Unit21 Named Category Leader in Chartis 2026 RiskTech Quadrants(R) for Enterprise and Payment Fraud Solutions. Top-ranked vendor for AI functionality and best-in-class scores across configurability, workflow, modeling, and case management Unit21 Named Category Leader in Chartis 2026 RiskTech Quadrants(R) for Enterprise Fraud Solutions. SAN FRANCISCO-(BUSINESS WIRE)-Unit21, the leading AI Risk Infrastructure platform for fraud prevention and AML monitoring, today announced it has been named a Category Leader in Chartis 2026 RiskTech Quadrants(R) for Enterprise Fraud Solutions and Payment Fraud Solutions. Across the evaluation, Unit21 received the highest score across all vendors evaluated for AI functionality - formal validation of the company's strategic emphasis on agentic AI as the underlying infrastructure of fraud and AML operations, not as an experimental add-on. "Unit21 sits at the front of a market shift Chartis is seeing, where AI is not simply a feature but a structural market driver," said Philip Mackenzie, Senior Research Principal at Chartis Research. Share Chartis evaluates vendors on a 1-5 scale, where scores between 4.1 and 5.0 represent best-in-class capabilities and scores between 3.1 and 4.0 represent advanced capabilities. Unit21 earned best-in-class scores in five categories, including a 4.4 in Configurability and a 4.3 in AI functionality, placing the company at the front of a market that Chartis describes as undergoing a fundamental shift toward unified, AI-first fraud prevention platforms. "Unit21 sits at the front of a market shift Chartis is seeing, where AI is not simply a feature but a structural market driver," said Philip Mackenzie, Senior Research Principal at Chartis Research. "The combination of best-in-class AI capabilities, configurability, and workflow orchestration alongside its consortium and graph analytics places Unit21 as a Category Leader and among the vendors best positioned to define the next generation of enterprise fraud prevention." Best-in-class scores across the capabilities that matter most Chartis awarded Unit21 best-in-class scores in five evaluation categories spanning the three quadrants making up the 2026 RiskTech Quadrants(R) for Enterprise and Payment Fraud Solutions: * Configurability: 4.4 - recognizing self-service rule building, customizable workflows, and customers deploying new detection rules in minutes rather than weeks. * AI and GenAI functionality: 4.3 - the highest score across all vendors evaluated, recognizing the array of detection and investigation agents that operate inside the case management environment with full audit trails. * Workflow and analytics: 4.2 - reflecting platform-centric architecture and Agentic AI as the operational core, not an add-on. * Workflow and case management: 4.2 - acknowledging the ability to create and test custom AI Agents alongside complex multi-step automations. * Modeling and testing: 4.1 - recognizing backtesting and shadow-mode rule simulation that validates model performance against live data before deployment. Unit21 was also recognized for advanced capability scores across behavioral monitoring (3.9), mule detection (3.8), ACH fraud (3.8), fraud and analytical models (4.0), and integrations (4.0), reinforcing the breadth of the platform across fraud typologies and payment rails. "Chartis' recognition validates what our customers have been telling us: fraud is now an enterprise problem, and the teams winning are the ones who replaced rigid, single-purpose tools with a unified, AI infrastructure," said Tyler Allen, Chief Executive Officer at Unit21. "Category Leader placement across both Enterprise and Payment Fraud quadrants is a strong external signal for institutions evaluating their next move, especially those AML customers we're partnering with to consolidate fraud and compliance onto a single platform." Validation of an agentic AI strategy Chartis' 2026 update calls out AI as a structural market driver, not a feature. Vendors are being evaluated on how effectively they operationalize, govern, and adapt AI, not simply whether they offer it. Unit21's top score reflects the company's strategic conviction that AI Agents must execute the work, prove every decision, and stay defensible to regulators. "We built AI that does the job, not AI that talks about doing the job," said Kunal Datta, Chief Product Officer at Unit21. "Our AI Agents handle alert triage autonomously at production scale, but they also recommend detection rules, surface control gaps, and help teams rethink their strategy. And the whole thing is configurable: customers build their own agents within Unit21, with full testing, auditability, and data lineage baked in. That's the difference between an AI feature and an AI platform. Chartis' ranking reflects that bet. The future of financial crime prevention isn't a black box you hope works, or a constant