Sentinel Provenance is a UAE-incorporated investigative due diligence firm that helps Human Resources departments, staffing agencies, law firms, private equity and investment firms, family offices, VASPs and fintechs, and commodities traders across the UAE, GCC, and internationally verify who they are hiring, financing, or partnering with before they commit trust or capital. The result: clients gain verified, regulator-ready intelligence before making hiring, investment, or partnership decisions.
We offer every prospective client one complimentary Tier 1 red-flag screening. This is a genuine investigation, not a demo or a sample template. Experience our tradecraft before making any commitment.
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We work with organisations of every size, from boutique family offices to multinational law firms and investment houses, headquartered in the UAE and GCC or entering the region from abroad. Whatever the industry, the problem is the same: you cannot verify, from a desk alone, whether the person or entity you are about to trust is who they claim to be.
Three-tier investigative screening for pre-employment, pre-engagement, and compliance. From red-flag checks to comprehensive HUMINT-backed investigations.
Learn More →Deal partners, Money Laundering Reporting Officers (MLROs), and white-collar defence teams across ADGM, Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), and VARA.
Learn More →Pre-acquisition screening, co-investor verification, and portfolio company vetting.
Learn More →Household staff vetting, counterparty assessment, advisor due diligence, and wealth migration screening.
Learn More →VARA principal person due diligence, ongoing AML/Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD), and digital asset ecosystem risk.
Learn More →In-country Human-Source Intelligence (HUMINT) for physical metals and minerals supply chains: counterparty verification, mineral origin fraud, and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Annex II field investigations.
Learn More →Any service we offer, combined, scaled, and scoped into a single engagement designed around your exact requirements. No compromise, no mismatch.
Learn More →| Dimension | Standard Screening Provider | Sentinel Provenance |
|---|---|---|
| Methodology | Database queries only | Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) + deep records + reference interviews + HUMINT + dark-web scanning |
| Source access | Commercial databases | HUMINT, multi-language & multi-jurisdictional media and records, OSINT, Social Media Intelligence (SOCMINT), deep- and dark-web sources |
| Output | Pass/fail with a PDF | Audit-ready reports with source registers, confidence grading, and risk matrices |
| Analyst profile | Junior research staff | Former clandestine service, defence intelligence, and law enforcement investigators |
| Turnaround discipline | Undefined | Fixed-price, time-bound: 3, 5–10, or 10–15 business days |
| Regulatory defensibility | Limited | Designed for Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE), Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA), Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA), and VARA compliance requirements |
| Communications security | Standard email | Proton Mail (International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) 27001, System and Organisation Controls (SOC) 2 Type II) + Signal, UAE data residency |
It is an independent investigation into a foreign national's identity, background, associations, and risk profile before a UAE-regulated entity hires, partners with, or transacts with them. It goes beyond identity verification to assess sanctions exposure, litigation history, and reputational risk.
UAE regulators including the CBUAE, DFSA, FSRA, and VARA increasingly expect this depth of scrutiny for cross-border hires, investors, and counterparties, particularly ahead of the FATF 2026 mutual evaluation.
Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) screening combines multi-language media analysis, public records, corporate registries, court filings, and social media intelligence to build a verified profile of a person or entity, corroborated across independent sources rather than a single database query.
Sentinel Provenance layers OSINT with reference interviews, dark-web exposure scanning, and, at higher tiers, discreet human-source enquiries to close the gaps that databases alone cannot fill.
We serve company Human Resources departments, UHNW staffing agencies, law firms, private equity and investment firms, family offices and UHNW households, virtual asset service providers (VASPs) and fintechs, and commodities and physical trading businesses of every size, from boutique operations to multinational institutions, across the UAE, GCC, and internationally.
We also support compliance consultancies and corporate service providers who deliver our investigations under their own brand.
Tier 1 preliminary red-flag screening is delivered in 3 business days. Tier 2 enhanced due diligence takes 5-10 business days. Tier 3 comprehensive due diligence with human-source intelligence takes 10-15 business days. All timelines are fixed-price and time-bound.
Standard providers query commercial databases and return a pass/fail PDF. We conduct genuine investigations, combining OSINT, deep records analysis, reference interviews, human-source intelligence, and dark-web scanning, delivered as audit-ready reports with source registers and confidence grading.
Our investigators are former clandestine service officers, defence intelligence professionals, and law enforcement investigators with 75+ years of combined experience.
Yes. Sentinel Provenance is locally incorporated in Dubai, UAE. Our reporting is designed to meet the standards expected by the CBUAE, DFSA, FSRA, and VARA, and all communications run through Proton Mail (ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II) and Signal with UAE data residency.