US self-registration names the UK entity and a lobbying contribution
Period or event: Registration effective July 1, 2025; filed July 17, 2025; API associates the registration with Q3 2025. · Reviewed September 12, 2026 · Record sanders-controlai-uk-us-lda-2025
Control AI US, Inc. registered on its own behalf and named Secure Future Research Ltd in its foreign-entity section, reporting $25,000 for lobbying activities and 0% ownership. Existing company and first-party records identify Secure Future Research Ltd as the UK ControlAI entity, company 15088415.
What the source records
Registrant and client
Control AI US, Inc.; Self checkedSenate registrant ID 401109718; client ID 67891. An in-house organization is its own client for LDA reporting.
UK entity named
Secure Future Research LtdCountry: United Kingdom. The original form does not give a UK company number; the brand/legal-name bridge is independently documented by the cited UK records.
Reported lobbying contribution
$25,000LD-1 line 14: amount of contribution for lobbying activities; USD. This registration provides no bank-transfer date, grant agreement or annual funding total.
Ownership field
0%Do not turn a foreign-entity listing into equity ownership or a finding of control; the form offers several alternative disclosure triggers.
Effective registration date
July 1, 2025
Filed date
July 17, 2025Original API timestamp: 2025-07-17T11:29:26-04:00.
Filing type
New Client for Existing Registrant; Amendment uncheckedOfficial API code RR, Registration.
Scope & limitations
The disclosure identifies an institutional relationship and a contribution for lobbying activities. It does not identify the UK entity’s upstream funders, prove the form of payment, or show a payment to Sanders or a political campaign.
The $25,000 line is not added to the separately disclosed consultant registration or to quarterly lobbying expenses. They are different disclosures with potentially overlapping money.
The filing does not identify which alternative foreign-entity disclosure trigger applies. No inference of government funding, illegal conduct, or beneficial ownership follows.
No EIN appears in this LD-1. The prior tax index is not an acquired tax return, and exact EIN identity is not independently certified by this filing.
U.S. federal Lobbying Disclosure Act public filing system · official-lobbying-registration · Document date 2025-07-17 · Checked 2026-09-12
LD-1 lines 5, 7, 12–14 and registration-type boxes.
Original static HTML form and matching official API record were acquired; receipt hashes bind both. Only selected organizational/reporting facts retained. Reported amount is a lobbying disclosure, not a campaign donation or proof of a bank-transfer date. API type: RR.
Clerk of the House and Secretary of the Senate · official-reporting-guidance · Document date 2025-02-28 · Checked 2026-09-12
Printed pp. 3–4, 8–9, 15–16: affiliated/foreign entities, reporting periods, Method A and non-additivity.
Current guidance linked by the House disclosure homepage at acquisition. Foreign-entity listing has alternative triggers; LD-2 Method A values are rounded good-faith expense estimates, with retained-firm costs included.
Notice names Secure Future Research Ltd doing business as ControlAI. The UK registry separately records its September 10, 2026 name change. Raw response hashed in memory; selected privacy-minimized excerpt retained.
UK Companies House · official corporate registry · Checked 2026-09-12
Company 15088415; company type; incorporation; previous names
Current registry observed September 12, 2026. Registered office and officer details excluded. Raw response hashed in memory; selected privacy-minimized excerpt retained.