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Refine Intelligence

Refine Intelligence automates the customer outreach banks use to resolve fraud and AML alerts. When an alert fires, its agentic AI investigates, contacts the customer by push notification, email or SMS with consistent, structured questions about the purpose of a payment, the source of funds or the relationship to the beneficiary, and resolves the alert or escalates it to an analyst with an audit trail. Its fraud products cover check fraud, scams, bank impersonation, business email compromise and Zelle payments, and its AML product handles requests for information and due diligence outreach.

The models are trained on a proprietary dataset of customers' explanations of anomalies, and the company reports 88.6 percent automated alert resolution in production. At Valley Bank, median AML inquiry resolution fell from 16 days to two minutes, with 85 percent of digital requests completed.

Last VerifiedOctober 2, 2026
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Founded
2022
Headquarters
New York, New York, United States
Categories
fraud-and-transaction-risk, aml-kyc-financial-crime, compliance-and-surveillance
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

Agentic AI investigates an alert, decides whether to contact the customer, reads stated intent and resolves or escalates the case. A structured digital outreach service would remain without the models, and much of the measured gain comes from replacing branch phone calls with consistent digital requests.

Autonomy and Oversight Model
BB on Autonomy and Oversight ModelA written commitment that the models work alongside human judgment, with real review surfaces, short of the full control structure: commonly the threshold at which the system stops or what happens after it is wrong.
Vendor Published

Initial investigation, outreach and resolution run automatically, with 88.6 percent of alerts resolved without a person in production and the rest escalated to analysts. Automatic resolution thresholds and any sampling of cleared alerts are not published.

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

Resolution in under a minute rather than 10 to 30 minutes is an operational figure, and each case lands in an audit trail. Accuracy and the false clearance rate, the error where a genuine scam gets resolved automatically, are unpublished.

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

Valley Bank's median AML inquiry resolution fell from 16 days to two minutes, with 85 percent of digital requests completed and front line outreach work down 60 percent. The case study gives no period, sample 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

Intent aware models are trained on a proprietary dataset of customers' explanations of anomalies, which implies responses gathered across banks inform every bank's models. Retention of responses, and whether a bank can keep its customers' answers out, are not stated.

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

Bank customers who receive the messages are addressed by a privacy policy updated March 17, 2026, which limits phone number use to transactional alerts and sets out rights under the CCPA and GDPR. Source of funds explanations, the most sensitive data held, are left out, and no subprocessor list appears.

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

Industry standard procedures and commercially acceptable means are all the privacy policy offers on security, and no certification or trust center is named. That is thin for a platform messaging customers under a bank's name.

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

Outreach is designed to avoid tipping off and to support customer and enhanced due diligence, yet no regulator, statute or rule is named. Bank Secrecy Act confidentiality and Regulation E would be the expected references for a service contacting customers about suspicious activity and Zelle payments.

AI Governance and Bias Disclosure
CC on AI Governance and Bias DisclosureResponsible artificial intelligence committed to in policy language with no evaluation behind it, on a product whose bias surface is modest.
Vendor Published

Every customer gets the same structured questions through one digital channel, a design choice that removes one source of differential treatment. Response and clearance rates by customer group are unpublished, though customers less able to respond digitally are exactly who automatic resolution could miss.

AI Liability and Recourse
BB on AI Liability and RecourseA published falsifiable commitment such as an accuracy figure with its method, or a real correction route for the affected person, such as step up verification instead of silent denial.
Vendor Published

Flagged customers are asked by push notification, email or SMS to explain a payment's purpose or source of funds, and the answer can resolve the alert instead of leaving them waiting. What happens when an explanation is not accepted is not described, and no guarantee backs the outcome.

Integration and Deployment
Model Supply Chain Disclosure
CC on Model Supply Chain DisclosureThe architecture is described and no provider is named.
Vendor Published

Google Analytics and the Azure host are named, while the model provider and any messaging provider are not. Origin of the proprietary explanations dataset, the differentiator, is undisclosed.

Core Systems and Integration Depth
CC on Core Systems and Integration DepthIntegration claimed through standards or connectors with no system named and nothing to verify.
Vendor Published

Working downstream of existing fraud detection with a zero integration method of pulling data, the service names no monitoring, case management or core platform. Developer documentation is not linked.

Deployment Model and Data Residency
BB on Deployment Model and Data ResidencyStated residency commitments or regional hosting options.
Vendor Published

Microsoft Azure in the United States hosts the servers, per the privacy policy. Private or on premises delivery is not described for the SaaS service.

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

A demo request is the only path, with no price, plan or basis of charge. Charges could follow alerts handled, customers contacted or institution size, and value scales directly with alert volume.

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

Fraud and anti money laundering teams at banks are the buyers, with pages for check fraud, scams and Zelle fraud and an outreach product for due diligence requests. Credit unions and payment companies carrying the same obligations are not addressed.

Head to Head

Compared With

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Commercial

Pricing

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