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KYC refresh

Every client due for a know-your-customer refresh contacted, their updated documents gathered and checked against your policy. Any change in ownership or risk goes to compliance.

  • $12,500 fixed
  • Live in 3 to 6 weeks
  • Yours to keep
The review screen for KYC refresh: four items, three done, and one (New owner) waiting for the compliance officer, who is asked: Harlow Capital has a new 30% owner. Review before the refresh closes?
How it works

A new 30% owner nobody had on file.

Here’s a typical run, step by step: what automation handles, what the agent does, and the calls that stay with your team.

The workflow for KYC refresh, in 5 steps. It starts with “A refresh date comes up” and ends with “Filed, next date set”. Each step lists what automation, the agent and your team do there.
KYC refreshA typical run
Starts withA refresh date comes upHarlow Capital LLC, a medium-risk client, is due its three-year refresh on October 6.
Automation: Asks Harlow through the client portal for what a medium-risk client owes, and reminds them on your schedule.
~20h/mo

Step 1 of 5Ask for the documents

  • Automation

    Asks Harlow through the client portal for what a medium-risk client owes, and reminds them on your schedule.

    What each risk tier owes is written in your policy, so the request is the same for every client in it.

Reads
  • CRM
  • KYC policy
Writes
  • Client portal

~20 hours a month back

Where teams differCycles follow risk, often yearly for high and three to five years for low. Some also refresh after a trigger event.

The agent: Reads the new ownership chart, the signer IDs and the proof of address, and sets each beside Harlow’s 2023 file.
~45h/mo

Step 2 of 5Read what comes back

  • The agent

    Reads the new ownership chart, the signer IDs and the proof of address, and sets each beside Harlow’s 2023 file.

    Ownership charts arrive as diagrams, spreadsheets or a letter from counsel, each drawn its own way.

Reads
  • Client portal
Writes
  • KYC file

~45 hours a month back

Automation: Runs Harlow, both signers and every owner through the screening tool you already use. No matches.
The agent: Finds an owner with 30% on the new chart who isn’t in the 2023 file, and notes who they are and where they appear.
~35h/mo

Step 3 of 5Screen and compare

  • Automation

    Runs Harlow, both signers and every owner through the screening tool you already use. No matches.

    Your screening tool answers match or no match. It just needs every name.

  • The agent

    Finds an owner with 30% on the new chart who isn’t in the 2023 file, and notes who they are and where they appear.

    Owners can sit behind holding companies. “Okafor Holdings” on this chart may be J. Okafor, who was never on file.

Reads
  • Screening tool
  • KYC file
Writes
  • KYC file

~35 hours a month back

Where teams differThe ownership line sits at 25% at most firms. For higher-risk clients some bring it down to 10%.

IfYour team: Reviews the new owner, orders any extra checks your policy calls for, and decides whether Harlow stays at medium risk.
~8h/mo

Step 4 of 5Compliance reviews

  • Your teamIf ownership or risk changed

    Reviews the new owner, orders any extra checks your policy calls for, and decides whether Harlow stays at medium risk.

    A new owner can change the whole picture. Rating a client is a judgment compliance owns and signs.

Reads
  • KYC file
Writes
  • CRM

~8 hours a month back

Automation: Files the refresh with its documents and screening result, and puts Harlow’s next review on the calendar.
~12h/mo

Step 5 of 5File and reset the date

  • Automation

    Files the refresh with its documents and screening result, and puts Harlow’s next review on the calendar.

    The next date follows from the rating compliance just set, on the cycle your policy gives it.

Reads
  • KYC file
Writes
  • CRM
  • KYC file

~12 hours a month back

Ends withFiled, next date setHarlow’s refresh is on file with every document and the screening result, and the next date is set.
Total~120h/mo

What changes

Each refresh starts well ahead of its due date. Compliance looks at what changed, like a new owner, instead of rereading files where nothing did.

  • 3steps automated
  • 2steps for the agent
  • 1call kept with your team

Pick any step to see what happens there and why it sits in that lane.

