Intelligent Agent Detect: AI Risk Detection Built for Compliance Teams
TL;DR: Smarsh Intelligent Agent Detect brings clarity and precision to compliance surveillance with AI that understands intent, supports multiple languages, and empowers teams to create and scale risk detection scenarios easily.
Today’s compliance risk moves faster than most systems can keep up with. Traditional lexicon-based surveillance tools still rely on static keywords and rigid workflows — a mismatch for global teams that communicate across countless platforms and languages.
The result? Missed intent, inconsistent coverage, and a flood of false positives that consume time and erode trust in the process.
AI promises to solve this problem. But in practice, many initiatives never make it past the pilot stage. Without transparency, governance, and explainability, even the most advanced models can fail to deliver value or withstand regulatory scrutiny.
Smarsh AI technologies were built to change that.
Why AI risk detection matters for compliance teams
Traditional surveillance tools can’t keep pace with global communication or emerging risk. Intelligent Agent Detect changes that with AI built for compliance teams, not engineers. It identifies misconduct across key languages and channels, simplifies scenario creation, and strengthens governance — turning surveillance from a reactive burden into a proactive advantage that delivers measurable accuracy, transparency, and trust.
From keywords to context: How Intelligent Agent Detect elevates AI risk detection
Intelligent Agent Detect, part of Smarsh Enterprise Conduct, represents the next evolution in surveillance. Rather than chasing keywords, it understands the intent and behavior behind every message — across email, chat, collaboration, and voice-to-text channels.
By interpreting patterns and context, Intelligent Agent Detect sees beyond what’s written to what’s really happening. It captures subtle signs of market manipulation, insider activity, secrecy, harassment or other misconduct — even when those signals are buried in jargon, slang, or multilingual exchanges.
The result is a system that’s three to five times more accurate than traditional lexicon-based approaches, helping firms detect genuine risk faster and with greater confidence.
Multilingual AI risk detection for global compliance teams
Global firms don’t communicate in just one language, and neither should their surveillance systems. Intelligent Agent Detect natively supports major languages right out of the box, including English, Spanish, German, Portuguese, French, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, and Chinese.
This multilingual capability allows compliance teams to analyze communications holistically without translation bottlenecks or regional blind spots. Whether a message originates in Frankfurt, São Paulo, or Bangalore, Intelligent Agent Detect identifies patterns and behaviors consistently across all channels and teams.
For multinational financial institutions, that means fewer gaps, less manual intervention, and a clearer view of global conduct risk, whether it’s financial or non-financial misconduct.
No-code AI risk detection for compliance professionals
Ease of implementation is at the heart of Smarsh AI technology. Intelligent Agent Detect makes it simple to create, test, and deploy tailored surveillance scenarios. Best of all, this is all done in a no-code environment designed for compliance professionals.
Users can configure policies, define risk patterns, and adapt coverage to evolving regulations without technical overhead or engineering support. Every model is transparent, auditable, and entirely contained within the firm’s governance framework, so teams own their own risk.
This means faster rollout, lower operational friction, and AI that’s both explainable and defensible.
Explainable AI risk detection that delivers results
Smarsh Intelligent Agent Detect isn’t a proof of concept — it’s production-proven. Early adopters have seen up to 70% efficiency gains , reduced false positives, and measurable improvements in analyst confidence.
Its transparency sets a new benchmark for AI: every alert comes with context on why it was triggered and how patterns were recognized. That insight empowers compliance teams to act decisively — turning AI from a black box into a trusted partner in surveillance.
Smarsh helps firms move from AI theory to measurable results in three simple steps:
Estimate your ROI: Identify where AI can deliver measurable value in your current workflows.
Prove your impact: Validate precision and efficiency using your own communications data.
Scale with confidence: Expand coverage across new behaviors, languages, and geographies with a transparent, auditable framework.
Lead the next era of AI compliance surveillance
Compliance is no longer just about catching bad actors. It’s about protecting integrity and preserving trust. Intelligent Agent Detect allows firms to do both, transforming surveillance from a reactive control into a proactive advantage.
And with Smarsh, you don’t have to choose between innovation and accountability — you can have both.
Connect with a Smarsh expert and see how Intelligent Agent Detect can redefine what’s possible in your compliance program.
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Scalable for organizations of all sizes, the Smarsh platform provides customers with compliance built on confidence. It enables them to strategically future-proof as new communication channels are adopted, and to realize more insight and value from the data in their archive. Customers strengthen their compliance and e-discovery initiatives and benefit from the productive use of email, social media, mobile/text messaging, instant messaging and collaboration, web, and voice channels.
Smarsh serves a global client base that spans the top banks in North America and Europe, along with leading brokerage firms, insurers, and registered investment advisors. Smarsh also enables state and local government agencies to meet their public records and e-discovery requirements. For more information, visit www.smarsh.com.
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