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.
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15 of 15 axes rated · 7 graded A or B
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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