The most thorough search there is, and every step of it shown.
One rule runs through every search: nothing counts until it has been found at its source, quoted word for word, and confirmed by a second, independent check.
The search, step by step
| 01 | Two names in A person, a company or a public body, or one name alone for everything around it. Every search runs fresh against the live sources. |
| 02 | Every source, queried directly Registers across Denmark and Europe, the agendas of 96 municipal councils, parliament, PEP and sanctions lists, contracts, filings, news and the open web are searched at once, under every form of each name. |
| 03 | Leads followed to the end Each company, board, partner or contract found opens the next search. Glasstie keeps going until no new lead is left, so indirect ties surface too. |
| 04 | Overlaps found from both sides For two names, Glasstie looks for every place their public footprints meet: a shared board, a co-owner, a shared address, the same deal or the same story, each side cited on its own. |
| 05 | Every claim written with its proof From, relation, to, dates, the source page and the exact sentence that says it. A claim without a quote never enters an answer. |
| 06 | A second, independent check A separate reviewer opens every source again, confirms the quote and the identity, and corrects wording or dates. Only what holds up is shown. |
| 07 | The answer, by mail Every link with its source and quote, and any possible conflict stated as facts. You get a mail the moment it is done. |
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 |
The sources
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.
Every name variant, one identity
The hardest part of this work, and the part most tools never mention.
People appear under many forms of their name: a middle name, an initial, a double surname, a short first name, a former name. Glasstie searches every one of them in every source.
Then it proves identity. The company, the role, the town, the years and the people around them must all fit. When a name is shared, each person is kept apart and labelled with what identifies them, for example "Lars Hansen (former director of Villum Fonden)".
A namesake never becomes a link.
The words we use
- Possible conflict of interest
- A public role and a business tie meet: for example a council member and a contract from that council. It says where to look, not what happened.
- Reviewed by independent check
- A second, separate check found the quote at the source and confirmed it is the right person.
- Unreviewed
- A candidate link while the search runs. It does not count until it is checked.
- Nothing confirmed
- No link held up under review, across every source searched.
How we hold ourselves to it
Every version is tested before it ships.
- Known ties
- Pairs with documented links must be found, with the right source.
- Unrelated pairs
- Pairs with no tie must come back clean.
- Namesake traps
- Shared names built to tempt a wrong match must never be linked.
- Every quote
- Every kept link must carry a source and a verbatim quote that opens.
Standing test set, 2026-10-25: 94.4 % across 9 fixed searches, namesake traps and unrelated pairs included. 378 ties confirmed by the independent review, a median of 25 minutes a search.
Minutes, not days
The register work an analyst would spend days on comes back in minutes. You can leave the page: the search keeps running, its address shows where it stands, and a mail with the answer arrives the moment it is done.
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