Compliance teams have spent the last decade duct-taping systems together. An analyst pulls a business name from the CRM, runs it through a sanctions tool, screenshots the result, drops it into a case management system, then opens another browser tab to pull the registered agent from a state portal. None of this requires judgment. It's busywork that eats hours of an analyst's day. And the only audit trail is a graveyard of screenshots.
Agentic compliance promises to remove the human glue. AI agents that read the same screens, click the same buttons, and write the same notes a compliance analyst would, only faster and without forgetting steps. But agents are only as good as the data they reason over. Verify the wrong entity, miss a UBO, or rely on a stale state record, and the agent confidently produces the wrong answer at machine speed.
Sphinx is now partnering with Middesk to power agentic KYB
Today we are announcing that Sphinx, the AI compliance agent for KYB and AML automation, is partnering with Middesk to power our agentic KYB workflow. Our browser-native agents already work inside the case management systems, third-party portals, and dashboards that banks and fintechs use every day. Now, where a check calls for it, those agents can draw on Middesk's verified business identity intelligence: real-time secretary of state data, watchlists, UBO mapping, TIN matching, and a complete audit-ready record of every check.
For our customers, that means agents that do not just move faster than analysts, they decide more accurately. And when a decision calls for authoritative entity data, our agents can draw on Middesk's verified identity layer, so those checks are backed by the most reliable source available.
A new vision for how compliance gets done
The future of compliance is not more analysts staring at more screens. It is intelligent agents executing the routine work, with humans focused on the judgment calls that actually require human judgment.
Sphinx is building the agent layer. Middesk is building the data layer. Together, the combination collapses what used to be a 30-minute manual KYB review into a fully automated decision, complete with the source-linked audit trail regulators expect. Equals Money, an early Sphinx customer, has already increased their STP rate to 87%. Pairing that with Middesk-verified entity data closes the loop on the other side of the equation: making sure the businesses that pass review are the ones that should.
Why Sphinx and Middesk
Sphinx and Middesk are solving the same problem from two directions. Sphinx is removing the manual labor. Middesk is removing the data uncertainty underneath it. The partnership makes the combination native: Sphinx customers can activate Middesk-powered KYB without procurement, integration tax, or a separate vendor contract.
“Compliance teams have wanted a better way to move from information to action for over a decade. We’re excited to partner with Sphinx to combine their compliance workflows with accurate, comprehensive business identity data from Middesk. Together, we’re helping make agentic KYB a production system banks and fintechs can trust.”
— Adam Long, Head of Revenue, Middesk
"Compliance today is mostly human glue between systems that were never designed to work together. Sphinx takes on that work directly. Middesk gives our agents the authoritative business identity data they need to make those decisions defensibly, every time. Partnering with Middesk lets us deliver one product, one workflow, one audit trail, with the data quality our customers already trust under the hood."
— Alexandre Berkovic, CEO and Co-founder, Sphinx
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