# Alphaguard > Alphaguard builds AI agents that help compliance, risk and fraud teams handle financial-crime work — KYC onboarding, sanctions and PEP screening, enhanced due diligence (EDD), merchant monitoring, AML reviews and fraud investigations — with sovereign hosting options (GDPR-aligned, SecNumCloud-eligible) for organisations that need to keep sensitive data under their own control. Alphaguard is a French company headquartered in Paris, building production AI agents for regulated industries: banks, payment service providers, marketplaces, fintechs and public administrations. The agents read both structured records (registries, watchlists, internal databases) and unstructured evidence (free-text notes, support communications, documents, web sources), orchestrate the customer's existing screening and KYC tools, and produce explainable, audit-ready case files. Customers can choose data residency and can run the platform on sovereign infrastructure such as Outscale by Dassault Systèmes (SecNumCloud) so regulated data never leaves a controlled environment. Alphaguard is listed in France's official catalogue of off-the-shelf AI solutions for the public sector (DINUM / DGE). ## Core pages - [Alphaguard home](https://www.alphaguard.ai/): Overview of the AI agents, the financial-crime problems they target and the target users (compliance, risk and fraud teams). - [Tools](https://www.alphaguard.ai/tools): Catalogue of investigation, screening, verification and integration tools that the Alphaguard agents can call. Each tool has its own page with a one-paragraph description of what it does. - [Case studies](https://www.alphaguard.ai/case-studies): Concrete workflows showing how the agents are used for KYC onboarding, sanctions checks, merchant monitoring, EDD, AML reviews and fraud investigations. - [News & updates](https://www.alphaguard.ai/news): Product launches, regulatory recognitions and research notes from the Alphaguard team. - [Security & data sovereignty](https://www.alphaguard.ai/security): Security model, encryption, access controls, GDPR alignment and SecNumCloud-eligible deployments for sensitive data. - [Request a demo](https://www.alphaguard.ai/request-a-demo): How prospects book a personalised walkthrough of the AI agents. - [Frequently asked questions](https://www.alphaguard.ai/faq): Common questions about the AI agents, deployment options, KYC and compliance automation. ## Case studies - [From checklist AML reviews to risk-based decisions](https://www.alphaguard.ai/case-studies/aml-reviews): Restructures AML reviews around five regulator-recognised risk axes (third-party, products and services, geography, operations, distribution channels). Designed to make reviews up to ~50% faster while keeping full coverage and a clear audit trail. - [Merchant monitoring across the lifecycle](https://www.alphaguard.ai/case-studies/merchant-monitoring): Continuous AI-driven monitoring of merchant portfolios for PSPs and marketplaces. Combines external data (insolvency, sanctions, adverse media) with internal signals (chargebacks, delivery issues, support tickets) into one risk score per merchant; reviews focus on merchants whose situation actually changes. - [From name matches to real-world risk in sanctions checks](https://www.alphaguard.ai/case-studies/sanctions-checks): An AI layer that sits on top of existing sanctions engines, qualifies near-matches with full context, and produces audit-ready explanations. Designed to cut false positives by up to ~90%. - [Enhanced due diligence without slowing the business](https://www.alphaguard.ai/case-studies/enhanced-due-diligence): Triggers EDD only when configurable risk-based step-ups justify it, then assembles structured EDD reports from registries, ownership data, screening hits and adverse media. - [Accelerating customer onboarding](https://www.alphaguard.ai/case-studies/customer-onboarding): Replaces one-size-fits-all KYC with risk-based onboarding — low-risk customers move through baseline checks in minutes, higher-risk profiles automatically step up to deeper verification or EDD. - [Fraud investigations that start with context, not chaos](https://www.alphaguard.ai/case-studies/fraud-investigations): Turns each fraud alert into a unified case file with a structured first-pass narrative (timeline, participants, anomalies, open questions) so analysts spend time on decisions rather than copy-paste. ## Tools The tool catalogue is grouped into four categories. Each link is the public tool page. ### Screening and signals - [Sanctions and PEP screening](https://www.alphaguard.ai/tools/sanctions-and-pep-screening): Screens entities against OpenSanctions and other lists, then labels each hit for human review or