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Tad, Zara and I are excited to launch [Overwatch 🦉](http://www.overwatchdata.io)​ - to help automate global risk detection and analysis. Our tool allows enterprises to monitor data streams, including news and satellite imagery, for narratives and events that will impact their operations, supply chain, and reputation. 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Trusted daily by **S&P 500 firms and global banks.**\n\nIf you’re a regulated financial institution… get in touch at [**founders@godiligent.ai**](mailto:founders@godiligent.ai).\n\n# **THE PROBLEM**\n\nSanctions, PEP, and Adverse Media screening is one of the most painful bottlenecks in KYC/AML operations. Every customer you onboard must be screened, and so must the counterparties of their transactions, to ensure no money flows to bad actors.\n\nScreening systems are essential for fighting financial crime, but they also generate a **huge volume of false positives**, especially for common names, transliterations, and partial matches. This pulls resources away from true investigations and forces analysts into repetitive work every day.\n\n# **THE SOLUTION**\n\nhttps://youtu.be/IMGAFRPFpM0\n\nWe built an **AML Screening AI Agent**: an AI agent that automatically investigates screening alerts and produces a final decision with a clear audit trail.\n\nIt works natively with all major screening providers (LexisNexis, WorldCheck, Dow Jones, etc.). Think of it as a new employee added to your account, no engineering effort required.\n\nIt opens every alert, reads hit details and articles, searches the web and other sources to enrich missing information, and recommends a disposition based on your own decisioning policy, with structured reasoning.\n\n**Result:** 40-70%+ reduction in alert-handling time, more consistent decisions, and a cleaner backlog.\n\n# **THE TEAM**\n\nWe’re [**Edo**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/edoardo-maschio-704/), [**Ahmed**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmedsamygaber/?originalSubdomain=uk) and [**Chris**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-leow-59856849/).\n\nAhmed led multiple teams as VP Engineering at Billie (Europe’s largest B2B BNPL), across business identification, fraud, credit, and AML risk. Previously he was a technical PM and software engineer at Funding Circle.\n\nEdo worked as an Investment Associate and Chief of Staff at Rocket Internet’s early-stage investment team and was previously a Junior Associate at Boston Consulting Group.\n\nChris was the founding member and 10yrs veteran of ComplyAdvantage - one of the world leading Anti-Money-Laundering software solutions and screening provider. He worked on their entity resolution and transaction monitoring capabilities.\n\n# **OUR ASK**\n\nIf you are a fintech or bank interested in exploring how AI agents can streamline your AML operations, or you know teams that might be interested, get in touch at [**founders@godiligent.ai**](mailto:founders@godiligent.ai) or find time to chat [**here**](https://cal.com/edoardo-maschio).\n\n\\\nYou can be up and running in a day!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/P0W-diligent-automate-sanction-pep-adverse-media-alert-reviews", "votes": 20, "created_at": "2025-12-11T17:43:50.529Z" }, { "id": 78512, "title": "Diligent - GenAI assistant for KYC/AML compliance operations", "tagline": "We help AML compliance teams automate routine customer due diligence tasks with Large Language Models", "body": "### **TL;DR**\n\n[**Diligent**](https://www.godiligent.ai/) **helps fintech risk and AML compliance teams automate and strengthen customer due diligence with Generative AI.**\n\nFintechs and banks use us to automate tasks like running thorough due diligence on a legal entity, reviewing customer documents (e.g. certificates of incorporation, proofs of address etc) and remediating false positive alerts from AML systems.\n\nIf you’re a fintech or bank… get in touch at [founders@godiligent.ai.](mailto:founders@godiligent.ai)\n\n### **THE PROBLEM:**\n\n**Fraud and Anti Money Laundering (AML) controls** are key parts of the fintech and banking industry but generate significant back office workload. It's 2024 and **most of the work still involves human analysts running repetitive tasks** which are costly, error prone and take time away from real investigations that can move the needle for fincrime prevention and require expertise.\n\nThese manual tasks can include things like…\n\n* checking online presence to verify the legitimacy and nature of business of a customer\n* reviewing documents like registry extracts, proofs of address and bank statements to comply with onboarding requirements\n* sitting through thousands of false positive alerts from AML systems\n\n### **THE SOLUTION:**\n\nDiligent builds **AI assistants designed to automate routine tasks**, slashing cost-to-comply, strengthening risk detection and freeing up capacity for investigations that require human expertise and decision making.\n\nOur AI assistants follow your workflow policies, integrate with existing systems and output risk intelligence or reports with a clear audit trail.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78512&key=user_uploads/727896/7970904a-f049-42f7-91fe-3b0fc3400c50)\n\n**We built 3 AI assistant archetypes**\n\n* ⚠️ _Risk assistant:_ Investigates holistically the risk and nature of business of customers and transaction counterparties. E.g. is the legal information declared verified? what does this company actually do? do website and address look suspicious? what's the online reputation on socials, reviews etc?\n* 🔍 _Screening assistant:_ Investigates automatically alerts from screening systems and slashes time spent remediating false positives on Sanctions/PEP/Adverse Media\n* 📝 _KYB assistant:_ Verifies business information and instantly validates customer uploaded documents (register extract, proof of address, bank statements etc.) according to custom acceptance policy to remove back-office verification work and avoid customer friction\n\nHere is a quick demo on how they can work together to conduct due diligence on a legal entity by investigating its legitimacy online, checking documentation, and reviewing alerts for Sanctions/PEP/Adverse Media against it.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78512&key=user_uploads/727896/78a8d2d2-27bc-4aa4-b8fd-39b03e5acaec)\n\n### **THE TEAM:**\n\nWe’re [**Edo**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/edoardo-maschio-704/) and [**Ahmed**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmedsamygaber/).\n\nAhmed led multiple teams as VP engineering at Billie (Europe’s largest B2B BNPL) across business identification, fraud, credit and aml risk. Previously he was a technical PM and software engineer at Funding Circle.\n\nEdo worked as Investment associate and chief of staff at Rocket Internet early stage investment team and previously was Junior Associate at Boston Consulting Group.\n\n### **OUR ASK:**\n\nIf you are a fintech and are interested in exploring how Generative AI can streamline your risk and compliance controls… get in touch at [founders@godiligent.ai](mailto:founders@godiligent.ai) or find time to chat [**here**](https://calendly.com/edoardomaschio/30min?month=2024-02)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KQK-diligent-genai-assistant-for-kyc-aml-compliance-operations", "votes": 80, "created_at": "2024-02-18T21:00:07.591Z" } ] }, { "id": 29533, "name": "Indemni", "slug": "indemni", "former_names": [ "Alacrity" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5e66c11bb21c9a5ccdcf4a475ed7e48693b41f2b.png", "website": "http://www.indemni.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "We are building a safer supply chain. Cargo Theft has been increasing yearly, and the supply chain industry is urgently looking for ways to solve this. 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