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Open Source Corporate Ownership, Financial Network, and Transparency Intelligence Specification

Specification Overview

ShellScan is an open-source specification for a comprehensive corporate ownership, financial institution, shell company, executive history, regulatory intelligence, and financial network transparency platform.

ShellScan is designed to identify, organize, connect, analyze, and visualize publicly available and legally accessible information about companies, financial institutions, ownership structures, officers, directors, boards, regulatory relationships, corporate histories, financial networks, and cross-border entities.

ShellScan transforms fragmented corporate and financial information into connected, searchable, historically aware intelligence while preserving source provenance, evidence quality, analytical transparency, and human review.

ShellScan does not automatically equate complex ownership, offshore structures, nominee arrangements, shell companies, unusual financial relationships, or corporate opacity with illegal activity. Analytical findings are indicators that require supporting evidence and appropriate human or institutional review.

The specification is designed for investigative researchers, journalists, regulators, financial analysts, compliance professionals, policymakers, academics, watchdog organizations, and members of the public seeking greater financial transparency.

Core Principles

Open source
Public-interest transparency
Evidence-based analysis
Source provenance
Historical preservation
Corporate ownership transparency
Financial network visibility
Explainable analysis
Human review
False-positive awareness
Privacy protection
Legal and ethical data use
Vendor neutrality
Interoperability
Reproducibility
Auditability
Versioned intelligence
Cross-border visibility
Public accountability

Core Modules

Corporate Entity Intelligence

ShellScan shall maintain comprehensive profiles for corporate entities identified through legally available information.

Capabilities shall include:

Legal company name
Former company names
Trade names
Doing-business-as names
Registration identifiers
Jurisdiction of incorporation
Formation date
Dissolution date
Status
Registered addresses
Principal addresses
Mailing addresses
Registered agents
Parent companies
Subsidiaries
Affiliates
Related entities
Business classifications
Industry classifications
Corporate purpose
Corporate event history
Regulatory relationships
Publicly reported financial information
Source documentation
Evidence confidence
Historical snapshots

Financial Institution Intelligence

ShellScan shall maintain profiles and relationships for financial institutions throughout the financial sector.

Coverage shall include:

Banks
Credit unions
Mortgage lenders
Mortgage brokers
Broker-dealers
Investment advisers
Asset managers
Hedge funds
Private equity firms
Venture capital firms
Insurance companies
Reinsurance companies
Fintech companies
Payment companies
Money services businesses
Trust companies
Custodians
Clearing organizations
Securities firms
Consumer finance companies
Digital asset companies
Other regulated or publicly documented financial entities

The module shall connect financial institutions to their ownership structures, officers, directors, subsidiaries, affiliates, regulatory records, enforcement history, and other documented relationships.

Ownership Intelligence

ShellScan shall map corporate ownership structures and changes over time.

Capabilities shall include:

Direct ownership
Indirect ownership
Parent ownership
Subsidiary relationships
Beneficial ownership where legally available
Controlling interests
Minority interests
Voting interests
Economic interests
Cross-ownership
Reciprocal ownership
Ownership percentages
Ownership changes
Acquisition events
Divestitures
Mergers
Spin-offs
Corporate reorganizations
Ownership chains
Multi-layer ownership structures
Jurisdictional ownership paths
Historical ownership snapshots

The system shall distinguish documented ownership from inferred or analytically suggested relationships.

Shell Company Intelligence

ShellScan shall identify characteristics associated with potentially opaque or minimally operational corporate entities.

Potential indicators may include:

Limited publicly documented operations
Minimal or unclear business activity
Shared addresses
Shared registered agents
Rapid formation and dissolution
Complex ownership chains
Common officers across numerous entities
Unusual jurisdictional structures
Frequent ownership changes
Dormant or inactive status
Limited operational footprint
Repeated use of intermediary entities
Disproportionate corporate complexity
Connections to other high-opacity entities

ShellScan shall not classify an entity as illegal solely because it exhibits these characteristics.

