The Bretton Ledger

The latest from product teams at Bretton AI.

Agents and WorkflowsImproved

Structured output controls in Agent Builder

What changed

Teams can now build and edit the structured results and text reports an agent returns directly in Agent Builder, with guided field editing, sample-based setup, and validation before saving.

Why it matters

Changing downstream output formats previously required manual configuration and test runs, which slowed integrations and made mistakes harder to catch.

Customer impact

Agent builder can adapt outputs for APIs, exports, and connected systems in one place with safer changes.

Platform and ReliabilityImproved

Faster agent runs

What changed

Customers using the latest agent experience now receive faster, more efficient agent runs through an updated execution foundation.

Why it matters

Longer runtimes slowed case completion and did not optimize token usage for each run.

Customer impact

Teams receive completed cases much sooner while receiving improved output quality.

Controls and TrustNew

Configurable quality-control sampling

What changed

Administrators can now set disposition-based quality-control sampling rules for individual agents directly in Settings.

Why it matters

Quality-control requirements vary by outcome, and changing sampling rules previously required manual coordination.

Customer impact

Teams can apply consistent review policies to each agent without engineering support.

Agents and WorkflowsNew

Faster agent builder experience

What changed

Builder now provides a guided, conversational workspace for creating and updating agents, including checks, narratives, transaction mappings, and disposition groups.

Why it matters

Bretton rearchitected how agents operate over your context. It leverages much higher and more efficient context management to conduct investigations in a more sophisticated manner.

Customer impact

Teams can build higher-quality agents faster and manage more of the agent workflow in one place.

Screening and MonitoringImproved

Improved transactions workspace

What changed

The Transactions view now includes totals that update with filters, a wider table, a full-screen view, and the option to open transactions in a separate tab.

Why it matters

Analysts had to use spreadsheets for basic totals and repeatedly switch between transaction data and the case narrative.

Customer impact

Analysts can review totals, explore transaction data, and compare it with the narrative with less manual work.

Platform and ReliabilityImproved

Faster web research for agents

What changed

Agents now use a faster path for web research while preserving the same configured checks and expected output quality.

Why it matters

Research time could slow case completion even when the rest of the workflow was ready.

Customer impact

Customers receive completed agent cases sooner without changing their review process.

Screening and MonitoringImproved

Complete transaction data in case review

What changed

The Transactions view now presents every row and column from an uploaded transaction file, with search, column-level filtering, and clear highlighting for alerted activity.

Why it matters

Missing fields pushed analysts into spreadsheets and made it harder to complete a review in one auditable workspace.

Customer impact

Analysts can review the complete transaction record inside Bretton with the context and controls they need.

Screening and MonitoringImproved

Consistent payment screening narratives

What changed

Payment screening outcomes can now follow a consistent narrative structure that brings the recommendation, supporting evidence, missing information, research context, and next action together.

Why it matters

Different narrative formats made reviewers spend extra time locating the reasoning and deciding what to do next.

Customer impact

Reviewers get a more predictable explanation of each outcome and a clearer path from evidence to action.

Screening and MonitoringNew

Confidence bands for screening outcomes

What changed

Screening Alerts and Payment Screening now show a clear confidence band indicating how strongly the available evidence supports each outcome.

Why it matters

Reviewers needed a faster way to distinguish well-supported decisions from cases that require closer investigation, without confusing confidence with match scores or risk severity.

Customer impact

Reviewers can prioritize attention more consistently and understand when an outcome warrants additional scrutiny.

Screening and MonitoringImproved

Phonetic name matching for payment screening

What changed

Payment screening now recognizes a broader range of phonetically equivalent name variations across romanized spellings.

Why it matters

Phonetic spelling differences can create avoidable mismatches and missed matches in global screening programs.

Customer impact

More accurate person-name matching with less manual review, enabled automatically for payment-screening customers.

Agents and WorkflowsNew

Structured outputs for agents

What changed

Agents can now return consistent, structured results alongside the narrative, configured to fit the systems and workflows that use them next.

Why it matters

Consuming agent results in another system meant parsing free text or prompt-engineering the format.

Customer impact

Integrate agent results into your own systems in whatever format you need, which speeds onboarding.

InvestigationsImproved

Show or hide citations in narratives and exports

What changed

Citations can now be shown or hidden on the narrative page and in exported PDFs and workbooks, in bulk from the investigations and agents page or one case at a time.

Why it matters

Analysts move finished narratives into case-management systems and sometimes need the text without inline citations.

Customer impact

Choose whether citations appear in what you export or copy, without reformatting by hand.

InvestigationsNew

Workbench as an assistant on agent cases

What changed

Workbench is now available as an assistant on completed agent cases, with access to the case data, the organization's skills, artifacts, and direct narrative updates.

Why it matters

Analysts had to leave the case or move findings by hand to dig deeper.

