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White-Label B2B Crypto Compliance: Partner with LiLianMao

Monetize your supply chain network. Embed non-custodial KYT screening and automated Bank Evidence Packs into your Corporate Service, Logistics, or CPA workflows.

Two commercial models. No custody, ever. Your brand in front of your clients.

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  • Non-custodial by architecture

    There is no LiLianMao wallet in the payment path and we hold no keys. Introducing us to a client does not introduce them to a money transmitter.

  • Your brand, your subdomain

    White-label partners run the product at their own address, with their own logo on every evidence pack their clients download.

  • Recurring, not transactional

    Compliance is a monthly obligation, not a one-off filing. That makes it one of the few genuinely recurring lines a service firm can add.

Why Hong Kong CSPs and Freight Forwarders Need a Compliance Partner

Your clients started accepting USDT because their buyers pay that way. Nobody asked whether their Hong Kong bank was ready for it — and when the bank asks, the first call is not to a crypto exchange. It is to you.

The Problem: Client Bank Accounts Freezing Over USDT Payments

The pattern is consistent enough to be predictable. A trading client settles an invoice in USDT. Three weeks later a letter arrives from their Hong Kong bank asking them to evidence the source of funds, usually with a deadline measured in days rather than months. They forward it to you, because you are the registered office, you filed the incorporation, and you are the only professional they have on retainer.

What they send with it is a transaction hash and a Telegram conversation. That is the whole file. An on-chain transfer is an exceptional record of *what moved* and no record at all of *why* — it carries no counterparty identity, no contract, no invoice number, no stated purpose. The bank is not looking at a trade that happens to have settled on a blockchain. It is looking at an unexplained inflow from an unidentified party, which is the exact shape its monitoring is built to escalate.

The cost lands on you before it lands on them. You spend unbillable hours reconstructing a paper trail after the fact from counterparties who have no reason to cooperate retroactively. If the account closes, the client does not blame the buyer who paid them in stablecoin. They blame the structure — and you are the firm that sold them the structure.

The uncomfortable part is that none of this is a reason for the client to stop. Their buyers in the Gulf, Central Asia and Africa will keep paying this way, because for those buyers it is the settlement rail that actually works. The volume is not going to reverse. The only open question is whether it arrives at your clients' banks documented or undocumented.

  • It lands on your desk first

    You are the registered office and the correspondence address. The bank's letter reaches you before it reaches anyone who understands what a hash is.

  • It is unbillable work

    Reconstructing a trade after the bank has already flagged it is emergency work under a deadline. Very few firms can price that honestly and still keep the client.

  • It is a retention risk

    A client who cannot bank is a client who cannot trade. When they re-domicile, the corporate services go with them.

The Solution: Keep Clients Safe While Generating New Recurring Revenue

Everything that makes the after-the-fact scramble expensive is cheap when it happens first. Screening a counterparty wallet before the funds move takes seconds and costs a fraction of one billable hour. Attaching the invoice, the contract and the on-chain proof to each other at the moment of transfer takes no additional effort, because at that moment all three documents already exist and someone is already looking at them.

That change in sequence is what turns a liability into a product line. Forensics after a freeze is a fire drill: unplanned, unpriceable, and resented by everyone. Screening before a transfer is a repeatable monthly service with a defined scope — which means it can carry a monthly fee, appear on an engagement letter, and be delivered by staff who are not you.

For most service firms this is the rarest thing on the menu: a genuinely recurring line that does not consume more partner time as it scales. Incorporation is one-off. Annual returns are seasonal. Compliance monitoring runs every month a client trades, and the work per client falls as your team gets fluent in it.

It also changes the conversation you have with clients. Instead of explaining after a freeze why you could not have prevented it, you are the firm that raised it first, offered a control, and documented the trades on the way through. That is a different kind of relationship — and, in a market where corporate services are otherwise close to commoditised, a defensible reason to be chosen.

  • Screening before, not forensics after

    Sanctions and risk checks run against the counterparty wallet while declining the payment is still an option, not after the money has landed.

  • A monthly line, not an emergency invoice

    Defined scope, predictable delivery, and a fee your client agrees to in advance rather than one they dispute afterwards.

  • No custody, no new licensing question

    Funds move wallet to wallet and never touch us. You are adding analytics software to your stack, not a payments intermediary.

Two Partnership Models to Scale Your Revenue

The right model depends on one question: do you want to own the product experience, or do you want the revenue without the operational surface? Both are open, and firms have moved from the second to the first once volume justified it.

Model 1

Full White-Label Infrastructure (API & Subdomain)

For agencies with their own client portal

You buy capacity at wholesale, present it entirely as your own, and set your own retail price.

Your clients see your brand and only your brand. The product runs at an address you control — compliance.yourfirm.com — with your logo, your palette and your support contact. Every evidence pack that leaves the system carries your letterhead, because as far as your client is concerned it came from your firm.