Every analytical classification shall preserve the underlying evidence, indicators, confidence level, methodology, and relevant alternative explanations.

Officer and Director Intelligence

ShellScan shall maintain historical profiles of corporate officers, directors, executives, board members, trustees, and other publicly documented leadership roles.

Capabilities shall include:

Full name
Known name variations
Corporate positions
Position start dates
Position end dates
Companies served
Boards served
Historical appointments
Resignations
Executive transitions
Shared board memberships
Shared corporate affiliations
Documented professional relationships
Publicly documented geographic or jurisdictional associations
Regulatory actions where legally available
Enforcement actions
Litigation records
Bankruptcy relationships
Corporate event associations
Source provenance

Historical records shall remain available after an individual leaves an organization.

Corporate Relationship Graph

ShellScan shall represent corporate relationships as a connected analytical graph.

Graph relationships may include:

Owns
Owned by
Controls
Controlled by
Subsidiary of
Parent of
Affiliate of
Shares an officer with
Shares a director with
Shares an address with
Shares a registered agent with
Shares a documented intermediary with
Acquired
Acquired by
Merged with
Invested in
Financed by
Regulated by
Sued by
Sanctioned by
Subject to enforcement by
Connected through public records
Connected through documented financial relationships

The graph shall support historical and temporal relationships.

Ownership Path Analysis

ShellScan shall calculate and display ownership paths between entities.

Capabilities shall include:

Direct ownership paths
Indirect ownership paths
Multi-layer ownership chains
Controlling-interest paths
Voting-interest paths
Beneficial ownership paths where available
Shortest relationship paths
Longest documented ownership chains
Jurisdiction transitions
Intermediate entities
Ownership concentration
Ownership fragmentation
Circular ownership structures

Each path shall identify its evidence sources and distinguish documented facts from analytical inference.

Hidden Influence Mapping

ShellScan shall analyze documented relationships that may indicate concentrated or distributed influence across corporate networks.

Capabilities shall include:

Common ownership
Common executives
Common directors
Shared intermediaries
Repeated service providers
Common addresses
Investment relationships
Financing relationships
Control relationships
Voting relationships
Network centrality
Influence pathways
Corporate concentration
Cross-sector relationships

Influence analysis shall be presented as analytical context rather than definitive proof of control unless control is documented.

Regulatory Intelligence

ShellScan shall integrate publicly available regulatory and governmental information.

Potential sources shall include:

SEC records
FDIC records
FINRA records
NMLS records
Federal banking records
State financial regulatory records
State corporate registries
State securities regulators
Insurance regulators
Public enforcement records
Government corporate databases
Public court records
Bankruptcy records
Public licensing records
Public sanctions information
Other legally accessible governmental datasets

The system shall preserve source dates and update histories.

Regulatory and Enforcement History

ShellScan shall connect entities and individuals to documented regulatory actions.

Records may include:

Enforcement actions
Regulatory orders
Fines
Settlements
Suspensions
License actions
Regulatory restrictions
Public warnings
Compliance actions
Court judgments
Bankruptcy proceedings
Public investigations
Corporate penalties

The system shall distinguish allegations, investigations, settlements, findings, judgments, and final determinations.

Sanctions and Public Risk Intelligence

Where legally available, ShellScan may correlate corporate entities and individuals with:

Sanctions lists
Politically exposed person datasets
Government watchlists
Regulatory warnings
Public enforcement actions
Public litigation
Bankruptcy records
Corporate dissolution records
License suspensions
Public fraud findings

The system shall identify the source and date for each match and provide mechanisms for resolving false or ambiguous matches.

Document Intelligence

ShellScan shall ingest and analyze publicly available corporate and regulatory documents.

Supported document categories may include:

Annual reports
Quarterly reports
Current reports
Securities filings
Ownership filings
Investment disclosures
Corporate registration documents
Regulatory filings
Enforcement documents
Court documents
Bankruptcy documents
Public licensing records
Public corporate disclosures
Other legally accessible documents

Document analysis shall extract relevant entities, relationships, dates, ownership information, officers, directors, jurisdictions, financial relationships, and corporate events.

