How DeepDive multiplies EDD capacity without additional headcount

AML compliance teams can sometimes be the bottleneck. Not because they lack skill or dedication, but because Enhanced Due Diligence throughput is fundamentally constrained by analyst headcount and the time afforded per case. 

What happens when marketing & sales want to bring on another 20% of customers? Or when the business wants to pursue higher-risk customers that require a deeper dive? Or when the MLRO decides that EDD has to be extended to clients in the medium risk tier? 

The answer tends to be “not without recruiting X more AML analysts”. Or that the customer onboarding wait time increases based on the extended level of EDD needed.   

While manual EDD struggles with thoroughness—as we explored in our investigation depth analysis—the bigger business problem is capacity.

The manual capacity constraint killing growth 

Regulated firms we speak with all describe the same challenge: 

Risk gaps that make you feel uncomfortable. Your firm’s risk framework identifies 180 medium-risk clients requiring annual EDD refresh. Your team's capacity: 100 cases per year. You're forced to accept undiagnosed risk on nearly half your medium-risk population. 

Manual cost per case constrains performance. Manual EDD exhibits linear cost growth—double the caseload means double the analysts. Your firm's transaction volume is growing 30% annually. The Chief Operating Officer is asking uncomfortable questions about efficiency. 

Onboarding delays cost revenue. A high-value customer is ready to sign, but EDD must be completed first. Customer gets impatient. Competitor promises faster turnaround. You lose the deal on EDD processing time, not on service quality or price. 

Customer experience you can't pursue. Firms tell us they'd love to differentiate by offering a smoother customer journey, and reduce onboarding from days to hours, but manual EDD timelines make that impossible. 

Where DeepDive empowers compliance teams with time and operational efficiency 

Research permutations: A couple of hours → 2 minutes. A manual approach requires the researcher to try multiple name variations and add location, language or company modifiers. DeepDive automatically generates permutations of every possible combination across names, keywords, related businesses and associates. In all relevant languages.    

False positive elimination: Hours of sense checking → Instant algorithmic filtering. Manual researcher finds 33 potential matches, which need cross referencing according to associated companies and fellow directors. DeepDive's entity resolution handles this — only information matched to your subject reaches the report. 

Report compilation: Hours of cross-referencing → instant. Manual researchers finish their research stage with multiple tabs and applications open, notes across systems, documents and spreadsheets. Only then to summarise findings and format into a report. DeepDive generates reports with embedded source links instantly built during investigation, not hours or days later. 

The DeepDive multiplication effect…changing unit economics of EDD and investigations  

Analyst productivity increases 4-5x. Your senior analyst currently completes X EDD reviews per week. Same analyst using DeepDive can complete five times as many. Not by cutting corners or reducing depth—the system automates the repetitive tasks that consume 70-80% of investigation time. 

Speed only matters if quality stands up to scrutiny—see what regulators find in DD reports and why documentation meets their expectations. 

Total cost of EDD decreases as volume grows. Manual EDD exhibits linear cost scaling—double the caseload means double the analyst hours. DeepDive changes the economics: The more investigations you run, while analyst time per case decreases, the better the unit economics become.  

EDD expansion becomes feasible. Extending EDD to medium-risk customer segments becomes economically viable. Those medium-risk clients requiring annual EDD refresh? Previously impossible with two analysts. Now achievable with the same team.  

Strategic positioning: Compliance as competitive advantage 

Firms using DeepDive report a fundamental shift in how business stakeholders view compliance: 

From sales prevention to growth enabler. When compliance can't scale, it's perceived as a brake on the business. When compliance processes 4x the volume without proportional cost increase, it becomes a growth facilitator. The MLRO's answer changes from "Not without more headcount" to "Yes, we can do that." 

From reactive bottleneck to proactive risk management. When capacity is constrained, compliance focuses on mandatory cases. When capacity expands, you can proactively investigate concerning patterns, refresh ageing files, extend scrutiny to emerging risks. The true risk-based approach, not just ticking boxes. 

Competitive positioning strengthens. Early adopters of AI-powered EDD establish advantages that competitors struggle to match. The ability to deliver faster, more comprehensive investigations becomes a market differentiator that's difficult to replicate with manual processes alone. 

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