Intelligence-grade screening for pre-employment, pre-engagement, and ongoing compliance. Three tiers of investigative depth, calibrated to the access and trust you are granting.
Every hiring decision, board appointment, partnership agreement, and third-party engagement represents a trust decision. The individual you bring into your organisation gains access to sensitive information, client relationships, financial systems, and reputational capital. A standard background check, limited to criminal-record queries and self-reported references, is not designed to detect the risks that matter most: undisclosed conflicts of interest, fabricated credentials, concealed litigation, regulatory sanctions in foreign jurisdictions, or reputational associations that only surface through genuine investigative work.
Sentinel Provenance applies the same methodology used by intelligence agencies for personnel security vetting. Whether you are conducting pre-employment screening for a senior hire, assessing a prospective business partner before formalising an engagement, or fulfilling ongoing regulatory obligations, our tiered approach ensures that the depth of investigation is proportionate to the level of trust and access being granted. The result is not a pass/fail checkbox: it is a decision-ready intelligence product with source attribution, confidence grading, and a structured risk assessment.
This service is not limited to any single use case. It applies wherever a Subject's integrity, background, and associations need to be independently verified: pre-employment vetting, pre-engagement due diligence, board and advisory appointments, regulatory compliance, third-party risk management, or any circumstance in which you need to know who you are dealing with before committing trust, capital, or access.
Each tier builds on the one before it. Select the level of scrutiny proportionate to the trust, access, and risk the Subject represents.
Senior hires, C-suite appointments, and roles with access to sensitive information, financial systems, or client relationships. Verify credentials, uncover undisclosed risks, and confirm the integrity of the individual before they join your organisation.
Business partners, joint-venture counterparties, board appointees, and advisory-committee candidates. Assess the Subject's background, associations, and reputation before formalising any relationship that grants influence or access.
Ongoing due diligence required by regulators such as the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE), Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA), Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA), and Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA). Satisfy Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) and personnel-vetting mandates with audit-ready, source-attributed reporting.
Personnel due diligence is an independent investigation into an individual's background, credentials, associations, and reputation before you hire them, appoint them to a board, or grant them access to sensitive information, capital, or clients. It goes beyond a simple criminal-record check.
It surfaces undisclosed conflicts of interest, fabricated credentials, and reputational risks that only genuine investigative work, not a database query, can detect.
A standard background check queries databases and returns a pass/fail result. Personnel due diligence adds reference interviews, multi-language media analysis, network mapping, and, at the highest tier, human-source enquiries, producing a source-attributed, confidence-graded risk assessment.
Tier 1 preliminary red-flag screening takes 3 business days. Tier 2 enhanced due diligence and reputational assessment takes 5 to 10 business days. Tier 3 comprehensive due diligence with human intelligence takes 10 to 15 business days, all fixed-price and time-bound.
Order Tier 3 when the Subject will hold significant trust, such as a C-suite role, board seat, or access to family assets or client funds. Tier 1 suits rapid go/no-go screening; Tier 3 suits high-stakes, high-access appointments.
Former clandestine service officers, defence intelligence professionals, and senior law enforcement investigators with a combined 75+ years of experience, applying the same source-access discipline and chain-of-custody rigour used in national-security personnel vetting to your commercial engagement.