BRK // For Brokers · Client Onboarding & KYC

Onboarding that converts and passes audit — at the same time.

Every dropped applicant between deposit intent and approved account is money that walked. We build AI-orchestrated onboarding that decides in seconds, escalates only what humans need to see, and produces the evidence trail regulators actually ask for.

BuyerHead of Compliance · COO · Head of Onboarding← All broker capabilities
The problem

Why brokers lose 40–60% of applicants between signup and FTD.

A retail broker onboarding funnel usually looks like this: signup, KYC upload, sanctions screen, manual review, approval, deposit. Every one of those steps takes hours or days, every hour costs conversion, and the compliance team is drowning in low-risk cases that should have been auto-approved.

The answer is not to lower the compliance bar. It's to raise the intelligence of the system so that a low-risk EU retail applicant with a clean passport and a clean device is approved in 40 seconds while a genuinely borderline case gets a human review with the full risk narrative already assembled.

What good looks like

What good broker onboarding looks like in 2026.

One orchestration layer over your KYC/AML vendors — not a rip-and-replace. It should produce:

  • A single risk score per applicant, combining document, biometric, sanctions, device, behavioural and appropriateness signals.
  • Automatic decisioning on the top 60–75% of cases (auto-approve or hard-reject) inside 60 seconds.
  • A pre-assembled review pack for the borderline 25–40% — narrative summary, all evidence, escalation reason, suggested next action.
  • Jurisdiction-aware workflows (UK FCA, CySEC, ASIC, DFSA, offshore) that route the same applicant differently depending on which legal entity they're onboarding under.
  • A continuous re-KYC engine that flags stale documents and material changes without a manual campaign.
What KJ Capital ships

What KJ Capital ships.

A bespoke onboarding orchestration layer that sits above your existing KYC/AML vendors (Sumsub, Ondato, ComplyAdvantage, SEON, Onfido) and your CRM (B2Core, FYNXT, Skale, custom). We deliver:

  • A vendor-neutral risk scoring service — swap Sumsub for Ondato and the rest of the system doesn't care.
  • Adaptive workflow rules per jurisdiction, per product, per source (paid, organic, IB).
  • An LLM-powered review pack generator that assembles a full narrative for the compliance analyst in seconds.
  • Continuous re-KYC on a scheduled and event-driven basis.
  • An audit-grade evidence store — every decision, model version and human override captured for regulator inspection.
Typical outcomes

What brokers actually see after go-live.

Auto-approval rate on low-risk cases
60–75%
Median onboarding time
under 90s
Signup → FTD lift
8–18%
Compliance team throughput
3–4×
Frequently asked

What buyers ask us about this build.

Q01Do we have to replace our KYC vendor?+
No. We orchestrate over Sumsub, Ondato, ComplyAdvantage, SEON, Onfido and others. You keep the vendor relationships you want.
Q02How is this compliant with GDPR and jurisdictional data-residency rules?+
PII stays in your tenancy. Every model call is logged. Regional deployments (EU, UK, ME, APAC) are supported so an EU applicant's data never leaves the EU.
Q03Can it handle Appropriateness Assessments (CySEC / FCA COBS 10A)?+
Yes. Adaptive appropriateness flows are part of the orchestration, with clear pass/fail/borderline pathways and full audit trail.
Q04What about deposit fraud and card-testing?+
The scoring service ingests device, IP graph and behavioural signals from signup through first deposit — covering typical card-testing, synthetic identity and mule patterns.
Q05Price?+
Productised Build: £95k, 6 weeks. Continues on the AI Operator retainer once live.
Next step

Two weeks. £15k. A written blueprint and a working proof-of-concept on your data.