> ## 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.

# Vendor Intelligence

> Validated corporate identity for every vendor: the legal entity, its standing, and its identifiers, from registries of record, with a citation on every fact.

<div className="sr-only">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.</div>

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](/products/financial-health-score).

Both are assembled from registries of record and regulatory filings, and every figure on screen names the source it came from.

<Note>
  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](/products/financial-health-score) and [Security Intelligence](/products/security-intelligence), which follow the same beta arrangement.
</Note>

## What it does

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Corporate registration validation" icon="building-columns">
    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).
  </Card>

  <Card title="Coverbase Financial Health Score" icon="chart-line">
    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.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Corroboration over closeness" icon="scale-balanced">
    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.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Citations on every fact" icon="link">
    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.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## 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.

| Source               | What it establishes                                                                                           |
| -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **GLEIF**            | Authoritative legal name, LEI, entity and registration status, jurisdiction, legal and headquarters addresses |
| **OpenCorporates**   | Company number, jurisdiction, incorporation date, current status, link to the source registry                 |
| **SEC EDGAR**        | US public-company validation: CIK, ticker, state of incorporation, SIC industry                               |
| **Dun & Bradstreet** | DUNS number, where your organization has its own D\&B entitlement                                             |

## 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.

<Card title="Financial Health Score" icon="chart-line" href="/products/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.
</Card>

## Where it appears

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Vendor Intelligence" icon="file-lines">
    The **Corporate Registration** card leads the identity column in a vendor's Vendor Intelligence section, refreshed on the regular cadence.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Assessments" icon="clipboard-check">
    Registry facts are supplied to control evaluations as authoritative evidence, ranked ahead of every web result. See [how evidence is sourced](#how-evidence-is-sourced).
  </Card>

  <Card title="Intake and inherent risk" icon="inbox">
    Autofill and inherent-risk scoring consult the registers before searching the web, so a new vendor request is scored against its registered identity.
  </Card>

  <Card title="MCP" icon="robot" href="/mcp/tool-reference">
    Ask conversationally: "What's the financial health score for Acme?" or "Is Acme a real registered company?"
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## 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.

<Steps>
  <Step title="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.
  </Step>

  <Step title="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.
  </Step>

  <Step title="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.
  </Step>
</Steps>

A control set configured to require authoritative sources will not cite a blog post. It will report that it found nothing, which is the correct answer.

## 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.

<Note>
  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.
</Note>