What it could be worth

~120 hours a month back

$79,200 a year in time

For a lender refreshing about 60 client files a month across its risk tiers, at $55 an hour. We work out yours from your own volumes before you sign.

Let’s build your agent
What we customize with you

One proven agent, plugged into how you work.

Every team does this job a little differently, so we set these five with the people who do it today. We’ve done this in dozens of businesses, so we know where teams usually differ and ask about those first.

The agent

Same for every client
  • Follows the same proven steps
  • A person on every exception
  • Every decision logged
  • Tested on your past work first
  • Never changes a client’s risk rating
  1. Your systems

    Where the work comes in, and where the result goes.

    For this agentClient records in your CRM or onboarding system, documents from your client portal.

  2. Your rules

    The limits and exceptions it works to.

    For this agentYour KYC policy: what each risk tier needs, and how often.

  3. Your team

    Who signs off, and who covers when they’re away.

    For this agentThe compliance officer for any change in ownership or risk.

  4. Your channels

    Where your team hears from it.

    For this agentRequests to clients by email or portal, a monthly list for compliance.

  5. Your output

    What it hands back, in the format you already use.

    For this agentA refresh file for every client, and the next date on the calendar.

Loan conditions are their own agent in this catalog. Your screening provider stays in place, and whether to keep a client stays with compliance.

What you get

The agent, and everything that keeps it working.

  • The agentRunning on your systems, under your rules.
  • The review screenWhere the exceptions land for your compliance and onboarding teams.
  • Your rulebookYour limits, exceptions and who signs off, in one place, often for the first time.
  • A test reportYour past KYC refreshes, run through it and checked against the number.
  • The runbookHow it works, what to check, and what to do if it stops.
  • 30 days of tuningAfter it goes live, through a full month of your real KYC refreshes.
The number we agree

Refreshes past their due date at the end of each month. We measure it before we start, and again at day 30.

How we get there

Live in 3 to 6 weeks. About seven hours of your time.

We do the building. Your side: access, last year’s refresh files and your KYC policy, and a short weekly check-in.

  1. Before kickoff

    We send the access checklist.

    You, 2 hours. Access, an owner, and last year’s refresh files and your KYC policy.

  2. Weeks 1 to 2

    We connect your systems and set it up.

    You, 1 hour. Walk us through your rules.

  3. Weeks 2 to 4

    We test it on your past KYC refreshes.

    You, 1 hour. Review what it flagged.

  4. Weeks 3 to 6

    It runs beside your team, then goes live.

    You, 1¼ hours. Work from the review screen.

Then 30 days of tuning, with a short check-in each week, about two hours of yours. At day 30 we show you the number and hand everything over.

After it’s live

It keeps running whether or not we stay.

  • It runs in your accounts

    Your cloud, your systems, and an AI account in your name, billed by the provider at their rates.

  • Changes in the first 30 days are included

    A new rule, a changed limit, someone new signing off. That’s what tuning is for.

  • After that, your call

    Your team edits the rulebook, the care plan covers it, or a bigger change is quoted first.

Questions

About this agent.

Does it replace our screening provider?
No. It runs the checks through the screening tool you already use and reads the result into the file.
What if a client doesn’t send the documents?
It reminds them on the schedule you set, then puts the account on the compliance officer’s list with every attempt logged.
Our process isn’t quite like this. Will it still work?
That’s the usual case. The job looks the same in most businesses, but the details never do. We map how your team does it today, then set the rules, systems and approvals to match. That’s what most of the 3 to 6 weeks are for.
How do we agree the number?
Together, before any work starts. For this agent it’s the refreshes past their due date at the end of each month. We measure it before we start, and again at day 30.
What does it cost to run once it’s live?
Hosting and AI, paid straight to the providers, not through us. It usually runs 5x to 25x cheaper than doing the same work by hand, and we work out your figure from your real volumes before you sign.

Want every refresh done before it’s overdue?

Tell us how your team handles KYC refreshes today. We’ll show you this agent on examples like yours, and whether it fits the fixed price.

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  • 3 to 6 weeksto live, then 30 days of tuning
  • $12,500fixed, per agent
  • Yours to keepno license fees
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