Before your first wholesale order, identify the evidence you still need.

This five-step worksheet helps you separate facts you have from gaps that deserve review before sending an ACH or wire payment. It does not certify a supplier or tell you that payment is safe.

Important: A website, invoice, bank account, business registration, SEC record, or sanctions search cannot by itself establish that a supplier is legitimate or that a transaction is safe. Use independent payment, product, authorization, identity, and legal checks appropriate to the decision.

Mark what you can independently support

1. Exact company identity

Do the legal name, address, and jurisdiction agree across independent records—not only documents supplied by the seller?

2. Payment destination

Have you independently confirmed that the payee name and destination belong to the contracting company?

3. Authority and inventory

Do you have independently verifiable evidence of authorization to sell and possession or control of the promised goods?

4. Public company and sanctions evidence

Have the exact company and relevant parties been checked against the public sources appropriate to your decision?

5. Loss controls

If the supplier fails to deliver, do your contract, payment method, inspection, and dispute options limit the loss?

Complete all five steps.

Your result will summarize evidence gaps without declaring the supplier safe or legitimate.

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Forge Business Check reviews selected public SEC company records and OFAC sanctions data for a named company. Every early-access report requires human review before delivery. This does not replace legal advice, credit analysis, product or invoice authentication, payment protection, comprehensive due diligence, or full KYB.

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