Diligent

AI agents for fintech risk and compliance operations

4.0Score#166 of 999 agents#3 of 15 in Financial-crime analyst

Why it ranks #166

Diligent, an AI financial-crime analyst from YC S23, ranks #166 of 999 AI agents and #3 of 15 in Financial-crime analyst, with a score of 4.0 of 10. Data as of 3 Oct 2026.

The score adds four parts, each 0 to 10, by weight. Every point comes from public evidence. How scoring works ·

Proof 2 × 30% 0.6
Scale 5 × 30% 1.5
Momentum 4 × 25% 1.0
Autonomy 6 × 15% 0.9
= 4.0

Proof
Do customers use it? 30% of the score
2
Claims a customer result.
- +2
  A customer result
  “Result: 40-70%+ reduction in alert-handling time, more consistent decisions, and a cleaner backlog.”
  Launch YC post · 11 Dec 2025
Not found: revenue or growth (+4), named customers (+3), a customer count (+2), work done at scale (+2)
Scale
Is there a real company behind it? 30% of the score
5
10 people, raised $2.5M.
- +4
  10 people on its YC page10 to 19 people
- +1
  Raised $2.5MDiligent AI Raises $2.5M to Empower KYC and Anti-Money-Laundering teams with AI AgentsSource · 4 Mar 2026
Momentum
Is it shipping and growing now? 25% of the score
4
Shows hiring and funding news.
- +2
  Hiring: 2 open rolesFounding ML engineer, Go-To-Market associateYC page
- +2
  Funding news in the last yearDiligent AI Raises $2.5M to Empower KYC and Anti-Money-Laundering teams with AI AgentsSource · 4 Mar 2026
Not found: launch YC post in the last 6 months (+3), new traction claim in the last 6 months (+2), a batch in the last year (it is YC Summer 2023) (+1)
Autonomy
How much of the job does it do on its own? 15% of the score
6
Supervised agent: takes actions in other systems; a person approves key steps.
- +6
  Level 2 of 4: Supervised agentTakes actions in other systems; a person approves key steps.
What the model read
- Acts in other systems: 56% likely
- Finishes whole tasks: 19% likely
- Calls itself an agent: 88% likely
Level 2: Takes actions in other systems; a person approves key steps.

About Diligent

We help fintech risk and AML compliance teams automate and strengthen routine customer due diligence tasks with LLMs. Our AI assistants slash cost-to-comply, improve risk detection and free up capacity for investigations that require human expertise and decision making.

Fintechs and banks use us to automate workflows like running thorough due diligence on a legal entity, reviewing customer documents like registry extracts, proofs of address etc and remediating false positive alerts from their AML systems.