Sumsub verifies the customer, Forest runs the operation around it

A compliance lead at a scaling fintech does the math on onboarding and it doesn't close. Every new market means a new set of document types, a new language, a new local database, a new fraud pattern. Handling that in-house means a growing team doing the same checks by hand, and a growing backlog every time the company enters a country it hasn't seen before. The instinct is right: stop building verification piece by piece, and buy a platform that already covers the ground.

That's the problem Sumsub set out to own.

Sumsub bundles KYC, KYB, AML screening and monitoring into one verification platform

Sumsub is an all-in-one verification platform. Rather than running a single check, it covers the whole compliance surface in one system: KYC, KYB, AML screening, transaction monitoring and fraud prevention. Sumsub reports more than 4,000 companies using it across fintech, crypto and trading, with coverage spanning 220+ countries and territories.

The appeal is breadth in one place. On their published numbers:

• A business verified in seconds, its beneficial owners checked in the same flow, at a 97% average pass rate.

• Manual review when a registry comes back empty. Their in-house compliance team verifies complex corporate documents from 140+ countries.

• AML screening across thousands of data sources, with AI agents filtering the false positives so analysts review only the matches that matter.

• A no-code Workflow Builder, so teams tailor the verification sequence by country and risk profile.

In March 2026, Sumsub embedded ComplyAdvantage's Mesh risk intelligence into its AML layer, deepening the screening side further.

For a team drowning in per-country integrations, consolidating all of that with one provider is a real relief.

Where Sumsub's verification perimeter ends and Forest's operational layer starts

A one-stop platform consolidates everything inside its own perimeter, and stops at its edge. The moment a fintech adds a second provider, a specialist for one region Sumsub is lighter on, a crypto intelligence tool, a fraud engine a risk team already trusts, the "all-in-one" becomes one system among several again. And most regulated businesses at scale run more than one.

Even with everything in a single platform, the verification result is an input into something larger: the operation. A pass or a fail has to route to the right queue, sit next to the customer's transaction history and support tickets, trigger the next step, and land in an audit trail that spans every tool the company uses. One vendor's dashboard covers one vendor's slice. The platform tells you whether the customer checks out. It doesn't run your business around that answer.

How a Sumsub verification becomes an action your team can take and log

That's where Forest sits. A Sumsub verification lands in a Forest workflow as one step: the result comes back, and your operations team's rules take it from there. A clean pass moves the onboarding forward automatically. A flagged case opens with the Sumsub result already attached, routed to the right reviewer, next to everything else known about that customer across the stack.

The distinction that matters: Sumsub's dashboard is where verification happens; Forest is where the operation happens. An analyst working a complex onboarding wants one governed surface where the case is assembled, the decision is made and the record is written, whatever the underlying provider. Living in the verification tool, then the transaction tool, then the ticketing tool is what costs them the afternoon.

Because one permission model and one audit trail cover every action, human or agent, an automated decision on a Sumsub result is as reviewable as a manual one, and the trail covers the whole operation rather than one vendor's slice of it.

That's the direction Forest is heading, and one we already deploy with clients through partners like Sumsub: strong verification from a provider that does it well, run inside operations the team controls end to end, with the proof spanning every system.

Sumsub says whether the customer checks out, Forest runs everything that depends on the answer

Sumsub covers the full verification surface, across markets, in one place, so a team stops rebuilding onboarding country by country. Forest takes that result and runs the regulated process around it, on the full picture, under the rules your team set, on the systems where the action has to land.

What decides whether a regulated operation scales is what happens after the answer comes back: who reviews it, against what other signals, under what rules, with what proof. That runs across every tool the company uses.

Sumsub says whether the customer checks out. Forest runs everything that depends on the answer, and keeps the record.

Get Sumsub and Forest running on your onboarding queue

If your team rebuilds verification market by market and wants one platform covering the whole surface, talk to Sumsub.

If you have already consolidated verification and still stitch the actual operation together by hand across tools, book a Forest demo and show us the flow you're trying to run.

Forest is the operational infrastructure for regulated fintechs. Compliance, ops, and support teams work on your systems alongside your AI agents, under one permission model and one audit trail. On your own infrastructure. Learn more at forest.app.