Customer impact

Investigate, reason, and update a case narrative without leaving the case.

Agents and WorkflowsNew

Rerun a case from any stage

What changed

You can rerun a case from the point that needs attention, update relevant inputs, and preserve the original case history.

Why it matters

Changing an input or configuration meant creating a whole new case and losing history.

Customer impact

Rerun only the stages you need, and keep the audit history intact.

Agents and WorkflowsNew

Disposition-based narrative templates

What changed

An agent can now choose a narrative template based on the case's final disposition, from a list you configure, rather than using one narrative for every outcome.

Why it matters

Different outcomes need different write-ups.

Customer impact

Narratives match the disposition automatically. Off by default, configurable in Builder.

Screening and MonitoringNew

Transactions view for transaction monitoring

What changed

Transaction monitoring now includes a native workspace for reviewing activity, prioritizing alerted transactions, and exploring patterns without leaving Bretton.

Why it matters

Teams were exporting transactions to spreadsheets to analyze them, which was slow and hard to audit.

Customer impact

Review and analyze monitored transactions without leaving Bretton or building a spreadsheet.

Details and FAQ
  • — Do I still need to export data for analysis? No, most review work can now happen directly in Bretton. Case output remains available for download.
  • — Can I focus on alerted activity? Yes. The workspace can narrow the review to the activity that needs attention.
InvestigationsImproved

Narrative editing in Workbench

What changed

Investigation narratives are now fully editable as formatted text. Citations render as clickable footnotes, tables are editable, and citations renumber automatically as you add or remove them.

Why it matters

Editing used to be piecemeal and easy to get out of sync.

Customer impact

Analysts edit and finalize a narrative in one place, with citations and an audit log that stay correct.

InvestigationsImproved

Case metadata in the attachment view

What changed

Customer metadata now appears directly in the case attachment view, with a download option.

Why it matters

Analysts had to look this up separately.

Customer impact

Less context switching during a review.

IntegrationsImproved

Bulk alert ingestion, expanded

What changed

Bulk alert ingestion now supports more screening workflows and secure enterprise delivery methods for large alert volumes.

Why it matters

Enterprise programs move alerts in large, sensitive batches and need secure, reliable ingestion.

Customer impact

Move very large alert volumes into Bretton securely, with errors returned for correction.

Major launchPlatform and ReliabilityNew

Introducing the Bretton AI-native managed service

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What changed

A new operating model that combines AI-native execution with experienced subject-matter experts, human oversight, quality control, and program development.

Why it matters

Financial institutions need to adopt AI without taking on the capital investment and operational burden of building a new program alone.

Customer impact

Bretton's forward deployed engineers and industry experts build, train, tune, and operate AI-native programs around customer outcomes.

Major launchPlatform and ReliabilityNew

The Bretton AI Platform launches

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What changed

Build, run, and govern AI agents across the financial back office, with managed deployment and audit-ready output from day one.

Why it matters

The banking back office no longer has to grow every time the bank does.

Customer impact

Financial institutions can transform the back office with agent-first operations built around their data and policies.

Agents and WorkflowsNew

Scope skills by entity role

What changed

Builder now lets teams tailor agent behavior to the role each entity plays in an investigation.

Why it matters

One generic skill prompt for every entity type produced noisy findings.

Customer impact

More precise multi-entity investigations.

Controls and TrustNew

Audit log for agent runs

What changed

Agent runs now include a persistent, chronological record of the actions and evidence behind each result.

Why it matters

Teams need a clear record of what an agent did and how it reached its output.

Customer impact

Agent work is easier to review, trust, and explain.

Agents and WorkflowsNew

Build transaction monitoring agents faster

What changed

Builder now makes it easier to configure transaction monitoring agents around an institution's existing transaction data.

Why it matters

Standing up a transaction monitoring agent for a new data format took custom engineering.

Customer impact

Stand up transaction monitoring agents faster, with the agent working from the full transaction data.

Screening and MonitoringImproved

Better export and filters for screening alerts

What changed

Screening-alert exports now align with the current table view and support more flexible filtering.

Why it matters

Exports did not line up with the on-screen view.

Customer impact

Export exactly what you are looking at, filtered how you need it.

Agents and WorkflowsNew

Builder launched

What changed

Builder is live. Teams can create, configure, test, and publish agents for workflows like enhanced due diligence and transaction monitoring, without engineering. Launched as Agent Builder.

Why it matters

Creating and updating agents used to require engineers.

Customer impact

Business and operations teams stand up and maintain their own agents. Use cases expanded beyond financial crime into compliance, fraud, risk, and other banking operations.

Screening and MonitoringNew

More screening match tags

What changed

New match tags give programs finer control over the entity attributes used during screening.

Why it matters

Programs need granular control over what counts as a match.

