Executive Due Diligence
Deep research for senior hires, board candidates, investors, advisors, and other high-trust roles.
NYC Intelligence Consulting
Background Intelligence & Due Diligence
Guardian helps New York City organizations move from fragmented information to a clear, analyst-written view of the risks that matter before a key hire, investment, partnership, or vendor decision.
Executive vetting
Corporate research
Vendor risk
Global diligence
Decision-ready intelligence
Findings organized for action - not a raw data dump.
The decision gap
Know what matters before risk becomes your problem.
High-stakes decisions are often made with incomplete visibility into a person, company, ownership structure, litigation history, or reputational exposure.
Guardian turns available, appropriate-source research into a concise explanation of the facts, the context, the limitations, and the potential impact on your decision.
Risk clarity
A focused explanation of the issues decision-makers need to understand.
Verified context
Research organized by source, jurisdiction, relevance, and known limitations.
Actionable next steps
Risk ratings, issue flags, and recommendations aligned to the engagement scope.
Service lines
Diligence scaled to the decision in front of you.
Corporate Intelligence
Research on ownership, affiliates, litigation, regulatory issues, sanctions exposure, and business risk indicators.
Vendor & Third-Party Risk
A clearer picture of the companies and people your organization depends on before contracts or partnerships move forward.
International Due Diligence
Cross-border corporate records, adverse media, sanctions, PEP screening, and jurisdiction-aware research.
How it works
A disciplined intelligence cycle.
01
Plan
Define the decision, scope, jurisdictions, identifiers, and risk questions.
02
Collect
Gather relevant records, public sources, permitted databases, and source information.
03
Analyze
Identify patterns, inconsistencies, affiliations, and decision-relevant risk indicators.
04
Assess
Apply a clear risk rating, confidence level, and practical business context.
05
Brief
Deliver an executive-ready report with findings, limitations, and recommended next steps.
The report experience
Intelligence clients can actually use.
Every engagement is scoped to the business question and designed to provide a defensible, decision-relevant record - not a generic database printout.
Executive summary
Key findings, context, risk rating, and decision-relevant considerations.
Detailed findings
Relevant records, source notes, and jurisdictional or research limitations.
Relationship & risk picture
Affiliations, ownership, litigation, sanctions, adverse media, and other applicable indicators.
Start with the decision
Get a defined scope for your diligence engagement.
Tell us the decision you are preparing to make. We will help identify the right scope, research questions, and deliverable.
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