Screen a name against PEP and sanctions lists, without an account
Ten days ago we removed the sales call between you and an ARGOS workspace. Today we removed the signup too — at least for long enough to see whether the thing works.
There’s now a panel on the ARGOS home page where you can type a name and get a real screening verdict back. No account, no card, no form. Three free screens and two cited regulatory questions per day.
It’s the real pipeline, not a preview of one
This is the part worth being precise about, because “try it free” usually means a cut-down demo running against a toy dataset.
It isn’t here. A name you type into that box goes through the same screening path a logged-in user’s does: a deterministic match against our PEP corpus and the eight sanctions and watchlist sources we maintain — OFAC SDN and Consolidated, the UN list, EU FSF, the UK FCDO list, Switzerland’s SECO, Canada’s SEMA and Australia’s DFAT — followed by the same AI adjudication step that decides whether a candidate match is actually your subject, and tells you why.
The verdict you get is the verdict the product gives. If it clears someone, you’re seeing what a real screen looks like when it clears someone.
Two things are held back for the full product rather than watered down in the demo: adverse-media search, and the case report and hash-chained audit trail that a screen normally writes to. Those need a workspace to live in.
Give it a country
The country field is optional and easy to skip. Don’t.
When ARGOS knows the subject’s jurisdiction, it searches that country’s own government, regulator and parliamentary sources first — the electoral commission, the central bank, the official gazette — rather than a generic global set that skews heavily towards US and UK sources. On a subject who holds office outside those two countries, that’s frequently the difference between finding the evidence and finding nothing.
It’s the same reason the screen asks for a date of birth: every additional identifying detail narrows the field of people your subject could be confused with, and a name on its own is a genuinely hard problem.
Ask it a regulatory question instead
The second tab does the other half of what ARGOS is for. Pick a jurisdiction — India, the UK, the US, Canada or Australia — and ask a plain-language AML or compliance question. You get an answer grounded in that jurisdiction’s actual statutes and regulator guidance, with the sources it used.
You have to choose the jurisdiction first, and that’s deliberate: “how long do I have to keep customer records” has a different answer and a different legal basis in each of those five countries, and an answer that isn’t anchored to one of them isn’t worth much to a compliance officer.
If the sources don’t support an answer, it says so instead of producing a confident-sounding one. That behaviour is the whole point of the product.
What we do with what you type
Nothing. Names and questions submitted through that panel are evaluated and discarded — they aren’t stored, they don’t become a lead, and nobody gets emailed about them. The only thing kept is a per-day counter tied to a hashed form of your IP address, which is what enforces the free limit. There’s more detail in the privacy policy.
The daily cap exists because each screen costs us real money in model and search calls, and this runs for everyone with no login in front of it. When you hit the cap, a free account removes it.
Why put it on the front page
Compliance software is usually sold entirely on assertion. You read a page of claims about coverage and accuracy, book a call, watch a demo on someone else’s data, and only find out what it actually does after procurement.
We’d rather you check. Screen a name you already know the answer for — a sitting minister, someone on a sanctions list, a colleague who is definitely neither. Ask a question you already know the law on. That’s a much faster way to judge whether this is any good than reading us describe it, and if it gets something wrong on a name you know, we’d genuinely like to hear about it: connect@truoco.com.