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We triangulate GitHub, Hacker News, engineer blogs, and Reddit to give compliance buyers a second opinion on 66 AML, KYC and fraud vendors that sales teams cannot influence.
If you have ever bought AML or KYC software, you have stared at a G2 page trying to make a decision. You have seen the 4.4 stars. You have read the glowing five line reviews. You have walked away no more confident than when you started.
That is because you know what G2 really is. Vendors offer gift cards in exchange for reviews. The ones who refuse do not get reviewed. The ones who play along get 4.4 stars, and so does everybody else. The useful information about AML vendors lives somewhere the vendors cannot pay to influence.
Four sources you cannot buy your way into. The Advisor reads all four, weights them above incentivised review sites, and synthesises what they say about each vendor.
Engineers file real bugs at 2am when an SDK stops returning the right webhook payload. Nobody pays them to post there.
Brutally honest commentary on vendor acquisitions, pricing changes, and the three year old docs that still ship broken.
Write ups from people who actually integrated the product, usually with a section titled "things we wish we had known".
r/fintech, r/compliance, r/KYC threads where analysts compare notes on five day manual review queues and offshore support.
Not a feature checklist. An opinion, grounded in citations you can click through to verify.
What each vendor is actually known for by the people who have shipped against them.
Documentation behind the API, unresponsive support, pricing that resets aggressively at renewal.
SDK quality, webhook reliability, error handling, how the team treats open issues.
Which buyer type, region, and use case each vendor has a track record of serving well.
Specific scenarios where real customers have been burned and said so in public.
Who engineers who left each vendor actually migrated to, pulled from public write ups.
Across KYC, KYB, identity verification, screening, transaction monitoring, and fraud. If your shortlist is on this page, the Advisor has a profile for it.
One backend, seven surfaces. Pick the client you use every day. Most options take under a minute.
The fastest path. Works on desktop, iOS, Android, anywhere ChatGPT runs. Requires ChatGPT Plus, Team, or Enterprise (Custom GPTs are gated behind paid plans).
Works on the free plan and up. Runs in the browser, nothing to install.
claude.ai/settings/connectorsZenoo AML Vendor Advisorhttps://zenoo.com/mcp/vendor-intelThe seven vendor tools appear in your tool tray automatically. Ask Claude anything about AML vendors and it will call the Advisor in the background.
Same connector flow as the web app. Settings, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, paste the URL, save. Works on the free plan. Handy when you are reading a vendor pitch deck on your phone and want a second opinion in 30 seconds.
URL to paste: https://zenoo.com/mcp/vendor-intel
Open Claude Desktop, go to Settings, Developer, Edit Config, and add this to claude_desktop_config.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"zenoo-vendor-advisor": {
"url": "https://zenoo.com/mcp/vendor-intel",
"transport": "http"
}
}
}Save, restart Claude Desktop, and you should see zenoo-vendor-advisor in the bottom right tool tray. No auth, no API key, no install script.
Two commands from your terminal:
claude mcp add --transport http zenoo-vendor-advisor https://zenoo.com/mcp/vendor-intel
claude mcp listInside any Claude Code session you can then ask "what should we watch out for with Sumsub?" and Claude will call the Advisor mid task.
Cursor supports MCP natively. Open Cursor Settings, MCP, Add new MCP server, and paste:
{
"zenoo-vendor-advisor": {
"url": "https://zenoo.com/mcp/vendor-intel",
"transport": "http"
}
}Restart Cursor. The tools appear in the composer.
You do not pick a tool. You ask a question. The LLM picks the right one for you.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| vendor_list | Browse all 66 vendors in the corpus, with an optional sentiment filter. |
| vendor_get_profile | Full truth profile for a single vendor: strengths, weaknesses, red flags, developer experience, alternatives. |
| vendor_what_to_watch_for | Red flags and "avoid if" scenarios. The fastest way to stress test a vendor pitch. |
| vendor_search_reviews | Search the review corpus by keyword, platform, rating, or sentiment. |
| vendor_compare | Side by side comparison of 2 to 4 vendors, weighted by authentic sources. |
| vendor_ask | Natural language Q&A with citations back to the original GitHub issue, Hacker News thread, or engineer post. |
| vendor_recommend | "I need X for use case Y, who should I look at?" Returns a ranked short list. |
Ask like a buyer, not like a search engine. The tool reads like a thoughtful colleague who has integrated most of them.
Yes. No signup, no email capture, no sales follow up. The Custom GPT needs a paid ChatGPT plan because Custom GPTs are gated by OpenAI, but the MCP server works on the free Claude plan and everything else is free to use.
Monthly. Every profile carries a timestamp so you can see how fresh the evidence is before you trust it.
The tool tells you it does not have that vendor rather than guessing. We cover 66 vendors chosen for compliance buyer relevance. If you want one added, send us a note.
Every source gets an authenticity score based on account history, community response, and cross referencing. GitHub issues with no follow up comments count less than ones discussed by three engineers. Suspiciously positive bursts of activity get weighted down.
Yes. The same corpus is exposed as a REST API at https://bobby-agent-production.up.railway.app/api/vendor-intel. Six endpoints, no auth on reads, rate limited by IP. Handy if you are building a vendor scoring tool of your own.
Free. No signup. No sales calls. If the Advisor helps you avoid one bad compliance vendor, it has paid for itself.
Free. No signup. No sales calls.