About
An Australian entity intelligence graph with AI investigation.
Averis Graph connects public-source intelligence into a reusable graph for KYC screening, then uses AI agents to help resolve potential screening matches with evidence.
What Averis is
Averis Graph connects information about people and organisations into a reusable intelligence graph. AI-assisted research and investigation help financial institutions understand potential screening matches, examine supporting and contradictory evidence, and identify what remains unknown.
The initial wedge is intelligence enrichment and alert investigation — sitting alongside existing screening and case-management infrastructure.
Averis is not a KYC platform or a replacement for incumbent watchlist datasets.
How it fits
Intelligence underneath the systems that already run compliance.
Averis is designed to work alongside the compliance stack already in place.
Founder
Michael Phillips
20 years in financial services and consulting · financial-crime compliance
Michael Phillips brings 20 years of financial-services and consulting experience across Australia and the UK, with deep expertise in financial-crime compliance. His career includes financial-crime leadership and MLRO roles at Bolt, HUB24 and Airwallex; major financial-crime screening, transaction-monitoring and payments-screening initiatives at Westpac; and financial-crime advisory work at Deloitte.
He founded Averis Graph to tackle a problem he understands firsthand: the high cost of screening data and the substantial manual effort required to investigate potential matches and document defensible decisions.
michael@averisgraph.comBolt2025–
Senior Manager FCC & MLRO
HUB242022–25
Head of FCC & MLRO
Airwallex2021–22
Deputy MLRO
Westpac2018–21
Senior Manager, FCC
Deloitte2012–18
Financial Crime Manager
Accenture UK2005–10
FS Consultant
MLRO = Money Laundering Reporting Officer · FCC = Financial-crime compliance
Australian focus
Built for Australian financial crime.
- Political and PEP intelligence
- Government and parliamentary sources
- Corporate information
- Regulatory information
- Court and legal sources
- Australian and relevant international sanctions
Long-term ambition
Financial-crime intelligence infrastructure.
The strategic asset is the intelligence graph — not an individual screening workflow.
Enrichment→Screening→Monitoring→Investigation→Intelligence infrastructure
Averis Graph does not make customers AML/CTF compliant. It provides intelligence infrastructure to support compliance workflows operated by regulated institutions and their technology providers.