First-party tools
for custom investigative agents
Purpose-built tools that extract, verify, enrich, and decide, grounding every conclusion in verifiable evidence with a complete audit trail.
Expert capabilities, plug and play
Many investigative tasks require expert capabilities that traditional agents do not possess. The Variance team enriches our marketplace of agentic tools regularly with state-of-the-art capabilities that are plug and play.
Every decision grounded in evidence
Sanctions lists, corporate registries, court records, adverse media, device signals. All data sources are natively integrated into our agent audit logs, grounding every finding in verifiable external evidence for defensibility.
Live in days, not months
Our engineering team works directly with you to configure tools for your workflows and jurisdiction requirements.
Data Sources
Sanctions Screening
Multi-list screening across 1,400+ global sanction programs
PEP Screening
Politically exposed persons identification across global databases
Adverse Media
Social and traditional media monitoring across 30+ languages
Litigation / Dockets
Court records, bankruptcy filings, and litigation history
UBO / Ownership Enrichment
Trace the true owners of any company across jurisdictions
Address Presence
Address normalization, virtual office detection, and physical verification
Social & Web Presence
Social media profiles, domain records, and digital footprint analysis
Device Intelligence
Device fingerprinting, emulator detection, and behavioral signals
IP & Network Intelligence
IP reputation, geolocation, proxy and VPN detection
Corporate Registries
Incorporation records, officer histories, and filing status across 50+ jurisdictions.
Investigation & Enrichment
Web Browsing Agent
Browse the web to research and gather evidence
Webpage Extractor
Extract structured data from any webpage
Vision
Download, view, and extract information from PDFs, images, and digital records
Document OCR
Extract text and structured data from scanned documents and images
Computer Use
Access data behind internal tools and other apps
Context Engine
Entity resolution, fraud pattern detection, and link discovery
Linkage Deep Dive
Track related entities, users, and accounts from common identifiers
Decision + Evidence Pack
Structured decision output with full audit trail
Screening & Monitoring
Sanctions Screening
Multi-list screening across 1,400+ global sanction programs
PEP Screening
Politically exposed persons identification across global databases
Adverse Media
Social and traditional media monitoring across 30+ languages
Litigation / Dockets
Court records, bankruptcy filings, and litigation history
Regulatory Enforcement
Regulator rulings, fines, and enforcement action lookups
Product & Marketplace
Trademark / Logo Detection
Visual trademark and logo identification at scale
Cross-market Compare
Price and listing comparison across marketplaces
Seller Catalog
Listing normalization, sampling, and image set extraction
Verification
ID Verification
Verify government-issued IDs and extract identity data
Forged Document Detection
Pixel-level tampering, font, and metadata analysis
Liveness Check
Detect whether submitted document images are real, live captures
AI Selfie + Document Detection
Detect AI-generated selfies and synthetic document images
Handwriting Comparison
Stroke pattern analysis, pressure mapping, and character matching
Integrations
Connect your existing data sources directly to your investigative workflows.
Snowflake Integration
Natively retrieve information from your Snowflake databases
Explore Variance's use cases
See these tools in action.
Know Your Customer
Run identity verification and anti-money laundering checks with agents that follow your exact compliance playbook.
Know Your Business
Verify businesses and trace beneficial ownership structures end to end, across jurisdictions and corporate layers.
Transaction Monitoring
Investigate every alert end to end. Pull history, cross-reference patterns, and produce cited decisions at scale.
Customer Due Diligence
Run CDD and EDD reviews with real-time adverse media screening, PEP checks, and sanctions monitoring. Every case, the same rigor.
Trusted AI investigations
See how Variance agents drive end-to-end, fully explainable investigations, while improving consistency and accuracy of detection and reporting.