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Agentic OSINT for Compliance, KYC and AML Teams
Nexus is an agentic OSINT platform for compliance, KYC and AML teams that need public-source context to resolve screening alerts, research beneficial ownership and complete enhanced due diligence. Choose a Skill such as Sanctions, PEP and Risk Screening or News and Adverse-Media Timeline, or describe the review in your own words. Nexus discovers sources, links cited findings to inspectable evidence, maps ownership relationships in a case graph and leaves every decision with the analyst.
Resolve screening alerts, research ownership and control, and build enhanced due diligence files from public and authorized sources. Nexus keeps cited findings linked to inspectable evidence, so the file shows what was checked, what was found and what remained open.
Challenges
Challenges for Compliance, KYC and AML Teams
Alerts that need context
Name screening returns candidate matches, not confirmed identities. Each alert has to be resolved against dates, roles, jurisdictions and public activity before it can be escalated or closed, and that context rarely sits in the screening system itself.
Ownership hidden behind layers
Nominee directors, intermediaries and offshore vehicles separate a customer from the people who ultimately benefit. Registry records show what was filed, not always who controls what, so the analyst pieces the structure together from several sources.
Enhanced due diligence from scattered sources
Adverse media, official filings, offshore references and risk datasets live in separate places with different formats. Copying between tabs consumes the review time that should go to assessment.
A file that must stand up later
Auditors and regulators expect a dated record of what was searched, what was found, what was ruled out and why. A summary with no trail back to the source leaves the decision hard to defend.
Workflow
The Nexus workflow for Compliance, KYC and AML Teams
- 01
Define the objective
Open a case and record the customer or counterparty, known identifiers, jurisdictions and the review type: onboarding, alert resolution, enhanced due diligence or a periodic refresh. State the risk questions the file must answer.
- 02
Choose a Skill or describe the review
Start with a focused Skill such as Sanctions, PEP and Risk Screening, UK Company Registry or News and Adverse-Media Timeline, or describe the whole review in the case conversation and let Nexus plan the steps.
- 03
Discover the evidence
Nexus searches supported sanctions and PEP datasets, official registries, public filings, offshore records and published reporting, then returns findings with each one cited to the source it came from.
- 04
Review findings critically
Open the evidence details behind any citation to inspect the source and its context. Nexus separates supported findings, possible matches, contradictions and information gaps, so a same-name candidate is never recorded as a confirmed hit and a no-match is never recorded as clearance. Identifier checks such as Bank and Payment Identifiers confirm format and public institutional information, not account ownership.
- 05
Explore relationships
Add officers, recorded controllers, intermediaries and addresses to the case graph and examine how they connect, without treating a shared name or address as proof of beneficial ownership.
- 06
Develop the assessment
Ask follow-up questions, record your reasoning in investigation notes and produce a BLUF Situation Brief for the escalation or a structured PDF report from selected records for the customer file, including available custody entries where enabled.
Skill Library
Skills used in this workflow
The investigative Skills these cases draw on most. Every Skill states the question it answers, what the investigator receives and what it cannot establish.
Outcomes
Outcomes for Compliance, KYC and AML Teams
- Screening alerts resolved with cited public-source context
- Ownership and control layers mapped in a case graph
- Adverse media organized into a sourced, dated timeline
- Every finding linked to inspectable evidence
- Possible matches kept separate from supported findings
- PDF reports from selected records for the customer file
Related OSINT concepts
Frequently asked questions
What is agentic OSINT for compliance, KYC and AML teams?
Agentic OSINT for compliance, KYC and AML teams is public-source research in which an AI agent plans and carries out the review steps, such as sanctions and PEP screening, registry and filing review, offshore-record research and adverse-media timelines, against a defined objective. In Nexus cited findings link to retained source records, and the compliance analyst reviews the evidence, directs follow-up questions and decides whether an alert is escalated, closed or referred for enhanced due diligence.
Does Nexus replace a sanctions screening or transaction monitoring system?
Nexus is an investigation workspace that supports the analysis behind a compliance decision; it does not replace the screening, transaction monitoring or case management systems a program relies on. Nexus does not provide continuous monitoring or alerts: each review is point-in-time, and a periodic refresh is a new review the analyst runs. Dedicated legal and sanctions sources remain authoritative for designation status.
Can Nexus confirm a sanctions or PEP match, or clear a customer?
Nexus presents potential matches in supported sanctions, politically exposed person and related risk records and preserves the identity uncertainty around them. A name match is a possible match until the analyst resolves identity with dates, roles, jurisdictions and other evidence, and an unsuccessful search does not establish that a designation or risk is absent. Nexus labels supported findings, possible matches, contradictions and information gaps so the decision rests on evidence, not on a name.
How does Nexus help document a KYC or enhanced due diligence review?
Work in the intended case and save relevant findings. Open citations to inspect available source details, and use Agency graphs and notes where needed. Export selected records to a structured PDF, including available custody entries where enabled, then review its completeness. Your organization’s policies determine what the customer file must contain.
Is it lawful and ethical to use Nexus for KYC and AML work?
Nexus researches public and authorized sources only: supported sanctions and PEP datasets, official registries, public filings, public offshore records and published reporting. It does not access private accounts, guess contact details or infer a person’s location. Compliance, KYC and AML teams remain responsible for having a lawful basis for each review, handling personal data under the rules that apply to them and treating findings as evidence to assess rather than conclusions to act on.
Which Nexus plan fits compliance, KYC and AML teams?
Pro (€59/month) fits most compliance, KYC and AML analysts: it opens 43 of the 47 investigative Skills, including Sanctions, PEP and Risk Screening, EU Sanctions Measures, PEP Offices and Associates, Sanctions Ownership Exposure, UK Company Registry, Offshore Structure Research, Bank and Payment Identifiers and News and Adverse-Media Timeline. Agency (€89/month) opens all 47, including Cross-Entity Correlation for relationship analysis across many subjects, plus end-to-end encrypted investigation notes for sensitive files.