Now seeking pilot partners — Singapore & Vietnam

Know exactly who you're investing in.

Southeast Asia's first AI-native due diligence platform, combining graph-based fraud detection with boots-on-the-ground regional analysts — targeting investment-grade verification in 5–10 days.

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5–10
days / engagement (est.)
$1.5K
est. starting price
5
target SEA jurisdictions
Platform Components
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Graph Fraud Detection
HGNN · ownership + transaction graphs
POC
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Federated Learning
Privacy-compliant cross-border training
POC
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SEA Legal Language Model
LoRA fine-tuned · >85% entity accuracy
Coming Soon
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Timeline Reconstruction
Bayesian-HMM multi-registry fusion
Coming Soon

Southeast Asia's investment ecosystem has a structural blind spot.

The 2023–2024 collapse of eFishery — an Indonesian startup that defrauded investors of USD 1.4 billion — exposed a failure that affects every participant in the region's capital markets.

eFishery passed every automated check available to its investors.

Circular shareholding, nominee director layering, and synthetic revenue flows are graph-level patterns — invisible to any system that doesn't model the connections between entities. That's the gap GroundState is built to close.

$1.4B
Lost in the eFishery fraud — the largest startup scandal in Southeast Asian history. Every automated check passed.
4–8 wks
Big Four due diligence timeline
$500K
Maximum Big Four DD cost
5
Jurisdictions with data localisation laws

AI precision. Human judgment. One integrated platform.

GroundState is a Due Diligence-as-a-Service platform built specifically for Southeast Asia — combining proprietary AI with experienced, on-the-ground regional analysts.

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Graph-Based Fraud Detection

Our Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network fuses ownership and transaction graphs to detect circular shareholding, nominee layering, and synthetic revenue flows that text-based tools miss entirely.

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Privacy-Compliant Cross-Border Learning

Federated GNN architecture trains on jurisdiction-partitioned data — raw records never leave their country, keeping us fully compliant with Vietnam's Cybersecurity Law and Indonesia's PDPA.

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Southeast Asia Legal NLP

A domain-adapted language model fine-tuned on proprietary SEA regulatory corpora — achieving >85% entity extraction accuracy versus the <60% of generic multilingual models.

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Boots-on-the-Ground Verification

AI flags the risks. Our regional analysts conduct physical site visits, borrower interviews, and document reviews — providing the irreplaceable human judgment that no algorithm can replicate.

How an Engagement Works

From request to investment-grade report in days, not months.

1

Intake & Scoping

Share the entity details and your investment thesis. We scope the engagement and confirm pricing within 24 hours.

2

AI Data Extraction

Our platform pulls and normalises data from 5 regional registries, enrichment providers, and adverse media sources.

3

Graph Analysis

The HGNN analyses ownership and transaction networks, surfacing relational fraud patterns with confidence scores.

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Field Verification

Regional analysts conduct targeted physical checks on AI-flagged risk nodes — interviews, site visits, document review.

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Investment-Grade Report

You receive a structured, auditable report with findings, confidence levels, and a clear risk assessment.

Pricing

The right depth for every investment decision.

From rapid AI-assisted pre-screening to full forensic engagement — at a fraction of Big Four cost.

Essential
$1,500
– $3,000 per engagement
Essential
AI-automated screening with a brief analyst review. Ideal for seed-stage VC triage and MSME loan pre-screening.
⏱ 48–72 hours
  • Registry checks across 5 jurisdictions
  • Adverse media screening
  • Basic ownership mapping
  • AI fraud risk score
Most Popular
$5,000
– $12,000 per engagement
Professional
Adds management interviews, reference calls, and on-the-ground spot checks. Core offering for Series A and private credit.
⏱ 5–7 days
  • Everything in Essential
  • Management interviews
  • Reference calls
  • On-the-ground spot checks
  • Full HGNN fraud analysis
Enterprise
$15,000
– $30,000 per engagement
Enterprise
Full engagement — extended in-country site presence, forensic document review, network mapping, and covenant baseline.
⏱ 10–15 days
  • Everything in Professional
  • Extended in-country presence
  • Forensic document review
  • Full network mapping
  • Formal covenant baseline
Monitoring
$2,000
– $4,000 / quarter
Post-Deal Monitoring
Recurring quarterly covenant monitoring — AI-assisted financial analysis, field analyst portfolio visit, written report.
🔄 Self-renewing quarterly
  • AI-assisted financial analysis
  • Quarterly field analyst visit
  • Covenant compliance report
  • Continuous fraud signal monitoring

First two engagements available at 30% discount for anchor clients. Contact us to discuss →

Built for the unique challenges of Southeast Asian due diligence.