Customer impact

Tune matching and dispositions to your risk rules, from the tag settings.

InvestigationsNew

Export investigations to PDF

What changed

Investigation artifacts can be exported to a shareable, high-quality PDF, with sources included.

Why it matters

Moving investigation output into compliance workflows meant manual copy and paste, with formatting drift.

Customer impact

Download a clean, sourced report in one step.

InvestigationsNew

Bring your own knowledge base

What changed

Organizations can upload their own documents, policies, procedures, and guidance into a per-organization knowledge base that Workbench searches and reads during an investigation.

Why it matters

Anything customer-specific, like an internal PEP-escalation policy, used to live outside the tool in the analyst's head.

Customer impact

Drop your compliance documents in once, and investigations use them automatically.

InvestigationsImproved

Template variables in Platform

What changed

Prompt templates now support variables, such as a business name or website, that you fill in when you use the template.

Why it matters

The same investigation setup applies to many different entities.

Customer impact

Reuse a setup across cases without rewriting it each time.

Controls and TrustNew

Research and enrichment quality, measured against ground truth

What changed

Bretton now evaluates research and enrichment quality against verified reference data and uses reviewed outcomes to improve performance over time.

Why it matters

Research quality has to be measured, not assumed, especially where the work is open-ended.

Customer impact

Customers receive more consistent, well-grounded research and richer entity profiles over time.

InvestigationsNew

Audit log for Workbench investigations

What changed

Workbench now provides a detailed, reviewable record of investigation activity and clearer sourcing behind enrichment results.

Why it matters

Users could see loading states but not an in-depth record of the investigation.

Customer impact

A transparent, reviewable record of every investigation.

InvestigationsNew

Attach documents in an investigation

What changed

You can attach PDFs, spreadsheets, and other documents directly in an investigation by drag-and-drop or file picker, and ask the agent to analyze them.

Why it matters

Analysts had to copy and paste document content or switch tools.

Customer impact

Upload shareholder registers, incorporation documents, or statements and analyze them in place.

Screening and MonitoringImproved

Faster transaction monitoring

What changed

Transaction monitoring now completes reviews more efficiently, brings relevant counterparty context into the workflow, and supports editable narratives in the interface.

Why it matters

The older pipeline was slow and costly on high-volume cases and locked the narrative to a fixed template.

Customer impact

Much faster, lower-cost transaction monitoring, with editable output.

InvestigationsNew

Reusable prompt templates in Workbench

What changed

Workbench now offers default prompt templates and lets analysts save their own.

Why it matters

Analysts repeat similar investigations often.

Customer impact

Faster, more consistent starts to common investigations.

Screening and MonitoringImproved

Consistent country and jurisdiction matching

What changed

Country and jurisdiction names now resolve to a single canonical standard across the platform, so variants like Ivory Coast and Cote d'Ivoire, or Myanmar and Burma, are treated as the same place.

Why it matters

Conflicting country data will cause avoidable mismatches.

Customer impact

More accurate name and jurisdiction matching.

Screening and MonitoringNew

Chinese name matching for payment screening

What changed

Payment screening now handles a broader range of Chinese name variations and cross-language representations.

Why it matters

These matches previously all fell into ‘needs investigation.’

Customer impact

Higher automation and less manual review for programs screening Chinese entities.

Screening and MonitoringNew

Payment Screening

What changed

Payment Screening is now a first-class product for reviewing payment parties against sanctions and watchlists, resolving alerts efficiently, and working with existing payment-screening systems.

Why it matters

Payment screening is a false-positive-heavy workflow where slow or unclear review can hold up legitimate funds.

Customer impact

Faster, clearer payment-screening review, in-product and by API.

Screening and MonitoringImproved

Screening-alert citations

What changed

Screening-alert citations now render as complete, working links.

Why it matters

Citations were sometimes missing or malformed, which undercut auditability.

Customer impact

Analysts can trust the citations and click through to the source.

Controls and TrustNew

Screening Alerts Configuration UI

What changed

Authorized teams can now manage screening settings and disposition rules directly in the platform, with access controls and support for program-specific configurations.

Why it matters

Changing screening behavior used to require a manual request.

Customer impact

Compliance teams tune their own rules and tags, with clear limits on who can edit.

Details and FAQ
  • — What can I configure? Teams can manage supported screening settings and decision rules for their program.
  • — Who can edit? Authorized administrators can make changes; other users can review the configuration.
Controls and TrustNew

PEP Risk Configuration

What changed

Organizations can tailor how politically exposed person matches are classified and routed for review based on their risk policy.

Why it matters

PEP risk appetite varies by institution, and analyst attention should go to the highest-risk cases.

Customer impact

More control over PEP decisioning from the Screening Alerts configuration experience.

