What we do
We take a name and run it through a fixed sequence of checks: identity and director history, the corporate registry trail, the insolvency record, litigation and settlements, regulatory actions, the quality of the media record, and the consistency of a person's public claims with all of the above. The full sequence is documented in our methodology. Every profile and case study applies it the same way.
The one distinction we insist on
Most reputational confusion online comes from collapsing two different questions into one. A company can fail, be fined, or settle a class action without any individual being charged or found to have done anything wrong. Our work keeps the corporate record and the personal record in separate columns, and pays close attention to control timelines: who owned and ran a business when the decisions in question were made. A collapse that happens after a founder has sold control and left is not, on the record, that founder's collapse.
Sources and independence
We use public records: court judgments, regulator filings, insolvency and administration documents, company registries, and dated reporting from named outlets. We treat aggregator and risk-score sites as leads, never as findings, because many of them score name association rather than verified conduct. DueFounder takes no payment from the people it profiles and runs no sponsored placements. Assessments reflect the public record at the time of writing and are updated when the record changes.
Contact
Corrections supported by primary documents, and right-of-reply requests, can be sent to [email protected].