What Yanez Compliance does

Yanez Compliance is an AI-powered, no-code platform founded in 2024 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, that detects and corrects exposure, configuration flaws, and weaknesses in financial crime prevention systems. The platform is modular: the Financial Crime Vulnerability Scanner houses the Testing & Tuning Module for sanctions screening optimization, the Agentic Decisioning module (PEP Agent) for autonomous politically exposed persons screening, and the Adversarial Identity Data module for synthetic adversarial stress-testing of identity verification systems. Underlying technology combines ML, NLP, LLMs, RLHF trained on real financial crime prevention operations analysts, and proprietary decentralized AI infrastructure operated as Bittensor Subnet 54 (Yanez MIID), which generates multimodal inorganic identity datasets for adversarial testing.

The company sells primarily through multi-year SaaS subscriptions with estimated $500K annual contract value for sponsor-bank engagements, complemented by one-time professional services for implementation and vendor assessment. Go-to-market combines product-led growth (free early access, 90-day PEP Agent trial) with enterprise field sales targeting financial institutions and fintechs. Customer evidence includes a Top-10 sponsor bank in procurement, a global B2B payments leader valued at ~$10B, a global IDV orchestration layer, a workforce management platform valued at ~$15B, and a leading global cryptocurrency exchange, with reported outcomes of 10:1 ROI and 90% reduction in testing costs. The company is led by Founder and CEO Jose Caldera and Co-Founder and CAIO Asem Othman, with strategic ecosystem partnerships across Castellum.AI, sanctions.io, Sigma360, Atoma Studio (Safello Group), and the Bittensor network via Yuma and BT Labs.

Name

Yanez Compliance

Legal name

Yanez Compliance Corp.

Website

https://yanezcompliance.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Yanez Compliance is an AI-powered, no-code platform founded in 2024 that tests, tunes, and validates financial crime prevention systems for sponsor banks, crypto exchanges, B2B payments firms, and IDV providers, leveraging decentralized AI on Bittensor Subnet 54.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Financial Crime Compliance Software

NAICS

Custom Computer Programming Services (541511), Investigation and Personal Background Check Services (561611)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming Services (7371), Finance Services (6199)

akta.pro primary industry

Fraud, Risk, KYC/AML & Compliance Platforms (BPAMAFAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

KYC/KYB & Customer Onboarding (CIP, beneficial ownership, screening) (FSAGAFAB), Customer Identity (KYC/CDD/EDD) & Onboarding (FSAMAMAA), Case Management, Investigations & SAR/STR Filing (FSAMAMAF)

Keywords

• Sanctions screening software
• Financial crime compliance
• AML regulatory technology
• Model validation software
• Identity verification testing

Headquarters

HQ city

Palo Alto

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Software Subscription / SaaS: Annual or multi-year subscription-based access to the Yanez platform modules including Testing & Tuning, Model Validation, PEP Agent, and Financial Crime Vulnerability Scanner. Clients sign multi-year agreements with increased spend as new use cases are introduced.
2. Professional Services: One-time professional services costs for custom implementation, vendor assessment, and integration support in addition to subscription fees.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Yanez Compliance sells an AI-powered, no-code software platform that tests, tunes, and validates financial crime prevention systems including sanctions screening, KYC, AML transaction monitoring, and identity verification. The platform is delivered as subscription software to financial institutions, fintechs, sponsor banks, cryptocurrency exchanges, and B2B payments providers, with optional one-time professional services for implementation and integration support.

Product overview

Yanez Compliance is an AI-powered platform specializing in detecting and correcting exposure, weaknesses, and configuration flaws in financial crime prevention systems. The platform follows a modular architecture built on a no-code AI-powered foundation. The core product is the Financial Crime Vulnerability Scanner, which houses the Testing & Tuning Module for optimizing sanctions screening configurations and the Agentic Decisioning (PEP Agent) for autonomous PEP screening decisions. The Adversarial Identity Data module provides synthetic data for identity verification stress testing. The platform also operates the Yanez MIID Subnet 54 on the Bittensor decentralized network for generating multimodal inorganic identities. Additional offerings include the Enforcement Infographic interactive AI experience and the Proof of Human Uniqueness trust layer. The platform leverages proprietary AI including ML, NLP, LLMs, and generative AI with RLHF, targeting compliance teams at banks, fintechs, and B2B payments companies without requiring IT resources.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Yanez MIID (Multimodal Inorganic Identities Dataset): A Bittensor-powered subnet (subnet 54) that generates multimodal inorganic identities for adversarial testing of financial crime prevention systems.
• Yanez AI

Products and services

• Financial Crime Vulnerability Scanner Core AI-powered platform for testing, tuning, and model validation of sanctions screening, KYC, AML transaction monitoring, and fraud prevention systems at financial institutions, fintechs, and cryptocurrency exchanges. Delivers 10x ROI by reducing testing costs 90% and execution time from 1,000+ hours to under 100 hours.
• Testing & Tuning Module Optimizes sanctions screening system configurations using proprietary AI to find optimal thresholds, minimize false positives, ensure true matches, and provide verifiable audit trails. Includes testing, tuning, monitoring, reporting, and model validation sub-capabilities aligned to the OCC framework.
• Agentic Decisioning (PEP Agent) AI-native autonomous research agent that evaluates PEP screening alerts, confirms true matches, clears false positives, and generates comprehensive reports from public sources with full attribution. Delivers approximately 95% accuracy on PEP determinations with jurisdiction-aware classifications and entity resolution purpose-built for PEP use cases.
• Adversarial Identity Data Synthetic adversarial dataset product that continuously challenges identity verification models by exposing novel attack patterns including deepfakes, synthetic identities, replay attacks, morphing, and swap attacks. Provides ongoing stress-testing and model drift detection for KYC and onboarding systems.
• Proof of Human Uniqueness Trust layer for automated validation of human identity, addressing the systemic risk of deepfakes breaking implicit assumptions that digital identity represents a real person. Operates as part of the decentralized Yanez AI ecosystem.
• Yanez MIID (Multimodal Inorganic Identities Dataset) Subnet 54 Decentralized Bittensor-powered subnet (Subnet 54) that generates sophisticated multimodal inorganic identities for testing financial institutions' compliance systems. Currently focused on name variation challenges for sanctions screening; designed to expand into biometric data generation, document synthesis, and multi-modal identity verification testing.
• Enforcement Infographic (Interactive AI Experience) Interactive AI-powered infographic experience that summarizes regulatory enforcement actions from OFAC, FinCEN, NYDFS, and OFSI, allowing users to analyze consent orders and learn about sanctions testing and auditing requirements interactively.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduces testing and tuning costs by 90% while enhancing compliance coverage
• +8 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability11 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and strategic.

