AI-Powered KYB & KYC Onboarding — Straight-Through, in Minutes.
Plug in the IDV, AML screening, and KYB data providers you already trust. First Mile Labs orchestrates them into a single compliance platform — enforces your exact risk settings, and automatically approves every case that meets your criteria.
WHY FIRST MILE LABS
The platform built around how you already work
Most onboarding platforms lock you into their vendor stack and their risk model. First Mile Labs is different — it wraps around the providers you already trust and enforces the policies you’ve already written.
Already contracted with IDV, AML screening, and KYB data providers? Plug in your API keys and keep the commercial terms you’ve negotiated. No forced bundles, no margin stacking on third-party checks. You own the relationships; we orchestrate the workflow.
Define your institution’s exact thresholds — risk scores, EDD triggers, document requirements — configured independently by jurisdiction and legal entity type. A UK sole trader, a Delaware LLC, and a listed PLC each get the workflow they need. Cases that meet your criteria approve themselves. Edge cases land on your analysts’ desk pre-packaged, not raw.
Ship a fully branded onboarding experience without building it yourself. Licensable platform, configurable workflows, and direct API access. Your customers see your brand; your compliance team gets everything they need in one place.
“We built First Mile Labs because we lived this problem. We ran KYB and KYC operations inside financial institutions — we know exactly where the bottlenecks are, where compliance risk hides, and what analysts actually need to do their jobs well. Every decision in this platform comes from that experience.”
FIRST MILE LABS — FOUNDED BY OPERATORS
HOW IT WORKS
From vendor keys to automated decisions
Bring the API keys for your existing IDV, AML screening, and KYB data providers. Connect them in minutes. First Mile Labs handles the orchestration, the data normalisation, and the workflow — your commercial agreements stay entirely yours.
Define exactly how your institution onboards: risk score thresholds, EDD triggers, required documents, and UBO ownership limits — set independently by jurisdiction and legal entity type. Your compliance policy, encoded once and applied consistently to every case.
Applications that meet your criteria move through automatically, with a full audit trail generated at every step. Edge cases go straight to your analysts — not as raw documents, but as fully packaged compliance packs ready for a decision.
THE PLATFORM
Every tool your compliance team needs. Every vendor they trust.
CAPABILITIES
Everything you need for KYB and KYC onboarding
PERPETUAL KYB
Compliance doesn’t stop at onboarding
Regulatory obligations don’t end when a customer is approved — and neither does First Mile Labs. Our perpetual KYB engine continuously monitors every approved entity in the background, flagging material changes the moment they occur.
Every parameter is fully configurable to your institution’s risk appetite. Choose what to monitor, how often to check, and which changes trigger an alert or a full re-review. A low-risk domestic SME can run monthly sweeps; a high-risk cross-border structure can be checked daily. Your risk tolerance, your rules — applied consistently at scale.
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ROI CALCULATOR
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Questions from compliance buyers
- Those are point solutions — they do one thing well. First Mile Labs is the orchestration layer that sits above them. We connect your existing IDV, AML, and registry vendors into a single automated workflow, apply your bespoke risk rules, and produce a compliance decision — without replacing any vendor you already trust.
- Yes. First Mile Labs is vendor-agnostic by design. If you have existing contracts with Onfido, Jumio, ComplyAdvantage, Acuris, or any other provider, we integrate with them directly. You bring your own keys (BYOK), keep your commercial relationships, and we orchestrate the data into a unified onboarding decision.
- Most clients are live in under 48 hours. We provide a no-code configuration layer for your risk rules and pre-built connectors for common KYB, IDV, and AML vendors. Custom integrations with proprietary systems typically take one to two weeks. No lengthy procurement or professional-services engagement required.
- We are in active preparation for SOC 2 Type II certification. In the meantime, we operate under robust security controls: data encrypted in transit and at rest, role-based access, full audit logging, and annual penetration testing. We share our security documentation pack under NDA on request.
- We screen against 200+ sanctions and watchlists via OpenSanctions, including OFAC, UN, EU, HM Treasury, and jurisdiction-specific lists. Screening covers entities and individuals at onboarding and continuously throughout the relationship. PEP and adverse media checks are included. List coverage and update frequency are configurable per your compliance policy.
- Yes. Company registry lookups are supported across the UK, EU, US, and a growing number of APAC and MENA jurisdictions. UBO mapping, document classification, and sanctions screening work globally. If you need a jurisdiction we don't yet cover, speak to us — we add new registries on a regular basis.
- After onboarding, First Mile Labs continuously monitors your customer portfolio for changes in sanctions status, PEP classification, adverse media, and corporate ownership. When a trigger event is detected, we generate an alert with full context for your compliance team to review — no manual re-screening required.
- Cases that fall below your auto-approval threshold are escalated to your analyst queue with a structured case pack — pre-extracted documents, registry data, screening results, and a risk summary. Analysts review decisions rather than prepare them, cutting per-case handling time by up to 70%.
GET STARTED
Your stack. Your rules.
Up and running in days.
Talk to our team. We’ll map your existing vendor contracts, work through your risk policy together, and get you live in under a month. No ripping out the vendors you already trust — just a platform that finally makes them work as one.