BRIA (Business Risk Intelligence for Africa) is a Kenya-focused screening service. You send a company name; we return a confidence-scored match, weighted risk flags with plain-language explanations, source citations, and an optional PDF report — the kind of output manual due diligence takes days to assemble.

If you onboard merchants, borrowers, grantees, suppliers, or other counterparties in Kenya — and screening is part of your week, not a one-off — BRIA is built for you.

Kenya doesn't offer a single, reliable view of business risk the way some markets do. Teams patch it together: a search here, a call there, a memo that's hard to verify six months later. BRIA pulls litigation, debarment, regulatory signals, media, and director ties into one cited report — the kind of file you'd actually attach to onboarding, not another vague field note.

No. Some teams need a single report before a deal closes. Others try a short pilot on real company names, then wire the API into onboarding once they've seen the output. Same shape either way — score, flags, citations, optional PDF. Start wherever fits; we're not asking you to bet the whole portfolio on day one.

No. BRIA is not a credit reference bureau or credit score as defined by Kenya's Credit Reference Bureau Regulations, 2013. It is not endorsed by the Central Bank of Kenya. We aggregate public records and licensed sources for business risk intelligence — litigation, debarment, regulatory status, media, and director exposure — not consumer credit files.

Every report includes a risk score and rating band, match confidence, weighted flags with citations, and plain-language explanations. Typical sections cover litigation, procurement debarment, official gazette notices, regulator and licence status, adverse media, and director-network exposure. Walk through a guided sample report or try the live demo.

A registry check confirms a company exists and may show directors or registration status. It does not tell you whether the company is in court, debarred from government contracts, missing a required licence, or in the news for the wrong reasons. BRIA pulls those signals from authoritative sources and returns them as structured, cited flags — not raw search results you have to interpret yourself.

The score is a 0–100 summary of weighted risk signals found in our corpus for the matched entity — litigation, debarment, regulatory issues, adverse media, network exposure, and positive indicators such as active licences. It is a screening aid, not a verdict. A low score does not guarantee a company is safe; a higher score does not prove guilt. Review flags and citations before making decisions.

Company names vary across databases — Acme Ltd vs ACME LIMITED, trading names, typos. Match confidence tells you how certain we are that the returned entity is the company you searched for. When confidence is insufficient, we say so rather than guess.

The scoring model version is a fingerprint of the rules used to combine risk signals into your score. If we update those rules in a release, the version changes — so you can tell whether two reports are directly comparable.

Yes — PDF reports are included with paid access (monthly plans and one-time screening). The public demo shows the same report layout but keeps PDF download disabled to prevent abuse. Contact us for a pilot key or a one-time report.

We monitor major categories of Kenyan public records — courts and litigation, official gazette, public procurement, sector regulators, and adverse media — plus licensed datasets onboarded over time. We publish categories on our Sources page, not a full feed inventory; pilots discuss coverage depth for your sector.

Kenyan business risk isn't sitting in one database. We wire multiple authoritative sources together, attach the relevant hits to the company you searched, and cite the primary record behind every flag.

Per company: every report shows when it was scored and which source families contributed, with citations to the primary record. Corpus-wide: courts, gazette, regulators, and news refresh on different schedules — see our public data freshness page for category-level last-updated dates. Compliance teams use that page for audit trails and vendor due diligence. Material decisions should always be verified against the cited primary record.

Yes. Public records are the foundation; we onboard additional public and proprietary datasets with every release. See Sources for what we watch today and Our process for how new feeds enter the pipeline.

One-time screening — one company, one report, when you need a point-in-time answer (from KES 5,000 per entity). Monthly plans are for teams screening regularly via API. Same report quality; different volume. See pricing for starting points — we confirm quotes when you get in touch.

Most customers start with a short pilot: we issue an API key, you run searches on companies you care about, and we review results together. Pilots typically start within a week of first contact. Use the contact form or email pilot@bria.co.ke.

Yes. The live demo runs against production API shape with rate limits. For unrestricted evaluation on your own portfolio, book a pilot — we run it on real company names you supply.

BRIA is a REST API. Pass a company name to GET /v1/risk/{name} with your X-API-Key header; you receive JSON with score, flags, citations, and freshness metadata. Start with the integrations quickstart — one curl example and typical CRM stack — then the full API docs.

JSON responses typically return in seconds under normal pilot conditions; a full PDF may take up to a minute. BRIA is built for batch screening workflows, not manual research that takes days.

Use output inside your organisation for legitimate due diligence. Re-selling or publishing BRIA data as a standalone product requires written permission. See Terms of Service for acceptable use.

No. BRIA is a screening and intelligence tool, not a definitive background check. Public records may contain errors, gaps, or delays. Qualified staff should review material findings against the cited primary sources before approving or rejecting a counterparty.

No. BRIA aggregates and structures public information. It does not provide legal opinions. Consult qualified counsel for legal questions about a specific company or transaction.

We log API usage (key identifier, company names queried, timestamps, response codes) to operate the service and enforce rate limits. We do not log full API response bodies. Account and contact data is handled per our Privacy Policy.