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Unit21
Unit21 is a San Francisco-based risk and compliance platform that uses agentic AI to detect, investigate, and report financial crime. Its no-code rules engine, transaction monitoring, case management, and AI investigation agents serve banks, credit unions, fintechs, and crypto firms including Chime, Brex, Intuit, Crypto.com, and Jack Henry. The company is responsible for roughly 5% of all SARs filed in the US.
Tyler Allen
Tyler Allen is the CEO of Unit21, the AI risk infrastructure company he helped build from the ground up as its founding software engineer in 2019. Starting by writing Unit21's earliest lines of code, he progressed through Head of AI and COO before being appointed CEO in April 2026, succeeding co-founder Trisha Kothari. Under his AI leadership, customer usage of Unit21's AI Agents grew 30x in a single quarter. Unit21's platform now handles over 200,000 monthly reviews, has detected $14 billion in suspicious activity, and files approximately 5% of all U.S. SARs submitted to FinCEN.