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Threshold

AI-orchestrated customer onboarding — document collection, identity & CDD verification, sanctions and PEP screening, risk scoring, and compliance sign-off in a single audited workflow.

Azure AI Foundry
Azure AI Document Intelligence
Azure AI Search
Microsoft Graph API
Python
FastAPI
Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Azure Blob Storage
60%+ faster
Onboarding Time
98%
Document Accuracy
100%
Screening Coverage
-70%
Compliance Escalations

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Threshold · Agent Mesh

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Step 1Instant

Application Intake

Customer submits from web, mobile, or API. Intake agent collects documents and validates the checklist.

Document uploadOCR extractionCompleteness checkChecklist tracking

Technical Design

Parallelized onboarding pipeline where intake, verification, and screening agents execute in parallel against shared customer data, converging on a single risk-scored decision file for compliance sign-off.

System Components

Intake Service

Document ingestion, OCR, and checklist validation

Verification Engine

ID and corporate registry verification with liveness

Screening Gateway

Multi-watchlist sanctions and PEP screening

Risk Service

Explainable risk scoring and segmentation

Decision Layer

Auto-approval routing and analyst queue

Audit Store

Immutable decision and document log

Data Flow

Application Intake
Document OCR
Identity/UBO Verification
Screening
Risk Score
Decision Routing
Compliance Sign-off
Monitoring Handoff

Technology Choice

Azure AI Foundry + LangChain

Azure provides the document intelligence, search, and hosting foundations needed for regulated onboarding, while LangChain orchestrates the parallel agent workflow with an immutable audit trail. Full compliance alignment for CBUAE, DFSA, and ADGM expectations.

Alternatives Considered

AWS Bedrock + LlamaIndex, Google Vertex AI + AutoGen

Core Frameworks

Azure AI Foundry

LLM hosting and compliance-aligned processing

Azure AI Document Intelligence

ID and corporate document extraction

LangChain

Multi-agent orchestration and decision routing

FastAPI

Onboarding API for web, mobile, and partner systems

Implementation Plan

Document Pipeline

4 weeks
  • OCR intake
  • Checklist engine
  • Data normalization

Screening & Verification

5 weeks
  • Watchlist integration
  • ID verification
  • UBO mapping

Risk & Decisioning

4 weeks
  • Risk model
  • Routing logic
  • Analyst queue

Compliance & Launch

3 weeks
  • Sign-off workflow
  • Audit archive
  • Regulator export

Key Milestones

Onboarding < 24 hours for routine cases
Screening coverage 100%
Document accuracy >98%
Compliance escalations cut 70%

Risk Mitigation

Human-in-the-loop for all high-risk decisions
Watchlist feeds validated quarterly
Model retraining against outcomes and audit findings

Key Features

Document Collection

Automated intake and validation of ID documents, proof of address, incorporation papers, shareholding structures, and source-of-funds documentation across 60+ document types.

Identity & CDD Verification

Verify individuals and corporate structures — directors, UBOs, and signatories — against government databases and corporate registries with liveness and anti-forgery checks.

Sanctions & PEP Screening

Real-time screening against OFAC, EU, UN, and local watchlists with name-matching, fuzzy matching, and false-positive reduction that cuts review noise.

Risk Scoring & Segmentation

Model-driven risk segmentation per customer profile, jurisdiction, product, and transaction type — routing routine cases to auto-approve and complex cases to analysts.

Compliance Sign-off

Structured review queue where compliance officers approve, condition, or escalate with a complete decision log and EDD questionnaire support.

Audit Trail & Reporting

Immutable record of every document, decision, and data point — exportable to regulators and internal audit with full remediation visibility.

How It Works

1

Application Intake

Instant

Customer submits from web, mobile, or API. Intake agent collects documents and validates the checklist.

Document upload
OCR extraction
Completeness check
Checklist tracking
2

Identity & CDD Verification

< 5 minutes

Individuals and corporate structures verified against registries and ID databases.

ID validation
Liveness check
Corporate structure
UBO mapping
3

Sanctions & PEP Screening

< 1 minute

Real-time screening across all watchlists with false-positive reduction.

OFAC / EU / UN
Local watchlists
PEP databases
Fuzzy matching
4

Adverse Media Scan

< 2 minutes

Automated scan of news and adverse media for entity and its principals.

News ingestion
Entity disambiguation
Severity rating
Relevance scoring
5

Risk Scoring

< 30 seconds

Transparent risk score computed from profile, jurisdiction, and product factors.

Score computation
Threshold logic
Segmentation
Explainability
6

Decision Routing

Instant

Routine cases auto-approve; complex cases route to compliance officers with full context.

Auto-approval
Analyst queue
EDD triggers
SLA tracking
7

Compliance Sign-off

Minutes

Officer reviews the packaged case file, adds conditions, and signs off in minutes.

Case file assembly
Decision log
Condition generation
E-signature
8

Onboarding & Monitoring

Ongoing

Customer activated and moved into ongoing transaction monitoring with full audit trail.

Account activation
Monitoring handoff
Audit archive
Regulator export

Multi-Agent Architecture

Intake Agent

Collects and pre-validates onboarding documents against your internal checklist.

  • Document OCR
  • Completeness check
  • Format normalization
  • Duplicate detection
  • Priority routing

Due Diligence Agent

Builds the customer risk profile — entity structure, UBO chain, jurisdiction, and business purpose.

  • Corporate structure mapping
  • UBO identification
  • Jurisdiction risk
  • Business purpose analysis
  • EDD triggers

Screening Agent

Screens against sanctions, PEP, and adverse media databases with deduplication.

  • Sanctions watchlists
  • PEP databases
  • Adverse media
  • Fuzzy matching
  • False-positive filtering

Risk Agent

Computes a transparent risk score and routes the case to the right decision path.

  • Risk computation
  • Threshold logic
  • Segmentation
  • Auto-approval routing
  • Model explainability

Compliance Officer Agent

Packages the complete case file and sign-off recommendation for review.

  • Case file assembly
  • Decision log
  • Condition generation
  • EDD questionnaire
  • Escalation routing

Use Cases

Corporate Account Opening

Onboard corporate clients end-to-end — structure, UBOs, source of funds — in a fraction of the manual effort.

Fintech Partner Onboarding

Rapidly onboard fintech and payment partners while staying audit-ready for FMWS and program managers.

High-Net-Worth Onboarding

Handle HNW and cross-border clients with automatic EDD trigger where exposure is higher.

Merchant & Vendor Onboarding

Standardize merchant and vendor risk assessment with clear, consistent screening and sign-off.

Cross-Border Entities

Screen complex multi-jurisdiction structures with jurisdiction-aware risk logic and sanctions coverage.

Regulator Audit Response

Produce complete, exportable audit trails on demand instead of weeks of manual evidence gathering.

Interested in Threshold?

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