Decision intelligence · Private banking
Accept the right clients.
Defend every decision.
ClientCouncil is the intelligence and governance layer above KYC, screening and client-lifecycle systems — combining legal constraints, reputational exposure, source-of-wealth confidence and commercial value into one explainable verdict.
Core thesis
Private banks do not need another database of red flags. They need a bank-specific, explainable decision system that preserves the institutional reasoning behind every client decision.
A live prospect file
click to expand →Confidence 74% · Driven by elevated jurisdiction exposure (Cyprus → BVI structure) offset by strong source-of-wealth documentation and 11-year banking history.
The problem
A prospect may be worth hundreds of millions — and still be the wrong client.
Traditional KYC tools answer whether the bank can onboard a person. ClientCouncil answers the harder question: should the bank want this relationship — under what conditions, and how should that view change as new facts emerge.
Today the answer lives across disconnected searches, analyst spreadsheets, committee minutes and the memory of a few senior bankers. When the auditor, regulator or board asks why, no one can reconstruct the reasoning.
Screening hits, news, registries and SoW documents live in different tools and never reconcile.
Identical prospects receive different outcomes depending on which RM or committee reviewed them.
Annual file refreshes miss the events that actually change a relationship's risk profile.
When questioned, the bank cannot reconstruct who decided what, when, and on what basis.
The platform
Six modules. One continuous record of the relationship.
ClientCouncil integrates with World-Check, ComplyAdvantage, Dow Jones, Moody's, Quantexa, Fenergo and internal bank systems — and interprets them through the institution's own risk appetite and commercial strategy.
Intake
Structured capture of prospect, source-of-wealth narrative and supporting evidence.
Identity & Network
Resolved entity profile across registries, ownership graphs and adverse media.
Risk Scoring
Multi-dimensional scores: financial crime, reputation, jurisdiction, network, conduct.
Commercial Lens
Expected relationship value, complexity cost and strategic fit — alongside risk.
Council Memo
Evidence-linked acceptance memorandum, ready for committee in minutes, not weeks.
Continuous Review
Event-triggered reassessment with full decision lineage and override history.
Portfolio view
click to expand →Decision framework
Five perspectives, scored side-by-side.
Every prospect is examined through the lenses of the people who would, in any serious bank, sit around the table.
- 01The Analyst
What does the evidence actually say? Where are the gaps?
- 02The Regulator
Is this defensible against current rules, guidance and our own policy?
- 03The Banker
What is this relationship worth, and at what operational cost?
- 04The Reputation Lens
How would this read on the front page, to a regulator, to a peer bank?
- 05The Challenger
Which assumptions are weak? What contradicts the proposed narrative?
Risk dimensions
- 0–100Financial CrimeSanctions, PEP, adverse media, structuring patterns
- 0–100Source of WealthNarrative coherence, documentary support, plausibility
- 0–100JurisdictionResidence, citizenship, booking center, cross-border complexity
- 0–100NetworkHigh-risk associates, ownership opacity, proximity and control
- 0–100ReputationMedia exposure, litigation, sectoral sensitivity
- 0–100Commercial ValueExpected AUM, fees, cross-sell, strategic fit
Possible recommendations
- 01Accept
- 02Accept with conditions
- 03Defer pending evidence
- 04Escalate to EDD
- 05Decline
Each recommendation arrives with its evidence chain, the dimensions that drove it, the conditions attached and the policy clauses invoked — ready for committee.
Try it · interactive
live recalculationEach slider feeds a weighted composite. Commercial value offsets risk; jurisdiction and source-of-wealth carry the highest weights. Try a preset, or move sliders to see the verdict change.
Onboard with documented conditions, MLRO signoff, quarterly review.
Illustrative model. Production deployments use bank-specific policy weights, calibrated against historical decisions and realized outcomes.
Composite 30 falls in the Accept with conditions band (25–44).
Largest risk contributor: Jurisdiction adding +11.4 pts. Commercial value offsets -8.8 pts.
Thresholds are policy-defined. Each band triggers a distinct workflow: standard onboarding, conditional acceptance, EDD pack, evidence request, or exit. All decisions are logged with this exact rationale.
Governance
Built for the auditor in the room.
Explainability, provenance, human accountability and a complete record — by architecture, not as an afterthought.
No client is accepted, restricted or exited by AI alone. Every recommendation routes to a named decision-maker.
Every score, claim and sentence in the memo links to its underlying source, screening hit or policy clause.
Inputs, models, overrides and committee notes are preserved immutably for the life of the relationship.
Frequency, rationale and downstream outcomes of human overrides feed back into the bank's own policy model.
Continuous AI · every event preserved
click to expand →- 14sAdverse media match re-scoredAI · Reasoning Engine
Reuters article (2026-06-22) tied to entity Vasiliev Maritime Ltd. Confidence raised 0.72 → 0.91.
- 2mNew beneficial-owner edge resolvedAI · Network Resolver
Linked CC-0294 → Helios Trust (BVI) via 2025 SPV restructuring filing.
- 11mPolicy clause invokedAI · Policy Engine
§4.2 Cross-border SoW — quarterly review required for Cyprus residents with BVI structures.
- 34mNarrative coherence improvedAI · Source-of-Wealth
New shipping-fleet valuation report ingested. SoW confidence 0.61 → 0.78.
- 1hOverride recordedAnalyst · M. Adekunle
Reduced reputation score from 58 → 41 with rationale and 3 evidence links.
- 3hWatchlist refresh completeAI · Screening Sync
World-Check + ComplyAdvantage + OFAC reconciled. 0 net new hits across portfolio.
Where we sit
Above the data layer. Inside the decision.
ClientCouncil does not replace your screening, KYC or lifecycle stack — it is the reasoning layer that finally makes them coherent.
| Capability | ClientCouncil | World-Check | ComplyAdvantage | Quantexa | Fenergo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sanctions / PEP screening data | |||||
| Entity resolution & network graph | |||||
| Bank-specific policy reasoning | |||||
| Explainable acceptance memo | |||||
| Commercial & strategic value | |||||
| Continuous event-driven review |
Beyond watchlists
click to expand →Who we serve
Private banks, wealth managers, and the institutions advising them.
ClientCouncil is built for the Chief Compliance Officer, Head of Client Acceptance, Head of Private Banking, Chief Risk Officer and Wealth Management COO — anywhere a complex, high-value relationship requires more than a checklist.
Launch geography
Design partners. Concentrated complex-SoW books.
Established private-banking centers, mature governance expectations.
International wealth hubs with cross-border complexity.
Large addressable market, longer procurement cycles.
Request a private briefing
We work with a small number of institutions. By introduction.
If you lead client acceptance, compliance, risk or private banking at a wealth-management institution, we will arrange a closed-door briefing covering the platform, the decision framework and a worked example on a representative prospect.
Replies within two business days.
A defensible decision
click to expand →All five council perspectives concur. Composite risk 18/100. Twelve-year banking history. Source-of-wealth fully documented. No adverse signals across 17 monitored sources.