adjudication accuracy
human review at scale
Restricted Party Screening Creates Supply Chain Bottlenecks
To reduce regulatory penalty risk, enterprise screening engines are naturally tuned for high sensitivity. While this high sensitivity ensures no potential threat is missed, it yields a costly side effect: an overwhelming and unnecessary volume of false positives.
Global trade compliance teams find themselves buried under thousands of alerts triggered by look-alike names, complex transliteration variations, common acronyms, and structurally incomplete counterparty data.
The Bottleneck
Core Screening Engine
Thousands of Alerts
Manual Review Bottleneck
When every hit requires manual verification, high value compliance experts spend their days executing repetitive data review rather than focusing on actual risk management. This is operationally unsustainable and expensive, and it introduces human inconsistency and increases audit risk. Simply put, scaling screening purely through headcount is no longer a viable strategy.
An AI Adjudication Layer for Existing Screening Infrastructure
KYG Trade built Smart Screen to solve the manual review bottleneck without requiring you to replace your core technology. It doesn’t replace your RPS platform, it acts as an intelligent post-screening adjudication layer that seamlessly integrates with existing systems like SAP GTS, Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE, and Descartes OCR. Smart Screen was designed by a trade lawyer and AI expert with a background in economic sanctions, screening and anti-corruption.
The Resolution
Screening Alert
AI Analysis
Validation & Escalation
Outcome & Audit Trail
Once your screening engine flags a potential match, Smart Screen immediately goes to work. The platform automatically reviews the flagged hit, enriches the counterparty profile with authoritative data, and applies advanced precedent retrieval and similarity logic to evaluate the alert.
Clear, Actionable Outputs
Rather than delivering ambiguous suggestions, Smart Screen™ provides structured outcomes directly within your workflow.
Definitive determinations
Clearly categorizes alerts as a false positive or a true match.
Confidence scoring and rationale
Every decision is supported by a precise confidence that you manage and an explicit, data-backed justification.
Smart escalation paths
If an alert is genuinely ambiguous or falls below your custom confidence threshold, it’s automatically routed to human compliance specialists for final review, complete with all supporting evidence neatly organized.
Defensible Decisions With Structured Audit Trails
In enterprise export compliance, a fast decision is worthless if it can’t withstand regulatory scrutiny. Smart Screen™ is designed around the principle of absolute defensibility, removing the black box anxiety often associated with automated compliance tools.
Every time Smart Screen evaluates an alert, it generates a permanent, regulator-grade decision artifact. This record meticulously details the exact decision rationale, confidence levels, utilized research sources, and full escalation history.
Replayable Decision History
Every automated action can be audited, re-verified, and explained step-by-step to internal auditors or government authorities.
Standardized Consistency
Eliminates the subjective variance that naturally occurs when different human reviewers evaluate similar alerts.
Regulator-Grade Governance
Provides a transparent ledger of data lineage, proving your compliance program maintains rigorous, continuous oversight.
Validated at Enterprise Scale: The Pilot Results
Smart Screen isn’t a theoretical capability. It’s a proven operational accelerator. To validate its accuracy and defensibility, the platform underwent a rigorous two-round pilot evaluation with a Fortune 500 enterprise facing severe screening backlogs.
The pilot deliberately tested the platform against complex, real-world data challenges, including intricate beneficial ownership scenarios, indirect risk exposure analysis, and heavily obscured counterparty data. The results demonstrated that Smart Screen maintains unwavering consistency and precision even at scale.
Key Performance Milestones From the Fortune 500 Pilot
Alerts evaluated across two rounds
Adjudication accuracy achieved
To clear the entire ~60K backlog
Alerts requiring human escalation
Designed for High-Volume Screening Environments
Smart Screen provides immediate operational relief across a variety of demanding business environments.
Export compliance programs
Automate the exhaustive triage of daily screening lists without expanding your internal compliance footprint.
Global manufacturing and supply chains
Rapidly clear vendor, supplier, and counterparty alerts across sprawling, multi-tiered supplier ecosystems.
Enterprise shipping and logistics
Prevent costly operational delays at the border by instantly resolving false positives in high-velocity transit environments.
System migrations and cleanups
Instantly adjudicate massive backlogs of historical data during ERP upgrades or corporate mergers and acquisitions.
Modernize Restricted Party Screening Review
Don’t let false positives compromise your export compliance program or stall your global supply chain. Enhance your existing screening investments with an intelligent, defensible adjudication layer designed for the realities of modern enterprise operations.
Frequently Asked Questions
Here are the answers to some frequently asked questions about Smart Screen:
What Is Smart Screen?
Smart Screen™ is an AI-assisted adjudication layer designed to sit post-screening in your compliance workflow. It automatically reviews, enriches, and clears false-positive alerts generated by your primary restricted party screening engine.
Does Smart Screen™ replace our existing screening engine?
No. Smart Screen is built to maximize and enhance your existing software investments, not replace them. It steps in to handle the manual triage portion after your screening engine has flagged potential matches.
How Does the Platform Determine Confidence and Adjudicate Alerts?
Smart Screen evaluates alerts by cross-referencing flagged data with authoritative global entities, utilizing advanced similarity scoring, linguistic logic, and precedent retrieval to analyze historical adjudication patterns.
Does Smart Screen™ Perform External Data Research?
Yes. The platform automatically enriches lean or ambiguous counterparty data with verified information from authoritative global trade, corporate structure, and sanctions databases to ensure highly accurate evaluations.
How Are the Automated Decisions Documented for Auditors?
Every automated determination generates a comprehensive, regulator-grade audit trail detailing the decision rationale, specific data inputs utilized, confidence metrics, and time-stamped lineage to guarantee complete defensibility.
Is Human Review Still Required?
Yes, but only for true risks and highly ambiguous edge cases. By automating the resolution of obvious false positives, Smart Screen routinely reduces total human review workloads by over 99%.