Vet a vendor before you pay them. Private, on-device, your own AI key
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Know who you're paying — before the money moves.
VendorAI is a pre-payment due-diligence tool for bookkeepers, controllers,
and small accounts-payable teams. Before you cut a check or push a wire to
a vendor you haven't worked with before, VendorAI checks the public record
and hands you a plain-English risk score backed by real, cited sources.
WHY VENDORAI
Invoice fraud and fake-vendor scams usually leave a trail: a company with no
real registration, a website that's three weeks old, an address that's
actually a mail-drop, bank details that changed since the last invoice.
Catching that trail by hand means a dozen browser tabs and twenty minutes
per vendor. VendorAI runs the same checks automatically and gives you a
score you can act on in seconds.
HOW IT WORKS
1. Enter what you already have — a company name plus an address, website,
email, phone, or tax ID. Or paste it from an email, or scan an invoice.
2. Choose Quick (4 checks) for a fast first look, or Full (11 checks) before
money actually moves.
3. Get a 0–100 risk score in one of six plain-English bands — from "Low
concern" to "High-risk indicators" — with the specific evidence listed
underneath it, each item showing its source, date, and confidence level.
4. Decide. VendorAI never auto-approves or auto-rejects anything — every
status change is a human decision, always.
WHAT VENDORAI CHECKS
• Business existence & registration in the expected jurisdiction
• Legal name match against public and commercial records
• Address — flags mail-drops, virtual offices, and shared addresses
• Phone & email validity
• Website domain age and WHOIS privacy signals
• Ownership / named officers
• Officer background — personal bankruptcy, director disqualification, and
criminal-proceeding records for named owners, always shown with sensitive,
non-definitive framing
• Reputation and complaint signals
• Adverse media coverage
• Public records — liens, judgments, filings
• Duplicate-vendor detection against your own database (free, on-device)
• Invoice diff — flags bank/payment details that changed since the last
invoice, the classic business-email-compromise pattern (free, on-device)
• Conflict-of-interest screening against your own employee list (free,
on-device)
BUILT FOR PRIVACY
There is no VendorAI server and no account to create. Every vendor record,
document, and piece of evidence is stored in an encrypted database on your
device. VendorAI runs on your own AI provider API key (Anthropic, OpenAI,
Google Gemini, Groq, or Mistral) — your subscription pays for the app, and
your AI usage is billed directly by the provider you choose. Export your
data any time, or wipe it completely.
WHO IT'S FOR
Solo bookkeepers, independent controllers, and small accounts-payable teams
who want a second set of eyes on a new vendor before the invoice gets paid
— without a subscription to enterprise AP software or a corporate
onboarding process.
A NOTE ON WHAT VENDORAI DOES — AND DOESN'T — DO
VendorAI surfaces publicly available information for your review. It does
not determine, and never states, that any person or company has committed
fraud or any crime. Findings about named individuals are never presented as
confirmed identity matches. VendorAI is a research aid, not a verdict —
your judgment (and your organization's policies) always makes the final
call.