How people and companies are connected · Every link sourced
Hundreds of public sources. One answer you can check.
Danish registers, the agendas and minutes of 96 municipal councils, company registers in 15 countries, sanctions lists, contracts and the open web, read for two names. Each link with its source and a quote.
Request access§ 01
Is it the same person, or just the same name?
Two names in. Every link between them out, each with the record it comes from, and proven to be the right person, not a namesake.
| 01 | You type two names, or one. A person, a company or a public body. Glasstie takes it from there. |
| 02 | Hundreds of public sources are searched at once. Registers across Denmark and Europe, every council, parliament, PEP and sanctions lists, contracts, filings, news and the open web, under every form of every name. |
| 03 | Every lead is followed until none are left. Each company, board, partner or contract found opens the next search, so indirect ties come to light too. |
| 04 | Every link is written down with its source and a quote. The page it is on, the sentence that says it, the dates. |
| 05 | A second, independent check opens every source again. Nothing counts until the quote is confirmed at its source and the identity is proven. |
| 06 | A possible conflict of interest is stated in plain facts. Who holds which role, which contract, when. You decide what it means. |
| 07 | The answer arrives by mail, in minutes. Leave the page. The search keeps going and tells you when it is done. |
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One answer, not 200 possible matches.
Screening tools hand you a list of maybes to clear by hand. Register sites draw a chain of shared board seats and stop there. Glasstie reads every source, follows every lead and proves every identity, so what reaches you is the answer itself.
| A list of possible matches | A register path | Glasstie | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What you get | Names that might be your person, to clear one by one | A chain of shared company roles | One answer: every link, the right person proven, its source attached |
| What is read | Watch lists | The company register | Registers across Denmark and Europe, 96 municipal councils, parliament, PEP and sanctions lists, contracts, filings, news and the open web |
| Ties it can show | A name on a list | Board and management seats | Board seats and former seats, contracts won, public offices, council decisions, co-ownership, shared events, family ties a published source states, and indirect paths of up to four cited steps (the company of a relative, a shared co-director, a parent company) |
| Proof for each link | A match score | A role in a register | The page, the sentence that says it, the date it was read and a saved copy |
| Namesakes | Left for you | Same name, same box | Every name form searched, every identity proven, namesakes ruled out |
| Checked by | You | Not checked | A second, independent check of every claim |
| Before you rely on it | "Should be independently verified" | Copied as filed | Already verified: every claim confirmed at its source |
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Conflicts of interest hide in records that are public, but scattered.
A board seat is in an annual report. A contract is in the EU's TED. A political office is on a council's site or a PEP list. Each fact is public. Glasstie joins them all for you, with the source behind every link.
| What goes wrong | Who checks | |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | A councillor votes on a contract for a company whose board they sit on. | Procurement and municipalities |
| 02 | A bank takes on a customer who sits on a board with a PEP. | Compliance and AML |
| 03 | A board member is called independent while sitting on a supplier's board. | Boards and governance |
| 04 | A story names the wrong Lars Hansen. | Journalists |
| 05 | A law firm takes a case against a company its own client's director chairs. | Law firms |
| 06 | A fund backs a CEO who is tied to the other side of the deal. | Due diligence and investors |
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What an answer looks like
One search, three reviewed links and one possible conflict. Every line can be opened at its source.
Search GT-EX-0001Illustration. Invented names, not a real search.Done · 3 reviewed links · 9 min
Ida Modelsenperson
Eksempel Byg A/Scompany · CVR 00000000
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Ida Modelsen · board member of · Eksempel Byg A/S 2023 to now
Reviewed by independent check
“The board: Per Prøve (chair), Ida Modelsen, Ole Opdigt”
Annual report 2024, board · regnskaber.virk.dk / XBRL filing
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Ida Modelsen · member of the council of · Modelby Kommune 2022 to now
Reviewed by independent check
“Ida Modelsen, member of the city council since 1 January 2022”
Municipal website, council members · modelby.dk / byraadet
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Modelby Kommune · awarded a contract to · Eksempel Byg A/S March 2025
Reviewed by independent check
“Winner: Eksempel Byg A/S, CVR 00000000. Buyer: Modelby Kommune”
TED contract award notice · ted.europa.eu / notice 000000-2025
Possible conflict of interest. Modelby Kommune awarded Eksempel Byg A/S a contract while Ida Modelsen sat on the city council and on the company's board. The record does not show whether she took part in the decision. For you to assess.
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Who it is for
One search, six kinds of work. Each page shows what Glasstie gives you, in your own terms.
