KnowPact™Integrity due diligence by KairoPact
You are about to accept a donation, make a grant or sign a partnership. You need to know what the record says about the organisation and the people behind it, but you do not have an investigations team, and the tools that do this are built for compliance teams screening at volume. KnowPact gives you a clear, sourced assessment, one report at a time, from one team responsible for the work from request to delivery.
Led by Smeeta Basak, formerly of EY New York and TransUnion CIBIL. Built by practitioners with experience across WHO, UNFPA, PSI, the Gates Foundation, Abt Associates, and Jhpiego. Working across South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific.
Download a sample one-page summary (PDF)The problem this solves
A donor linked to sanctions. A grantee with an undisclosed court case. A board member with political ties nobody mentioned. These things may not show up in a routine website search or reference call, and when they do surface, it is often at the worst possible time.
The tools that find them are built for banks. They come with annual subscriptions, minimum volumes and screens full of raw search results that someone still has to read and make sense of. If you check partners now and then rather than every day, an annual subscription is rarely the right fit.
You need a thorough check, explained clearly, without a subscription.
What KnowPact actually is
One request. A clear assessment. One team responsible for it.
This is not a database login or a list of search results for your team to sift through. You tell us who you need to check. We review the organisation and the key people and partners agreed with you, and explain what we found and why it may matter to your decision.
Database checks alone leave you reading raw results. Investigations firms go deeper, but that can be more than a routine partner check needs. We sit in between: licensed specialist sources and public records, read by experienced people, with every report prepared by our due diligence lead and reviewed by a KairoPact founding team member before it reaches you. You tell us who to check; we manage the rest.
Who leads KnowPact
Lead, Integrity Due Diligence
Smeeta Basak leads integrity due diligence at KairoPact. She has more than two decades of experience across credit bureaus, global consulting and the development sector. At EY in New York, she advised global financial institutions on analytics and regulatory compliance, including anti-money laundering, KYC and sanctions. She was Vice President and Head of Data Science and Analytics at TransUnion CIBIL.
Read Smeeta's full profileA family business offers a large gift. Before the board accepts, we check the family's companies, their directors and any political exposure, and set out any sanctions, court or adverse-media findings for the board to consider.
Sanctions · Political exposure · Adverse media
Before the first payment goes out, we check the NGO, its board and its key implementing partners for court cases, regulatory action and connections the application did not mention, where the sources show them.
Courts · Governance · Partners
A client in the Gulf needs a documented check on a prospective partner. We screen against international sanctions lists and regional terrorism watchlists, set out the available ownership and control information, and deliver a sourced report the firm can use in advising its client.
Sanctions and terrorism watchlists · Ownership · Risk assessment
Every report starts with a one-page summary: the overall risk rating, the key findings and suggested next steps to consider. The detail follows, question by question, with material findings linked to their sources.
International sanctions lists and national terrorism watchlists, including in the Gulf, checked for the organisation and its key people.
Current and former public officials, their relatives and close associates, among the organisation's leaders and owners.
Watchlist entries, reported allegations of fraud, bribery, money laundering or terrorism financing, and enforcement action, with allegations clearly separated from established findings.
Licensed international news archives covering up to ten years, alongside public sources.
Available ownership, control and governance information, and the companies connected to it.
Litigation and regulatory action found in accessible records. Availability varies by country, and the report says where records could not be checked.
Directors, founders and the other key people and partners agreed with you up front, each checked.
Every section rated Low, Medium or High, with a short note on why it may matter to you and what, if anything, to look into further.
How it works
Share the organisation or person, the country and why you are checking them. We confirm the scope, and any details we need, before we start.
We run the organisation and the people connected to it through licensed international databases and public records.
They review potential matches, reconcile conflicting facts and assess each finding against a consistent risk framework. Smeeta Basak, our due diligence lead, prepares every report, and a KairoPact founding team member reviews it before delivery.
A report that opens with a one-page summary you can act on, with the supporting evidence and source references behind it.
Why KairoPact
Screening tools can return hundreds of search results. We give you a risk assessment, the evidence behind it and practical next steps to consider.
Important risks can sit with the people and partners around an organisation. We agree the relevant ones with you and include them in the scope.
We know how NGOs, foundations, community bodies and social enterprises operate, and we read every finding in that context.
No subscription, no minimum volume and no prepayment. Pay for what you need, when you need it.
Every check is handled in confidence. Your information is never shared with other clients, and we explain how it is handled before we start.
Comparison
| Feature | Search it yourself | Screening tool subscription | Investigations firm | KairoPact report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Typical depth | Basic searches | Screening | Deep investigation | Scoped due diligence assessment |
| Licensed sanctions, political exposure and news data | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Ownership, court and company records | Partly | Varies | Yes | Yes, where available |
| Key people and partners checked | Rarely | Only if you enter each name | Yes | Yes, agreed up front |
| Potential matches reviewed by an analyst | No | Varies | Yes | Yes |
| A documented risk assessment | No | Varies | Yes | Yes |
| On-the-ground local enquiries | No | No | Yes | Separately scoped, subject to availability |
| Cost | Your time | Annual subscription | Typically higher | Fixed price per report |
| Lead time | Your time | Instant results, then your time to review | Typically longer | Typically 72 hours |
Who it is for
If you need to screen thousands of customers continuously, a dedicated screening system is usually the better fit.
A 15-minute conversation is usually enough to know if we can help. Or request a quote, and we will come back with a price and a delivery date within one working day.