# Sardine

> Protect customers at every touchpoint.

AI risk platform that helps financial institutions prevent fraud, ensure compliance, and detect money laundering through behavioral analysis and device intelligence.

Sardine helps financial institutions prevent fraud and ensure compliance by analyzing user behavior and device intelligence in real-time. Users can detect identity theft, payment fraud, account takeovers, and money laundering while streamlining KYC/AML processes. Sardine provides risk management with AI agents, case management, and regulatory reporting tools.

- Type: Company
- Sector: Security
- Status: Active
- Founded: 2020-01-01
- Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/sardine

## Products

- [Sardine Platform](https://thegrid.id/profiles/sardine): Sardine Platform is an AI risk platform that analyzes device intelligence, behavioral biometrics, and transaction data to detect fraud and ensure regulatory compliance. The system provides real-time risk scoring, identity verification, AML transaction monitoring, and case management through automated workflows and machine learning models. (Onchain Compliance and Investigations, Live, Main Product)
- [Sonar](https://thegrid.id/profiles/sardine): Sonar is an independent data consortium that provides real-time risk signals for fraud prevention and AML compliance. The system enables financial institutions to share anonymized risk data under appropriate legal frameworks to detect organized fraud rings and money laundering networks. (Onchain Compliance and Investigations, Live)
- [Sardine Crypto On/Off Ramp](https://thegrid.id/profiles/sardine): Sardine's cryptocurrency on-ramp service that allows users to purchase digital assets using fiat currency. The platform provides secure payment processing and compliance verification for cryptocurrency purchases. (On/Off Ramp, Live)

## Links

- [Main](https://www.sardine.ai)
- [Blog](https://www.sardine.ai/blog)
- [Whitepaper](https://www.sardine.ai/whitepapers)
- [Documentation](https://docs.sardine.ai)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sardineai)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/sardine)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/sardine-ai)

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- [Attribution Guidelines](https://about.thegrid.id/legal/open-data-attribution-guidelines): How to attribute The Grid's data when using the open data service.
- [Web Services Terms](https://about.thegrid.id/legal/web-services-terms): commercial Terms for using data services.
- [All Legal Documents](https://about.thegrid.id/legal): Full index of terms, policies, and disclosures

## Optional

- [TGS Field Descriptions](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/references/tgs-field-descriptions.md): Schema field definitions for The Grid's data model
- [TGS JSON Structure](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/references/tgs-json-structure.md): Data model structure and relationships
- [Product Type Definitions](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/references/product-type-definitions.md): Definitions for each product type
- [Product Type Classification](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/references/product-type-classification.md): Guide for classifying products into types
- [Grid MCP Guide](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/grid-search/skills/grid-query/references/grid-mcp-guide.md): How to query The Grid programmatically via MCP