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Compliance and AML
PEPs, sanctions and the business partners behind them, documented for the file.
02Journalists
How two names are connected, with the source and quote for every link.
03Procurement and municipalities
Habilitet: every tie between decision makers and bidders, before the award.
04Boards and governance
Independence and related parties, on the full public record.
05Law firms
Every tie between client and counterparty, dated for the file note.
06Due diligence and investors
A fast, fully sourced look at the people behind a deal.
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Every public source that can show a tie
Read at the moment you search; council agendas and sanctions lists from our own copy, refreshed daily.
| Sources | What they hold | What they add to an answer | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Danish company registers 2 sources | Every annual report filed with Erhvervsstyrelsen (boards, chairs, executives, auditors), and CVR roles through proff.dk. | Who sits where, since when, with the filing to cite. |
| 02 | Municipal councils 96 of 96 sources | Council and committee agendas and minutes since 2023, from 96 of the 98 municipalities. Not read: Billund (its site refuses automatic reading) and Ishøj (its site needs a browser). | The local decisions a name took part in, or stepped out of. |
| 03 | Regional councils 5 of 5 sources | Regional council and committee agendas and minutes from all 5 regions. | Hospitals, transport and health decisions, and who took part. |
| 04 | Norwegian municipal councils 45 of 45 sources | Council and committee agendas and minutes from Norwegian municipalities that publish them openly on their own sites. | Local decisions in Norway, and who took part. |
| 05 | Finnish municipal councils 84 of 84 sources | Council and committee agendas and minutes, item by item, from Finnish municipalities that publish them openly in their meeting archive. | Local decisions in Finland, and who took part. |
| 06 | Swedish municipal councils 21 of 21 sources | Council and committee agendas and minutes from Swedish municipalities that publish them openly in their meeting portal; minutes item by item. | Local decisions in Sweden, and who took part. |
| 07 | Greenland municipal council 1 of 1 sources | Council and committee agendas and minutes from Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq (Nuuk), the one Greenlandic municipality that publishes them in an open system. | Local decisions in Nuuk and East Greenland, and who took part. |
| 08 | Parliament 2 sources | Folketinget's members and ministers, and the interest register. | Public office and the interests that come with it. |
| 09 | PEP and sanctions lists 5 sources | Finanstilsynet's PEP list, and the EU, UN, UK and US sanctions lists. Relatives and associates of public figures, only where a source states them. | Exposure flagged on every name, in every search. |
| 10 | Public contracts 2 sources | Every EU contract award in TED (buyers, winners, values, dates) and every Danish notice on udbud.dk. | Where public money meets private boards. |
| 11 | Court rulings 1 source | Danish rulings in Domsdatabasen that name a company, public body or lawyer (private people are anonymised there). | Disputes and judgments a company was part of. |
| 12 | Company registers abroad 24 sources | Official registers in 15 countries: Norway, Finland, the UK, France, Czechia, Belgium, Estonia, Latvia, Slovakia, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Germany, Lithuania, Romania and Poland. Nine public mirror sites for others, Malta, Sweden and Luxembourg among them. Not read directly: the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Hungary, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Croatia, Ireland, Spain, Greece, Switzerland and Iceland, whose registers need a key, a sign-in or payment, or refuse automatic reading. | Holdings and roles abroad, from Malta to Norway. |
| 13 | Global entity and filing data 3 sources | GLEIF's legal entity tree, Wikidata, and US securities filings. | Parents, subsidiaries and listed-company boards worldwide. |
| 14 | Offshore leaks 1 source | ICIJ's Offshore Leaks database: officers and offshore companies named in the Panama, Paradise and Pandora Papers and other leaks. Never an address. | Offshore companies behind a name, and who sits in them. |
| 15 | News and the open web 1 source | Worldwide news, plus company sites, legal and contact pages and public posts, searched under every form of every name. | The ties no register holds. |
In all, 293 public sources a search reads today, plus the open web.
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Built to be checked
For work where a wrong link costs a reputation, a case or a customer.
- A source behind every claim
- A link without its source page and a verbatim quote never reaches an answer.
- Checked twice
- An independent second check, never the one that found the link, confirms every quote and every identity.
- Every name variant
- Middle names, initials, double surnames, short and former names: every form a person appears under.
- Every lead followed
- Each new company, partner or contract opens the next search, until nothing new is left.
- Neutral words
- "Possible conflict", never "corrupt" or "inhabil". Glasstie finds; you decide.
- Thorough, not invasive
- No CPR numbers, home addresses or birth dates, ever.
See what the public record says about any two names.
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