lookup
Search the IRS 501(c)(3) database for any non-profit entity. Returns EIN, location, NTEE category code, and direct links to recent Form 990 filings via ProPublica’s open mirror.
Trademark Search
Scan Wikidata for well-known existing entities — companies, products, people — using a candidate name. First-pass conflict signal before naming a product, practice, or fund.
VAT Validator
Verify EU VAT numbers and resolve to registered company name. Useful for B2B billing operations and pre-contract sanity checks across the Atlantic.
Records & Filings
05 ToolsPrimary-source government records — sanctions lists, insider transactions, court dockets, donor history, patents, enforcement actions, OSHA inspections, aircraft registry. The data the room cites, sourced direct.
SEC Form 4 Insider Activity
Pull recent Form 4 insider transactions (officers, directors, 10%+ holders) for any US public company. Sourced direct from SEC EDGAR submissions API — pre-investor-call read.
Federal Court Cases
Search every federal court opinion and docket the Free Law Project has indexed. Litigation history, judges, citations — the layer PACER charges per page for.
FEC Donor Lookup
Federal political contributions by individual donor — amount, date, recipient committee, employer, occupation. Pre-meeting context layer on a counterparty's politics.
EPA Enforcement (ECHO)
Federal environmental enforcement on a facility — Clean Water, Clean Air, RCRA hazardous waste. Quarters in non-compliance, formal action count, total penalties. Industrial-deal diligence layer.
FAA Aircraft Registry
Look up any U.S.-registered aircraft by N-number. Manufacturer, model, year, owner, status — direct from the FAA aircraft inquiry database.
Federal & Market Intel
11 ToolsWhere the signal lives — federal contracts, regulatory motion, public-company filings, lobbying disclosures, healthcare data, labor stats. The data the room is acting on, sourced direct.
Federal Contract Lookup
Pull every federal award for any company by name, NAICS, or agency. See exactly how a vendor sells into Washington before the first call.
Regulatory Radar
Filter the Federal Register for cybersecurity, FedRAMP, CMMC, and IT-services rules in motion. Read the regulation that's about to land before your competitors do.
SEC Filings Watch
Track 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, and S-1 filings for any public IT-services company or peer. Competitor intelligence in thirty seconds, sourced directly from EDGAR.
EDGAR Full-Text Search
Search any phrase across every SEC filing — 10-Ks, 10-Qs, 8-Ks, proxies, S-1s. Find which companies are saying what about a risk, a customer, a competitor, or a technology. Filings Watch by company; this is by phrase.
Lobbying Search
Search the Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act database — registrants, clients, issue codes, and quarterly contribution amounts. The legal record of who is paying to influence federal policy.
FEMA Disasters
Every federally-declared disaster, filterable by state and incident type. For MSPs serving regulated buyers in healthcare, utilities, and government, the federal continuity signal that matters.
CMS Hospital Lookup
Look up any Medicare-certified hospital — ownership type, address, beds, quality measures. Healthcare-vertical vendor diligence sourced directly from CMS.
BLS Labor Stats
Pull any Bureau of Labor Statistics time series — CPI by category, wages by occupation, employment by industry/MSA, productivity. Macro grounding for any thesis post.
FRED Economic Series
Pull any St. Louis Fed FRED time series — Fed Funds Rate, CPI, unemployment, GDP, M2, treasury yields, real wages. The macro grounding layer.
EIA Energy Series
Pull U.S. EIA time series — WTI crude, Henry Hub gas, retail gasoline, electricity prices, generation mix. Energy-deal context layer.
Forex Rates
Live exchange rates for any base currency against 160+ counter currencies. Daily-refreshed reference rates for invoice FX, deal modeling, cross-border math.
Security & Network
05 ToolsVendor risk and infrastructure intel — known vulnerabilities by product, exploited-in-the-wild catalogs, IP/ASN ownership, hosting and routing data. The cybersecurity-literate diligence layer.
