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Financial Services · Execution autonomy

Client Onboarding

An agent that orchestrates onboarding: collecting documents, running checks, and progressing the case, pausing for human approval at decision gates.

30 HAL Score / 40 Governed

Workflow

  1. 1 New client initiates onboarding
  2. 2 Agent requests and validates required documents
  3. 3 Agent runs KYC/AML checks via integrations
  4. 4 Agent assembles the case for approval
  5. 5 Compliance approves before account activation

Governance design

  • Authority to progress steps, not to approve onboarding.
  • Hard limit: account activation is a human-only gate.
  • Every check result and document retained immutably.
  • Limits on data access scoped to the active case.

Escalation paths

  • Adverse KYC/AML result → compliance officer, case paused.
  • Missing or inconsistent documents → human caseworker.
  • PEP or sanctions hit → mandatory senior review.

Ownership model

Head of Onboarding, with the MLRO as accountable for the checks.

Lessons learned

  • Making activation a human-only gate kept the regulatory decision firmly with a person.
  • Scoping data access to the active case limited the blast radius of any error.