Entity Resolution

ShellScan shall normalize information from different sources into unified entity profiles.

Capabilities shall include:

Name normalization
Name variation detection
Corporate identifier matching
Address normalization
Officer identity matching
Director identity matching
Jurisdiction matching
Registration matching
Historical identity resolution
Duplicate detection
Relationship reconciliation
Conflicting record detection

The system shall retain original source values rather than destroying source-specific information during normalization.

Evidence and Provenance

Every important fact and analytical relationship shall maintain provenance.

Provenance records shall include:

Source
Source type
Source date
Retrieval date
Original record identifier
Relevant document
Supporting evidence
Extraction method
Transformation history
Confidence level
Verification status
Analyst annotations
Revision history

Users shall be able to trace analytical findings back to supporting evidence.

Confidence and Verification

ShellScan shall assign evidence and relationship confidence where appropriate.

Confidence classifications may include:

Verified
Strongly supported
Supported
Probable
Possible
Unverified
Conflicting
Disputed
Historical
Inactive

Confidence shall never be presented as proof of wrongdoing.

Users shall be able to review the evidence underlying each confidence assessment.

AI Shell Detection

ShellScan may use artificial intelligence to identify patterns associated with potentially opaque corporate structures.

Analytical signals may include:

Corporate complexity
Ownership layering
Shared addresses
Shared officers
Shared registered agents
Rapid entity creation
Rapid entity dissolution
Dormancy
Unusual jurisdiction patterns
Repeated intermediary structures
Network concentration
Unexpected corporate relationships

AI output shall be explainable and accompanied by the indicators contributing to the result.

AI Anomaly Detection

ShellScan shall identify unusual patterns across corporate and financial networks.

Capabilities may include:

Unusual ownership changes
Unexpected corporate relationships
Rapid executive turnover
Unusual network growth
Sudden jurisdiction changes
Unusual entity formation patterns
Repeated corporate structures
Network fragmentation
Network consolidation
Abnormal regulatory activity

Anomalies shall be treated as signals for investigation rather than conclusions.

Graph Analysis

ShellScan shall provide analytical tools for examining complex networks.

Capabilities shall include:

Network centrality
Community detection
Relationship clustering
Influence pathways
Ownership concentration
Network density
Network fragmentation
Bridge entities
Highly connected entities
Isolated entities
Relationship strength
Temporal graph analysis

Fraud Pattern Recognition

ShellScan may identify patterns associated with known corporate fraud indicators.

Potential patterns may include:

Rapid corporate restructuring
Repeated related-party relationships
Unusual ownership transfers
Circular transactions where publicly documented
Repeated executive overlap
Sudden asset movement where publicly documented
Repeated corporate failures
Unusual corporate succession
Regulatory warning patterns

Results shall remain analytical indicators and shall not be represented as findings of criminal conduct without appropriate evidence.

Network Evolution Analysis

ShellScan shall analyze how corporate networks change over time.

Capabilities shall include:

Entity formation
Entity dissolution
Ownership changes
Leadership changes
Acquisitions
Mergers
Divestitures
Network expansion
Network contraction
Jurisdiction migration
Relationship creation
Relationship termination

Historical snapshots shall allow users to compare network states across time.

Predictive Risk Analysis

ShellScan may provide predictive models that identify possible future network conditions based on historical patterns.

Potential uses include:

Ownership change scenarios
Corporate restructuring scenarios
Network expansion
Network fragmentation
Regulatory exposure
Concentration risk
Systemic relationship risk
Corporate distress indicators

Predictions shall be clearly identified as forecasts rather than facts.

Financial Network Intelligence

ShellScan shall connect publicly documented financial relationships across corporate networks.

