Managed operations: alert review
Your alert queue keeps growing. We'll clear it.
Alert review priced per outcome. We review and resolve your transaction monitoring alerts, document every decision, and hand the ones that need a filing decision to your officer. You pay per alert resolved, never per analyst.
Your problem
A backlog is a finding waiting to be written
- Your monitoring system produces more alerts than your team can work. The queue grows every week, and the oldest alerts get older.
- Examiners and sponsor banks read an aged backlog as a program failure. It's a common finding in enforcement actions.
- Hiring analysts takes months, and staffing firms bill by the hour whether the queue moves or not.
- When the work is rushed, the case notes get thin, and thin notes don't hold up when someone asks why an alert was closed.
What you get
Alerts resolved, with the reasoning on file
- A queue that moves. We work your alerts to a decision, oldest and highest risk first.
- A documented decision on every alert: what was reviewed, what was found and why it was closed or escalated.
- Escalations your officer can act on. Alerts that may need a suspicious activity report go to your designated officer with the facts assembled. The filing decision stays with them.
- Regular reporting on volume, age, outcomes and the alert types that keep producing noise, so you can see where your rules need tuning.
How we do it
Your procedures, our reviewers, the platform underneath
- We start from your written alert procedures and your risk assessment, so every decision follows your program, not ours.
- The platform gathers what a reviewer needs for each alert: the customer's profile, the transactions behind the alert, prior alerts and cases.
- Experienced reviewers work each alert and write the disposition. A second reviewer checks a share of the closed alerts for quality.
- We don't decide whether to file a suspicious activity report. That decision belongs to your designated officer, and we give them what they need to make it.
How the work is done
The audit you already buy, performed by an engine.
- Every record testedControls are tested against the full population of accounts and transactions, not a sample of twenty-five.
- Every requirement citedEach requirement the work runs against is cited to the rule it comes from, with the facts behind it labelled.
- Findings pricedFindings arrive priced in dollars, so remediation is ordered by what each gap is worth.
- A signed reportThe report is signed, and any reader can check that nothing in it changed after signing.
Pricing
You pay for resolved alerts, not for hours
Priced per alert resolved, with a monthly minimum. You're never billed per analyst or per hour, so the cost tracks the work that gets done.
Priced at scoping. How pricing works
The published method
How this is normally done
The regulator's and the standard-setter's own method for this work, explained in plain English and cited to the source. We have nothing to hide about how we do it: check our process against it.
- ReferenceTransaction Monitoring: How AML Monitoring Programs WorkWhat transaction monitoring is, the parts of a monitoring program, the path from alert to SAR, tuning and threshold testing, model risk guidance, and NYDFS Part 504.
- Field GuideHow to Write a SAR Narrative That Holds UpThe five W's and how, the anatomy of a strong narrative, a before/after example, the mistakes that draw scrutiny, and a filing-ready checklist.
- ReferenceAML Look-Back Reviews: Transaction and SAR Look-Backs ExplainedWhat triggers a transaction or SAR look-back, how the period and population are set, re-running monitoring logic versus re-reviewing alerts, reviewer independence, and the deliverables.
What happens next
Three steps from here.
- 01
A call with our founder
Tell us about your monitoring system, your queue and your procedures. We'll tell you plainly whether we're the right fit.
- 02
A written scope
Which alerts we'll work, how decisions reach your officer, how you'll see progress and the price, in writing before you commit.
- 03
The queue starts moving
We connect to your alerts, work them to a decision and report back on what's cleared and what's left.