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Diligent

AI agents for fintech risk and compliance operations

We help fintech risk and AML compliance teams automate and strengthen routine customer due diligence tasks with LLMs. Our AI assistants slash cost-to-comply, improve risk detection and free up capacity for investigations that require human expertise and decision making. Fintechs and banks use us to automate workflows like running thorough due diligence on a legal entity, reviewing customer documents like registry extracts, proofs of address etc and remediating false positive alerts from their AML systems.
Active Founders
Edoardo Maschio
Edoardo Maschio
Founder
I was an investment associate and chief of staff @ Rocket Internet early-stage team. Incubated and invested multiple ventures with the fintech team. Previously worked as Junior associate @ Boston Consulting Group.
Ahmed Gaber
Ahmed Gaber
Founder
I'm Co-founder and CTO at Diligent and I worked in Fintech for more than a decade. Most recently I was VP of engineering at Billie (Europe’s largest B2B BNPL) and led multiple engineering teams on various domains: business identification, fraud, credit, and AML risk. Previously I was a technical PM and software engineer at Funding Circle.
Company Launches
Diligent - Automate Sanction/PEP/Adverse Media alert reviews
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TL;DR

Diligent helps KYC/AML teams at fintechs and banks automate the review of Sanctions / PEP / Adverse Media alerts from their screening providers.

The agent, natively integrated with the world’s most popular AML screening providers (e.g., LexisNexis, WorldCheck, Dow Jones, etc.), reduces alert-handling time by over 50%. Trusted daily by S&P 500 firms and global banks.

If you’re a regulated financial institution… get in touch at founders@godiligent.ai.

THE PROBLEM

Sanctions, 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.

Screening 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.

THE SOLUTION

https://youtu.be/IMGAFRPFpM0

We built an AML Screening AI Agent: an AI agent that automatically investigates screening alerts and produces a final decision with a clear audit trail.

It 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.

It 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.

Result: 40-70%+ reduction in alert-handling time, more consistent decisions, and a cleaner backlog.

THE TEAM

We’re Edo, Ahmed and Chris.

Ahmed 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.

Edo 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.

Chris 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.

OUR ASK

If 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 or find time to chat here.


You can be up and running in a day!

Previous Launches
We help risk and AML compliance teams automate routine customer due diligence tasks with Large Language Models
Jobs at Diligent
London, England, GB
£75K - £90K GBP
0.50% - 1.00%
1+ years
Diligent
Founded:2023
Batch:Summer 2023
Team Size:2
Status:
Active
Location:Berlin, Germany
Primary Partner:Jared Friedman