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Build a Beneficial Ownership Nominee Director and Control Chain Auditor

Inspect corporate officer declarations against BODS v0.4 nominee guidance to detect circular control links. Package ambiguous proxy relationships into prioritized review queues for enhanced due diligence.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

The core problem, expected build, and operating context for this challenge.

Inspect corporate officer declarations against BODS v0.4 nominee guidance to detect circular control links. Package ambiguous proxy relationships into prioritized review queues for enhanced due diligence.

Corporate Due Diligence Officer

Ingest structured corporate officer and shareholder registers adhering to BODS v0.4 modeling requirements.

Cross-reference natural persons acting across high-density company clusters to identify potential nominee arrangements.

Check nominee relationship statement flags and evaluate whether legitimate corporate justification documents exist.

Compile an enhanced due diligence dossier documenting circular ownership rings and missing ultimate controllers.

Multi-pane review console highlighting flagged nominee clusters with evidence tabs for regulatory filings and corporate registries.

Construct 40 synthetic company registry files representing 15 corporate groups with deliberately inserted nominee directors. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.

Beneficial ownership modelling Applies BODS v0.4 section on 'Representing nominee arrangements' to identify formal proxy shareholding and control statements.

mastra-ai, pydantic, networkx. Mastra AI provides declarative agent workflows to orchestrate multi-entity data validation and evidence synthesis. Local or hosted LLM with strong tabular data comprehension and entity relationship reasoning.

Submit runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, a working interface, example outputs, and a recorded end-to-end demo. Include tests and an action log.

Parses BODS v0.4 nominee arrangement indicators without schema validation exceptions.

Identifies circular corporate control chains where Entity A owns Entity B which owns Entity A.

Produces an investigative case brief listing all unmasked nominee officers and outstanding control queries.

```json [ { "input": { "company_id": "COMP-4001", "statements": [ { "statementId": "stmt-n-01", "statementType": "ownershipOrControlStatement", "subject": { "describedByEntityStatement": "COMP-4001" }, "interestedParty": { "describedByPersonStatement": "PER-NOM-88" }, "interests": [ { "type": "directorship", "details": "Director of Record", "isNominee": true } ] }, { "statementId": "stmt-n-02", "statementType": "entityStatement", "entityId": "COMP-4001", "name": "Horizon Offshore Management Ltd" } ], "officer_cross_holdings": { "PER-NOM-88": [ "COMP-4001", "COMP-4002", "COMP-4003", "COMP-4004", "COMP-4005", "COMP-4006" ] } }, "expected_output": { "nominee_flag_triggered": true, "cluster_count": 6, "risk_classification": "SUSPECTED_PROFESSIONAL_NOMINEE", "required_evidence": [ "NOMINEE_AGREEMENT_DISCLOSURE", "IDENTIFICATION_OF_UNDERLYING_NARRATIVE_BENEFICIARY" ], "audit_note": "Officer PER-NOM-88 holds directorships across 6 distinct legal entities with explicit nominee flags." } }, { "input": { "company_id": "COMP-5001", "statements": [ { "statementId": "stmt-n-03", "statementType": "ownershipOrControlStatement", "subject": { "describedByEntityStatement": "COMP-5001" }, "interestedParty": { "describedByPersonStatement": "PER-OWN-01" }, "interests": [ { "type": "directorship", "details": "Managing Director", "isNominee": false }, { "type": "shareholding", "share": { "exact": 75 } } ] }, { "statementId": "stmt-n-04", "statementType": "entityStatement", "entityId": "COMP-5001", "name": "Starlight Bakery Enterprises" } ], "officer_cross_holdings": { "PER-OWN-01": [ "COMP-5001" ] } }, "expected_output": { "nominee_flag_triggered": false, "cluster_count": 1, "risk_classification": "DIRECT_CONTROLLER", "required_evidence": [], "audit_note": "Officer PER-OWN-01 is an active controlling shareholder with single company affiliation." } } ] ```

Findings are formatted as internal case files for review analysts; does not initiate regulatory notifications or corporate deregistration. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.

Rules

Participation guide

Findings are formatted as internal case files for review analysts; does not initiate regulatory notifications or corporate deregistration. Use mock external writes and human review.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Parses BODS v0.4 nominee arrangement indicators without schema validation exceptions. Identifies circular corporate control chains where Entity A owns Entity B which owns Entity A. Produces an investigative case brief listing all unmasked nominee officers and outstanding control queries.

Submission format

Runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, working interface, example outputs, recorded demo, tests, and action logs.

Datasets

Challenge datasets

Public datasets, plus the private datasets you have access to.

Evaluation rubric

How submissions are scored

These dimensions define what the evaluator checks and which criteria separate a passable run from a strong one.

Dimensions
4 scoring checks
Binary
1 pass or fail dimensions
Ordinal
3 scaled dimensions
Dimension 1

Complete workflow

Ingest structured corporate officer and shareholder registers adhering to BODS v0.4 modeling requirements. Cross-reference natural persons acting across high-density company clusters to identify potential nominee arrangements. Check nominee relationship statement flags and evaluate whether legitimate corporate justification documents exist. Compile an enhanced due diligence dossier documenting circular ownership rings and missing ultimate controllers.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 2

Correctness and evidence

Parses BODS v0.4 nominee arrangement indicators without schema validation exceptions. Identifies circular corporate control chains where Entity A owns Entity B which owns Entity A. Produces an investigative case brief listing all unmasked nominee officers and outstanding control queries.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 3

Review interface

Multi-pane review console highlighting flagged nominee clusters with evidence tabs for regulatory filings and corporate registries.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 4

Safe execution

Findings are formatted as internal case files for review analysts; does not initiate regulatory notifications or corporate deregistration.

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Learning goals

What you should walk away with

  • Ingest structured corporate officer and shareholder registers adhering to BODS v0.4 modeling requirements.

  • Cross-reference natural persons acting across high-density company clusters to identify potential nominee arrangements.

  • Check nominee relationship statement flags and evaluate whether legitimate corporate justification documents exist.

  • Compile an enhanced due diligence dossier documenting circular ownership rings and missing ultimate controllers.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Construct 40 synthetic company registry files representing 15 corporate groups with deliberately inserted nominee directors. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.

Challenge setup

Configuration summary for this challenge.

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Mastra AI

TypeScript agent framework.

Evaluated output

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Evaluation checks
  • Ingest structured corporate officer and shareholder registers adhering to BODS v0.4 modeling requirements....
  • Parses BODS v0.4 nominee arrangement indicators without schema validation exceptions. Identifies circular c...
  • Multi-pane review console highlighting flagged nominee clusters with evidence tabs for regulatory filings a...
Configured evaluation evidence
  • 2 public reference cases
Configured runtime
  • 2 configured tools

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Action Space
  • Mastra AI · Optional
Orchestration
  • Mastra AI · Optional

Evaluation contract

  • Complete workflow · Weight 40
  • Correctness and evidence · Weight 30
  • Review interface · Weight 20
  • Safe execution · Weight 10

Reference cases

  • 2 public reference cases

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