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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, have announced a partnership to help industrial businesses reduce the time and cost of reviewing suppliers and counter parties.
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 says. 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 counter-party 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, they explain.
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 sustainability team at a Fortune 500 company said: “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.”
Tim Khamzin, founder and CEO of Vivox AI, adds: “Investigating a company’s ownership can take considerable time, especially when several entities and jurisdictions are involved. 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.”
Sergey Tyan, founder and Chief Commercial Officer of beSirius, says: “Companies often have the documents they need, but finding them and checking them against another set of requirements takes time and money. 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.
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