How Tunic Pay works

Our product combines unstructured data, GenAI and a network-wide knowledge graph to provide real-time intelligence

  • Entity-centriccross-payment intelligence
  • Proactiveinsights enriched with proprietary data
  • Preventivenetwork, data sharing

Inside the intelligence

Our Payment Context Protocol predicts and classifies scams, from very little information

  1. 01

    Payment context classifiers

    Classifiers read the payment and the evidence around it, and work out which kind of scam it most resembles.

    • Reads the transaction context: amount, payee details, new-payee and payment-type flags.
    • Interprets unstructured multimodal evidence around the payment.
    • Reasons about which type of scam the payment most resembles, and so what needs investigating.
  2. 02

    Investigation engine

    Agents investigate the recipient the way an infinitely patient senior investigator would.

    • 50+ sources in parallel: public registries, third-party data and our own proprietary sources.
    • One view of the payee: company, website, phone, address and account.
    • Cross-case consistency and narrative: tests whether the story holds together, against the facts and against past cases.
  3. 03

    Scam intelligence

    A scam seen once is recognised everywhere.

    • A shared knowledge graph linking payees, phones, accounts, websites, and other entities across every institution we serve.
    • Models trained on the scam patterns in historic cases to deliver risk scores and insights.
    • Signals on the recipient only; no customer data is pooled.
  4. 04

    Dynamic intervention

    The right action for each payment, with the reasons behind it.

    • Tailored and specific warning screens to break the spell.
    • Support for your investigators with suggestions for subsequent customer engagement.
    • A full risk assessment report for audit and review.

How we design it

Three design principles

Quiet by default

Good protection is mostly invisible. We surface the one insight that changes a decision and leave out the rest, so the safest path through a payment is also the calmest.

Count both mistakes

A scam that gets through is a failure. So is an honest payment, or a helpful agent, stopped for no reason. We hold ourselves to both, because safety that blocks everything protects no one.

Inform, don't overrule

Our models know a great deal about who is being paid, and very little about a person's life. So we give people and investigators the evidence and the reasoning, and leave the judgement with them, most of all in the moments when someone is vulnerable.

Three ways to deploy it

Live and explainable intelligence at every step of the journey

The network

What one institution learns about a payee protects every other

Tunic Pay has developed a knowledge graph of payees (the accounts, businesses, phone numbers and websites behind payments) across every institution it serves. A scam seen once is recognised everywhere.

  • Signals on the recipient, shared across institutions, not on your customers
  • No customer data pooled
  • Every new deployment makes the graph stronger for everyone on it

Hover over any point in the graph to see what we know about it, and drag it to move it around.Tap any point in the graph to see what we know about it, and drag it to move it around.

Built for regulated institutions

Bank-grade security, seamless governance.

ISO 27001

Certified to ISO 27001, the international standard for information security management.

SOC 2 Type II

SOC 2 Type II attested: controls for security and confidentiality independently examined over time.