What's new.
Product updates, new jurisdictions, and platform improvements.
Ownership Chain Resolution — 50% Affiliate Rule
Embargo now resolves the corporate ownership chain behind every screened entity. When a parent company is itself restricted, the subsidiary is flagged under the OFAC 50% Affiliate Rule — the same standard that catches designated parties who shift assets to controlled subsidiaries. Ownership data is sourced from GLEIF (for LEI-registered entities) and supplemented by Claude inference for entities without a Legal Entity Identifier. Parent relationships and confidence levels are shown on every entity profile.
AI Entity Intelligence Notes
Every entity profile now includes an AI-generated analyst note explaining why the entity was designated, what sector it affects, and what the exposure means for your supply chain — grounded exclusively in the regulatory source data, never inference. The note is structured as a risk headline plus a plain-English analysis, written at the level of a sanctions specialist. All 50,000+ entities in the registry have been enriched.
UK OFSI and UN Consolidated List now in the registry
The entity registry expands to cover the UK Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) Consolidated List and the UN Security Council Consolidated List. UK and UN designations are now merged into the same unified registry as US, EU, Japan, Dutch, and German lists — with cross-jurisdiction risk scoring, native-script aliases, and daily sync. Entities designated by multiple authorities now reflect their full cross-jurisdictional exposure.
Entity profiles indexed — structured data and public pages
All 50,000+ entity profiles are now publicly accessible and indexed by search engines, with structured JSON-LD data for entity name, country, risk classification, and designation history. Each profile page includes a canonical URL, Open Graph metadata, and a full timeline of list appearances. The sitemap is generated dynamically and submitted to Google Search Console.
Registry deduplication — stable entity identities
The entity registry has been deduplicated across all source lists. Entities that appeared as separate records due to name-format variants (surname-first vs. first-name-first, punctuation differences) are now merged into a single canonical record with a stable URL. Watchlists, screening history, and ownership links are preserved across the merge. The same normalization now applies to all future syncs.
ECCN Product Profiles — 'Affects your products'
Declare the ECCNs your organisation ships (Settings → Products You Ship) — pick from a curated catalog of 35 semiconductor, computing, and telecom classifications or enter any ECCN directly. Alerts that cite one of your ECCNs are badged 'Affects your products' with the matching codes shown, and your product profile feeds the watchlist filter. Detection is a literal citation match in the regulation text — never inference — so every badge is traceable to the exact ECCN in the source.
EU Consolidated Sanctions List joins the registry
Entity screening now covers the EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List — nearly 6,000 EU-designated persons and entities, with native-script aliases (Cyrillic, Arabic) and designation dates, merged into the same registry as the US lists. An entity sanctioned by both the US and the EU now shows true cross-jurisdiction presence and a correspondingly higher risk score. The EU list is synced daily by the same deterministic diff that tracks the US lists.
Daily list diff — deterministic change detection
The entity registry now syncs against the US Consolidated Screening List every day using a deterministic diff: every entity added to or removed from any of the 13 monitored lists is detected by direct comparison — not AI summarisation — and recorded as an alert plus a dated entry on the entity's profile timeline. Entity records now keep stable identities across syncs, so watchlists and screening history are preserved as lists evolve.
Screening Evidence Reports
Every bulk screening is now stored as an immutable session — who screened, when, which file, and the full per-name outcome. The Compliance Journal (new in the dashboard nav) lists every screening your organisation has ever run, and each bulk session links to a print-ready Evidence Report you can hand to an auditor: organisation, screener, UTC timestamp, record ID, per-name risk outcomes, and the screening methodology. Automated daily re-screens appear in the same trail.
Continuous Counterparty Monitoring
Bulk screening is no longer one-shot. After screening a CSV of counterparties, click 'Monitor these counterparties' and Embargo re-screens the list against the registry every day — emailing you the moment a monitored name is newly added to a restricted list. Every automated re-screen is logged to your screening audit trail.
Full Consolidated Screening List coverage + public data status
The entity registry now ingests all 13 lists from the US Consolidated Screening List — OFAC SDN, Sectoral Sanctions, CMIC, ITAR Debarred, and Nonproliferation Sanctions join the BIS lists — growing the registry from ~6,000 to ~19,000 entities with countries, aliases, and cross-list risk scoring. A new public Data Status page shows the freshness of every feed we monitor, updated in real time.
Adverse Media Intelligence
Entity profiles now include a Media Intelligence section that automatically surfaces news and reports mentioning the entity in a compliance context — sanctions, enforcement actions, fraud, and dual-use concerns — sourced from global news feeds and classified by relevance score. Pre-list signal intelligence now available on every entity profile.
Bulk CSV Screening
Upload a CSV of up to 500 company names and screen every entry against the full 8-jurisdiction entity registry in one operation. Results are risk-ranked and downloadable. Available to Team plan subscribers from the Screening page.
AI-powered plain-English summaries
Every alert now includes an AI-generated 2-sentence summary rewriting complex regulatory language into plain English a compliance manager can scan in 5 seconds. Powered by Claude (Anthropic).
Entity Directory
A searchable, watchlist-aware directory of every entity that has appeared in an alert across all 9 jurisdictions. Each entity has a dedicated profile page showing its full alert history, jurisdiction coverage, and risk badges. Accessible from the dashboard under Entities.
The Embargo Brief
Weekly analyst-written intelligence for semiconductor export compliance teams. Each edition covers what changed in the regulatory landscape that week, what it means for chip exporters, and what to watch next — in plain English, written for compliance managers rather than regulators. Available at /brief.
Entity Screener
Screen any company name against the full historical alert database across all 9 monitored jurisdictions. Results show exact entity matches from BIS Entity List additions, OFAC designations, and German BAFA circulars, as well as broader mentions across Federal Register, EU OJ, UK ECJU, Japan METI, and Dutch MOCIT alerts. Available from the dashboard under Screening.
Compliance Report generator
Export a print-ready 90-day compliance activity report directly from your dashboard. Includes a monitoring statement, jurisdiction coverage summary, and alert breakdown by severity — formatted for internal audits and external counsel.
Slack integration
Connect a Slack incoming webhook from your Settings page. New alerts are posted to your chosen channel automatically, with jurisdiction badge, action type, and a direct link to the alert in your dashboard.
Japan METI and Dutch MOCIT pipelines live
Two new jurisdiction pipelines are now active. Japan METI (FEFTA) covers semiconductor manufacturing equipment export controls. Dutch MOCIT covers advanced lithography equipment, including ASML-relevant notices. Both are included in all plans at no additional cost.
Keyword watchlist
Add keywords to your organisation's watchlist from the Settings page. Matching alerts are highlighted in your inbox and can be filtered to show watchlist-only results. Watchlist matches are also tracked in the Today's Brief summary panel.
Embargo launches
Initial launch covering four jurisdictions: US BIS Entity List, US Federal Register (EAR), EU Official Journal, and UK ECJU. Includes the alert inbox, today's brief panel, jurisdiction settings, and email digest delivery via Resend.
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