Credit Decisioning & Underwriting
E

Enigma Technologies

Enigma supplies identity and financial health data on United States businesses to banks, lenders, fintechs, payment companies and insurers. Its revenue signals, including card revenue, average ticket size, daily customers and growth, are derived from observed card transactions rather than modeled from employee counts or industry codes, and an identity graph links brands, trade names, locations, legal entities and government records into unified business profiles.

Products cover KYB verification, customer and transaction screening, payment risk and underwriting, merchant monitoring and go to market targeting, delivered through a documented GraphQL API, a console and file enrichment, with published credit based pricing from a free tier. Named customers include Capital One, Chase, Truist, Ramp, Gusto and Wisetack.

Last VerifiedOctober 2, 2026
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Founded
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Headquarters
New York, New York, United States
Website
www.enigma.com
Categories
credit-decisioning, aml-kyc-financial-crime, fraud-and-transaction-risk
Assessment

Capability Axes

Capability grades

15 of 15 axes rated · 8 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 identity graph links brands, locations and legal entities into business profiles, and verification matches applications against it at decision time. Data supply is the decisive asset rather than modeling, and the product would still sell as a feed without the models.

Autonomy and Oversight Model
CC on Autonomy and Oversight ModelAutonomy is claimed and oversight is asserted without a mechanism, or full automation is presented as the entire disclosure. Human in the loop appears as a phrase rather than a described control.
Vendor Published

Data feeds a lender's own models and analysts, keeping judgment with the institution, but verification and screening now decide at application time. What a verification may conclude alone, what confidence comes with a match and whether a failure routes to a person are not described.

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

Published figures describe coverage and customer outcomes, and screening claims fewer false positives without a rate. A guide to card revenue data appears in the documentation, but no accuracy or validation result accompanies it.

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

Ramp reached a 94 percent match rate with Enigma stacked beside its existing vendors, Wisetack cut costs by 60 percent after making it primary, and FMCG Direct saw a 380 percent lift in lending conversion. None of the figures carries a period or method.

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

How card transaction data is anonymized or aggregated before it reaches a customer is not addressed. Nor does anything say whether customer queries, uploads or outcomes improve the scores and matching served to other institutions.

Regulatory and Compliance
GLBA and Data Privacy Posture
BB on GLBA and Data Privacy PostureA substantive privacy document that reaches the product itself, short of the subprocessor list or the full data handling detail.
Vendor Published

Information about companies and the individuals connected to them falls under the privacy policy updated July 1, 2024, which covers the business data products as well as the website. Retention lasts as long as the purpose requires, and the data providers behind it are unnamed.

Security Certifications and Trust Center
BB on Security Certifications and Trust CenterA recognized certification named in the vendor’s own material without the artifact, or with a scope or renewal question the buyer has to raise.
Vendor Published

SOC 2 Type 2 compliance covering security, availability and confidentiality is stated, with encryption in transit and at rest. Audit period, auditor and a report route are not given, and no trust portal is offered.

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

Statutes, supervisors and instruments are absent from the homepage, privacy policy and documentation, and nothing addresses the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Selling business financial data to lenders sits near the consumer reporting framework wherever assessment reaches the owner, and where that line falls is unpublished.

AI Governance and Bias Disclosure
DD on AI Governance and Bias DisclosureNothing published on a product where the bias risk is concrete, such as credit decisioning or underwriting with no fair lending, disparate impact or adverse action disclosure.
Vendor Published

Card revenue data feeds small business lending decisions, so it shapes which businesses qualify for credit. Businesses that take little card payment, being cash heavy, rural or invoice based, are thin or invisible in the panel, and no fair lending testing, coverage analysis by business type or adverse action guidance is published.

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

A revenue figure that understates a business can cost it credit, and that business is observed without being the customer. The privacy policy grants access, correction, deletion and opt out rights over company and owner data, which corrects records rather than a lending outcome, and Enigma publishes no warranty on the figures.

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

Revenue comes from an observed card transaction panel, and figures derived from observed transactions are distinguished from estimates modeled on employee counts or industry codes. Government records and unnamed third party providers add to it, while the processors or issuers contributing the panel are not identified.

Core Systems and Integration Depth
BB on Core Systems and Integration DepthNamed systems or a documented public API, with the depth or the production evidence left open.
Vendor Published

Public documentation covers a GraphQL API for business verification and account enrichment, with console access, file enrichment and MCP access on the Max plan. No core banking, origination or onboarding system is named as an integration.

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

Amazon Web Services hosts the data service, but no region, residency commitment or private option is stated.

Commercial
Commercial Transparency
AA on Commercial TransparencyPublished per unit rates a buyer can price against before any conversation.
Vendor Published

Rates are published per returned result, at a cent per credit: KYB Identify costs $1.50, KYB Verify $2.50 and watchlist screening 50 cents. Plans run from free through Pro at $20 a month and Max at $200 to a negotiated Enterprise tier.

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

Banks such as Capital One, Chase and Truist buy alongside fintechs, payroll and lending platforms, with solution pages for business verification, screening and underwriting. Coverage is limited to American businesses, though attributes extend past identity into card revenue and growth, and material by institution type is thin.

Head to Head

Compared With

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Commercial

Pricing

Vendor-published figures are labeled as such. Figures labeled “Estimated” are derived from third-party sources and have not been confirmed by the vendor.

Entry Price Pricing Basis Data Protection Terms Implementation Source
Free plan at $0 a month for viewing, search and live summaries. Pro from $20 a month with 2,100 credits; Max $200 a month with 25,000 credits; Enterprise quoted.
Credit based, with one credit equal to one cent. Each returned result consumes credits at a published rate: KYB Identify 150 credits ($1.50), KYB Verify 250 credits ($2.50), watchlist screening 50 credits (50 cents), taxpayer identification number verification 100 credits ($1), and enrichment attributes 1 to 25 credits each. Charges apply only to returned results. Pro includes segment building, file enrichment and API access; Max adds MCP and AI integration access; Enterprise adds negotiated rates, a custom credit allowance, custom attributes, tailored delivery, a service level agreement and dedicated support. Prepaid credit bundles from $100 to $1,000 carry up to 25 percent bonus credits valid for one year, and monthly allocations do not roll over. Not tiered on the pricing page. A service level agreement is included only on Enterprise. No implementation fee is published. A free plan with console access is offered. Vendor Published

Taken from Enigma's own pricing page on 2 October 2026. Credit rates are list rates; Enterprise customers negotiate discounts and custom allowances.

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