Sayari
Sovereign AI for risk intelligence, grounded in 1.5B+ entities and 250+ jurisdictions.
By Sayari · HQ Washington, D.C., US · 4.0/5 Value-Position score (estimate)
Positioning guardrails
Best for
- Compliance teams screening counterparties for sanctions, export-control and ownership exposure across borders
- Government and intelligence analysts mapping illicit networks, shell companies and hidden ownership chains
- Trade compliance and logistics teams tracing full ownership chains for every party in every shipment
- KYB and onboarding teams needing sub-second beneficial-ownership resolution
- Procurement and third-party risk teams consolidating sanctions, trade and ownership screening into one platform
Ideal size: 50–1,000+ across compliance, risk and investigations people · Regulated enterprise or government agency with a formal sanctions and trade-compliance program
Not for
- Teams that only need a simple domestic watchlist name-screen without ownership-graph depth
- Small companies without a dedicated compliance or investigations function
- Buyers who want self-serve signup and published list pricing
- Organizations looking for a general-purpose chatbot or copilot rather than domain risk intelligence
Value metrics scorecard
Time-to-Value
~2 months to first production use
~60 days to first production value
Total Cost of Ownership
On request
Enterprise subscription, demo-led and custom-quoted; Sayari publishes no list price, free tier or self-serve checkout.
Implementation Friction
4/5
Engineering + admin effort required
Value-Position score
out of 5 · model estimate
Full cost breakdown
Mandatory implementation fee
None
Seat tiers
Not published; enterprise agreements and API/data licensing rather than public seat tiers
Add-on costs
- None
Company & support
Who is behind Sayari, and how your team gets help once it is live.
Company
- Founded
- 2015 · 11 yrs in business
- Headquarters
- Washington, D.C., US
How you get support
We haven’t recorded support channels for Sayari yet. Nothing here means unverified — not absent.
Market position
Where Sayari sits against its closest alternatives. Pick any two of cost, speed, friction and buyer score, and up to 9 companies to compare.
Quadrant view
Typical annual cost × Time-to-value
The lines cross at the median of the solutions shown, so about half sit on each side of each line.
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- Sayari
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- BigID
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- Sovos
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Stack fit signal
Compatibility with standard B2B ecosystems.
No supported MCP path today, so it cannot be driven from an AI client.
AI & MCP readiness
What Sayari ships in AI, and what it asks of your ecosystem.
AI features shipped
Sayari describes an agentic system of work for economic security, with a judgment layer trained on investigative tradecraft and a Superconductor evaluation layer that scores every output before it reaches the customer. Sources do not name model providers, state how AI is billed, or describe customer-data training or per-action audit logging.
Your data & models
- Trains on your data
- Not recorded — ask the vendor
- Runs on
- Not recorded
- AI pricing
- Not recorded
In your ecosystem
- AI connection
- Not supported
- Model key
- Not recorded
- AI usage audit
- Not recorded
Compliance attestations
* IAPP AIGP certifies individuals, not products. It means named staff hold the credential — not that the platform does.
Bottom line
Sayari is a risk-intelligence platform built on a commercial world model of 1.5B+ entities and 3B+ relationships across 250+ jurisdictions. Compliance, procurement, legal and government teams use it for sanctions and export-control screening, beneficial-ownership and ownership-chain resolution, trade and supply-chain risk, and KYB. It pairs the world model with a tradecraft-based judgment layer, so AI outputs are scored, sourced and explained. Sales is demo-led with custom enterprise pricing; native Snowflake connector plus a full REST API.
Frequently asked questions
What does Sayari actually do?
Sayari combines a commercial world model — 1.5B+ entities, 3B+ relationships and 250+ jurisdictions — with an AI judgment layer trained on investigative tradecraft. Teams use it to screen counterparties for sanctions and export-control exposure, resolve beneficial ownership and ownership chains, trace trade and supply-chain risk, and run KYB. Sayari says every output is scored, sourced and explainable, and that the system flags what it cannot verify instead of asserting confidence.
How is Sayari priced?
Sayari does not publish pricing. Its site is demo-led, and contracts appear to be custom enterprise agreements; there is no self-serve signup or free tier shown. Publicly reported figures such as the $8.5M Treasury award and $7.8M CBP award are government contract values, not list prices. Budget for a multi-year enterprise subscription plus integration effort into GRC, CRM or data-warehouse systems.
What security and compliance certifications does Sayari hold?
Per Sayari's Trust & Security page: SOC 2 Type 2 (AICPA trust service criteria for security, availability and confidentiality), ISO 27001:2022, GDPR adherence, EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework participation, and UK Cyber Essentials Plus. The page also lists an AI Disclosure Statement aligned with the EU AI Act and ISO 42001, but that is described as alignment, not certification. No HIPAA or FedRAMP claim appears in the available sources.
Can Sayari connect to our existing stack?
Yes. Sayari lists native integrations for ServiceNow GRC, Archer third-party risk, Tookitaki AML monitoring, Avert onboarding and Snowflake, plus a full REST API covering entity search, ownership traversal, trade data and monitoring endpoints. It also supports SaaS, private cloud and air-gapped on-premise deployments for government and sensitive-data requirements.
Does Sayari offer MCP, and can we choose our own AI model?
No source reviewed names the Model Context Protocol or an MCP server, so there is no documented MCP path today, though the public REST API would be the natural surface for a custom integration. Sayari also does not state whether customers can bring their own model keys, which model providers it uses, how AI usage is billed, or whether customer data is used to train models — treat those as unverified.