AML, KYC & Financial Crime
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Detected

Detected is a London business verification and onboarding platform founded in July 2020 by Liam Chennells and Nathan Kelleher, positioning itself as a trust platform answering whether a business or individual can be trusted, across onboarding, screening, monitoring and decisioning. The platform is built around case management holding risk profiling, forms, documents and screenings, an orchestration engine that routes, validates and sequences the outputs of third party providers, and a no code workflow builder that lets compliance teams change onboarding journeys by customer type, product, jurisdiction or risk tier.

It integrates directly with company registries worldwide, maps beneficial ownership to natural person level, verifies business domains against WHOIS records, screens entities and associated parties against sanctions, politically exposed person and law enforcement databases, and onboards companies, charities, trusts, funds, partnerships, sole traders and associations. Named providers running inside the platform include ComplyAdvantage, Dun and Bradstreet, LSEG, Moody's, Trulioo, GBG, OpenCorporates, Kyckr, AsiaVerify, Resistant AI and Anthropic.

Named customers include Navan, which cut onboarding decision time from 52 days to one day, PHH Group, Fruugo, Zelis, DailyPay, Gumtree and Purolator, and GBG markets a co branded product called GBG Detected. Its published AI position states that every AI feature is opt in, that the AI acts in an advisory role surfacing insights rather than verdicts with human sign off enforced at every point, and that six named controls cover guardrails, prompt injection protection, hallucination controls, monitoring with quality scoring, consumption management and audit logging. It also runs a Model Context Protocol server letting customers connect their own agents to its data.

Last VerifiedOctober 2, 2026
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Founded
2020
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Website
detected.co
Categories
aml-kyc-financial-crime, compliance-and-surveillance, fraud-and-transaction-risk
Assessment

Capability Axes

Capability grades

15 of 15 axes rated · 7 graded A or B

AI Capability
AI Centrality
BB on AI CentralityThe models are the engine of a core capability, layered on a product that would still function without them as a rules or workflow system.
Vendor Published

An orchestration engine routes, validates and sequences named third party providers, and it would survive without models, along with case management and a no code workflow builder. The models do real analytical work on top, including a managed compliance agent that works a case and prepares a full profile before a person sees it, and document translation with side by side review.

Autonomy and Oversight Model
AA on Autonomy and Oversight ModelWhat the system runs alone, what constrains it, and how a person checks it are all published: modes, thresholds, sampling or audit controls, and the route a case takes to human review.
Vendor Published

The AI is advisory, surfacing insights rather than verdicts, and human sign off is enforced at every point. Every AI feature is opt in and configurable, reasoning is explainable by default, and each interaction is logged with what was asked, what was returned and who acted, though none of this is independently attested.

Model Risk Management and Transparency
CC on Model Risk Management and TransparencyTransparency is claimed in general terms with no mechanism a model validator could interrogate.
Vendor Published

AI outputs are logged, reviewed and monitored with anomaly detection and quality scoring, so evaluation happens internally, but no accuracy rate, false positive figure or validation pack surfaces. Validators get no benchmark or evaluation method to interrogate.

Operational and Outcome Evidence
AA on Operational and Outcome EvidenceNamed customers with hard performance figures and enough method to test them.
Vendor Published

Navan cut onboarding decision time from 52 days to one day, PHH Group took end to end time from one month to seven days, and Fruugo more than doubled monthly merchant onboarding capacity, all on the homepage. Each figure is a before and after with no stated method or period.

AI Safety and Data Stewardship
CC on AI Safety and Data StewardshipGeneral assurances that do not answer the question this axis asks, which is whether one customer’s data trains models serving its competitors. Unbounded cross client learning stated with no boundary grades here too.
Vendor Published

Guardrails on input and output, prompt injection protection and hallucination controls are set out in detail, yet none of it says whether customer data, documents or case outcomes train models. Nor is it stated what the model provider may retain from material routed to it.

