Crest.Digital's COI Network Mapper traces hidden relationships between your company's insiders and its vendors — across directors, KMPs, shareholders, addresses, and registries — up to four hops, in seconds.
The mapper follows a structured four-phase process — starting from your insider list, traversing vendor networks, following outward links, and finally filtering noise before surfacing probable conflicts.
The process begins with Company A's known insiders — every director, KMP, top-20 executive, shareholder, and their relatives — capturing their home addresses, registered offices, and other directorships.
Vendor data is pulled via GSTIN, MCA, and MSME registrations. Each vendor's directors, shareholders, and addresses are compared directly against the Company A insider set for first-order matches.
For unmatched vendors, the system extends outward: other directorships of vendor directors, corporate holders and their owners, entities registered at the same address. Up to 4 hops, depth set per case.
Soft links (shared phone, email, auditor, charge holder, bank account) are layered in. Noise controls suppress hub directors and shared offices. Date overlaps must align. Probable conflicts are reported with evidence paths.
The mapper identifies both direct structural connections and subtler soft links that auditors would otherwise miss across thousands of vendors.
The same individual holds a directorship or significant shareholding in both Company A (or an insider entity) and a vendor — identified via DIN, PAN, or name + date-of-birth matching from MCA records.
An insider's home address, or a related company's registered office, matches the vendor's GST site address, MSME address, or registered office — flagged as a probable co-location conflict.
A vendor is the same legal entity as a company held or directed by an insider — detected by direct CIN match from MCA, removing the need to traverse the full graph for first-order corporate relationships.
A phone number or email address appears in both Company A's insider data and a vendor's registration or contact data — often revealing undisclosed connections between procurement contacts and vendor principals.
The same statutory auditor, authorised signatory, or charge holder appears across both the insider's entity and the vendor — a softer signal that nonetheless warrants review in high-value procurement.
Identical bank account or IFSC data surfaces across insider entities and vendor registrations — a strong indicator of undisclosed beneficial ownership or fund routing arrangements.
Each row represents a probable conflict path — an evidence chain from a Company A insider to a flagged vendor, with the data source and confidence level.
| Insider | Path | Vendor | Source | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ms. K — KMP, Co. A shareholder | Ms. K → Entity Q (same director) → Mr. V (director) → Vendor X | Vendor X | MCA | PROBABLE |
| Mr. P — Director, Co. A | Mr. P home address = Vendor X GST site | Vendor X | GST | PROBABLE |
| Ms. T — Shareholder, Co. A | Ms. T → Entity R (holder) → Vendor Y (director) | Vendor Y | MCA | PROBABLE |
| Mr. V — Director, Entity Q | Mr. V auditor = Vendor Z statutory auditor | Vendor Z | MCA | POSSIBLE |
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COI mapping is used wherever undisclosed relationships between insiders and vendors create governance, financial, or reputational risk.
Forensic auditors use the mapper to identify undisclosed related-party transactions that should have been approved at board level — surfacing probable conflicts across hundreds of vendors in hours rather than weeks of manual MCA searches.
Procurement teams run COI checks before awarding high-value contracts, ensuring that no vendor has undisclosed ownership or directorship links to procurement decision-makers or their close associates.
Company secretaries and governance teams verify annual conflict-of-interest declarations by cross-referencing disclosed relationships against the mapper's findings — catching omissions before they become board-level liability.
Investment analysts and M&A due-diligence teams map the target company's insider network against its vendor base to assess undisclosed related-party exposure before finalising valuations or deal terms.
The tool is designed to surface probable conflicts from public registry data. Certain ownership structures and undisclosed relationships remain outside its visibility.
If a vendor's beneficial owner is a relative of an insider but does not hold a directorship or have a DIN, the relationship is not visible via MCA and will not be flagged by the mapper.
Individuals who hold shares but are not directors typically lack a DIN in MCA data, making it impossible to link them to insider records by registry identifiers alone.
Beneficial ownership obscured behind nominee directors or trust structures is not visible in MCA public data. The mapper flags the nominee's links, not the true beneficial owner.
Vendors structured as sole proprietorships, partnerships, foreign entities, or LLPs with limited MCA disclosure fall outside the graph and will not be traversed beyond their GST/MSME footprint.
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What is conflict-of-interest network mapping?
Conflict-of-interest (COI) network mapping identifies hidden relationships between a company’s insiders — directors, KMPs, shareholders — and its vendors or related parties, using public registry data (MCA, GST, MSME) to trace common directorships, shared addresses, and ownership links up to four hops away.
How does Crest.Digital’s COI tool find hidden links?
The tool starts from Company A’s insider list, pulls vendor director and shareholder data, then follows outward links — other directorships, corporate holders, entities at the same address — up to four hops. It applies noise controls (hub-director down-weighting, shared-office suppression, date-overlap checks) to surface only probable conflicts, not false positives.
What data sources does the COI mapper use?
The tool uses MCA (Ministry of Corporate Affairs) for directors, shareholders, and company registrations; GST for business site addresses and GSTIN data; and MSME for registration and address data. Soft links include phone, email, auditor, charge holder, and bank account matching.
What are the limitations of the COI network map?
The tool cannot see vendor-side relatives who are not directors, individual shareholders without a DIN, nominee or trust holdings that obscure beneficial ownership, or entities registered outside MCA’s jurisdiction. It is a risk-screening tool — identified links are flagged as probable and require further investigation.
Who uses conflict-of-interest mapping tools?
COI mapping is used by top executives conducting board-level governance reviews, procurement teams evaluating vendor integrity, internal audit and forensic audit teams, compliance officers, and investment analysts assessing related-party exposure before deals.
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