Notes on Comparing Japan's Compliance Check SaaS — Information Source Design and Pricing Traps

Notes from evaluating Japan's six major counterparty compliance check SaaS products as a CTO. The market went through significant reshuffling in 2025-2026, with RoboRobo and SP RISK SEARCH partnering into an integrated platform called SPRS. Instead of another feature-matrix rundown, I focus on four areas comparison tables tend to hide: information source design, the real billing unit (per-name, not per-company), audit trail and approval flow, and what overseas coverage actually means in practice.