Sphinx

Most compliance vendors sell you a better queue. Sphinx sells you a worker. The agents log into systems you already run, click and type like an analyst, and close cases — which means the value shows up as headcount capacity instead of another dashboard your team has to learn. The published numbers are unusually specific for this category: 87% fewer false positives, 98% same-day resolution, 4.2x lower ops cost, 27% more true positives found, and 64% fewer onboarding drop-offs. Named customer quotes are equally concrete — Jorgen Osio Norgaard reports 82 hours saved per week, and James Simcox frames it as growing without adding headcount. That is a materially different pitch than Actimize or ComplyAdvantage, which enrich and prioritise alerts for humans to work. The mechanics matter more than the pitch. Agents operating inside your systems is what removes the integration project, and custom workflow automation lets you encode your own SOPs and risk logic without engineers — Olga Regal at the referenced customer put it as applying standards uniformly across every case instead of varying analyst to analyst. Auditability is handled explicitly: step-by-step reasoning and evidence-backed audit trails on every decision, plus SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliance. Sphinx Doc Fraud deserves separate attention because it has its own economics and its own numbers — 94.3% correct verdict, 2.8x more forgeries caught, under 28 seconds to clear clean files, 54% less expensive, and 1M documents processed to date. Its published model is usage-based: a free playground, $0.45 per document pay-as-you-go with volume discounts applied automatically, and custom committed-volume rates for high volume, banks, and enterprise including SSO and VPC/on-prem deploy. That last point is worth flagging: the Doc Fraud page explicitly lists VPC and on-prem deploy at the Scale tier, while the main platform describes itself as an AI-agent service operating in your systems. Confirm your deployment requirements against the specific product you're buying. Where it doesn't fit: organisations with low alert volume won't earn back the deployment effort, non-regulated businesses with no AML, KYB, or fincrime obligations have no use for it, and risk teams that won't let agents operate directly inside core systems should look at alert-enrichment tools instead. Specific integration APIs are not enumerated on the site, so bring your system inventory to the demo.