back and forth with engineering teams. It's an agentic platform where the practitioners stay in control of every decision." Today, Unit21's AI Agents process more than 200,000 alerts per month across customers, including Green Dot, Circle, and Crypto.com. The AI Risk Infrastructure unifies fraud and AML so teams can scale safely without expanding headcount. Unit21 also operates one of the largest cross-institution, cross-rail, cross-typology fraud consortiums in the market, with more than 100 participating financial institutions and coverage of over 100 million U.S. adults providing network-level mule and money laundering signals that strengthen detection for every customer. Read Chartis' vendor spotlight of Unit21 Chartis published a dedicated vendor spotlight on Unit21's positioning, scores, and capabilities across all three quadrants. Download the full spotlight to see Chartis' analysis of Unit21's fraud capabilities. To see Unit21's AI Agents and unified fraud + AML platform in action, request a demo. About Unit21 Unit21 is the leader in AI Risk Infrastructure, trusted by over 200 customers across 90 countries, including Sallie Mae, Chime, Intuit, and Green Dot. The platform unifies fraud and AML detection, investigation, and regulatory filing with AI agents that execute investigations end-to-end, gathering evidence, drafting narratives, and filing reports so teams can scale safely without expanding headcount. Unit21's AI agents process 200,000+ alerts per month, and its Fraud Consortium covers 100M+ U.S. consumers across a network of financial institutions, fintechs, and crypto platforms. Every AI decision is explainable, auditable, and defensible to regulators. Unit21 is backed by Tiger Global Management, Gradient Ventures (Google's AI-focused venture fund), ICONIQ Capital, and others. Learn more at unit21.ai.

Unit21 appoints Tyler Allen as Chief Executive Officer as company accelerates AI Risk Infrastructure vision. Trisha Kothari, Co-Founder, Continues as Chairman of the Board; Tyler Allen's Deep AI and Technical Leadership Drives Unit21's Next Phase of Growth SAN FRANCISCO-(BUSINESS WIRE)-Unit21, the leading AI Risk Infrastructure platform for fraud prevention and AML monitoring, today announced the appointment of Tyler Allen, founding software engineer and former Head of AI, as Chief Executive Officer. Trisha Kothari, who co-founded Unit21, will continue as Chairman of the Board, where she will own the company's long-term strategic vision and key strategic relationships. "The institutions that win in the next decade will be those that pair the best people with the best AI infrastructure. That's what Unit21 is building, and we're just getting started." Share The announcement arrives just weeks after Unit21 completed a comprehensive rebuild of its platform, rearchitected from the ground up around AI Agents. That rebuild, alongside a corresponding repositioning as the category-defining AI Risk Infrastructure company, reflects Unit21's conviction that the financial crime industry is undergoing a fundamental shift. Elevating Tyler, the architect of Unit21's AI Risk Infrastructure, to CEO is an extension of that momentum. The company is not simply adapting to the market shift; it is leading it. As former Head of AI, Tyler is uniquely positioned to lead this next chapter. He joined Unit21 as its first employee and founding software engineer in 2019, writing the earliest lines of code that formed the foundation of the platform. Over the past seven years, he evolved from engineer to the company's Head of AI and COO, where he built and owned Unit21's complete AI strategy, taking the company's AI Agents from concept into production, scaling them across many of the leading financial institutions, and proving that autonomous, regulator-ready AI can meaningfully transform how fraud and compliance teams operate. Under his AI leadership, Unit21's customer usage of AI Agents grew 30x in a single quarter. "Tyler has been at Unit21 since day one, not just as a witness to the company's evolution, but as a core architect of its technical foundations," said Trisha Kothari, Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of Unit21. "He wrote the first lines of code. He led the engineering culture that built the platform. Over the last year, he transformed our AI vision into a reality: production-grade agents running within the largest and most complex financial crime programs in the industry. Appointing Tyler as CEO is the natural next step, putting the person who built our AI-first platform in charge of realizing its full potential. I couldn't be more excited about what's to come next." The announcement comes during a period of significant momentum for Unit21. Last month, the company was named a Leader in the Chartis Financial Crime and Compliance 50 (FCC50) for 2026 and won Chartis' Innovation Award for GenAI Summarization, recognizing