• Castellum.AIcoreTechnology or Integration · 14 November 2024Yanez Compliance has integrated Castellum.AI's compliance screening API to benchmark model validations and screening systems for banking and fintech clients. Castellum.AI provides sanctions, PEPs, adverse media, sanctioned beneficial ownership, and supply chain compliance solutions. Yanez will further validate Castellum.AI's sanctions screening technology, ensuring it meets highest standards in accuracy, robustness, and regulatory compliance.
• sanctions.iocoreTechnology or IntegrationNatural partnership where Yanez excels in areas where sanctions.io's clients need post-implementation support. sanctions.io offers sanctions screening services with advanced matching technology. Yanez provides testing and monitoring capabilities that complement sanctions.io's screening platform, addressing maintenance and ongoing validation needs.
• Sigma360coreTechnology or IntegrationStrategic partnership following independent validation confirming Sigma360's risk screening platform's superior accuracy, reliability, and regulatory alignment. The validation process compared Sigma360's models against a market-leading vendor, demonstrating high performance and regulatory compliance. Yanez's platform is used to benchmark Sigma360's screening capabilities.
• Atoma Studio (Safello Group subsidiary)strategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerAtoma Studio, a subsidiary of Safello Group, formed strategic partnership with Yanez Compliance to enhance digital finance compliance offerings through AI capabilities including synthetic data generation and market abuse detection. Atoma Studio contributes to Yanez's AI-driven decentralized compliance platform.
• YumacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerYuma is a subnet accelerator within the Bittensor ecosystem providing technical guidance, validator access, and go-to-market support for emerging subnets. Yuma's involvement reinforces the viability of Yanez's model and approach to building sustainable, incentive-aligned infrastructure within the Bittensor network. Yuma describes Yanez as 'exactly the type of team we built Yuma's accelerator to support.'
• BT LabscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBT Labs is a trusted partner in the Bittensor ecosystem focused on empowering the future of decentralized AI through mining operations, subnet development, and infrastructure services. BT Labs provides technical guidance and validation support for Yanez MIID Subnet. BT Labs CEO Jose Rios stated: 'BTLabs holds the Yanez team in the highest esteem for their capabilities and experience.'

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Hawk AI: Hawk AI delivers AI-powered AML and transaction monitoring for banks and fintechs. Comparable in using ML to reduce false positives and improve alert quality; competes for similar budget within compliance operations.
• Feedzai: Feedzai provides an AI-native risk operations platform for fraud and AML across financial institutions. Comparable in using ML/LLMs to reduce false positives in compliance and transaction monitoring — broader scope than Yanez but overlapping buyer personas.
• Silent Eight: Silent Eight offers AI-powered sanctions and AML name screening decisions for banks and fintechs. Closely comparable on sanctions screening automation and PEP/alert adjudication — both target reduced false positives and explainable AI in compliance operations.
• ComplyAdvantage: ComplyAdvantage provides AI-driven AML, sanctions, and KYC screening for financial institutions. Directly comparable as a sanctions screening and financial crime prevention platform; Yanez competes as a testing/tuning/validation layer on top of screening infrastructure that includes ComplyAdvantage-class vendors.
• ThetaRay: ThetaRay provides AI-based AML and sanctions screening solutions for banks and fintechs. Comparable as an AI-driven sanctions and transaction monitoring vendor; broader product suite but similar buyer profile and regulatory framing.
• Castellum.AI: Castellum.AI provides sanctions, PEP, and adverse media screening APIs. Both partner and direct competitor — Castellum sells primary screening while Yanez validates and tunes screening systems, with overlapping customer bases in banking and fintech.
• Sanctions.io: Sanctions.io offers a sanctions screening API and matching technology. Both partner and overlapping competitor — comparable on sanctions screening product surface, with Yanez providing the testing and monitoring layer that complements Sanctions.io's screening platform.
• Lucinity: Lucinity provides an AI-powered AML compliance platform with case management and transaction monitoring. Comparable in targeting compliance operations teams with AI augmentation; similar enterprise SaaS motion in financial services.
• Sigma360: Sigma360 is an AI-powered risk screening platform for financial crime compliance. Partner and overlapping competitor — both serve banks and fintechs on sanctions/PEP screening, with Yanez validating Sigma360's accuracy as part of their partnership.

Broad incumbents

• NICE Actimize: NICE Actimize is a large incumbent enterprise financial crime and compliance suite covering AML, sanctions, KYC, and fraud. Competes at the platform layer with much broader scope; Yanez positions as a testing/tuning/validation layer that can plug into Actimize-class installations.

Market position

Strengths1 record

Weaknesses1 record

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks3 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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