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AI Dorks — Corporate, Shells & Ownership

Claude prompts for company research and beneficial-ownership work — mapping structure from public registries, the ICIJ Offshore Leaks database, and filings, and flagging nominees rather than asserting them as owners.

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Public-source, authorized use. These are prompt-engineering aids, not jailbreaks. Use them on subjects and infrastructure you’re authorized to investigate; they keep to public sources, respect site terms, and exclude breach data and private-individual targeting. Paste a prompt into Claude, fill the highlighted fields, and have it show its work and cite sources.

Trace ownership through public registries with Claude

These prompts have Claude pull reachable public records — corporate registries, the public ICIJ Offshore Leaks database, court and regulatory filings — and build an ownership chain with a source and confidence at every hop. Documented links are separated from inference, and formation agents are labelled as nominees, not true owners. They complement classic Google dorking too: Claude can craft site: and filetype:pdf queries to surface filings, then verify ownership against the registries.

Frequently asked questions

Can Claude really find a shell company’s owner?

It can assemble what public records show and build a sourced ownership chain, flagging gaps and nominees. It will not fabricate links where the registry is opaque — it says so.

What sources do these use?

Public corporate registries, the ICIJ Offshore Leaks public database, regulatory filings, and reputable investigative press — no breach data or paywalled documents.

Is corporate due diligence with this legal?

Researching companies from public records is standard due diligence. The prompts keep to public/official sources and ask Claude to cite everything.

What is the ICIJ Offshore Leaks database?

It is a free public database from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists that links offshore companies, officers and addresses from the Panama Papers and other leaks. These prompts have Claude search it to surface documented connections, citing each record.

What is a shell company?

A shell company is a legal entity with no significant operations, often used to hold assets or obscure ownership. These prompts trace its filings and officers through public registries and flag formation agents as nominees rather than true owners.

Can Google dorks help research a company?

Operators like site: and filetype:pdf find filings, contracts and org charts a company has published. These prompts have Claude run those dorks and then trace ownership through public registries and the ICIJ Offshore Leaks database. See the Google Dorks list for operator syntax.