Sphinx

Sphinx develops AI agents that carry out the day-to-day work of compliance analysts at banks, fintechs, crypto platforms and public companies. The agents are browser-native: rather than connecting through APIs or data exports, they log into the case management tools, third-party portals, corporate registries, sanctions databases, PDFs and internal dashboards that compliance teams already use, and navigate those interfaces by clicking and typing. Stated use cases span the compliance lifecycle, including ID verification, continuous watchlist monitoring and re-screening, website and adverse media analysis, document intelligence, dispute resolution, transaction monitoring alert disposition, UBO mapping, address verification and structured SAR/UAR filing.

The company positions the product around execution rather than reporting: agents review alerts and investigations, run AML, KYC and KYB checks, gather supporting research and documentation, draft RFIs and case narratives, and generate audit trails by default. Sphinx describes a proprietary "Interpretable Agentic Framework" intended to make each decision reviewable and reproducible, with step-by-step reasoning tied to evidence, human analysts reviewing edge cases and high-risk decisions, and feedback loops refining agent behavior. The site cites SOC 2 Type II certification and GDPR compliance. Workflows and routing logic can be configured to a customer's own SOPs without engineering work.

Sphinx was founded in 2024 by Alexandre Berkovic (CEO) and Chrisjan Wüst (CTO) and took part in Y Combinator's Fall 2024 batch. It is headquartered in San Francisco with a team size of 14 as listed by Y Combinator.