Capabilities may include:

Investments
Financing relationships
Debt relationships
Equity relationships
Publicly documented lending relationships
Securities relationships
Fund relationships
Asset management relationships
Insurance relationships
Derivative exposure where publicly documented
Corporate guarantees where publicly documented
Publicly disclosed counterparties

ShellScan shall not imply access to private bank transaction records unless such information is legally available through an authorized source.

Cross-Border Intelligence

ShellScan shall support international corporate and financial relationships.

Capabilities may include:

International company registries
Cross-border ownership
Offshore jurisdictions
International subsidiaries
Foreign directors
Foreign officers
Jurisdiction transitions
Cross-border corporate structures
International regulatory actions
International sanctions
International litigation
Multi-jurisdiction entity resolution

The system shall identify jurisdictional uncertainty and incomplete registry coverage.

Geographic Intelligence

ShellScan shall map corporate relationships geographically.

Capabilities shall include:

Incorporation locations
Registered addresses
Corporate headquarters
Officer geographic associations where publicly documented
Director geographic associations where publicly documented
Financial institution locations
Regulatory jurisdictions
Ownership jurisdictions
Cross-border pathways
Corporate concentration by location

Geographic information shall be presented according to the source’s level of reliability.

Corporate History

ShellScan shall maintain a longitudinal corporate timeline.

Timelines may include:

Formation
Name changes
Address changes
Ownership changes
Officer appointments
Board appointments
Acquisitions
Mergers
Divestitures
Regulatory actions
Litigation
Bankruptcy
Dissolution
Reorganization
Other documented corporate events

Users shall be able to reconstruct the documented history of an entity.

Real-Time Monitoring

ShellScan shall support continuous monitoring of selected entities and networks.

Monitoring may include:

Ownership changes
New corporate registrations
Officer changes
Board changes
Regulatory actions
Enforcement actions
Litigation
Bankruptcy events
Sanctions changes
Corporate status changes
New related entities
Network relationship changes
Relevant news events

Alerts

Users shall be able to create configurable alerts.

Alerts may be triggered by:

Ownership changes
New officers
Officer departures
Board changes
New subsidiaries
New parent relationships
Regulatory actions
Enforcement actions
Litigation
Bankruptcy
Sanctions matches
Significant network changes
Changes in analytical risk indicators

News and Media Correlation

ShellScan may correlate corporate intelligence with publicly available news and media sources.

Capabilities may include:

Company mentions
Executive mentions
Corporate event detection
Regulatory event correlation
Acquisition reporting
Litigation reporting
Bankruptcy reporting
Investigative reporting
Event timelines
Source comparison

News reports shall remain distinguishable from verified regulatory or corporate records.

Whistleblower and Public Submission Intelligence

ShellScan may support legally collected public submissions and whistleblower information.

Capabilities shall include:

Public submissions
Supporting documents
Evidence attachments
Source classification
Verification workflows
Anonymous public submissions where legally appropriate
Investigator review
Status tracking
False-information reporting
Correction mechanisms

Unverified submissions shall never be presented as established facts.

Crowdsourced Verification

Users may contribute verification and contextual information.

Capabilities shall include:

Evidence submissions
Corrections
Entity annotations
Relationship annotations
Source suggestions
Historical information
Dispute reporting
Verification votes
Expert review
Moderator review

Community contributions shall retain provenance and verification status.

Investigative Workspace

ShellScan shall provide tools for structured investigations.

Capabilities may include:

Saved entities
Saved networks
Investigation timelines
Evidence collections
Notes
Relationship maps
Source collections
Report generation
Collaborative investigations
Research annotations
Investigation history

Natural Language Investigation

ShellScan shall allow users to ask questions about corporate networks using natural language.

Queries may include requests to:

Identify ownership chains
Find common officers
Find shared directors
Trace corporate relationships
Identify related financial institutions
Compare corporate networks
Find historical relationships
Identify changes over time
Summarize documented regulatory activity
Trace relationships across jurisdictions

Natural-language results shall link back to the underlying evidence.

Transparency Scoring

ShellScan shall calculate configurable transparency and opacity indicators.

