Vivox AI and beSirius have partnered to combine supplier evidence assessments with financial crime screening, helping metals and minerals firms streamline due diligence.
Vivox AI, a provider of explainable AI agents for financial crime compliance, and beSirius, which develops AI for assurance and certification readiness in metals and minerals, today announced a partnership. The companies will bring supplier evidence assessments alongside financial crime checks, helping industrial businesses reduce the time and cost of reviewing suppliers and counterparties.
Mining companies, traders and manufacturers routinely ask suppliers for evidence about their operations. Compliance teams also need to understand who owns those suppliers and whether they are exposed to sanctions or other financial crime risks. These reviews often happen separately. The same information gets requested again, while staff spend time searching through records and following up on unanswered questions.
beSirius AI assesses existing operational and supplier evidence against industry standards and company requirements, identifying gaps and producing source-linked assessments. It supports certification readiness, supplier assessments and continuous assurance, helping companies track corrective actions and address critical risks across operations. Reusing evidence across assessments reduces manual work, saving time and money.
Vivox AI brings specialist financial crime screening to supplier and counterparty reviews. Its explainable AI agents examine sanctions alerts and adverse media, investigate complex ownership structures and help identify the people who ultimately control a business. They draw on corporate records and other sources, keeping an audit trail of the information behind each finding. Vivox AI also helps compliance teams work through potential false positives, cutting time spent on manual research and alert reviews.
The partnership is designed to let teams consider these findings together when reviewing a supplier. beSirius shows which claims have supporting documents and what still needs checking. Vivox AI shows whether the supplier’s ownership or screening results call for further investigation. The responsible teams review both before making a decision.
The partnership is relevant to companies across the metals and minerals value chain, from mining and refining to trading and manufacturing. beSirius works with Fortune 500 companies in these sectors.
“The beSirius and Vivox AI integration has strengthened our responsible minerals and metals sourcing efforts, enabling us to reduce the time and manual effort required to gather and assess relevant information, including sustainability policies and management systems, ownership information, sanctions screening, and allegations. By bringing this information together in one place, the integration provides us a more efficient tool to support informed sourcing decisions,” said the sustainability team at a Fortune 500 company.
“Investigating a company’s ownership can take considerable time, especially when several entities and jurisdictions are involved,” said Tim Khamzin, founder and CEO of Vivox AI. “Our agents help compliance teams work through that information and check the sources behind the findings. Working with beSirius means those checks can be considered alongside the evidence companies already review when assessing suppliers.”
“Companies often have the documents they need, but finding them and checking them against another set of requirements takes time and money,” said Sergey Tyan, founder and chief commercial officer of beSirius. “beSirius uses that existing evidence to prepare assessments that teams can review. Vivox AI brings financial crime expertise to the same supplier questions, including ownership and sanctions risk.”
For Vivox AI, the partnership brings its experience in financial crime checks for regulated businesses into industrial supply chains. beSirius contributes its work with assurance requirements and evidence across the metals and minerals sector. Their findings address different parts of a supplier review.
The aim is to make those reviews less costly and time-consuming. Companies can reuse evidence rather than collecting the same documents repeatedly, while Vivox AI handles parts of the screening research that would otherwise be done manually. Procurement and compliance teams still review the findings and decide which questions need follow-up.
About Vivox AI
Vivox AI develops explainable AI agents for financial crime compliance. Its technology supports KYB, KYC and AML work, including sanctions screening and adverse-media checks. The agents investigate corporate ownership, help identify beneficial owners and keep a record of the sources and reasoning behind their findings. Vivox AI works with financial institutions and other regulated businesses to reduce manual review and false positives while keeping decisions traceable. The company is based in London. More information is available at vivox.ai.
About beSirius
Based in Amsterdam, beSirius develops AI for assurance and certification readiness in metals and minerals. It checks existing company, site and supplier evidence against standards or internal requirements and prepares assessments with sources attached. The same evidence can be used for certification, internal assurance and supplier reviews, reducing the time and cost of collecting and checking documents repeatedly. beSirius is ISO/IEC 27001 certified and a member of the Global Battery Alliance. More information is available at besirius.io.
Media contact
Poli Yorke, comms lead, beSirius: [email protected]
Anna Antimiichuk, head of marketing, Vivox AI: [email protected]
