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ai risk, legal, and compliance

Recent window: last 5.3 months (2026-04-30 → 2026-10-09), compared with the prior 5.3 months.

insurance · 167 members · Data as of 2026-10-12

These products automate critical workflows across compliance, auditing, corporate insurance underwriting, and legal services. They are built for enterprise risk managers, legal teams, auditors, and financial institutions operating in highly regulated environments. The cluster is distinguished by its focus on liability mitigation, regulatory governance, and high-stakes risk evaluation rather than generic business operations.

Metrics

Stage
forming
Recent count
124
Prior count
32
Total count
167
Momentum
287.50
Momentum (normalized)
0.97
Attention
0.33
Crowding
0.64
Low crowding
0.36
Concentration
0.82
Low concentration
0.18
Opportunity
0.46

Source split

github
32 (0.26)
hn
13 (0.10)
ph
47 (0.38)
yc
32 (0.26)

Dominant source: ph · Divergence: 0.27

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Members

Name Source Upvotes ▼ Launched
Oxus: AI-native automation for SOX audits YC 2436 2026-01-05
Moritz: AI-native legal services for fast moving companies 👩🏻‍⚖️ YC 253 2026-01-21
Banyan AI Lite PH 246 2026-03-18
LogosGuard: The risk management software for enterprises adopting AI YC 231 2025-11-11
Florin: A full-stack insurance company with 0 underwriters YC 194 2026-08-06
Riot-Account-Checker-Manager GITHUB 176 2026-10-01
Sava YC 146 2025-11-03
sentinel-backend GITHUB 130 2026-10-08
Corelayer: AI on-call engineer for regulated industries YC 108 2026-01-14
Panta: AI-native commercial insurance brokerage YC 102 2026-02-26
Insurf: We save people and employers thousands on health insurance costs YC 96 2026-08-19
We post-trained a model that pen tests instead of refusing HN 93 2026-06-20
metr-money-figure GITHUB 71 2026-09-14
The Last Accounting Company you’ll ever need YC 70 2026-08-21
General Legal -- The AI Native Law Firm for the Growth Stage YC 61 2026-02-03
Risklytics: Insurance for the Frontier YC 53 2026-08-13
launchguard-ai GITHUB 40 2026-10-07
Cozmo AI: The system of work for enterprises in financial services and insurance YC 38 2026-02-20
Sylvian: Data for LLMs through Competition YC 36 2025-11-04
Arden: AI-native platform for audit teams YC 32 2026-05-06
Incandor - Behavioral intelligence for fraud detection YC 32 2026-05-21
Prism-Legal-OS GITHUB 29 2026-09-12
explainable-credit-risk-ML-modeling-validation GITHUB 27 2026-10-01
Oximy: See everything your company does with AI YC 27 2026-02-05
Huscarl: actuarial intelligence for corporate insurance buyers YC 27 2026-04-22
riskops GITHUB 27 2026-09-11
Verdict Machine: AI cybersecurity for financial institutions’ digital assets YC 24 2026-08-17
awesome-cissp GITHUB 23 2026-09-17
Kita: Turn financial documents into risk signals for lenders YC 23 2026-01-23
Conduct, open-source guardrails for LLM and MCP tool calls HN 22 2026-08-28
Blueshoe: Elite legal service. For everyone. YC 22 2026-06-24
Rational - First Zero-human Accounting Firm YC 22 2026-09-09
REcall GITHUB 21 2026-09-29
BeeSafe AI — Fraud Prevention Platform for Trust-Based Scams YC 21 2026-02-06
Osmaura - AI agents that identify legal needs YC 21 2026-07-01
A replayable A2A jury for tracing how agents influence decisions HN 20 2026-08-09
A local-first financial auditor using IBM Granite, MCP, and SQLite HN 20 2026-01-01
MouseCat 🐭🐱 AI-Powered Fraud Investigations YC 20 2026-03-03
Diligent - Automate Sanction/PEP/Adverse Media alert reviews YC 20 2025-12-11
ap-control-tower-agent-mian GITHUB 20 2026-09-24
AI Law Tracker HN 20 2026-07-16
Erinys - Building the first network of AI-native law firms YC 19 2026-08-10
human-incident-response-framework GITHUB 18 2026-09-14
ai-kyc-aml-assistant GITHUB 18 2026-09-24
Tower - collaborative AI for due diligence YC 18 2026-05-13
ai-fraud-risk-engine GITHUB 17 2026-09-24
Hedge: AI-native specialty insurance company YC 17 2026-05-08
Valgo — Risk quantification for insurance of physical AI YC 17 2026-03-06
open-banking-financial-insights GITHUB 17 2026-09-24
Janet AI: The AI-Native Jira YC 16 2025-11-07