Making AML/CFT assessment work easier to review, explain, and improve.
CompliScope exists to bring more structure, traceability, and reviewability to compliance assessment work. The platform is built by a practitioner - for practitioners.
Move teams away from fragmented assessment records and toward structured, evidence-led workflows.
Most AML/CFT assessment work today is reconstructed at the end - pulled together from trackers, draft documents, email threads, and scattered workpapers. The rationale lives in someone's head; the evidence lives somewhere else.
CompliScope is built so the record is the work. Scope, evidence, control evaluation, quality assurance, and observations sit on one connected workflow - the Folio. The report comes from the approved record. The assessor is the author.
Axiom is the governed methodology layer that gives the Folio its control, evidence, rating, interview, document-request, and testing-template context. It supports the work; it does not decide the conclusion.
Built by someone who has done the work.
CompliScope is built from direct AML/ATF and sanctions assessment experience: independent reviews, regulatory validations, KYC/EDD, QA, remediation, risk scoring, and reporting.
Built by a practitioner who also builds systems.
Richardt Scholtz is an AML/ATF and sanctions compliance practitioner with more than a decade of experience across financial institutions, advisory firms, and independent review work. His background spans independent program reviews, regulatory validations, remediation testing, KYC/EDD, fraud-risk operations, QA, management reporting, and control-effectiveness assessment.
He holds CAMS, CFCS, and CGSS credentials and a forensic-accounting education, and has worked across OSFI/FINTRAC expectations, PCMLTFA obligations, OFAC review contexts, and global AML/CFT standards. He has also built risk-rating models, QA scorecards, dashboards, and workflow automations where manual review alone was too slow or inconsistent.
CompliScope comes from that overlap: practitioner judgment, reviewer discipline, and engineering habits. The point is not to replace the assessor; it is to give the assessor a better record, clearer methodology context, and reporting that comes from the approved workpaper.
The problem we kept seeing.
Across engagement after engagement - independent effectiveness reviews, regulatory remediation programs, second-line testing, advisory delivery - the same friction appeared. Evidence lived in one place. Control evaluations lived in another. Observations lived in a third.
The methodology was not the problem. The methodology was sound. The problem was that the methodology had nowhere structured to live. So we built that structure - a reviewable record, with the lifecycle wired in - and called it CompliScope.
We built Axiom because the assessment method needs a governed place to live: controls, jurisdictions, document requests, interviews, ratings, and Operating Effectiveness testing templates in one source that the Folio can carry into the engagement record.
- 10+ YEARSAML/CFT practice - assessments, independent reviews, remediation, and program design across regulated institutions.
- METHODOLOGYTrained against the FATF 40 Recommendations, FFIEC BSA/AML Examination Manual, and applicable local guidance.
- JURISDICTIONSEngagements delivered across Canada, United States, and the United Kingdom; cross-border sanctions and PEP screening reviews.
- PRACTICESubject-matter expertise on evidence standards, workpaper defensibility, and QA review in independent AML/CFT effectiveness reviews.
- FOUNDEDCompliScope Inc. - built to address the gap between assessment practice and the tooling available to support it.
What we hold to.
These are the operating principles that shape the platform and keep product claims tied to what the system actually does.
- 01Evidence before assertionAssessment statements should stay tied to the evidence that supports them. The Folio holds that chain.
- 02Professional judgment stays with assessorsCompliScope structures the work - it does not replace the assessor. Axiom supplies the governed method; humans decide the conclusion.
- 03QA happens before findings become finalReview gates sit between draft observations and released findings. Comments resolve on the record.
- 04Reports come from the approved recordThe narrative is the record, formatted. There is no separate document to reconstruct.
- 05Claims stay close to the recordProduct language should match what the platform actually does and should make the limits clear.
- 06White-label is a service, not a wrapperWhere firms operate under their own brand, the underlying methodology and record structure still matter.