> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.coverbase.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Coverbase Screening > Continuous sanctions, PEP, criminal, legal and adverse media screening for your vendors and the people behind them, with a recorded history of every screen.

For AI agents: a documentation index is available at [https://docs.coverbase.com/llms.txt](https://docs.coverbase.com/llms.txt). This page is also available in markdown by appending .md to the URL.

Coverbase Screening checks whether a vendor, or a person who runs or owns it, appears on a sanctions list, a watchlist, a politically exposed person (PEP) register, a criminal or legal record, or in adverse news. It checks at intake, again on a schedule for as long as you keep the vendor, and whenever you ask. Every screen is recorded, including the ones that find nothing. "We screened this vendor on this date against these sources and found nothing" is the record an examiner asks for, so Coverbase keeps it whether or not there is anything to review. ## What you can screen | Subject | Screened by default | How it is identified | | - | - | - | | The vendor's legal entity | Yes | Legal name, headquarters country, and the registration number when [Corporate Registrations](/products/corporate-registrations) has one | | Directors and officers | Opt in | Names from registry filings and [People Intelligence](/products/people-intelligence) research | | Beneficial owners | Opt in | Names from registry filings | | Anyone else, once | On demand | An **Ad hoc screen** of any organization or person, with or without a linked vendor | People are opt in because screening a person means storing watchlist results about a named individual. Turn them on when your program needs them. ## What you can screen against Screening covers five sources. Each is a separate lookup that you switch on or off for your whole organization. | Source | What it covers | Default | | - | - | - | | **Sanctions** | Government sanctions and designation lists, including OFAC, the EU, UK HM Treasury, the UN and national lists. FATF high risk and increased monitoring jurisdictions are included. | On | | **PEP** | Politically exposed persons, and their relatives and close associates, across national, regional and local government, state owned enterprises, diplomatic and security roles, and political parties | On | | **Criminal** | Law enforcement and terror watchlists, and records of criminal charges | On | | **Legal** | Civil and criminal litigation, lawsuits and judgments | On | | **Adverse media** | Negative news about the subject, scored against the risk categories you choose, from over 200,000 outlets in more than 140 languages | Off | The full catalog of lists, PEP roles and adverse media categories is in [Screening coverage and sources](/user-guides/screening-coverage). ## How it works An administrator chooses which sources run and who is screened under **Configuration → Monitoring → Screening**. Monitoring is switched on per risk level, so you can monitor your critical and high risk vendors continuously and leave the long tail to intake and on demand screens. A monitored vendor is re-screened on a cadence set per source. By default that is daily for sanctions and monthly for PEP and adverse media. Each screen lands in the vendor's run history. A possible match goes to the **Screening** queue and opens a finding with an owner and a due date. An analyst confirms it, marks it not a match, or allowlists it for 180 days. Coverbase never decides a match for you. ## Where screening runs * **At intake.** The intake portal's pre-qualification step screens a requested vendor before anyone commits to it. See [Screen a vendor at intake](/user-guides/sanctions-screening#screen-a-vendor-at-intake). * **On a schedule.** Monitored vendors are re-screened for as long as they stay monitored. * **On demand.** **Screen now** on a vendor's **Screening** tab, and **Ad hoc screen** on the queue for a name you want checked once. ## Included, and configured on request Most of screening is switched on from the settings page. Some options are set up by Coverbase for your workspace, and some carry an additional charge. Contact your Coverbase account team or [support@coverbase.ai](mailto:support@coverbase.ai) to change them. | Option | How you get it | | - | - | | Sanctions, PEP, criminal and legal screening of the vendor entity | Settings page | | Directors, officers and beneficial owners | Settings page | | Adverse media, and the 12 standard risk categories | Settings page | | Monitoring by risk level | Settings page | | A different monitoring cadence for a risk level | Ask Coverbase to set up a profile group, then pick it in the settings | | Adverse media categories beyond the standard 12 | Ask Coverbase | | Your own internal watchlists and do not onboard lists | Ask Coverbase. Enterprise plans only. | | Tuning match scoring, repeated alert suppression, and filtering of articles that only mention a similar name | Ask Coverbase | Each monitored subject is a standing subscription, and every on demand screen is metered. Your account team can tell you what your plan includes. ## Get started Every source, list, PEP role and adverse media category Coverbase screens against. Reading a match, deciding it, and setting up the screening policy. The other outside-in research on every vendor. Where a new vendor is screened before it is onboarded. This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.