Potential factors may include:

Availability of corporate information
Ownership complexity
Ownership disclosure
Jurisdictional complexity
Historical record completeness
Executive disclosure
Regulatory transparency
Relationship transparency
Evidence completeness
Network complexity

Scores shall disclose the factors and methodology used.

Sector Transparency Intelligence

ShellScan shall provide aggregate transparency analysis across industries.

Capabilities may include:

Sector comparisons
Industry concentration
Ownership complexity
Regulatory activity
Corporate network density
Common ownership patterns
Executive network overlap
Transparency trends

Geographic Transparency Intelligence

ShellScan shall provide aggregate analysis by:

Country
State
Territory
Jurisdiction
Regulatory region
Financial center
Corporate registration region

Policy and Regulatory Analysis

ShellScan shall provide tools for analyzing the potential effects of policy and regulatory changes.

Capabilities may include:

Regulatory change tracking
Policy impact analysis
Corporate exposure analysis
Sector exposure
Jurisdiction exposure
Ownership disclosure analysis
Scenario comparison
Historical policy comparisons

Policy Simulation

Users may model hypothetical policy changes and analyze potential effects on documented corporate networks.

Possible scenarios include:

Ownership disclosure requirements
Regulatory changes
Reporting requirements
Financial institution rules
Corporate transparency requirements
Sanctions changes
Cross-border restrictions

Simulation results shall be clearly identified as models rather than predictions of actual government action or market outcomes.

Systemic Risk Analysis

ShellScan may analyze interconnected corporate and financial networks for concentration and propagation risk.

Capabilities may include:

Network concentration
Common counterparties
Common ownership
Shared financial institutions
Sector dependencies
Geographic dependencies
Relationship clusters
Cascading scenario analysis
Network vulnerability
Potential points of concentration

Cascading Event Simulation

ShellScan may simulate hypothetical network disruptions.

Examples include:

Corporate failure
Financial institution failure
Regulatory restriction
Ownership disruption
Supply disruption
Market shock
Sector contraction

Simulation outputs shall clearly distinguish hypothetical scenarios from observed events.

Supply Chain Intelligence

ShellScan may connect corporate ownership intelligence with publicly available supply chain information.

Capabilities may include:

Suppliers
Customers
Manufacturers
Distributors
Logistics relationships
Corporate ownership
Geographic dependencies
Trade relationships
Supply chain concentration

Trade Intelligence

Where legally available, ShellScan may analyze public trade and customs information.

Capabilities may include:

Import relationships
Export relationships
Trading entities
Product categories
Trade jurisdictions
Corporate relationships
Supplier relationships
Customer relationships

Debt and Exposure Mapping

ShellScan may map publicly disclosed debt and financial exposure.

Capabilities may include:

Debt issuance
Credit facilities
Publicly documented lenders
Bond relationships
Guarantees
Publicly disclosed counterparties
Debt maturity events
Refinancing events
Exposure concentration

Digital Asset Intelligence

Where legally available and appropriate, ShellScan may connect corporate entities with publicly documented digital asset activity.

Capabilities may include:

Digital asset companies
Token issuers
Public blockchain relationships
Smart contract associations
Public wallet associations
Corporate token holdings where disclosed
DeFi relationships
Exchange relationships
Regulatory actions involving digital assets

Public blockchain associations shall not automatically establish ownership or control.

Corporate Influence Analysis

ShellScan may identify documented relationships between corporate networks and broader institutional networks.

Capabilities may include:

Board overlaps
Executive overlaps
Investment relationships
Lobbying records where publicly available
Political activity records where legally available
Industry organizations
Trade associations
Public policy relationships

The system shall distinguish documented activity from inferred influence.

Explainable AI

All significant AI-generated findings shall provide understandable explanations.

Explanations may include:

Contributing evidence
Detected indicators
Relevant relationships
Model confidence
Historical context
Alternative explanations
Data limitations

Users shall be able to inspect the information underlying AI-generated findings.