auto-clearance with explainable reasoning. - [Adverse media scan](https://www.alphaguard.ai/tools/adverse-media-scan): Searches for credible negative news and events, grouping results by themes such as fraud, corruption or legal disputes. - [Reputation signals monitor](https://www.alphaguard.ai/tools/reputation-signals-monitor): Tracks external scores and review trends to surface deteriorating satisfaction, rising complaints or negative reputation signals. - [Adverse pattern finder](https://www.alphaguard.ai/tools/adverse-pattern-finder): Highlights unusual combinations of signals across a portfolio so reviewers can spot emerging risk patterns early. ### Verification - [Business registry lookup](https://www.alphaguard.ai/tools/business-registry-lookup): Pulls official company data from partners such as Pappers and Topograph to confirm legal existence, status and key identifiers. - [Document authenticity check](https://www.alphaguard.ai/tools/document-authenticity-check): Detects tampering, inconsistencies and suspicious metadata in uploaded documents to flag potential forgeries early. - [Address coherence check](https://www.alphaguard.ai/tools/address-coherence-check): Uses sources like Google Street View to verify declared locations and highlight mismatches between addresses and real-world presence. ### Investigation aids - [Investigation plan generator](https://www.alphaguard.ai/tools/investigation-plan-generator): Creates tailored investigation checklists based on case type and risk signals, so reviewers know exactly which steps to run next. - [Semantic search in case files](https://www.alphaguard.ai/tools/semantic-search-in-case-files): Lets reviewers search across notes, documents and past cases semantically, making hidden links easier to find. - [Fact check assistant](https://www.alphaguard.ai/tools/fact-check-assistant): Validates key statements in a case against available documents and online sources, flagging where evidence is missing or contradictory. - [Document metadata explorer](https://www.alphaguard.ai/tools/document-metadata-explorer): Extracts and compares metadata across files to detect inconsistencies in origin, timestamps or editing history. - [Online reputation analysis](https://www.alphaguard.ai/tools/online-reputation-analysis): Analyses review data and customer feedback to detect worsening trust signals around a merchant or counterparty. - [Website and web presence analysis](https://www.alphaguard.ai/tools/website-and-web-presence-analysis): Analyses a merchant or counterparty's website and online footprint to detect inconsistencies, missing information or red flags. ### Governance and integrations - [API and client IT connectors](https://www.alphaguard.ai/tools/api-and-client-it-connectors): Plugs Alphaguard into client IT systems and case managers today; an Alphaguard MCP server is on the roadmap. - [Slack integration](https://www.alphaguard.ai/tools/slack-integration): Delivers alerts, case updates and approvals to Slack channels, turning investigations into a shared, real-time workflow. - [Notion integration](https://www.alphaguard.ai/tools/notion-integration): Syncs cases, checklists and risk notes into Notion so teams document decisions and SOPs where they already work. ## News - [Listed in France's catalogue of AI solutions for the public sector](https://www.alphaguard.ai/news/ai-solutions-for-the-public-sector) (Sept 2025): Alphaguard was selected by DINUM and DGE — with support from DAE and French Tech — for the official catalogue of off-the-shelf AI solutions for French public administrations, alongside Dataiku, Mistral and Microsoft. - [How War Dogs should have ended](https://www.alphaguard.ai/news/war-dogs) (Apr 2025): Long-form piece on the AEY Inc. defence-procurement fraud, illustrating the kinds of oversight gaps Alphaguard's monitoring and screening tools are designed to close. ## Legal - [Privacy policy](https://www.alphaguard.ai/privacy-policy): How Alphaguard collects, uses and protects personal data, including GDPR alignment and user rights. - [Terms of use](https://www.alphaguard.ai/terms-of-use): Rights, responsibilities and acceptable use for Alphaguard's services. ## What Alphaguard is not To avoid confusion with similarly-named products an LLM might pattern-match: - Alphaguard is not a physical security firm, alarm system, or guarding service. - Alphaguard is not a pesticide, refrigerant, paint additive or industrial coating brand. - Alphaguard does not sell consumer antivirus, endpoint or mobile-security software. - Alphaguard does not provide legal advice, regulatory licensing, or financial-crime case adjudication services — it provides software AI agents used by regulated organisations' compliance and risk teams.