Add a business entity

Your workspace starts with one primary entity: your own company. You can add more entities (subsidiaries, group companies, counterparties you track), and each one gets its own KYB record.

Before you start

You need the Contributor, Editor, or Workspace Admin role. View Only members can browse entities but not create them.
Entity creation lives on the KYB Manager page, not the dashboard.

Create the entity

Open KYB Manager in the sidebar.
Click the button to add a new entity.
Enter the company's legal name. As you type, ComplyWise checks it against the entities you can already see.
Pick the incorporation country from the country picker: start typing to search, countries are listed alphabetically by name.
Save. The new entity opens with an empty KYB record, ready for documents.

The new-entity form with the country picker open

The duplicate-name warning

If the name you type closely matches an existing entity (an exact match, or one name contained in the other), a warning appears naming the closest matches. It is advisory only: it never blocks you. If the match really is the same company, open the existing entity instead of creating a second one; if it's a genuinely different company with a similar name, continue and create it.

The warning only appears when creating an entity, never when editing one.

The "start with your own entity" notice

If your workspace's primary entity still has no documents uploaded, the new-entity form shows a notice suggesting you complete your own company first, with a direct link to open its KYB record. This is a nudge, not a gate: you can continue below the notice and create the new entity anyway. The notice disappears as soon as your primary entity has its first document.

Tips

Legal name, not brand name. Use the registered legal name here; trading names and brands belong on the Fact Sheet as brands.
Corporate shareholders don't need to be created by hand: adding a corporate owner in the ownership register creates a linked entity for it automatically. See Related entities & groups.
Details like the registration number and addresses are added afterwards on the Corporate Overview tab; see Corporate overview & company details.