AI Auditability

AI-generated results shall maintain:

Model version
Analysis date
Input data references
Output
Confidence
Explanation
Relevant evidence
Revision history

Data Quality Management

ShellScan shall continuously evaluate data quality.

Capabilities shall include:

Duplicate detection
Missing-data detection
Conflicting-record detection
Stale-data detection
Source reliability indicators
Record completeness
Data freshness
Entity resolution confidence
Correction workflows

Versioned Intelligence

ShellScan shall preserve historical versions of important records.

Users shall be able to determine:

What information was known at a particular time
When a relationship was added
When a relationship changed
When a source was updated
When an analytical assessment changed
Why an assessment changed

Historical Snapshots

Users shall be able to view corporate and financial networks as they existed at previous points in time.

Historical views shall support:

Ownership
Officers
Directors
Corporate status
Regulatory status
Relationships
Network structure
Geographic structure

Search and Discovery

ShellScan shall provide comprehensive search across:

Companies
Financial institutions
Officers
Directors
Boards
Ownership relationships
Addresses
Jurisdictions
Regulatory records
Litigation
Bankruptcy
News
Networks
Historical records

Public API

ShellScan may provide an API for authorized access to publicly available ShellScan data.

API capabilities may include:

Entity queries
Relationship queries
Historical queries
Ownership queries
Officer queries
Network queries
Regulatory queries
Evidence queries
Search
Export
Change monitoring

API access shall respect licensing, privacy, security, and source restrictions.

Data Export

ShellScan shall support structured exports where appropriate.

Potential formats include:

CSV
JSON
GraphML
HTML
Other interoperable formats

Exports shall preserve source and provenance information whenever practical.

Investigative Reports

ShellScan shall generate structured reports containing:

Executive summary
Entity profiles
Ownership chains
Corporate relationships
Officer histories
Board histories
Regulatory history
Evidence
Timeline
Network visualization
Analytical indicators
Confidence levels
Data limitations

Reports shall distinguish facts, sourced claims, analytical conclusions, and unresolved questions.

Transparency Reports

ShellScan shall support publication-ready transparency reports for:

Companies
Financial institutions
Corporate networks
Industries
Jurisdictions
Regulatory events
Ownership changes

Interactive Visualization

ShellScan shall provide visual representations of complex networks.

Visualization capabilities may include:

Ownership graphs
Corporate relationship graphs
Officer networks
Board networks
Geographic maps
Timelines
Historical graph views
Regulatory timelines
Network clusters
Relationship pathways

Temporal Visualization

Users shall be able to observe corporate networks changing over time.

Temporal visualization shall support:

Entity creation
Entity dissolution
Ownership changes
Leadership changes
Regulatory events
Network expansion
Network contraction
Relationship creation
Relationship termination

Immersive Visualization

Optional interfaces may provide advanced three-dimensional or immersive representations of large corporate networks.

Immersive visualization shall remain an interface layer and shall not alter the underlying evidence model.

Public Transparency Interface

ShellScan shall support interfaces designed for members of the public.

Public users may be able to:

Search companies
Search financial institutions
View ownership
View corporate histories
View documented officers and directors
Review regulatory records
View network relationships
Review evidence
Submit corrections
Learn about corporate structures

Educational Intelligence

ShellScan may provide educational resources explaining:

Corporate ownership
Shell companies
Beneficial ownership
Financial institutions
Corporate registries
Regulatory systems
Corporate structures
Financial networks
Evidence evaluation
Investigative research methods

Investigative Challenges

An optional educational system may provide structured challenges based on public records.

Challenges may teach users how to:

Trace ownership
Identify relationships
Verify sources
Analyze corporate histories
Compare entities
Follow regulatory records
Understand network structures

Security and Access Control

ShellScan shall support appropriate access controls for protected functionality.

Capabilities may include:

Authentication
Authorization
Role-based access
Administrative controls
Audit logs
Session controls
API access controls
Abuse prevention

Privacy Protection

ShellScan shall distinguish public corporate information from personal information requiring additional protection.

