The last compliance hire a bank ever makes - and it never sleeps, never skips a source, and logs every reason.
Somewhere tonight, a compliance analyst is staring at an alert queue that only grows. Each item is a small mystery: is this transfer clean, or is it a laundered dollar wearing a suit? The regulator does not want speed. The regulator wants reasons. And reasons take time - reading PDFs, cross-checking sanctions lists, hunting a beneficial owner three shell companies deep.
Sphinx is the company betting that this work no longer belongs to a human at 11pm. Its browser-native AI agents log into the same case-management tools an analyst uses, click through the same portals, gather the same evidence, and draft the same disposition - then write down exactly why. Not a chatbot bolted onto the side. An analyst that lives inside the software you already own.
Sphinx breaks the job of a compliance team into four working agents. No engineering integration required - they run on top of the systems already in place.
Customer onboarding and KYC/KYB without the friction - fewer drop-offs, sharper risk detection at the front door.
Turns fragmented data from portals, PDFs, email and internal dashboards into structured, actionable intelligence.
Reviews alerts and runs AML, sanctions, PEP and adverse-media checks, then drafts a disposition - analyst still in the loop.
Controls the whole journey: transaction monitoring, EDD and regulator-ready SAR/UAR reporting with a full audit trail.
“Building in compliance so compliance doesn’t have to exist.”
“We went from a six-month alert review backlog to a clean queue in two days.”
Matt Hewins · FinCrime Lead
“Reviews now take minutes. Time to resolution is 10x faster.”
Francis Forde · Chief Compliance Officer
“Sphinx massively increased our capacity, letting us keep growing without adding headcount.”
James Simcox · COO
They met in Cape Town, built an audio-AI startup together, then reconnected to tackle a harder problem: making financial-crime work explainable at scale.
Came up through AI research at Imperial College London and MIT. Now the face of Sphinx's push into regulated production environments.
Early employee at RelyComply, where he helped build AML and onboarding infrastructure serving 15M+ users. Previously Head of ML there.
Return to that analyst and the queue that never emptied. In the version Sphinx is selling, the queue is already clear by morning - not because the work vanished, but because an agent did it overnight and left a paper trail a regulator can read. The alerts still get investigated. The reasons still get written down. The difference is that a human wasn’t the bottleneck.
Whether “your last compliance hire” is the boldest promise in regtech or simply a very good pitch, Sphinx has picked the one job nobody wanted and made it the point. Eight countries in, millions of alerts deep, the company is betting that the future of compliance isn’t more people reading PDFs at 11pm. It’s a login.