About us
Innovation8 was established to tackle a critical challenge in financial crime prevention: the reliance on disjointed tools that produce an overload of alerts without delivering meaningful insights. With decades of experience in building and scaling financial services, cybersecurity, and AI platforms, our founding team recognized the need for a smarter solution. They envisioned an intelligence layer designed to unify risk signals, provide clear decision explanations, and seamlessly integrate with—rather than replace—existing systems.
Our mission
Our mission is to help financial institutions make faster, more confident risk decisions by delivering explainable intelligence across financial crime.
Our vision
Our vision is to become the intelligence layer that sits above every financial crime system, enabling institutions to move from reactive alerts to coordinated, proactive risk management.
Values
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Trust by design – Security, privacy, and auditability are foundational.
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Explainability matters – Decisions must be clear to humans and regulators.
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Integration over disruption – We work with existing platforms.
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Outcome-driven – Fewer alerts, faster investigations, better decisions.
Who we serve
Innovation8 is built for mid-market banks and credit unions operating in highly regulated environments.
Why Innovation8
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An intelligence layer, not another tool. ShadowIQ sits above existing AML, fraud, and cybersecurity systems to unify investigations—no rip-and-replace required.
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Agentic AI that works end-to-end. Autonomous investigations correlate signals, explain decisions, and reduce false positives at scale.
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Consortium-powered insight. An opt-in consortium securely shares anonymized risk signals across institutions, improving detection accuracy.
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Explainable by design. Built-in audit trails and transparency meet regulatory and examiner expectations.
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Purpose-built for mid-market banks and credit unions. Enterprise-grade intelligence without enterprise complexity or cost