Privacy controls shall support:

Data minimization
Appropriate handling of personal information
Removal or correction mechanisms where legally required
Source restrictions
Access controls
Privacy-preserving publication
Protection against unnecessary exposure of sensitive personal information

Legal and Ethical Data Governance

ShellScan shall use information in accordance with applicable laws, source terms, licensing requirements, privacy requirements, and ethical research standards.

The platform shall:

Respect source restrictions
Preserve attribution
Preserve provenance
Avoid unsupported accusations
Distinguish allegations from findings
Provide correction mechanisms
Support responsible disclosure
Identify data limitations

Audit Trail

Important actions and analytical changes shall be auditable.

Audit records may include:

Data ingestion
Data modification
Entity merges
Relationship changes
Analyst annotations
AI analyses
Corrections
Verification actions
Administrative actions
Report generation

Correction and Dispute System

ShellScan shall provide mechanisms for correcting inaccurate or disputed information.

Capabilities shall include:

Correction requests
Evidence submission
Dispute status
Source review
Historical correction records
Analyst review
Resolution tracking

Corrections shall not erase historical provenance.

Open Research Collaboration

ShellScan shall support collaboration among:

Journalists
Researchers
Academics
Regulators
Compliance professionals
Transparency organizations
Civil society
Investigators
Developers

Collaborative contributions shall preserve authorship, provenance, and revision history.

Optional Plugin Modules

Optional plugins may extend ShellScan without changing the core specification.

International Registry Plugin

Adds expanded integration with international corporate registries and government corporate datasets.

Offshore Jurisdiction Plugin

Adds specialized analysis of offshore jurisdictions, corporate structures, and cross-border ownership relationships.

Global Sanctions Plugin

Adds expanded sanctions and international regulatory intelligence.

PEP Intelligence Plugin

Adds expanded politically exposed person relationship analysis using legally available datasets.

Court and Litigation Plugin

Adds expanded public court, litigation, judgment, and bankruptcy intelligence.

News Intelligence Plugin

Adds expanded news monitoring, event detection, source comparison, and corporate media correlation.

Whistleblower Plugin

Adds controlled workflows for public whistleblower submissions and evidence review.

Investigative Collaboration Plugin

Adds collaborative research workspaces, shared investigations, annotations, evidence collections, and team workflows.

Journalist Workspace Plugin

Adds specialized tools for investigative journalists, including research timelines, source tracking, evidence organization, and report preparation.

Regulatory Compliance Plugin

Adds compliance-oriented monitoring and reporting tools for financial institutions and regulated organizations.

Corporate Due Diligence Plugin

Adds structured corporate due diligence workflows for authorized users.

Investment Intelligence Plugin

Adds investment relationship, fund, portfolio, ownership, and exposure analysis using publicly available information.

Hedge Fund Intelligence Plugin

Adds specialized hedge fund entity, ownership, leadership, investment, and regulatory analysis.

Private Equity Intelligence Plugin

Adds specialized private equity firm, fund, portfolio company, ownership, and executive relationship analysis.

Insurance Intelligence Plugin

Adds specialized insurance and reinsurance corporate network analysis.

Mortgage Intelligence Plugin

Adds specialized analysis of mortgage lenders, mortgage brokers, licensing, ownership, officers, directors, and regulatory relationships.

Fintech Intelligence Plugin

Adds specialized fintech company monitoring, ownership mapping, regulatory analysis, and financial relationship intelligence.

Digital Asset Intelligence Plugin

Adds expanded analysis of cryptocurrency companies, tokens, exchanges, decentralized finance relationships, and public blockchain activity.

Blockchain Verification Plugin

Adds blockchain-based verification and timestamping for selected public evidence records.

Supply Chain Plugin

Adds expanded supply chain, supplier, customer, logistics, and corporate dependency analysis.

Trade Intelligence Plugin

Adds expanded import, export, customs, and international trade relationship analysis.

Debt Intelligence Plugin

Adds expanded public debt, lending, bond, guarantee, and financial exposure analysis.