Unit21's work in deploying agentic AI that autonomously executes the full investigative workflow. The company was also recently named to the 2026 RegTech100 specifically for its leadership in Agentic AI Innovation. "The reason I joined this company seven years ago is the same reason I'm stepping into this role today: financial crime is one of the most consequential problems in the world, and we're finally at a point where technology can make a real dent in it," said Tyler Allen, Chief Executive Officer of Unit21. "The platform we've rebuilt isn't just an upgrade, it's a different kind of infrastructure, one where AI Agents handle the volume so that every analyst can focus on the decisions that actually require human judgment. Financial institutions can scale their risk and compliance programs without scaling their headcount, and the people doing this work can finally spend their time on the cases that matter. We've proven that this works. Now we're going to take it further and faster." Unit21's AI Risk Infrastructure automates more than 200,000+ reviews per month via Investigation Agents, Detection Agents, Case Agents, and SAR Filing Agents. The platform has caught over $14 billion in nefarious activity and files 5% of all SARs filed to FinCEN in the United States across a customer base that spans financial institutions, fintechs, crypto platforms, and BaaS providers. The company serves more than 200 customers across 90 countries, including Sallie Mae, Chime, GreenDot, Rippling, Intuit, and Crypto.com. The platform's results speak to what AI Risk Infrastructure can deliver in practice. Customers have reported notable outcomes from deploying AI Agents, including a 93% reduction in false positives, 44% faster alert reviews, and a reduction in SAR preparation time from nearly a week to under 30 minutes. AI agent-driven rule deployment has also compressed from a two-week process to five minutes. But the more meaningful shift is what analysts can now do with that reclaimed capacity, focusing on the complex, high-judgment investigations that actually require human expertise, rather than spending the majority of their day triaging noise. These are not pilot results; they are production outcomes, audited and defensible at every step. "We're at a defining moment for this industry," Tyler added. "Risk and compliance teams cannot hire their way out of the volumes they're facing, and they shouldn't have to. The analysts doing this work are some of the most knowledgeable professionals in financial services. The problem is that the industry has been asking them to spend most of their time on work that a machine can do. We want to give that time back so they can focus on the investigations that actually require their judgment, instincts, and expertise. AI-enabled fraud, real-time payments, stablecoin proliferation: the attack surface is growing faster than headcount ever could. The institutions that win in the next decade will be those that pair the best people with the best infrastructure. That's what Unit21 is building, and we're just getting started." To learn more about Unit21's AI Risk Infrastructure, request a demo or attend the upcoming product webinar. About Unit21 Unit21 is the leader in AI Risk Infrastructure, trusted by over 200 customers across 90 countries, including Sallie Mae, Chime, Intuit, and GreenDot. The platform unifies fraud and AML detection, investigation, and regulatory filing with AI agents that execute investigations end-to-end, gathering evidence, drafting narratives, and filing reports so teams can scale safely without expanding headcount. Unit21's AI agents process 200,000+ alerts per month, and its Fraud Consortium covers 80M+ U.S. consumers across a network of financial institutions, fintechs, and crypto platforms. Every AI decision is explainable, auditable, and defensible to regulators. Unit21 is backed by Tiger Global Management, Gradient Ventures (Google's AI-focused venture fund), ICONIQ Capital, and others. Learn more at unit21.ai.

Unit21, an AI risk infrastructure provider for fraud prevention and anti-money laundering monitoring, has been named a top-tier provider in Chartis Financial Crime and Compliance 50 for 2026. The company also received the Innovation Award for GenAI Summarisation. Unit21's AI Agents function as an agentic workforce, executing the complete investigative workflow that human analysts would perform, including ingesting signals, gathering evidence and drafting regulator-ready narratives, before presenting results for human review. The system maintains 100% auditable trails whilst handling operational volume. The company claims its platform reduces false positives by up to 93% and accelerates handle times by 80%. Unit21 serves over 200 institutions, including Intuit, Chime, GreenDot and Sallie Mae, providing unified detection, investigation and decisioning capabilities.