Four original technical components addressing structural failures that existing tools cannot solve.

Capability 01

Relational Fraud Detection

Uncovers fraud patterns that are invisible to conventional screening tools — including circular ownership structures, disguised beneficial control, and fabricated revenue flows engineered through connected entities. Where standard checks examine companies in isolation, GroundState analyses the web of relationships between them, surfacing what individual entity lookups cannot.

Fraud Detection
Capability 02

Privacy-Compliant Cross-Border Intelligence

Operates in full compliance with the data localisation laws of Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines — without sacrificing the regional intelligence that makes verification meaningful. Sensitive records are never transmitted across borders, yet the platform builds a continuously improving picture of fraud patterns across the entire region.

Regulatory Compliance
Capability 03

Southeast Asian Legal Document Intelligence

Accurately reads and extracts ownership, control, and entity information from Southeast Asian legal and regulatory documents — across five jurisdictions and multiple languages. Generic AI tools fail at this because they were never built for the region's unique regulatory vocabulary and legal frameworks. GroundState was.

Legal Document Analysis
Capability 04

Authoritative Ownership Timeline Reconstruction

Produces a single, confidence-scored ownership timeline even when government registries disagree — as they routinely do across Southeast Asia. When a tax authority and a business registry record conflicting ownership change dates, GroundState surfaces the most probable truth alongside a clear, auditable record of exactly what each source shows.

Multi-Registry Reconciliation

A category that doesn't yet exist.

Southeast Asia's investors face two inadequate options: Big Four diligence that costs too much and takes too long, or automated tools that are structurally blind to how fraud actually works in this region. GroundState replaces both.

Provider Structural Limitation GroundState Advantage
Big Four Firms USD 50K–500K per engagement; 4–8 weeks; no AI efficiency gains; no systematic learning AI + boots-on-ground hybrid at USD 1,500–30,000; 5–10 days; every engagement improves the model
AI Background Checkers No physical verification; rules-based; fails on SEA relational fraud patterns HGNN detects circular ownership, nominee layering, and circular invoicing — graph-level fraud invisible to text-only tools
Centralised Data Platforms (Refinitiv, LexisNexis) Depend on centralised aggregation — legally impermissible in Vietnam and Indonesia Federated GNN enables cross-border learning without raw data leaving any jurisdiction

Built by someone who lived through the problem.

GroundState is a Singapore-based AI-powered due diligence platform for Southeast Asian capital markets, private credit, and MSME lending. GroundState is a product of Gukom Pte. Ltd., Singapore.

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Singapore-Incorporated & IP-Domiciled

All core IP — model weights, training pipelines, fraud-pattern datasets — is developed, owned, and domiciled in Singapore, reinforcing the city-state's role as ASEAN's trusted financial gateway.

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Member of Fintech Association of Singapore

Engaging with AISG co-innovation programmes, the MAS Fintech Innovation Lab (FSTI scheme), and Enterprise Singapore's Global Innovation Alliance.

Kok Chuan Lim, Founder & CEO
Kok Chuan Lim
Founder & CEO, GroundState

Over 20 years across global investment banks and Southeast Asian fintech platforms — FX/rates sales at DBS, BNP Paribas, and Barclays Capital; debt capital markets at Deutsche Bank (second-highest global individual contributor, 2007/2008), Nomura, and Goldman Sachs (Executive Director, Southeast Asian institutional clients).

Co-founded Investree — Indonesia's largest SME productive loan originator — backed by SBI Holdings, MUFG Innovation Partners, and BRI Ventures. Investree was subsequently a direct victim of undetected borrower misconduct: the empirical foundation of GroundState's problem definition.

BBA (Financial Analysis, NTU) CFA Specialist Diploma AI (Temasek Poly) FAS Member

Ready to verify your next investment?

We're currently onboarding anchor clients in Singapore and Vietnam at a 30% introductory discount. Reach out to discuss your due diligence needs.

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Headquarters

Singapore (GroundState by Gukom Pte. Ltd.)

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Coverage

Singapore · Vietnam · Malaysia · Philippines · Indonesia

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Response Time

We scope every engagement within 24 hours

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