Screen a list of names against a watchlist, in the tab MATCH
The names are customers, applicants or subjects, so they cannot go into somebody else's website. Both lists are opened by your browser and neither leaves it.
The two lists
Both are opened by this tab. Neither is uploaded, which is the only reason a list of real customers or real subjects has any business going into a tool like this.
Columns in the names to screen
Columns in the list
How close counts
Lower it and you will read more that is nothing. Raise it and you will not be told about something you should have seen. Eighty-two is a reasonable place to argue from, not a right answer. It does not go below sixty-five: Jaro-Winkler gives two entirely unrelated names something near half by its nature, so a threshold under that matches everybody and tells you nothing.
What was compared
What came back
The record of the run
The decisions are the point. A screening run nobody wrote a reason on is a run that cannot be defended a year later.
How it works
MATCH screens a list of names against a watchlist or sanctions list you hold. It uses stated fuzzy-matching methods to catch spelling variations and transliterations, lets you set the threshold, and shows every candidate for a person to decide. It does not make the decision for you.
Doing this often? OBSCURA Practice checks every new matter against all its clients, parties and other sides before it is opened. On its own, US$4 a month; with everything else, US$9 a month or US$79 a year. 7 days free.