Fit and conflicts
Confirm the buyer-side client, role, next decision and potential conflicts.
For petroleum buyers and sourcing teams
Stop weak transactions before they cost money, bank capacity and senior time.
We check the counterparty, product access, evidence and procedure—then tell you whether to proceed, pause or stop.
Request transaction triageOne buyer-side mandate · one live transaction · no documents at first contact
The decision
Should this transaction move forward?
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Can the counterparty prove who they are and what role they have?
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Can they support the claimed product position or access?
03
Will the procedure work with compliance, banking, logistics and inspection?
04
What must be resolved before the next commitment?
Engagement at a glance
A defined decision before exposure grows.
- Best for
- Buyers, refinery sourcing teams and trade-desk leaders with a live case
- Scope
- One transaction or named counterparty
- Timing
- 48-hour triage or 5–10 business-day full review
- Commercial basis
- Fixed scope and fee agreed after fit and conflict review
The review clock starts when the agreed intake is complete. The proposal names the accountable SMART IN TRADING lead; travel, external verification and specialist authority are identified separately before approval.
Choose the level of review
How much do you need to know before the next gate?
48-hour transaction triage
Typical inputs: named parties and roles, product/specification, location and volume, proposed procedure, core evidence, next commitment and deadline.
You receive: a concise proceed / pause / stop position, priority contradictions, missing evidence, conditions and recommended next gate.
5–10 business-day full review
Request transaction triageExecutive decision memo, role and authority map, product-access evidence matrix, procedure and dependency map, open-condition register, owners and source appendix.
Illustrative work product
See the decision package before you share a live case.
This worked example shows the structure of the output. It contains no client, counterparty or transaction data and is not presented as a case result.
AC / DSR-01Deal Integrity PositionIllustrative output · no client data
Decision position
Pause progression until authority and product-access evidence meet the next gate.
CONDITIONAL PROGRESSIONCounterparty
Role confirmed · authority open
Product position
Conditionally supported
Procedure
Banking and inspection gaps
Next gate
Five conditions with named owners
Sources and open assumptions remain visible.See the delivery standard
How the review works
Controlled from first contact to final position.
Evidence boundary
Agree what is required now, what is deferred and how material is exchanged.
Review and challenge
Test parties, claims, contradictions, procedure and external dependencies.
Decision readout
Deliver the position, conditions, owners and questions for authorised institutions.
What we help protect
Move faster without pretending every risk is known.
01
Money at risk
02
Senior time
03
Bank and logistics capacity
04
Reputation and compliance
We assess plausibility, consistency, role clarity and execution readiness. Banks, terminals, inspectors, lawyers, registries and other authorised institutions remain responsible for their formal checks and approvals.
Independence and information control
One client. One side. A defined data boundary.
Buyer-side assessment is not paid for by the counterparty under review.
Any relationship or commercial interest involving a named counterparty, introducer, provider or specialist is disclosed before work begins. Sensitive material is exchanged only after qualification through the agreed route. We do not place client documents into public consumer AI services.
Professional fees and any separate specialist, introduction or success component are disclosed in writing; transaction success never replaces a defined work product and professional fee.
Relevant decision intelligence
Evidence and transaction controls for the next gate.
Transaction Control Brief
A clean counterparty check is not enough: screen the vessel and voyage
A named buyer or seller may clear initial screening while the vessel, ownership chain, insurance, voyage history or cargo documents create a different risk. The progression decision must cover the complete execution chain.
Regulatory Decision Brief
Crude origin is now a refined-product import gate—not a back-office check
EU buyers of third-country petroleum products need to know whether crude-origin evidence can survive the full transaction path before the cargo is treated as executable.
Trade Execution Brief
Documents do not make a petroleum transaction ready
A large document pack can create the appearance of progress while authority, product access, procedure and execution dependencies remain unresolved.
Regulatory Decision Brief
EU crude-import methane MRV becomes a 2027 transaction condition
For relevant import contracts, methane monitoring, reporting and verification can no longer remain an ESG appendix. It must become part of supplier qualification, contract design and evidence readiness.