Author here. Quick context on the pilot: 30-day test with 5 compliance analysts at UK fintech doing standard individual onboarding (Know Your Customer checks)

Author here. Quick context on the pilot: 30-day test with 5 compliance analysts at UK fintech doing standard individual onboarding (Know Your Customer checks). Before: 95 minutes per case (manual searches across OFAC, UN, EU sanctions lists, Companies House, adverse media, PEP databases) After: 27 minutes per case (Claude orchestrates the searches, analyst reviews at 17 mandatory checkpoints) Key architectural decision: NO auto-approvals. Every decision requires explicit analyst approval + notes. Legal team spent 3 weeks reviewing before approving pilot. Main concern was audit trail - solved with immutable markdown logs. Demo slides show the full workflow: https://github.com/vyayasan/kyc-analyst/blob/main/docs/demo-slides.pdf https://github.com/vyayasan/kyc-analyst/blob/main/docs/demo-... Happy to answer questions about: - The 17 stagegates - How risk scoring works (deterministic, not black box) - Regulatory requirements (FCA/MLR 2017) - What works vs what doesn't Built this to test if foundation models can commoditize compliance middleware.