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Vendor Intelligence answers two questions about a company without asking the company anything: is this corporation real and in good standing, and is it financially sound enough to depend on. This page covers the first: the validated corporate identity every other answer is computed against. The second is the Financial Health Score.
Both are assembled from registries of record and regulatory filings, and every figure on screen names the source it came from.
This is an optional feature currently in beta. Let your Coverbase representative know if you’d like it turned on for your organization. It pairs with the Financial Health Score and Security Intelligence, which follow the same beta arrangement.
What it does
Corporate registration validation
Confirms the legal entity behind a vendor against GLEIF, OpenCorporates, and SEC EDGAR: official registered name, status, jurisdiction, incorporation date, addresses, and identifiers (LEI, DUNS, company number, SEC CIK).
Coverbase Financial Health Score
A 0-100 score with five risk bands and a directional trend, computed from filed financial statements where they exist and from funding, headcount, and corporate-standing signals where they do not.
Corroboration over closeness
A short or ambiguous name binds only when two independent registers agree on the same legal entity. Agreement between registers outranks a few points of name similarity.
Citations on every fact
Each register is named with the identifier it matched on and a link to the record. A reviewer can verify a claim at its source instead of taking the platform’s word for it.
Corporate registration
Coverbase searches each register by company name, scores every candidate against the vendor’s name, and binds a record only on a high-confidence match. A short or ambiguous name (for example, “Meta”) binds only when two independent registers agree on the same legal entity. When nothing matches confidently, the card shows Needs review rather than quietly picking the closest hit. That distinction matters: binding the wrong “Acme Holdings” is worse than returning nothing.Financial Health Score
The other half of the answer lives on its own page. The Coverbase Financial Health Score is a 0-100 view of whether a vendor is financially sound enough to depend on, computed from filed statements where they exist and from funding, headcount, and corporate-standing signals where they do not, always labelled with which. It depends on the corporate identity established above: the score is computed against the legal entity the registers bound, which is why a missed match shows up as a thinner score rather than a wrong one.Financial Health Score
Confidence tiers, the five pillars and how their weights shift by tier, peer-relative ratio scoring, the caps and floors that override a weighted result, adverse events, and an honest account of coverage and limits.
Where it appears
Vendor Intelligence
The Corporate Registration card leads the identity column in a vendor’s Vendor Intelligence section, refreshed on the regular cadence.
Assessments
Registry facts are supplied to control evaluations as authoritative evidence, ranked ahead of every web result. See how evidence is sourced.
Intake and inherent risk
Autofill and inherent-risk scoring consult the registers before searching the web, so a new vendor request is scored against its registered identity.
MCP
Ask conversationally: “What’s the financial health score for Acme?” or “Is Acme a real registered company?”
How evidence is sourced
A common assumption is that “web search” means handing a query to a search engine and reading the top results. That is not how Coverbase gathers evidence.1
Registries of record are consulted first
For any question about a company’s identity, GLEIF, OpenCorporates, and SEC EDGAR are queried before any web crawl. Those facts enter as authoritative evidence in the prioritized bucket, ahead of every web result.
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The register wins a conflict
Where a registry and a web page disagree on a corporate fact, the model is instructed that the registry is correct. A register states a company’s legal name and status as a matter of record; a search engine states whatever ranked well today.
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Web results are graded before they can be cited
Every candidate is classified for relevance to the specific control being evaluated and for publisher accountability: authoritative, reputable, or unreliable. Anything below the control set’s minimum credibility is discarded, not merely ranked lower.
Availability
Vendor Intelligence is an optional feature in beta, enabled per organization. Contact your Coverbase representative to have it turned on. Corporate registration validation is populated for every organization on each Vendor Intelligence refresh. What requires enabling is the presentation of it (the Corporate Registration card, the registry-verification chip, and the shared citation strip) along with registry-first retrieval. Nothing about an existing Vendor Intelligence record changes until they are on.Coverage is honest about its edges. OpenCorporates coverage varies by jurisdiction, SEC EDGAR only covers US registrants, and a DUNS number requires your own entitlement with that provider. In every case the card names which sources were consulted and which were unavailable, rather than presenting a thinner answer as a complete one.