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OliverWales

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About OliverWales

Co-founder & CTO @ Arva AI

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    Comment #43805918

    I'm not sure where I first heard of rubber duck debugging, but in my experience there is rarely a physical rubber duck at all. It's more of a "can I rubber duck you on something fo…

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    Comment #41478421

    If you put it in a sun-synchronous orbit then it will always be in sunlight. Such an orbit would be in LEO.

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    Comment #41332582

    Thanks for the feedback! Most people have been using free online templates to create docs (or random unrelated PDFs) but we'll consider adding sample documents next time.

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    Comment #41325896

    If we fix business banking onboarding there will be no need for this!

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    Comment #41325043

    It is not possible to give the reason for offboarding as it may tip off fraudsters on how they can evade detection next time. This is standard across the industry.

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    Comment #41325023

    We're predominately selling to US neobanks and fintechs, right now focussing on the smaller ones that are less tied into their existing solution. KYB is vastly more complex than KY…

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    Comment #41324926

    The compliance analysts that we have spoken too feel stretched too thin with a huge backlog of cases. We free them up from having to do menial document verification for low risk co…

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    Comment #41323787

    Thanks for playing, this is useful info! There's a big difference between the nature of fraudulent documents submitted to our customers today, and the ones that one might create kn…

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    Comment #41322966

    Try it on the demo, let us know how it goes!

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    Comment #41322562

    Yes, I would definitely put Arva in that category. For now, we limit the amount of decisioning that is made by an LLM and make as much of the business logic as we can concrete in c…

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    Comment #41322502

    We use Gemini as they offer stronger guarantees around not training on your data ve e.g. OpenAI. We are also looking at self-hosting open source models in the future.

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    Comment #41322479

    Our agent implements every step of the procedure that a human compliance analyst would follow, step by step. As a result, every individual check that makes up the overall decision …