Sayari

Market position

Sayari positions itself in commercial risk intelligence and economic security, competing with screening and business-data providers such as ComplyAdvantage, Dun & Bradstreet and S&P Global, and cited alongside blockchain forensics firms Chainalysis and Elliptic. It emphasizes differentiation on verifiability and provenance rather than raw data volume, and reports adoption across major banks, U.S. agencies and Fortune-scale manufacturers. Recognition includes Inc. 5000 placement for a fourth consecutive year in 2025, Inc. Best Workplaces 2025 and a 2025 SupplyTech Breakthrough risk management award.

The company frames its advantage as three interdependent assets: a commercial world model covering hard-to-reach jurisdictions and ephemeral sources; codified investigative tradecraft that defines what a correct economic-security analysis looks like; and a feedback system — analysts, customer workflows, forward-deployed engineers and enterprise instrumentation — that keeps both current. Operationally this manifests as sourced, scored and explainable outputs with calibrated uncertainty, chain-of-ownership traversal across multiple hops, traceability of every flag to a source document, predictable non-token-metered pricing, and deployment options up to fully air-gapped with an architectural no-training guarantee.

Technology

The stack has three layers: the Commercial World Model, a data substrate of 1.5B+ entities and 3B+ relationships across 250+ jurisdictions built from registries, trade filings and ephemeral sources including China and secrecy jurisdictions; an Ontology encoding investigative tradecraft (cited as 650K+ lines of expert-built ontology, 1,000+ analytical reports, 300+ hours of expert walkthroughs and 67,000+ labeled decisions); and Superconductor, an agentic orchestration and evaluation layer that scores every output against tradecraft standards before delivery. Underlying capabilities include proprietary entity resolution, NLP and parsers for automated beneficial-ownership extraction across jurisdictions and languages, and a patent reported in 2024 for graph-based entity resolution. Sayari states it owns its models rather than calling external frontier APIs, enabling self-hosted, private-enclave or air-gapped deployment.

Go-to-market

Direct enterprise and public-sector sales supported by demo requests, case studies and a recurring masterclass webinar program covering topics such as forced labor and tariffs under Section 301 and the UFLPA list, China's counter-sanctions Orders 834 and 835, Chinese money laundering networks, and FOCI risk assessments. Government business is won through federal contracts. Distribution also runs through embedded channels — bulk data and API integration into customers' existing systems. Internally the company says it runs AI-native operating systems it calls xOS across marketing, sales, customer success, product, engineering, legal and finance.

Compliance, procurement, legal and investigative teams at large enterprises, plus government agencies and law enforcement. Stated customers include more than 15 U.S. agencies, over one in four of the largest global banks (elsewhere described as six of the ten largest global banks), Fortune 1000 manufacturers, a top-three global telecom provider, a global logistics provider, a global e-commerce platform and a Fortune 100 industrial manufacturer. Named personas include the compliance officer screening for cross-border regulatory exposure and the government analyst working sanctions-evasion and threat networks.

Geography

Headquartered in Washington, D.C., with operations described as spanning three regions and eight countries providing 24-hour coverage. A fifth global office was opened in connection with the acquisition of an Israeli company in 2025. Data coverage extends to 250+ jurisdictions, and trade-compliance screening is described across 220+ countries.

History

After its 2015 founding, Sayari operated first as a search engine over non-indexed records and secured early government deployments. Reporting describes the launch of Sayari Graph, a graph database for commercial risk, in 2018, and early U.S. Treasury and Department of Homeland Security contracts. Venture financing followed, and in early 2024 TPG made a strategic majority investment reported at up to $235 million, shifting control to the private equity firm while founders retained operational leadership and minority positions. Between 2020 and 2025 the company built out the knowledge graph across 250+ jurisdictions and expanded into supply-chain illumination in response to Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act enforcement. In 2025 Sayari acquired Mirato, an agentic risk orchestration company, and in the same period announced a $228 million raise from TPG tied to AI for trade compliance and national security. From 2026 the company has repositioned around an agentic system of work, tradecraft-trained AI and domain-specific models.

Risks & controversies

Control of the company shifted to TPG following its 2024 majority investment; reporting describes preferred-share liquidation preferences, veto and drag-along rights, and exit planning oriented toward 2027-2028, which concentrates strategic decision-making with the private equity holder. The business is exposed to concentration in U.S. federal contracts and to shifts in sanctions, export-control and forced-labor regulation that drive demand. Third-party accounts of the company's history and cap table are inconsistent on round labels, dates and amounts.