Adversarial Corporate Opacity

What is Adversarial Corporate Opacity?

An MCP server for beneficial ownership detection and corporate opacity analysis. It connects AI agents to 6 international corporate registries, 4 sanctions watchlists, and additional infrastructure data sources, using six anti-concealment algorithms to uncover hidden beneficial owners, shell companies, and sanctions evasion. Designed for compliance officers, investigators, and journalists.

How to use Adversarial Corporate Opacity?

Add the server to your MCP client (e.g., Claude Desktop, Cursor) using the provided URL configuration. Obtain an Apify API token, paste it into the config, and start an agent session. The 8 investigation tools appear automatically; call them with an entity name and jurisdiction.

Key features of Adversarial Corporate Opacity

• BFS ownership graph traversal with jurisdictional hop penalties
• 5-stage transliteration screening for name evasion detection
• DBSCAN address clustering to find shell company farms
• Kleinberg burst detection for coordinated incorporation campaigns
• Weisfeiler-Lehman graph kernel on shared infrastructure
• Loopy belief propagation for beneficial owner inference
• Weighted composite opacity scoring with severity grades
• Formal Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) report generation

Use cases of Adversarial Corporate Opacity

• AML/KYC compliance: identify ultimate beneficial owners across multi-layered offshore structures
• Sanctions evasion detection: catch name variants via phonetic transliteration across OFAC, Interpol, and more
• Shell company farm identification: detect registered agent address clusters using spatial clustering
• Investigative journalism: connect unrelated entities through shared domains, IPs, and TLS certificates
• Enhanced Due Diligence documentation: generate structured EDD reports for regulatory filings

FAQ from Adversarial Corporate Opacity

What data sources does the server access?

It queries 6 international corporate registries (OpenCorporates, UK Companies House, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, GLEIF), 4 sanctions watchlists (OFAC, OpenSanctions, Interpol, FBI), and infrastructure sources (WHOIS, DNS, IP geolocation, crt.sh, Nominatim).

How does it infer beneficial ownership?

It uses loopy belief propagation on a factor graph with 6 evidence variables: ownership registration, officer overlap, address co-location, infrastructure sharing, sanctions co-occurrence, and temporal co-registration, iterating up to 50 times with a damping factor of 0.5.

What transport and authentication does it use?

The server uses HTTP MCP transport. Authentication requires an Apify API token, which is included in the client configuration.

What does each tool cost?

Tool calls range from $0.04 to $0.05 each. A complete 7-tool EDD investigation costs under $0.35 total. There is no monthly subscription fee.

How many jurisdictions and watchlists are covered?

6 international registries (covering 140+ jurisdictions) and 4 sanctions watchlists are included. The server can be extended with additional Apify actors as needed.