The signals are public. Nobody on your team has time to watch all of them.
The KENNEDY Sanctions/Dark-Fleet Tracker watches the open sources for you: sanctions designation lists, AIS coverage gaps in the maritime picture, corporate-registry churn around the counterparties and vessels you register. When something moves against your register, it hands your compliance officer a graded alert with every source attached. Your officer decides. The tracker never does.
Put your counterparty register under watch See a sample graded alert
THE PROBLEM
Sanctions exposure stopped being a once-at-onboarding question. Designation lists grow by the round, the shadow fleet keeps re-flagging and re-papering, and the vessel that screened clean in March is running dark off a sanctioned load port in July. The signals that would tell you are public: the lists themselves, AIS gaps discussed openly in the maritime literature, ownership changes sitting in corporate registries. But they arrive as three separate firehoses, and the premium platforms that watch them for you are priced for banks and majors. So the middle does what the middle always does: screens once, files the PDF, and hopes. Hope is not a compliance program, and the enforcement letter does not care that you were busy.
HOW IT WORKS
You register what you actually care about: counterparties, chartered vessels by IMO number, load and discharge ports, the lanes you run. The tracker then rides the same watchtower engine AYA built for supply-chain risk, pointed at a sanctions watch thesis. It follows the public designation lists (OFAC SDN, EU consolidated, UK OFSI, UN), watches AIS feeds for coverage gaps relative to your registered lanes, and tracks registry changes around your registered entities. Each signal is classified RELATIVE to your register, because a designation on the far side of the world is noise and the same designation two hops from your charterer is not. Correlated clusters get escalated: a registry change plus an AIS gap plus a list update on the same entity is a different animal than any one alone. Every alert arrives graded, with every source attached, in a review queue for your compliance officer. A signal the engine cannot confidently grade is queued as undetermined for human eyes, never silently dropped. Nothing is ever auto-cleared and nothing is ever auto-blocked; the human decision is the product's last step by design.
WHAT YOU GET
For every registered entity, a watch you can show your auditor: - the graded alerts, severity-ranked signals against your register, each with its public sources attached, - the correlation view, multi-source clusters surfaced as one escalated item instead of three ignorable ones, - the review queue, every alert terminating at your named compliance officer, with the review recorded, - the audit trail, what was watched, what fired, who reviewed it, and when, formatted for your regulator-facing files, - the honest edge, undetermined signals shown as undetermined, never quietly discarded.
WHO IT'S FOR
Sanctions and trade-compliance teams at commodity traders, shipowners and charterers, marine insurers and P&I clubs, and banks with trade-finance exposure, who know their point-in-time screening goes stale and cannot justify a bank-priced maritime-intelligence platform. Also the risk and security teams that already watch geopolitical feeds and want the sanctions lens on the same assets. If you need a legal determination, a substitute for your screening obligations, or anything that touches enforcement, this is not that, and we will say so as many times as it takes.
PRICING (the ladder)
We price the ladder, not a single number, and every number below is a hypothesis we validate with you, not a commitment. - Starter watch, a bounded register (up to 25 entities, vessels, or lanes) under continuous watch, so you see real graded alerts against your own book before committing to anything. - Entity metered, per registered entity per month once the starter watch proves its signal quality, with correlation across your full register and delivery into your case-management system. - Enterprise, the full-register watch with custom thresholds, escalation protocols, and the audit-ready evidence trail, negotiated annually.
IP is licensed, never assigned. Any step that takes your money is gated and confirmed by a human before it runs, nothing charges silently.
THE PROOF (dogfood)
Honesty first: AYA does not charter tankers. Our register is our own vendors (cloud, LLM provider, domain registrars, email hosting), and we point the same watch engine at them, grading public-list and registry signals against the dependencies we actually cannot afford to lose. The maritime lens rides the same AIS ingest operations and correlation span our supply-chain risk monitor uses; the engine is one engine, retargeted by data, which is the whole architectural point. The build left its own receipt: the deliverable pattern was scored by our quality gate and every pattern this product references was verified on disk before this page was written.
HONEST NOTE
We would rather under-promise. What exists today: the watchtower engine, the AIS ingest operations, the classification and correlation and dispatch patterns, all on disk, verified, and scored. What has NOT happened yet: no live sanctions-list fetch has run (that connector is named, scoped future work), AIS credentials are not loaded, no alert has ever landed in a real review queue, and no compliance officer has reviewed one. No detection rate, coverage rate, or false-positive rate exists, and we will not invent one; the first credentialed watch cycle with planted test signals is the natural next step, and it will leave a verification record before we claim anything.
And the one we will keep repeating: a quiet radar is not clearance. Public sources are incomplete and lag reality, and dark-fleet actors practice deception on purpose. The absence of an alert is not evidence of the absence of exposure. This tracker widens what your team can watch; it does not replace your obligations, your screening, or your judgment. Any vendor telling you otherwise is selling you silence.
Put your counterparty register under watch
*This page is a specification. The capability it describes is not built yet, and nothing here is a claim that it runs today. It describes an OSINT screening aid, not legal advice and not a sanctions-compliance determination.*