TLDR: Themis, a leading anti-financial crime firm, has launched its AI Investigator platform, leveraging generative AI and domain-specific models to drastically reduce the time and resources required for financial crime investigations. This new tool automates due diligence, performing risk analysis across complex data points in minutes, a process that traditionally took weeks. The platform aims to democratize enhanced due diligence, making sophisticated financial crime defenses accessible to organizations of all sizes.
Themis, a pioneer in anti-financial crime innovation and a certified B-Corp, officially launched its groundbreaking AI Investigator platform on September 18, 2025. This intelligent, generative AI-driven due diligence tool is set to transform how organizations detect and prevent financial crime, significantly cutting down investigation times from weeks to mere minutes.
Developed with extensive input from hundreds of compliance professionals and supported by an Innovate UK grant, the AI Investigator platform utilizes generative AI and domain-specific models trained on Themis’ proprietary data. It automates complex investigations by performing real-time risk analysis across various data points, including ownership structures, adverse media, and regulatory filings. The platform’s core capabilities include AI-driven investigations powered by trained AI agents that trigger automated checks with minimal manual input, large-scale behavioral analysis, and pattern matching based on conviction data and financial crime indicators derived from Themis’ proprietary knowledge base.
Dickon Johnstone, CEO of Themis, emphasized the transformative potential of the new platform during its launch. “When we look back in a few years, we’ll wonder how due diligence was ever done without AI,” Johnstone stated. He added that by making checks faster and broader in reach, Themis’ AML-trained AI agents make enhanced due diligence accessible and instinctive for all, effectively ‘democratizing due diligence.’ This, he believes, is crucial to gaining the upper hand against financial crime and stopping the exploitation by criminals and organized crime groups.
The launch event took place at the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) auditorium, highlighting Abu Dhabi’s growing prominence in the AI ecosystem. Johnstone praised the UAE’s AI-first approach, calling Abu Dhabi the ‘perfect launchpad’ for such innovations. The AI Investigator is cloud-agnostic and scalable, designed for seamless integration across various sectors and technology stacks, making it suitable for financial institutions, corporates, professional services, private equity, real estate, and government organizations, regardless of their size or regulatory status.
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Traditional financial crime prevention methods are often slow, resource-intensive, and leave firms vulnerable to regulatory breaches and criminal exploitation. Themis’ AI Investigator directly addresses these challenges by scanning millions of data points in seconds to uncover hidden links in complex financial networks. This not only enhances detection capabilities but also streamlines compliance processes, providing powerful insights that were once reserved for the largest institutions.
