Rahn Monitor — KYC, AML, Sanctions & PEP Screening Platform

Public API · no signup

Try a live sanctions check

Type a name — we'll query the live engine and show how many records match. It's the same data powering the full platform. Full records, risk scores and dossiers unlock when you sign up.

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Or call it directly — no key required:

GET https://rahnmonitor.co.za/api/v1/public/sanctions/preview?q=putin GET https://rahnmonitor.co.za/api/v1/public/stats

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Technology

Built for accuracy and scale

A modern stack engineered for compliance teams: fast, explainable, and always up to date.

Live global dataset

1M+ sanctioned entities & PEPs from 200+ authoritative lists (UN, OFAC, EU, UK HMT and more), re-synced daily with full add/update/delete reconciliation.

Lightning-fast search

Full-text indexing with fuzzy & phonetic matching and probability scoring, so you catch aliases and near-misses without drowning in false positives.

Continuous monitoring

Enroll clients once and get automatically re-screened on a schedule. Alerts the moment a subject's risk profile changes.

MonitorGPT analysis

AI-assisted adverse-media and risk summaries that turn raw hits into a clear, auditable narrative for your file.

Case management

Triage, escalate and resolve matches with a full audit trail and branded Word/PDF dossiers generated on demand.

Developer API

Screen programmatically and embed checks into onboarding flows. Public endpoints for stats & previews; authenticated API for full screening.

How it works

From sign-up to screening in minutes

Create an account

Choose pay-as-you-go or apply for a monthly business plan with quick KYB verification.

Search or upload

Check a single name or batch-upload a CSV of clients to screen them all at once.

Review matches

See probability-scored hits with country, programs and source lists — then clear or escalate.

Monitor & report

Enroll clients for ongoing monitoring and export audit-ready dossiers anytime.

Scale & performance

Built to screen millions

Measured on our production engine: ~6,000 records/second per node, sub-200ms search, and near-linear scaling across parallel workers.

11.5M/min

Throughput at 32 workers

<200ms

Median match latency

1.3M+

Live records, refreshed daily

Records processed per minute — scaling with parallel workers

Throughput measured on the production ingest/match engine (≈6,000 records/sec per node) and projected across the worker pool. Real-world rates vary with record complexity and match thresholds.

Radical transparency

We grade our own homework — in public

Every day an independent ChatGPT web-search agent finds 10 people & entities freshly in sanctions / AML / adverse-media news, and we screen each against our live dataset — scoring out of 10 how well we already cover them. Here's our running score.

Discover

An AI web-search agent finds 10 names in today's sanctions & adverse-media news.

Screen

Each name is matched against our 1.3M-record live sanctions dataset.

Score

Every name is graded 0–10 on how confidently we already cover it.

Publish

Averaged by day, month & year — and shown right here, openly.

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Names tested

A high score means our dataset already contains the individuals and entities the world is talking about today — a live measure of coverage and freshness, published openly. Names are sampled independently by an AI web-search agent, not chosen by us.

Security & Compliance

Audit-ready by design

Rahn Monitor is operated as a South African data processor under POPIA, and architected and run in line with SOC 2 and ISO 27001 control principles. Here's how we protect your data.

Encryption in transit & at rest

TLS for all traffic; database and document storage encrypted at rest.

Full audit trails

Every search, scan and admin action is logged and exportable for examiners.

Role-based access control

Granular permissions, admin separation, and per-account data isolation.

Network isolation

Internal data stores are bound to a private network and never exposed publicly.

Authoritative, fresh data

Sanctions & PEP lists sourced from official publishers and refreshed daily.

Data minimisation & PAIA

We collect only what's needed; a PAIA manual and privacy policy are published.

POPIA compliant

SOC 2 principles

ISO 27001 principles

BEE Level 2

Rahn Monitor aligns its controls with the SOC 2 and ISO 27001 frameworks. Where formal certification is required for your procurement, our security overview and control documentation are available on request — contact [email protected].

Plans

Start free, scale when ready

Pick pay-as-you-go for instant access, or apply for a monthly business plan with unlimited monitoring.

Pay-as-you-go

Prepaid credits · instant activation

Only pay per scan
Full sanctions & PEP search
Word/PDF dossiers
No commitment

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Monthly Business

Unlimited monitoring · KYB approval

Bottomless monthly billing
Continuous monitoring & case management
Batch screening & API access
Priority support

Apply now

Screen anyone against the world's sanctions & PEP lists — in seconds.

How a check flows through Rahn Monitor