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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
Andco: Agentic case workups for personal injury law firms. YC 16 2026-04-30
factor-forge-public GITHUB 16 2026-09-21
Isengard Industries Inc YC 13 2026-09-10
Akkari - Autonomous Customer Ops YC 13 2026-06-08
Beyond Agents: The Era of AI Employees YC 12 2026-03-10
agent-friendly-smart-contract-audit-findings GITHUB 12 2026-09-30
Reproducibility Benchmark a Risk Quantitative Model HN 12 2026-07-26
riskbound GITHUB 12 2026-10-07
Riot-Account-Checker-Manager GITHUB 12 2026-09-23
LLMs each trading $100K vs. a frozen rulebook HN 12 2026-08-17
Nebula Security: Bringing beyond Mythos protection to your product YC 12 2026-07-23
Petrarch — Unlocking enterprise data for tomorrow's economy YC 11 2026-07-13
Verdex: Satellite Imagery Verification for Insurance YC 11 2026-02-27
Memoir: AI CMO for software companies YC 11 2026-06-01
Cognitio Labs – Real-time food traceability for safety and compliance YC 11 2026-03-26
Forensic-accounting-audit-shield GITHUB 10 2026-09-10
Is AI hijacking your intent? A formal control algorithm to measure it HN 10 2026-01-11
FalsoAI HN 10 2026-04-24
cyber-vault GITHUB 9 2026-09-23
groundtruth-atlas GITHUB 9 2026-09-11
ACE HN 9 2026-04-05
zero-trust-llm GITHUB 8 2026-09-13
privacy-router GITHUB 8 2026-09-15
e-commerce-copy-quality-inspection-agent GITHUB 8 2026-09-14
genpark-automated-compliance-policy-evaluator-skill GITHUB 8 2026-09-14
Async - Specialized AI agents, that automate costly work for small businesses. YC 8 2026-08-10
Audun: AI-native debt collection YC 8 2026-08-24
Veriad: AI compliance officers YC 8 2026-02-01
Luthor - AI compliance infrastructure for regulated marketing YC 8 2026-05-21
durable-alerts GITHUB 8 2026-10-02
Sidian DataGuard PH 8 2026-09-29
random-event-director GITHUB 8 2026-10-04
genpark-agent-budget-token-spend-circuit-breaker-skill GITHUB 7 2026-09-28
Hexa: Autonomous operations for industrial distributors YC 7 2026-06-03
Perceptron ML: We make law firms AI-native YC 7 2026-08-14
genpark-automated-compliance-policy-evaluator-skill GITHUB 7 2026-09-14
Kinro - The first autonomous insurance brokerage YC 7 2026-06-16
Naive - Hire Autonomous Employees that actually run your company. YC 7 2026-03-19
LLMs as Planners, Not Reasoners HN 7 2026-04-07
Soren - Private AI for Regulated Industries YC 7 2026-04-27
Aver HN 7 2026-03-11
US Publicly Traded Companies probabilities of default with public data HN 7 2025-11-13
genpark-billing-spend-anomaly-guard-skill GITHUB 7 2026-09-25
genpark-billing-spend-anomaly-guard-skill GITHUB 7 2026-09-25
genpark-fintech-transaction-velocity-fraud-sentinel-skill GITHUB 7 2026-09-28
A fake small claims court for petty complaints HN 6 2026-04-21
Fini: Accuracy-first AI for high-stakes support YC 6 2026-01-20
NegativeEV HN 6 2026-07-30
Retroguard HN 6 2026-05-05
We Identified a Counterfeit Pharmaceutical Product in Uzbekistan HN 6 2026-01-11