Chrisjan Wüst, Co-Founder & CTO of Sphinx

Chrisjan Wüst

CTO & Co-Founder

Chrisjan is the Co-Founder & CTO of Sphinx, based in San Francisco. A self-taught engineer from Cape Town who started building at 13, he leads the team building AI compliance agents that banks actually trust.

Blog posts by this author

AI
How We Built Real-Time AML Monitoring Beyond Batch Processing

Sphinx's real-time AML monitoring evaluates transactions before settlement using agentic AI, replacing batch processing for instant payment rails like FedNow.

AI
What Claude Fable 5 Means for Compliance

Claude Fable 5 was banned three days after launch, then reinstated. Here's what the episode means for compliance teams adopting AI.

Compliance
Best Fraud Detection Platforms in 2026: A Ranked Comparison

Ranked comparison of the best fraud detection platforms in 2026 covering Feedzai, NICE Actimize, Featurespace, SAS, and Hawk AI with an evaluation framework.

Compliance
What is UBO Identification? A Complete Guide

UBO identification traces beneficial ownership through corporate layers to find the natural persons who own or control an entity.