AION Sentinel

See the results: get your free key first

Five examples are open to everyone, without a key: five companies from the current snapshot, from Critical to Low, shown as the demo shows them but without their names (Sentinel examples).

The rest of Sentinel's results are shown only to people who hold a key. A free demo key takes one step: your email, after you have read the rules and disclosures. With it you can read the list of companies that stand out most and look up companies yourself. On the free demo the names are hidden: each company appears as "Company A" with its sector, and its tier, flags and reasons are the real ones. A paid Sentinel API key shows the names.

Already a paying Sentinel subscriber? Open the Sentinel radar, a readable table of the 500 companies that most need a closer look. You will be asked for your Sentinel API key.

The problem

By the time a regulator acts on accounting irregularities, the loss has already happened. Enforcement is necessarily reactive: an order arrives after the damage, and the shareholders who needed the warning are the ones who paid for its absence.

The information was public the whole time. Thousands of listed companies file hundreds of pages every quarter, and no individual can read all of it. Worse, the thing worth noticing is rarely inside any single document. It is the divergence between documents, and between a company and the way comparable companies report. That is a reading problem at a scale humans do not have.

In forensic-accounting terms, Sentinel is a screen for red flags in company filings, run across every listed company in its universe and ranked against peers. It is not a fraud detector: what it cannot do is set out below.

How it solves it

Sentinel reads the filings of every company in its universe and ranks which of them look most unlike companies with clean records.

AION Sentinel screens publicly available corporate filings to highlight financial-reporting anomalies and areas requiring further examination. Its results support research and due diligence; they do not establish fraud, misconduct or regulatory violations.

How far to trust it. Sentinel has not yet been proven against a confirmed case of wrongdoing. A risk level tells you where to read more closely. It is not a finding.

How to use it

Search a company and you get its risk level and the reasons in plain English. Every result carries the concerns that stood out, written as sentences rather than codes.

Try it

The public demo gives two free company lookups per browser every 7 days (at most 20 lookups a week across everyone on one network), or five if you enrol a passkey. The demo opens with a free demo key, issued on the page as soon as you enter your email; it is not sent by email. No card. The Highest Risk Companies list needs the key too, and reading it does not use up a lookup. The limit is kept on our server against keyed hashes of your browser's device pass and your IP address, deleted after 7 days. A passkey is checked on your own device: nothing biometric is sent to us, and we keep only its credential identifier, public key and signature counter. See the privacy policy.

Programmatic

Available through the API for institutional and research use.

Reading a result

A tier is a ranking within this universe on this date. It is not a probability, not a forecast, and not a claim that any company has done anything wrong.

What it cannot do

• It cannot tell you a company has committed fraud. It tells you a company reports unlike its peers, which is a reason to read further and nothing more.
• It can only be as up to date as the company's latest published accounts, which are always some months old.
• A clean result is not an all-clear. Finding nothing does not prove there is nothing.