CVE Lookup
Search the National Vulnerability Database for any CVE, vendor, or product. Returns severity, CVSS score, affected systems, and references — the vendor-risk check every MSP runs before onboarding.
IP / ASN Intel
Resolve any IP or domain to its ASN, network owner, allocation history, and routing announcements via RIPE NCC. The infrastructure-truth layer behind a vendor’s marketing site.
CISA KEV Catalog
CVE Lookup tells you what's known. KEV tells you what attackers are actively using right now. Filter the federal Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list by vendor, product, or CVE — including the ransomware-known flag.
HTTP Headers Audit
Run an HTTP security-headers audit on any public site — CSP, HSTS, frame options, cookies, referrer policy. Letter-grade score from Mozilla Observatory; vendor-risk pre-screen.
SSL/TLS Grade
Qualys SSL Labs grade for any HTTPS site — TLS version, cipher suites, cert chain. Cached scans return instantly; fresh scans take ~60-90s with live polling.
Industry & Sector Intel
05 ToolsSector-specific signals for vertical diligence — FDA drug and device recalls, NHTSA vehicle recalls and VIN decoding. The data healthcare and transport investors actually want before a meeting.
FDA Drug Recalls
Search active drug recalls and enforcement actions by manufacturer or product. See classification (Class I/II/III), reason, distribution scope, and FDA report date. Healthcare-vertical diligence sourced direct from openFDA.
FDA Device Recalls
Same shape, medical devices. Filter by manufacturer or product code, see recalling firm, classification, root cause, and FDA determination. The other half of the healthcare-recall picture.
NHTSA Vehicle Recalls
Pull every recall for a make / model / year combination. NHTSA campaign IDs, components affected, remedy, manufacturer notice. Fleet, auto-vertical, and dealership-services diligence.
NHTSA VIN Decoder
Decode any 17-character VIN to its manufacturer-spec sheet — make, model, year, body class, drivetrain, engine, gross vehicle weight. Quick win for fleet, insurance, and auto-vertical research.
Clinical Trials
Search every registered clinical trial in the US public registry. Phase, status, enrollment, primary completion date. The pre-meeting read on a biotech deal.
Reference & Research
06 ToolsBackground-context tools — academic papers and authors, medical literature, country profiles. The "is this person credible / is this country what I think it is" layer.
Academic Paper Search
Search the Crossref DOI registry — every academic paper across every publisher, by title, author, or keyword. Verify research claims in a pitch deck before the call, not after.
Researcher Profile
Look up a researcher's h-index, citation count, top works, and current institution via OpenAlex. KOL diligence and founder background-check for biotech, deep-tech, and academic-spinout deals.
PubMed Lookup
Search the NCBI PubMed corpus for medical literature by keyword, author, or condition. Title, journal, year, abstract preview, direct PMID link — for healthcare-vertical due diligence.
Country Profile
Quick country fact sheet — capital, population, currencies, languages, region, timezone, borders, calling code. Cross-border M&A reference layer that complements VAT Validator and Registry Lookup.
World Bank Indicators
Pull GDP, inflation, population, life expectancy, debt-to-GDP, and 1,400+ other country-level indicators. Cross-border M&A macro layer, sourced direct.
Address & Place Geocoder
Geocode an address, ZIP, or place name to lat/lon coordinates. Reverse-lookup any coordinate pair. Sourced from OpenStreetMap's Nominatim community service.
Web & Brand Intel
04 ToolsThe vibe-check layer — what does this URL render, who owns this domain, what did the page look like a year ago. Quick reads before deeper work.
URL Safety Scan
Paste any URL, get a screenshot, redirect chain, and threat verdict. The check every MSP runs — embedded here so you don't have to leave the page.
Site Preview
Extract structured metadata, OG image, and tech-stack signals from any website. Vendor vibe-check in one paste.
Domain Lookup
Inspect a domain registration data and find similar registered names. Brand monitoring and typosquat awareness for any name you care about.
Wayback Lookup
Find the closest archived snapshot of any URL on a given date. See what a competitor’s landing page actually said two years ago, or audit your own claims over time.