Screening and MonitoringImproved

Improved Document Recency Checks

What changed

Document recency and expiration checks now use an explicit reference date, so valid documents are no longer wrongly flagged as expired or future-dated.

Why it matters

Ambiguity about the current date was producing false flags.

Customer impact

Fewer false positives and more reliable KYC and KYB onboarding assessments.

Screening and MonitoringNew

Multiple Website Risk Assessments

What changed

Enhanced due diligence can now assess more than one website for a single company entity.

Why it matters

Many businesses operate several websites, and assessing only one misses risk.

Customer impact

More complete due diligence for multi-site businesses, with less manual effort.

IntegrationsNew

Databricks Delta Share Integration

What changed

Organizations can securely connect relevant data from Databricks to Bretton workflows.

Why it matters

Much of the context that improves compliance work lives in the data warehouse.

Customer impact

Databricks users connect their data securely and give Bretton more to work with.

IntegrationsNew

Unit 21 Integration for Transaction Monitoring

What changed

Bretton integrates with Unit 21 to bring transaction alerts and relevant case history into the review workflow.

Why it matters

Clients on Unit 21 needed their alerts and case history to flow into Bretton.

Customer impact

Teams review and act on Unit 21 cases as soon as they are created, with historical context included.

Screening and MonitoringImproved

Enhanced Transaction Monitoring Analysis

What changed

Transaction monitoring now provides deeper counterparty context and clearer alert narratives, bringing relevant review findings into one report.

Why it matters

Analysts were assembling this context by hand.

Customer impact

Faster, better-informed decisions, with the relevant context already in the report.

Details and FAQ
  • — Brings relevant counterparty reviews into the alert workflow.
  • — Adds useful business context before review begins.
  • — Surfaces patterns that warrant analyst attention.
  • — Uses available customer documentation to improve case context.
  • — Considers relevant business and risk context.
  • — Produces one cohesive narrative that brings the review findings together.
Screening and MonitoringNew

Periodic and triggered reviews

What changed

Enhanced due diligence can now run as a periodic review or a triggered review, carrying the cause and prior context of the re-review into the case and its narrative.

Why it matters

Reviewing an already-onboarded customer is different from onboarding one, and that context matters.

Customer impact

Run periodic and event-triggered re-reviews as a repeatable playbook, not a fresh case each time.

Screening and MonitoringNew

Aged Adverse Media Tag

What changed

A new Aged Adverse Media tag helps teams distinguish older findings from more current risk signals.

Why it matters

Outdated adverse media generates review work that rarely changes the outcome.

Customer impact

Less time on stale alerts and more attention on higher-risk findings, with controls available in Screening Alerts configuration.

Screening and MonitoringImproved

Employment Match Tag Enhancements

What changed

Employment matching now understands the meaning of employer names, so minor differences like ‘Apple’ and ‘Apple Inc.’ are recognized as the same employer.

Why it matters

Small naming differences were causing missed matches.

Customer impact

More accurate alerting and fewer false negatives, so teams decide faster and with more confidence.

Screening and MonitoringImproved

Address Verification improvements

What changed

Address verification now considers additional indicators that may signal address or entity risk.

Why it matters

A registered agent at an address can signal address clustering or shell-company risk and raises questions about whether a company really operates there.

Customer impact

More rigorous address analysis and more confidence in location-risk assessments.

Screening and MonitoringImproved

Adverse Media improvements

What changed

Adverse media search now works more like an analyst doing research, using shorter, more targeted queries to find more relevant results.

Why it matters

The older approach missed findings a human researcher would have caught.

Customer impact

Broader, more relevant adverse media coverage.

Details and FAQ
  • — Configurable searches. Teams can tailor the search to their program.
  • — Cleaner results. Reviews return more focused findings.
  • — Better context. Relevant entity information can improve search accuracy.
Screening and MonitoringNew

New Transaction Analysis Assessment

What changed

Enhanced due diligence and transaction monitoring now provide a deeper view of account activity, important counterparties, and patterns that may require attention.

Why it matters

Line-by-line transaction review is slow and easy to lose the thread of.

Customer impact

Teams see the high-level trends and the flagged patterns without reading every transaction.

Screening and MonitoringNew

RFI Analysis

What changed

RFI Analysis reviews customer documentation, including identity documents, bank statements, and payslips, against your RFI criteria, and checks each document for identity, location, and income discrepancies.

Why it matters

Reviewing request-for-information responses by hand is slow and inconsistent.

Customer impact

Faster, more consistent RFI review, with discrepancies surfaced automatically.

IntegrationsNew

Sumsub Integration

What changed

A two-way integration with Sumsub brings alerts into Bretton and returns completed review outcomes to the existing workflow.

Why it matters

Sumsub users needed their alerts handled without leaving their existing setup.

Customer impact

Alerts flow both ways automatically, and false positives can close on their own.

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