Pre-launch, accepting design partners
KYC-Agent screens new counterparties in under two minutes and monitors them continuously, so your compliance team catches risks before regulators do, not after.
Who It’s For
If a single missed sanctions hit would cost you your licence, this is for you. Pick your sector, we’ll show you the exact workflow.
The Problem
For most compliance teams, the honest answer is: days. Sometimes weeks. By then, the trade has settled, the funds have moved, and the fine is already calculable.
Manual KYC works at human speed. Sanctions lists update at machine speed. The gap between those two clocks is where enforcement actions happen, and it keeps widening as regulators tighten expectations for perpetual KYC and continuous monitoring.
KYC-Agent closes that gap. Every counterparty is re-evaluated automatically the moment something changes: a new list entry, a fresh news signal, a registry update, a beneficial-owner swap. Your analysts see only what needs a human decision.
$10.4B
Global financial-crime fines issued in 2023
Source: compliance industry enforcement reports
72%
Of compliance teams cite manual KYC as their top bottleneck
Internal survey of 40+ compliance leaders
48 hrs
Typical traditional onboarding time, vs under 2 min with KYC-Agent
Comparison against manual review benchmarks
200+
Jurisdictions covered by UBO graph and registry integrations
Via KYC-Agent data-partner network
How It Works
Meet Sarah, a compliance officer at a mid-sized commodities trading firm. Here’s exactly what happens in the next 90 seconds when Meridian Trading DMCC submits its onboarding application.
Incorporation certificate, trade licence, director IDs, beneficial-owner declarations. KYC-Agent runs OCR, extracts structured fields, and checks document authenticity. Sarah’s queue shows: new case opened.
OFAC, UN, EU, HMT, and 200+ national lists. Director and UBO names are screened with fuzzy-matching for transliteration variants. Adverse-media NLP scans 10,000+ sources in 40+ languages for fraud, bribery, and sanctions-evasion signals, ranked by relevance, not keyword count.
KYC-Agent queries corporate registries across jurisdictions, resolves the ownership chain through two shell-company layers, and identifies the ultimate beneficial owner. The graph is exportable as evidence for regulators.
The composite risk score combines sanctions exposure (0), jurisdiction risk (moderate, BVI shell layer), adverse media weight (medium), and Sarah’s own commodity-specific overlays. Low-risk cases would auto-approve; this one gets an evidence-packed case file and lands in her HITL queue.
From this point, KYC-Agent re-evaluates Meridian every time a watchlist updates, a registry changes, or new adverse media appears. When something material shifts, Sarah sees it in minutes, not at next year’s review.
Platform Capabilities
From first contact to continuous monitoring, every stage of counterparty risk, handled by a single platform.
Verify individuals and businesses in under two minutes. Document OCR, facial liveness matching, corporate registry lookups, and UBO extraction, fully automated.
Real-time cross-referencing against 600+ global watchlists: OFAC, UN, EU, HM Treasury, and politically exposed person databases, with fuzzy-matching tuned to minimise both false positives and false negatives.
NLP-powered global news surveillance surfaces contextually relevant risk signals, not noisy keyword hits. Counterparties are monitored continuously post-onboarding.
KYC-Agent traces complex corporate ownership chains across jurisdictions to identify ultimate beneficial owners, even through shell companies, trusts, and nominee arrangements.
Dynamic risk scores adapt in real time as customer behaviour, ownership structures, sanctions status, and adverse media signals change across the lifecycle.
Human-in-the-loop escalation workflows surface high-risk cases with AI-curated evidence packages, enabling rapid, auditable compliance decisions.
Regulatory Context
Regulators worldwide have strengthened anti-money-laundering and counterparty due-diligence requirements sharply in recent years. For commodities trading platforms the stakes are especially high: sanctions evasion via trade-based money laundering (TBML) is one of the fastest-growing enforcement areas globally.
KYC-Agent was built specifically for high-velocity, cross-border trade environments, combining the speed of automation with the rigour demanded by FATF, the EU 6th AML Directive, FinCEN, and equivalent national regulators.
Data & infrastructure partners
Compliance buyers rightly ask which underlying providers power screening. KYC-Agent aggregates and normalises data from a curated partner network, including established sanctions-data aggregators, corporate registry providers, and biometric verification engines.
Full provider and sub-processor disclosure is available on request under NDA for qualified buyers. See our security page for the current public list.
Where We Are
We’re building our first public case studies with design partners now. If you’re looking at KYC-Agent, you’re looking at it early, and that comes with upside: direct product input, favourable pricing, and a founding team that picks up the phone.
Team
KYC-Agent Technologies was founded by operators with direct experience in commodities trading compliance, financial-crime operations, and regulated-finance engineering. Meet the team and see credentials on the About page.
Design partners
We’re accepting a small number of design partners across commodities, trade finance, and fintech lending. Design partners get preferential pricing, dedicated engineering support, and direct roadmap influence.
Apply to be a design partnerTransparency
SOC 2 Type II preparation is in progress, not yet certified. Our security page documents what we have today: data handling, sub-processors, incident response, and our roadmap to full certification.
For engineers and compliance officers
Most compliance vendors hide their docs behind a sales call. Ours are public, with real JSON schemas, HMAC signature verification code, webhook examples, and the full integration guide.
If you’re the engineer who has to integrate this, you don’t need another call, you need specs. Here’s a taste.
How to Engage
Most customers start on our managed cloud. Enterprise options for deeper partnerships are available on request.
Primary offering
Deploy KYC-Agent as a fully managed, multi-tenant SaaS. API-first access to all modules, onboarding, screening, monitoring, and HITL, with per-verification pricing and a 99.9% uptime target.
Design-partner pricing
Per-verification with volume tiers. Design partners receive significant discounts on published pricing in exchange for case-study participation.
Get pricingTypical pilots start within two weeks of signed MSA.
Also available for enterprise & strategic buyers
KYC-Agent remains embedded as your compliance-technology architect, co-building, evolving, and operating the platform alongside your team under a retained engagement. Suits enterprises with heavy customisation needs.
Learn more →For regulated institutions and strategic acquirers requiring full ownership of their compliance stack, the platform is available for outright acquisition with 12-month transition support. By application only.
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