The most important facts about companies are rarely secret. They are simply impossible to assemble.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the hidden wealth of China’s then-premier revealed something much larger than one story. The information wasn’t classified. It was hiding in plain sight — buried across thousands of pages of corporate records, filings, and disclosures that no one had ever assembled.
That’s why we founded WireScreen.
We built a platform that transforms millions of business registrations, ownership records, procurement notices, patents, court filings, regulatory disclosures, and other primary sources into a living map of global corporate power. What once took months of investigation can now be understood in seconds.
Understanding corporate power shouldn’t be reserved for government agencies, investigative reporters, and the world’s largest institutions. Our mission is to build the first living map of global corporate power.
Backed by leading venture capital firms.
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WireScreen was founded in 2019. It is a division of The Wire Digital Inc., a news and data startup based in New York City. Its affiliated company is The Wire China, a weekly digital magazine.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist who previously worked at The New York Times, David has more than 15 years of experience covering China and using corporate records.
A former financier who worked in private equity, Lynn has spent more than a decade analyzing corporate data. She studied chemistry and finance in China and Japan.
An experienced revenue leader, Brad has built teams serving sophisticated clients at FactSet and Factor Law. He studied Political Science, Philosophy, and Economics at UPenn.
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Alex has successfully built technical organizations and scaled complex backend infrastructure at Reonomy and Baton. He studied Computer Science with a specialization in Software Systems at Columbia University.
Three leaders from the intelligence, defense, and cybersecurity communities. Our advisors have spent their careers on the decisions our customers now use WireScreen to make.
The first presidentially appointed Cybersecurity Director at CISA, Bryan led the defense of U.S. critical infrastructure against nation-state and insider threats, and earlier as Assistant Secretary for Cyber, Infrastructure, Risk and Resilience Policy at DHS. He's also a five-time CEO with four company exits and, currently leading GraySpace Technology.
A former Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs and one of the U.S. government's most experienced China and Indo-Pacific policy leaders, David brings decades of expertise at the intersection of national security, China, and strategic risk.
Wayne spent more than three decades at the CIA, culminating as Associate Deputy Director for Analysis, where he helped lead the Agency's digital transformation of intelligence analysis by integrating AI, data science, and modern analytic tools while reinforcing the rigorous tradecraft behind objective intelligence.
WireScreen is a risk intelligence platform. We assemble the primary record on Chinese companies — and increasingly on companies everywhere — and resolve it into a clear picture of who owns an entity, who controls it, and what risk it carries. The sources are public. Assembling them is the work.
We serve national security professionals in major federal agencies but also defense contractors screening sub-tier supply chains; and global enterprises enforcing export controls, sanctions, and investment compliance. What unites them is a consequential decision that hinges on seeing who is really behind an entity, transaction, or investment, through layers of state-backed opacity that standard databases miss.
Our customers are vetting the partners, suppliers, customers and investors on the other side of a decision. They need to know what an entity actually is and what comes with it. Tracing a beneficial owner through layers of holding companies, or surfacing a tie to the military, to sanctions, or to forced labor, becomes a query rather than a research project.
Most tools were built for transparent, financial use cases. We were built for opaque, adversarial ones. This is a different, and much harder, problem. Our edge is risk that propagates: where a tie to the military, sanctions, or forced labor exists, we follow it through investments, locations, leadership and customers. Raw data is a commodity. The intelligence built on top of it is not.
Because it is the hardest case. If you can read deliberate opacity at that scale, in the original language, you can read it anywhere. China is not the ceiling; it is the proving ground. The destination is a map of cross-border corporate power.
The primary record: business registrations, shareholder disclosures, exchange filings, government procurement notices, patents, court filings, regulatory penalties and sanctions actions. These are all collected in the original language. Every connection in WireScreen is traceable to the document it came from, not to a model’s confidence score.
Government agencies, leading investors, and the compliance teams behind the world’s most consequential decisions use WireScreen to answer it.
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