# KYB Scout

> Merchant research for high-risk payments compliance teams. KYB Scout compresses the research phase of merchant onboarding (site teardown, registries, ownership checks, audit-ready screenshots) from three to four days to under an hour, and hands the analyst a structured pack where every fact links to its source. It never scores a merchant or recommends approve or decline: the analyst still makes the call.

Key facts:

- What it is: an AI research assistant for KYB (know your business) merchant research. It is not a decision engine, a risk-scoring tool, or an identity-verification tool.
- Who it is for: compliance analysts and compliance leadership at payment service providers that onboard merchants in high-risk verticals: iGaming, crypto (including VASPs) and forex.
- Input: the merchant's website URL. No document upload is needed to start; KYC documents can be added if the team has them.
- What it checks: the merchant's own site, public company registries, sanctions and adverse-media sources, and ownership records.
- Output: a structured pack covering business model, products, geographies, ownership signals and risk indicators. Every line links to a registry page, screenshot or document. The structure is the same whichever analyst runs it.
- What it will never do: give a risk score, recommend approve or decline, state an unsourced fact, run on shared infrastructure, or train a model on client data.
- The gap it fills: identity-verification and screening tools confirm that a director exists and is not sanctioned. They do not establish what the business actually is, what it sells and where it ships, with proof attached. That research is the three-to-four-day phase KYB Scout covers.
- Deployment: each pilot is a dedicated deployment scoped to the client's infrastructure and data policy. Merchant data is never used to train a model and does not leave the client's control without explicit sign-off.
- Origin: built inside a live high-risk PSP's compliance workflow, where it compressed the research phase from three to four days per merchant to under an hour.
- How to evaluate it: send the URL of a merchant your team has already onboarded. KYB Scout returns the pack so you can compare it with the file your analyst built.
- Contact: sales@kybscout.com. Book a twenty-minute walkthrough: https://calendar.app.google/FFgUUEtMw3YDBP6u7

## Website

- [KYB Scout home](https://kybscout.com/): the full overview, from the problem to contact.
- [The problem](https://kybscout.com/#problem): why merchant research takes three to four days before the real analysis starts.
- [The gap](https://kybscout.com/#gap): why verification and screening tools do not solve a research problem.
- [How it works](https://kybscout.com/#mechanism): merchant URL in, sourced pack out, analyst decides.
- [Guardrails](https://kybscout.com/#guardrails): the six things the product will never do.
- [Self-check](https://kybscout.com/#self-check): five questions to ask any tool that claims to solve this.
- [Where it runs](https://kybscout.com/#infra): dedicated deployment, no model training, client sign-off on data.
- [Get in touch](https://kybscout.com/#contact): book a walkthrough or email the team.

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