Cross-Border Corporate Mapping

Many investigations start with company registries but quickly run into their limitations. Journalists often need to:

• Analyse registries from different countries
• Search for beneficial owners through multiple layers of ownership
• Explore global networks of companies
• Identify sanctioned and toxic connections
• Clearly and effectively visualize relationship structure.

To uncover the real beneficiaries and toxic links, journalists must go beyond a single registry or country and work with global data.

At the workshop, you will learn how to combine data from dozens of jurisdictions into a single workflow and visualize corporate connections worldwide using digital tools based on the open-data ecosystem of YouControl; how to use the YC World summariser to quickly extract key information about individuals and legal entities and instantly spot “red flags”; methods to combine text, audio, and video formats into a unified output.

Collaborative investigations: the system is designed to facilitate teams to work together on a single project, contribute valuable additions, share, and scale results.

This workshop is run by YouControl, the Ukrainian team behind YC World (https://youcontrol.world/), a specialised cross-border investigative platform. The organisation’s mission is to provide journalists with the tools needed to uncover beneficial ownership, complex corporate structures, and hidden influence networks, especially in high-risk jurisdictions.