Commercially you buy seats at a wholesale rate and set retail yourself. Partners pricing in line with our published direct rates typically hold a net margin in the 40–60% range, though the honest answer is that your margin is whatever you decide it is, less your own delivery cost. You own billing, you own the client relationship, and you own the pricing conversation.

For firms already running a client portal, the KYT screening API puts screening and evidence generation inside the workflow your staff already use, rather than beside it in another tab.

  • Wholesale seat pricing, retail set by you
  • Your own subdomain, logo and palette throughout
  • Your branding on every generated evidence pack
  • KYT screening API for deep portal integration
  • You bill the client and own the relationship
  • Named escalation contact for your team

Model 2

Co-Branded Partner Program (Revenue Share)

For independent auditors, consultants and boutique forwarders

You make the introduction. We onboard, bill and support — and pay you for as long as the client stays.

The workflow is deliberately small: you introduce the client with a partner link or code, and we take it from there. Onboarding, billing, support and escalation are ours. Nothing new appears in your operations, and no one on your team has to become a product specialist to earn from it.

You receive 20–30% of what that client pays, recurring for the life of the account rather than as a one-time bounty. The band reflects volume and how much of the first conversation you carry yourself. Co-branded explainers and a simple referral dashboard come with it, and there are no minimums to hit or lose.

This is the right starting point for most independent practitioners, and it is reversible: several of the operational commitments in Model 1 only make sense above a client count you can reach here first.

  • 20–30% lifetime recurring revenue share
  • Partner link or code — no integration work
  • We onboard, bill and support the client
  • Co-branded explainers and client-facing material
  • Referral dashboard with per-client attribution
  • No minimums, no exclusivity

  • Whose brand the client sees

    Full white-label
    Yours, end to end
    Co-branded RevShare
    Both, side by side

  • Who sets the retail price

    Full white-label
    You
    Co-branded RevShare
    LiLianMao

  • Who invoices the client

    Full white-label
    You
    Co-branded RevShare
    LiLianMao

  • Who provides first-line support

    Full white-label
    Your team, with our escalation
    Co-branded RevShare
    LiLianMao

  • Integration effort

    Full white-label
    Subdomain in days, API when you want it
    Co-branded RevShare
    None — a link or a code

  • Partner economics

    Full white-label
    Wholesale-to-retail spread you set
    Co-branded RevShare
    20–30% recurring share

  • Best suited to

    Full white-label
    Agencies with a client portal and delivery staff
    Co-branded RevShare
    Independent auditors, consultants, boutique forwarders

  • Minimum commitment

    Full white-label
    Annual wholesale capacity
    Co-branded RevShare
    None

Margin ranges are illustrative and depend on the retail price you set and your own cost of delivery. Wholesale terms are agreed per partner and are not a public rate card.

The Economics: Illustrative $50,000+ ARR Partner Case Study

Every figure below is arithmetic you can check, not a forecast. There is no assumption about how fast you sell and no claim about what any particular firm has earned — only what the spread produces at a given number of clients.

Wholesale Pricing vs. Retail Margins

Take a white-label partner buying an evidence-pack tier at a wholesale rate of about $150 per client per month and retailing it inside their own service catalogue as a Premium Compliance Tier at about $350 per client per month. That retail figure sits above our published direct Starter rate, which is the point: the client is buying it bundled with your firm's judgement, your staff and your accountability, not as a standalone software subscription.

The spread is $200 per client per month. Onboard 30 clients — a modest share of the book for a corporate service provider with a few hundred entities under administration — and that is $6,000 a month, or $72,000 a year in gross margin, at a marginal delivery cost that does not scale linearly with client count.

The $50,000 threshold in the heading is reached earlier than that. At $200 per client per month it takes 21 clients to cross $50,400 of annual run-rate. The table below is the same multiplication at four points on the curve, so you can find your own book size rather than ours.

Two honest caveats. First, run-rate is not year-one revenue: a partner who onboards 30 clients evenly across twelve months books roughly half the annual figure in that first year and the full amount in the second. Second, this is gross margin, before whatever you spend on delivery — the staff time to review a flagged screening result, and the account management any recurring service carries.

Illustrative monthly and annual gross margin at a $200 per-client spread
Clients on the tierMonthly gross marginAnnual run-rate
10$2,000$24,000
21$4,200$50,400
30$6,000$72,000
50$10,000$120,000
  • 10 · A pilot cohort
  • 21 · Crosses $50k run-rate
  • 30 · The worked example
  • 50 · A mid-sized CSP book

The arithmetic, stated once

  1. Retail $350 − wholesale $150 = $200 gross margin per client per month
  2. $200 × 30 clients = $6,000 per month
  3. $6,000 × 12 = $72,000 annual run-rate
  4. $50,400 ÷ $200 ÷ 12 = 21 clients to cross $50,000

On the co-branded model the arithmetic is simpler and the ceiling is lower: 25% of a $899 tier is roughly $225 per client per month, recurring, with none of the delivery cost or billing obligation attached.

