TLDR: Ripjar has launched its new Screening Assistant™, an agentic AI solution designed to revolutionize compliance and risk screening. This innovative tool significantly reduces false positives by up to 90% and is projected to save an average of 5,400 hours of manual screening time annually, while also improving false negative avoidance and oversight corrections.
LONDON & NEW YORK – September 11, 2025 – Ripjar, a leader in advanced data intelligence, today announced the release of its groundbreaking Screening Assistant™, a significant agentic AI addition to its acclaimed suite of screening products. This new offering is poised to set a new industry standard for compliance AI agents, delivering substantial productivity gains and enhancing overall compliance effectiveness.
The Screening Assistant™ builds upon Ripjar’s extensive decade-long experience in developing AI models for global compliance and risk efforts. The company boasts a proven track record of achieving market-leading productivity improvements across the compliance and risk screening spectrum, previously demonstrating a 10x improvement in screening efficiency with its existing solutions.
A key highlight of the Screening Assistant™ is its remarkable ability to reduce false positives by up to 90%. This drastic reduction is expected to save compliance and risk teams an average of 5,400 hours of manual screening time each year. Beyond just time savings, the tool is engineered to make compliance and risk officers ‘better’ by providing a double-digit increase in false negative avoidance and a material improvement in oversight corrections of manual efforts.
James Lin, Ripjar’s Chief Innovation Officer, emphasized the collaborative development process, stating, “We built Screening Assistant with compliance and risk officers in mind. Significant input from them went into its design and our beta testing of Screening Assistant with actual screening data substantially enhanced the product. The bottom line is Screening Assistant makes compliance and risk officers better – a double digit increase in false negative avoidance, a material improvement in oversight corrections of manual efforts and significant productivity gains.”
Simon Smith, Ripjar’s Chief Modelling Officer, further elaborated on the technological foundation: “Ripjar has over ten years of experience building AI models to support compliance and risk efforts worldwide. Our models have completed significant model validation audits from financial institutions across the globe. We applied all these learnings to build a configurable product that covers everything from alert handling assistance to dispositive outcomes. Screening Assistant’s key is the quick disposition of the ‘no-brainer’ go and no-go decisions and prioritization of the remainder along probability and criticality lines.”
Tom Obermaier, Ripjar’s CEO, highlighted the broader impact, stating, “Finally, compliance and risk officers have an AI agent that truly drives compliance in addition to major productivity gains.” The Screening Assistant™ is designed to efficiently triage alerts, automatically assessing and closing irrelevant ones, and flagging those that require human attention. It also assists with assessing evidence and identity validation, thereby improving screening accuracy and enabling organizations to screen more data without increasing their workload.
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This new agentic AI solution leverages existing machine learning and AI technology, further enhanced with Generative AI, powered by Ripjar’s dedicated large language model, RiskGPT. RiskGPT has been specifically developed, extensively tested, and validated for screening purposes, ensuring fast, unbiased decisions and recommendations.
