
AI agents and screening for AML and KYC
REDEFINING FINANCIAL CRIME COMPLIANCE
Castellum.AI enables financial institutions to detect, investigate, and prevent financial crime with AI-powered automation and proprietary risk intelligence. Its platform combines data from more than 200,000 sources across support sanctions, adverse media, KYC/KYB onboarding, transaction screening, and more. They offer industry leading false positive reduction and 94% AML/KYC alert volume reduction for enterprises in highly regulated environments with their “Arbiter” AI agents that balance auditability, accuracy, and reliability.
FRAMEWORK THESIS
Financial institutions will continue to face growing compliance complexity as regulatory requirements increase, risk signals multiply, and manual review processes struggle to scale. Castellum.AI has built a differentiated financial crime prevention platform with their data-first approach allowing them to offer deeply embedded workflows that combine ML algorithms with AI-powered automation trained on institutional context. By automating investigations while maintaining transparency, governance, and human oversight, Castellum.AI is positioned to become the platform powering the next generation of compliance operations as transactions and financial activity grow exponentially in the agentic economy.
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Castellum AI is a financial crime compliance platform offering AI agents and screening for AML/KYC
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BUILDING THE FRAMEWORK: With Peter Piatetsky, co-founder of Castellum AI
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