What is Atlas
Atlas answers a deceptively simple question for compliance teams: "Who is this company, who is really behind it, and how risky is it?" Answering it well requires pulling together fragmented, contradictory data from registries, financial data providers, and open-source intelligence, and then reconciling it into something an analyst can trust and defend.
Capabilities
The seven OSINT modules
An investigation runs up to seven specialised OSINT modules in parallel. Each is a focused crew with its own prompt, tools, and risk rules:
| Code | Module | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| CIR | Company Information Report | Core registration, status, structure |
| ROA | Registered / Operating Address analysis | Address validation and reuse |
| MEBO | Management & Beneficial Ownership | Directors, shareholders, UBOs |
| SPEPWS | Sanctions / PEP / Watchlist Screening | Sanctions and politically-exposed persons |
| AMLRR | AML Risk & Reputation | Adverse media, reputational risk |
| DFWO | Digital Footprint & Web presence | Online presence and consistency |
| FRLS | Financial / Regulatory / Legal Signals | Financial and legal red flags |
See Temporal workflows for how these are orchestrated and Risk scoring for how their findings become risk.
Who uses it
- Analysts run and review investigations, resolve conflicts between providers, and read reports in the Atlas Console.
- Compliance engineers configure ontology mappings, risk matrices, data segments, and provider credentials in the Console's Studio.
- Operators deploy the stack, manage tenants, and keep the data stores and workers healthy (see Operations).
What Atlas is not
- It is not a fixed-schema CRM. The ontology is versioned and provider data is mapped into it declaratively.
- It is not a single-tenant tool. Every row is tenant-scoped and isolation is enforced in the database.
- It does not trust a single source. Disagreement between providers is a first-class concept (see ADR-017).