Obtain peace of mind in who you know, where you're going, and how you'll get there.
The Luminint Difference
Risk management can so often devolve into a check-the-box exercise, or skimp on the intelligence piece driving it. Investigative ingenuity and analytical rigor are replaced with complacency. Leads go un-pursued, findings go unquestioned, gaps go untracked.
But our clients aren’t "check the box" people—it’s their dream on the line after all. At Luminint, this resonates. Our team comprises imaginative risk experts for whom face value is just a starting point. With varied private sector intelligence and analysis experience, we are adept at collecting and making sense of open-source information to inform competitive decision making.
Get ahead of your reputational risks with targeted due diligence investigations into people and entities.
Your reputation is your most valuable asset. And it takes a lot to protect it in the midst of increased demand for transparency and accountability, an evolving and more targeted regulatory environment, and a dynamic competitive landscape. Social media, viral news, and multiplying sources of data transmit organizations' actions with stunning speed and permanency. In today's interconnected world, it's not enough to simply follow the rules. You must also consider perceptions about your decisions—including involving those with whom you choose to engage—and how those could further or hinder your organization's goals.
Targeted reputational due diligence investigations into elevated-risk subjects enable regulatory compliance and help guard against inadvertently doing business with sanctioned or corrupt entities. Such investigations can also provide leadership with advance warning about other issues of concern that could smear their organization in the eyes of regulators, stakeholders, customers, and the broader public. Luminint provides peace of mind in who you know, and that you know, to proactively manage reputational perceptions.
Layered investigative methodology, information mapping, and OSINT analysis.
Expanded aperture around the subject to glean insights into the subject.
Get the measure of who you're dealing with.
Due diligence for investors
Before investing in a company or organization, ensure the team has the experience and track record necessary for overseeing its growth.
Pre-transaction M&A support
Ensure leadership and key acquihires are aboveboard to avoid inheriting any issues of concern and simplify change management.
Business partner vetting
Trust, but verify, that the associate you're considering bringing into your business is the right person for the job.
Supplier, vendor, and distributor screening
Be confident you're plugging in to a strong, compliant supply chain, however long it is.
Make strategy work, wherever in the world it takes you.
Operational risk management today requires more than a one-off assessment. It demands congruence with local, national, and broader transnational geopolitical trends; an understanding of the physical hazards and limitations; and a sensitivity to the reputational dynamics at work in a target jurisdiction.
Luminint provides risk insights into geopolitical trends that can unlock local support and facilitate growth. Uncover, trace, and manage over-the-horizon risk vectors to protect strategies, operations, and people.
1. Scoping
Luminint works with clients to define the processes, activities, functions, and locations included within the Risk Assessment, as well as stakeholders who will be involved in the process.
2. Risk Identification
Luminint evaluates 30+ macro risks, grouped thematically by their nature: geographic, geopolitical, domestic, sociocultural, physical, and information and technology. With clients' input, we devise additional industry- and organization-specific risks directly relevant to their operations.
3. Risk Event Analysis
Utilizing a combination of structured analytic techniques, expansive in-house regional expertise, and an expert analytic skill set, Luminint evaluates these risk likelihoods, impacts, and velocity against tolerance thresholds set by clients individually.
4. Weighted Scoring
Equipped with a comprehensive view of the jurisdiction's risk landscape, Luminint collaborates with clients to determine the vulnerability of the latter's operations to these raw, localized risks, which are then assigned a multiplier according to their significance.
5. Deliverable
The product of these weighted risks is an overall severity score that clients can use to benchmark against other locations in which they are active or considering expansion. Luminint compiles all of its research and analysis into a comprehensive Risk Assessment complete with sophisticated data displays to help clients better visualize their risks.
Enhance your operational risk awareness.
Risk Maps
Using a detailed Risk Assessment, Luminint can build custom heat maps to geographically situate the risks—and opportunities—within the target jurisdiction.
Risk Monitoring
Risk landscapes do not remain static. With further engagement, Luminint will proactively monitor these localized dynamics to capture the evolution of risks over time.
Stakeholder Analysis
Identify the main players behind high-stakes engagements, contextualize their roles, and analyze their connections—including with each other—to understand implications.
Assessments may be only one piece of your puzzle.
Extremely individualized, Luminint Risk Assessments can be used as standalone products, or as a starting point to inform clients' own organizational impact analyses and control implementation.
Leverage multiple assessments to compare risks across jurisdictions being considered for expansion. Weave them into internal compliance structures such as Enterprise Risk Management and Business Continuity and Resilience. Use them to establish baseline measures to proactively control for physical security, data protection, and regulatory impacts.
