Vetting At Charity Scale.
A custom AI due-diligence pipeline replaced a five-figure annual contract and a multi-week wait.
What was broken before.
An international Palestinian human-rights charity needed to vet roughly 1,000 individuals before disbursing support. External due-diligence firms quoted $20k+ per year for the work. Even at that price, turnaround was measured in weeks per pass, which meant operational decisions stalled or got made on stale evidence. The process was opaque from the charity's side: pay the invoice, wait, get a verdict, hope the next round goes the same way. There was no auditable evidence trail the team could inspect, defend in front of a board, or reuse for the next cohort.
The system.
A custom AI due-diligence pipeline owned by the charity. Multi-source intake pulls signals from open registries, sanctions lists, news, and structured social data. A context-aware screening layer reasons over the evidence rather than keyword-matching, which is what kills false flags on common names and transliterated identifiers. Sensitive identifiers are redacted before any LLM call, so personal data never leaves the boundary unprotected. Every decision gets a full auditable evidence trail: sources, timestamps, the reasoning chain, and the final classification. The team can re-open any case, see exactly why a person was cleared or escalated, and defend it.
The outcome.
1,000+ people vetted through the pipeline. Tens of thousands of dollars saved annually versus the external-firm quote. Turnaround compressed from weeks to hours per pass, which means decisions get made on fresh evidence and cohort throughput stops being the bottleneck. The audit trail is now the artefact the board reviews. Operational as of April 2026, with the charity running the pipeline directly instead of paying for opaque verdicts.
“1,000+ individuals vetted, weeks to hours per pass, tens of thousands saved annually versus the external DD quote, as of April 2026.”
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