Due Diligence
Background research that doesn’t stop at the language barrier.
Due diligence is only as deep as the sources behind it. Hizer powers EDD, vendor and counterparty research with a continuous, multilingual, enriched news and corporate-news layer — so analysts assess risk on the world, not just on what English-language databases happen to see.
What you get
Cross-border, cross-language coverage
235,000+ sources in 135 languages and 230 Countries and Jurisdictions — including the local press, trade titles and regional publications where due-diligence-relevant stories often surface first.
Resolved entities and relationships
Persons, organizations and entities are extracted, normalized and linked across articles — so you can build evidence-rich profiles instead of stitching keyword hits.
Traceable evidence at every step
Every claim and signal in your dossier ties back to a specific article, source, language and timestamp — making the trail from finding to evidence transparent and defensible.
Where it earns its keep
Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD)
Deepen high-risk client and counterparty reviews with structured, multilingual coverage — surfacing material context that one-line adverse-media hits miss.
Third-party and supplier due diligence
Run ongoing due diligence on vendors, partners and suppliers — including controversies, litigation, regulatory actions and operational issues across the markets they work in.
M&A and pre-investment diligence
Stress-test deal targets with continuously refreshed background coverage on the company, its leadership, its sector and its geographies.
Your questions, answered
Is this an investigations product?
No. Hizer is the news and corporate-news data layer behind modern due diligence and investigations workflows — used by both in-house EDD teams and dedicated investigative software vendors.
How do you handle low-coverage individuals or private companies?
Coverage spans the long tail of trade, regional and local-language outlets, where private companies and lower-profile individuals are often discussed. Combined with corporate-news ingestion, that gives due-diligence teams visibility well beyond mainstream English media.
Can we customise dossiers around our methodology?
Yes. Topics, themes, entity types and risk categories are exposed as structured fields, so dossier templates and scoring logic can be built around the methodology your team already uses.
How do we operationalise this?
Via the News API for query-based research and Firehose for full-stream ingestion into your investigations or case-management platform — backed by the same enriched schema across both.