Systemic Risk Plugin

Adds advanced network dependency and cascading-event simulations.

Policy Sandbox Plugin

Adds interactive policy and regulatory scenario modeling.

AI Research Assistant Plugin

Adds advanced natural-language investigation assistance while preserving evidence links and explainability.

Predictive Intelligence Plugin

Adds advanced forecasting of corporate network changes and potential risk conditions.

Advanced Graph Analytics Plugin

Adds specialized network science, graph algorithms, community detection, centrality analysis, and temporal network analysis.

Three-Dimensional Visualization Plugin

Adds advanced three-dimensional corporate network visualization.

Immersive Investigation Plugin

Adds optional immersive interfaces for navigating large corporate and financial networks.

Public Education Plugin

Adds educational lessons, tutorials, guided investigations, and interactive learning experiences.

Citizen Investigation Plugin

Adds public research challenges and structured transparency investigations based on legally available information.

Transparency Index Plugin

Adds expanded scoring and comparative transparency indexes for companies, financial institutions, sectors, and jurisdictions.

Corporate Reputation Plugin

Adds structured aggregation of documented public events affecting corporate reputation while maintaining source distinctions.

Data Quality Plugin

Adds advanced source reliability, freshness, conflict detection, duplicate detection, and data completeness analysis.

Evidence Review Plugin

Adds specialized evidence review, verification, source comparison, and dispute-resolution workflows.

Archive Plugin

Adds long-term preservation and historical snapshots of corporate records and relationship networks.

API Gateway Plugin

Adds expanded programmatic access, API management, usage controls, and external integrations.

Research Export Plugin

Adds specialized exports for academic, investigative, regulatory, and analytical workflows.

Specification Branding License (SBL)

Standard

Fully AGPL-3.0+ compliant system
Copyleft enforced for network deployments
Required attribution:
- Roxanne Ardary
- https://www.roxanneardary.com/

Optional

Specification Branding License (SBL)
- Attribution-free commercial deployment
- Pricing based on scale, usage, and deployment scope
- https://roxanneardary.com/shellscan/

License & Notice Requirements

ShellScan is released under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later (AGPL-3.0+).

By contributing to this project, you agree that your contributions will also be released under this license.

Please note the following:

All contributions must comply with the AGPL-3.0+ terms.
Under Section 7 of the license, all redistributions, forks, and derivative works must preserve attribution to:
Roxanne Ardary and roxanneardary.com.
ShellScan specifications are free to use with attribution. A Specification Branding License can be negotiated upon request.
The project’s notice.md file tracks attribution requirements and contributor acknowledgments.
Any update that adds new contributors or modifies attribution should also update notice.md.
When submitting a pull request, ensure that any new files maintain the attribution headers where applicable.
Network-deployed versions of this software must also remain fully AGPL-3.0+ compliant, including exposure of source code modifications when applicable under the license.

For full legal details, please refer to the AGPL-3.0+ license and the project’s notice.md file.

Notice – ShellScan

Attribution Requirement: Under Section 7 of the AGPL 3.0+ license, all redistributions, forks, and derivative works, including network-deployed versions of this project, must provide attribution to Roxanne Ardary and roxanneardary.com.

Contributors

This file tracks contributors and their specific contributions to the project.

Roxanne Ardary, roxanneardary.com – March 28, 2026
Created the repository for ShellScan. Developed the initial shell scanning tool for detecting and analyzing shell scripts and potential security issues.
[Add other contributors here] – [Date]
[Describe contribution in one sentence]

License – ShellScan

This repository is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later (AGPL-3.0+).

Key Points:

You are free to use, modify, and distribute the code.
All redistributions, forks, and derivative works or network-deployed versions must also be licensed under AGPL-3.0+ and provide attribution to Roxanne Ardary and roxanneardary.com as required under Section 7 of the license.
The software is provided “as is,” without warranty of any kind.

For the full license text, see GNU AGPL-3.0 License.