SESAMm
SESAMm sells ESG, reputational, supplier and KYC risk intelligence to private equity firms, asset managers, banks, insurers and compliance teams. Its AI reads more than 30 billion documents from over 4 million public and premium sources in more than 100 languages, and flags controversies and risks on more than 5 million public and private companies.
Customers use it to screen companies before investing or onboarding and to monitor portfolios and suppliers, through a hosted dashboard, alerts and integration into their own workflow tools. It has added AI agents to its product line. Its methodology page says its Controversy Exposure Score is produced under the EU's ESG ratings regulation.
Named customers include Carlyle, BNP Paribas, Allianz Commercial, Raiffeisen Bank International, Sustainable Fitch and Caisse d'Epargne Rhône Alpes. SESAMm is based in France.
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Capability grades
15 of 15 axes rated · 8 graded A or B
Language models turn more than 30 billion documents in over 100 languages into ESG, reputational and supplier risk flags.
Analysts and compliance teams decide what to do with each alert and score. The newer AI agents come with no stated limits on what they may do alone.
A methodology document for the Controversy Exposure Score is linked, but the web pages carry no accuracy, precision or validation figures.
Carlyle, BNP Paribas and Raiffeisen Bank International are among the named customers, yet the closest thing to a result is Raiffeisen saying it can now answer business questions within days.
A private equity firm's watchlist reveals which companies it is circling, and SESAMm doesn't say how searches and watchlists are stored, kept apart or used.
Companies, not consumer accounts, are what SESAMm analyzes, and its October 18, 2022 privacy policy covers the public information it processes about individuals. Client data held in the platform isn't addressed by it.
HTTPS, monitoring and breach notification are described in the privacy policy, yet SESAMm names neither a certification nor an audit report.
Regulation (EU) 2024/3005, the EU's ESG ratings law, is the regime SESAMm says it operates under. An ESMA authorization or register entry isn't shown.
Heavily covered markets generate more controversies than lightly covered ones, so two similar companies can score differently on coverage alone. No breakdown by market, language or company size is published.
A company flagged for a controversy isn't the customer and may never learn it was flagged, and SESAMm offers no published route to contest or correct a flag.
More than 4 million public and premium sources feed the scores, though neither the model provider nor any individual premium source is named.
Sayari builds SESAMm's insights into its own risk platform, but no system of record is named and there's no public API documentation.
OVH hosts the platform in Roubaix, France, with no residency commitment, region choice or private option on offer.
The dashboard, alerts and workflow integration are sold without a published price, so whether cost follows companies monitored, users or data volume is unknown.
Coverage spans more than 5 million public and private companies, and buyers run from private equity firms and banks to supply chain managers.
Product updates
Material product, regulatory, evidence and commercial changes at SESAMm, each verified against a live source and tagged to the capability axis it bears on. Funding rounds and awards are not product changes and are not logged.
TextReveal API release 3.33.0 adds universe level metrics routes that return case and event counts with intensity score distributions, plus entity counts grouped by highest UNGC classification, all filterable by ISIC4 sector. It also adds an experimental Universes CES Overview route that aggregates Controversy Exposure Scores for a whole universe over time (min, max and average by period), an ISIC4 sector filter on universe case, event and document routes, an entity annual revenue field, and custom column labels for CSV case and event report exports.
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