Regulatory and Compliance
GLBA and Data Privacy Posture
CC on GLBA and Data Privacy PostureA standard privacy policy that covers the website rather than the service, or silence on a product that touches limited consumer data.
Vendor Published

Beyond a privacy policy and a cookie policy in the footer, Detected publishes no subprocessor list, retention schedule or data processing terms. That gap bites because customer and director personal data passes through named third party providers, each a processor in the chain.

Security Certifications and Trust Center
CC on Security Certifications and Trust CenterA single footer line, or certifications asserted without being enumerated, which is weaker than naming them because it invites an assumption a buyer cannot check.
Vendor Published

Certifications, attestations and a trust portal are all absent from the homepage. WCAG 2.1 AA conformance, rate limiting and cross site request forgery protection show real technical hygiene, but none is an audited credential.

Regulatory Status and Licensure
CC on Regulatory Status and LicensureThe regulatory position is unstated. Most vendors in this index are technology suppliers and being unlicensed is the correct posture, so this grade records silence about the posture, not a missing license.
Vendor Published

Customers carry the anti money laundering obligations and the supervisory relationship; Detected states no license, registration or sandbox of its own. Partnerships with Dun and Bradstreet and a card network are commercial and confer no regulatory standing.

AI Governance and Bias Disclosure
BB on AI Governance and Bias DisclosureAn independent demographic evaluation the vendor has submitted to, such as the NIST face evaluation class, or a governance framework with named process behind it.
Vendor Published

A published AI governance framework names three principles and six operating controls, none of them independently audited. Bias goes unexamined: nothing tests whether registry matching, shell company indicators or high risk jurisdiction flags fall harder on businesses in markets with thinner public records.

AI Liability and Recourse
CC on AI Liability and RecourseMechanisms that enable challenge, such as audit trails and source traceability, with nothing standing behind the output and no route for the person affected.
Vendor Published

Wrong verifications carry no published commitment from Detected about who bears the cost. A company flagged as a shell or failed on a domain age check has no relationship with Detected, no notice that an automated indicator drove the finding and no route to correct it.

Integration and Deployment
Model Supply Chain Disclosure
BB on Model Supply Chain DisclosureSubstantial partial disclosure, or a chain that is structurally short: an explicit in house build, on premise deployment, per customer instances, or zero retention at the model layer.
Vendor Published

Anthropic sits in the list of providers running inside the platform, treated as a dependency of the same class as the registry and screening feeds. No model or version is named, the country of processing is unstated, and the full subprocessor list is not published.

Core Systems and Integration Depth
AA on Core Systems and Integration DepthNamed integrations with the systems of record, core banking, policy administration, custodial or contact center platforms, verifiable in marketplace listings or public API documentation.
Vendor Published

Direct registry integrations include Companies House, the German Handelsregister and China's Unified Social Credit Code, and providers such as ComplyAdvantage, Trulioo and Kyckr run inside the platform under one policy set. Customers' own agents can reach its data with auditing through a Model Context Protocol server, though no core banking or lending system on the buyer's side is named.

Deployment Model and Data Residency
CC on Deployment Model and Data ResidencyCloud only with nothing stated, which is the category norm.
Vendor Published

Hosted multi tenant delivery with a white label portal comes with no region, cloud provider or single tenant option, and nothing says where the identity documents of directors and beneficial owners rest. Its sub 200 millisecond global median response time describes speed, not location.

Commercial
Commercial Transparency
CC on Commercial TransparencyNo price is published and engagement runs through a demo form, which is the norm in this index.
Vendor Published

Pricing and a charging basis are both absent, and every route ends in a contact form. For an orchestration platform the gap matters, since each bundled provider is metered separately and a buyer cannot tell whether provider calls pass through at cost.

Institution and Segment Coverage
BB on Institution and Segment CoverageNamed segments with dedicated material behind part of the coverage.
Vendor Published

Named customers run from money transfer firms such as Western Union to payments companies such as Nuvei and travel platforms such as Booking.com, and the platform onboards entity types from charities and trusts to funds and sole traders. Partners and suppliers such as Moody's and LSEG share the logo row, and several named customers are not regulated financial institutions, so the financial breadth is narrower than it looks.

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