How we shipped a KYC agent that cut processing time by 78%

Real deployment with a regional bank across 6 countries. Posted because the result surprised even us.

Setup:

- 15,000+ KYC applications/month

- Required full on-prem deployment (data residency rules in 2 countries)

- Manual processing averaged 5 days per application

What we shipped:

- KYC onboarding agent: document OCR, AML watchlist screening, automated eligibility decision

- Compliance monitor agent: transaction monitoring, audit trail generation

- Multi-LLM stack: Claude 3.5 for reasoning, local Llama 3 70B for sensitive data on-prem

Result after 90 days:

- 78% KYC processing time reduction (5 days to 26 hours)

- 45% compliance cost reduction

- $1.4M annualised savings

Full case study and product on the launch page: AI Hive

Open to questions on the on-prem architecture or compliance side if useful.