ABOUT ESSANEA
The AI partner for financial crime teams
Essanea is a specialist agency founded by financial-crime and machine-learning experts — built to give fintech, crypto, and banking teams the AI detection capability that legacy rules engines and in-house teams can't deliver alone.
OUR MISSION
Make financial crime unprofitable
Fraud and money laundering cost the global economy trillions every year — and the fastest-growing fintech and crypto firms are the most exposed. Static rules can't keep pace with adversaries who adapt by the hour.
We pair seasoned financial-crime analysts with machine-learning engineers to build adaptive AI that learns the patterns of financial crime as they evolve — then we run it for you, so your team stops threats in real time instead of cleaning up after them.
Our standard is simple: catch more real threats, raise fewer false alarms, and give every client an audit trail they can stand behind.
WHAT WE STAND FOR
Principles that guide every model we ship
Precision over noise
Every alert should earn an analyst's attention. We tune our AI relentlessly for fewer false positives without missing real threats.
Security by default
We hold client data to the highest bar — SOC 2 Type II practices, encryption everywhere, and least-privilege access throughout.
Accountable AI
Explainable AI scores and full audit trails. Our models support your regulators and auditors, never work around them.
LEADERSHIP
Operators and engineers who've built and broken these systems
Amara Khan
Co-founder & CEO
Former Head of Financial Crime at a top-10 neobank. 14 years leading AML and fraud strategy.
Daniel Vega
Co-founder & CTO
Ex-staff ML engineer who built fraud models at scale. Published in anomaly detection.
Sofia Okafor
Chief Compliance Officer
Former regulator and BSA officer. Advises clients on global AML and crypto frameworks.
Raj Thakur
VP Engineering
Built real-time payment risk systems processing billions of events per day.
CREDENTIALS & COMPLIANCE
Operated to the standards your regulators expect
SOC 2 Type II
Independently audited security controls
GDPR & CCPA
Privacy-first data handling
ISO 27001
Certified information security management
FATF Travel Rule
Crypto compliance ready
WORK WITH US
See why compliance leaders choose Essanea
Book a demo to meet our team and watch our AI detection run against your data.