How Runa automated global KYB for payouts across nearly every country
of the KYB workflow automated end to end, from onboarding through website and document insights to final decisioning.
reduction in AML false positives, freeing compliance analysts to focus on genuine risk.
Unlocked across nearly every country, onboarding business customers worldwide without proportional increase in compliance headcount.
Runa is the London-headquartered fintech behind the infrastructure for modern payouts, helping businesses send digital value to anyone, anywhere, in real time. Through a single API, Runa reaches 190+ countries and 5,000+ payout endpoints, serving HR, marketing, loyalty, gaming, gig economy, and survey platforms. The company has raised £26M in Series B funding led by 13books Capital (formerly Element Ventures), with backing from CommerzVentures, AlbionVC, SAP, Clocktower Ventures, and Volution.
Onboarding customers from nearly every country in the world
As a global payouts platform onboarding business customers from almost every country, Runa faced KYB challenges that no single regional vendor could solve:
- Truly global business onboarding, with corporate customers incorporated across nearly every jurisdiction, each with its own registry, language, document format, and compliance expectations.
- Manual workflows across the KYB lifecycle, from intake and registry lookups to website and document review to final decisioning, slowing time-to-activation for new business customers.
- Inconsistent depth across regions, where most vendors offered strong coverage in a handful of markets and shallow or unreliable data everywhere else.
- Compliance bottlenecks blocking growth, as analyst-driven verification could not scale to match Runa's pace of customer acquisition and corridor expansion.
End-to-end AI-automated KYB across the full workflow
After a thorough evaluation of multiple vendors, Runa selected AiPrise to automate every stage of KYB through a single API:
- Direct-to-source registry coverage across 500+ business registries in 200+ countries, giving Runa the depth to onboard customers from nearly any jurisdiction.
- AI-driven Website Insights agent that analyzes business websites for legitimacy, risk signals, and operational red flags, replacing manual review.
- AI-driven Document Insights agent that parses incorporation certificates, ownership disclosures, and supporting documents at scale without analyst intervention.
- Automated decisioning and AML screening that combines registry, document, website, and sanctions/PEP signals into a single risk verdict, with 95% false positive resolution.
Depth of coverage plus industry-leading AI automation.
Runa ran a thorough evaluation of KYB vendors and chose AiPrise on two dimensions no other vendor matched: depth f coountry and registry coverage to support customers from nearly every jurisdiction, and industry-leading AI agents to automate every workflow from onboarding through Website Insights, Document Insights, and final decisioning. The result is a single API that scales with Runa's global ambition without forcing trade-offs between coverage, accuracy, and speed.
With AiPrise, Runa automated global KYB end to end and onboards business customers from nearly every country without trade-offs between coverage, accuracy, or speed.
