Use your own AI on our data — not the other way around
An AI-ready package is a single markdown file: a task-specific prompt template on top, a === DATA === separator, and the full data payload below it — every fact tagged with its source and retrieval date.
To use it: download the package from a dossier, a digest or a batch result; open your own AI assistant — Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or your corporate LLM; paste the whole file as one message; you receive a structured, source-cited report in the template's format.
Strait Screener makes no AI calls. The package is generated locally from the screening database and downloaded straight to you, so your queries, portfolios and watchlists never transit our servers to any AI provider. Which model reads the file — and whether any does — is entirely your choice.
One boundary to keep in mind: whatever an external model writes is that model's output. It is not a Strait Screener verdict, and every package says so in its mandatory disclaimer.
Every fact carries a source and a retrieval date
Vessel intelligence is stored as observations, not as a single mutable record: each field value — a name, a flag, an owner, a detention — is a point-in-time fact with the source that published it, how it was accessed, and when we retrieved it. History is derived from observations; nothing is ever overwritten.
The provenance chip next to a value shows exactly that: the source and the retrieval date, with the access method and an outbound link one click deeper. If a chip says Tokyo MOU, the fact came from an official port-state-control publication; if it says GISIS (manual) or Equasis (manual), an analyst looked it up by hand in a source that prohibits automated extraction, and entered it with a mandatory retrieval date. Manual entries are visually distinct everywhere they appear.
The cross-check principle: never rely on a single source. Registries lag, lists disagree and ships are renamed precisely to exploit that. The verification-sources panel on every dossier exists so that a decision that matters is confirmed in at least one primary source — and the outbound links take you to the exact record where possible.
What BLOCK, EDD, MONITOR, CLEAR — and the 50% signal — mean
BLOCK: a listed subject resolved by a unique identifier — a transaction restriction may apply; confirm scope. EDD: enhanced due diligence — there is a listing hit, but identity rests on a name match alone, or exposure needs a human decision. MONITOR: no direct listing, but indirect exposure exists — typically through the ownership graph or maritime behaviour. CLEAR: no hit on current evidence — which is a statement about today's lists, never a clearance.
The GLEIF ownership signal walks a screened company's corporate parents in the GLEIF LEI hierarchy and screens every parent in the chain against the same binding lists. If a parent is designated, the subject may fall under OFAC's 50 Percent Rule even though it is not listed itself — that is worth an analyst's attention, so the signal can raise CLEAR or MONITOR to EDD. It never produces BLOCK.
What the signal is not: GLEIF Level 2 relationships record accounting consolidation, usually without ownership percentages, and coverage is partial — many designated parents report no relationships at all. The signal is therefore a possible-exposure flag with an evidence chain (entity, LEI, relationship type, source, retrieval date), explicitly labelled SIGNAL and kept visually apart from the verdict. Absence of the signal is not evidence of clean ownership.