AI-Powered Financial Crime Intelligence for Saudi Arabia

One Platform. Every Financial Crime Signal.

Unifying fraud, AML, and cyber-enabled financial crime signals into one clear, actionable view.

Built to Align with SAMA, FATF, and CMA Standards

Intelligence With Purpose

From Fragmented Signals
to Clear Decisions

DefAi connects fragmented financial crime signals into clear, actionable intelligence helping teams see the full picture and act faster.

Enterprise-Grade, Saudi-Built

Engineered for the scale, security, and regulatory expectations of Saudi financial institutions.

Built on Trust

Every model and decision is designed to be explainable, auditable, and defensible to regulators.

Intelligence That Goes Further

Advanced intelligence designed to uncover patterns and connections traditional rules can miss.

Unified by Design

One platform for fraud, AML, and cyber-enabled financial crime not three disconnected tools.

DEFAI Capabilities

Intelligence Across the Financial Crime Journey

Unified intelligence designed to connect signals, uncover risk, and support action across the financial crime lifecycle.

Detect Financial Crime Across Signals

Detect fraud, money laundering, and cyber-enabled financial crime in one platform connecting signals that traditional systems analyze in isolation.

AI-POWERED DETECTION
See What Matters

Behavioral Intelligence

Track how financial behavior evolves over time to uncover slow-building schemes, mule networks, and identity misuse that transaction-level rules can miss.

BEHAVIORAL INTELLIGENCE
Reveal Hidden Patterns

Investigate With Full Context

Give investigators the full context behind every alert connecting entities, transaction history, and prior activity so cases move from flagged to resolved faster.

CONTEXTUAL RISK
Investigate With Clarity

DEFAI PILLARS

The Principles Behind DEFAI

Built Around How Financial Crime Teams Work.

Unified
Unified
One platform connecting fraud, AML, cyber-enabled financial crime, behavioral signals, investigations, and evidence.
Intelligent
Intelligent
Contextual and behavioral intelligence designed to uncover meaningful risk and reduce false positives.
Operational
Operational
Built around how financial crime teams actually work from detection and investigation to evidence and resolution.
Adaptive
Adaptive
Configurable modules, rules, workflows, and controls designed around each institution’s needs.

WHY DEFAI

Built in Saudi.
Built for Financial Crime.

Not adapted for the Saudi market. Built around it.

Advanced AI

Advanced AI

Apply intelligent analysis to identify patterns, anomalies, and relationships across complex financial activity.

Crime Expertise

Crime Expertise

Technology shaped around the realities of financial crime prevention, investigation, and institutional decision-making.

Clear Intelligence

Clear Intelligence

Turn complex signals into understandable insights that help teams determine what needs attention next.

Saudi-First.<br> Data Sovereign.

Saudi-First.
Data Sovereign.

Designed with data sovereignty, security, and privacy at its core keeping sensitive financial crime data protected and under institutional control.

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Clarity at Every Step

See the Full Picture Behind the Risk

Financial crime teams face signals scattered across transactions, behaviors, entities, and systems. DefAi connects them into one contextual view revealing the relationships behind the risk.

From Signal to Insight

Connect financial activity, behavioral patterns, and risk indicators to reveal what matters and why.

Built With Purpose

Saudi Born.
Built for Modern
Financial Ecosystems.

Built in Riyadh around the realities of Saudi financial institutions from local fraud patterns and Arabic context to regulatory requirements, data sovereignty, and evolving financial crime threats.

Local Context
Local Context
Arabic Intelligence
Arabic Intelligence
Data Sovereignty
Data Sovereignty

Our Team

The People Behind DEFAI

A multidisciplinary team combining financial crime expertise, AI, engineering, and strategic insight to build the next generation of financial crime intelligence.

Alaa Alkahtani

Founder and Chief
Executive Officer

Dorra Mlouhi

Chief Product and
Technology Officer

Moudather Chelbi

Executive Director of
Artificial Intelligence

Oussama Krifa

Executive Director
of Engineering

Insights & Updates

What's New at DEFAI

Stay up to date with the latest from DEFAI, including company news, industry events, partnerships, milestones, and important updates.

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