Illustrative calculation using the wholesale and retail figures stated above. Wholesale rates are agreed per partner. Nothing here is a projection of your results, a representation about any existing partner's earnings, or a guarantee of revenue.

A Win-Win-Win Ecosystem for Cross-Border Trade

Channel programs fail when one side is subsidising the other and knows it. This one holds together because each participant is paying for something they genuinely could not produce alone.

  • For LiLianMao: distribution instead of acquisition cost

    We reach exporters through the professionals they already trust, rather than bidding against exchanges for the same search terms. Customer acquisition cost is close to zero on partner-sourced accounts, and that saving is exactly what funds the wholesale discount and the revenue share. It is not generosity — it is where the paid-acquisition budget went.

  • For the partner: margin and a reason to be kept

    A recurring, high-margin line that attaches to clients you already serve, and which makes the underlying relationship harder to leave. Corporate services compete on price because the deliverables are identical everywhere. Being the firm that keeps a client's banking intact is not identical everywhere.

  • For the exporter: compliance where the work already happens

    The trading company gets screening and documentation inside the relationship they already have, from people who know their structure, in their language and time zone. No new vendor to evaluate, no separate portal to remember, and a file their bank can actually read when it asks.

The alignment is structural rather than promotional. We are only paid when a partner's client keeps using the product, which means we cannot profit from a partner overselling it — and a partner is only paid while the client stays, which means neither of us benefits from a client who signed for the wrong reasons.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is the ideal LiLianMao partner?

Firms that already hold the trust of Hong Kong and Asian trading companies: corporate service providers and company secretaries, CPAs and audit practices, freight forwarders and customs brokers, OTC desks, and FinTechs serving cross-border B2B. The common thread is not crypto expertise — it is that your clients already call you when a bank asks a question they cannot answer. If that call happens more than once a quarter, the program fits.

Does the White-Label solution require coding?

No. The standard deployment is a branded subdomain — your logo, palette and support contact, pointed at an address you control — and it needs configuration rather than engineering. A deeper KYT screening API integration is available for partners who want screening and evidence generation inside their own client portal, and that does require developer time on your side. Most partners launch on the subdomain first and integrate later, if at all.

Are you a custodian?

No. Strictly non-custodial compliance software. There is no LiLianMao wallet in the payment path, we hold no keys, and we never receive, hold, convert or transmit client funds — funds move directly from your client's counterparty to your client. That is an architectural property, not a policy we could change quietly. It also means introducing us to a client does not introduce them to a money transmitter.

What does it cost to become a partner?

The co-branded revenue-share program has no fee, no minimum and no exclusivity — you are paid a share of what your referred clients pay. White-label partners commit to annual wholesale capacity, which is agreed per partner rather than published, because it depends on volume, the tiers you intend to resell and whether you take the API. There is no separate licence or setup fee for either.

Who owns the client relationship and the data?

On the white-label model, you do: you contract with the client, you invoice them, and we are your subprocessor rather than their vendor. On the co-branded model the client contracts with us and you are attributed on the account. In both cases the client's data is theirs, it is processed for the purpose they gave it for, and we do not market our own direct offering to a partner-sourced client.

How quickly can we launch?

A branded subdomain is a matter of days once commercial terms are signed — the work is configuration, brand assets and a walkthrough for your delivery staff. API integration depends entirely on your own release cycle. The realistic constraint is rarely technical: it is agreeing which of your clients the tier is offered to, and at what price.

We are a regulated audit or accounting practice. Are referral fees a problem?

That is a question for your professional body and your own independence policy, not for us, and we would rather raise it than have you discover it later. Several regimes permit referral arrangements subject to disclosure to the client, and some restrict them where the practice also provides assurance services to the same entity. Partners in that position often prefer the white-label model, where the service is delivered and billed as part of their own engagement, or disclose the arrangement in the engagement letter. We will work with whichever structure your rules allow.

Can you guarantee our clients will not have an account frozen?

No, and you should be sceptical of anyone in this market who says otherwise. Screening is provided by third-party blockchain analytics vendors and is indicative, not determinative — no service can guarantee any bank's decision. What the product does is change what your client can produce when asked: a screened counterparty, a documented purpose, and an evidence pack that links invoice, contract and on-chain proof. That is the part that is within anyone's control, and it is the part that is missing in most frozen-account cases.

Apply for the Partner Program

Tell us what kind of firm you run, roughly how many clients settle in crypto today, and which model looks closer to how you want to work. We read every application ourselves and reply personally — this is a small program by design, and we would rather have twenty partners who use it than two hundred who signed up.

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We reply to partner enquiries within two business days, Hong Kong time.

Non-custodial software service. Screening is indicative, not determinative. No service can guarantee a bank's decision.