Flagship lab
A seated sequence for internal auditors, second-line reviewers, and finance partners who need to financially audit KYC verification applications rather than admire their UX.
Each module ends with a written artefact: a population memo, a sample sheet, a vendor-trace diagram, a reconciling worksheet, or a finding draft. We work only on synthetic UK case packs. You will not receive production customer data, and we will not log into anyone’s live KYC platform.
Name the product, the IDV and screening vendors, the customer journeys that create accounting events, and the assertions (existence, completeness, cut-off) you are willing to test. Outcome: a one-page scope that a partner can reject.
Build a population from application exports that are incomplete on purpose. Stratify by channel, vendor path, and fail/retry. Outcome: a sample with documented skips, not a handful of “interesting” files.
Follow a selfie check, a watchlist hit, and a document capture into the vendor’s attested process. Learn where a certificate stops being evidence. Outcome: a trace map with “we could not see” labelled as such.
Join “verification complete” timestamps to fee income, onboarding credits, frozen balances, and payout blocks. Outcome: a reconciling sheet with unmatched items written in plain English.
Turn a broken join into criteria, condition, cause, and effect that a UK committee will not bounce for tone. Outcome: one finding and one observation, distinguished on purpose.
Design the follow-up sample for a remediated control without pretending the first sample still counts. Outcome: a retest memo with a smaller, meaner population.
Priya spent nine years reviewing onboarding platforms for e-money and retail-bank programmes. She now tutors the yard’s lab and edits the Control Ledger page. She does not consult on live audits for lab participants during a cohort.
“Module 04 — the ledger join — is the reason I asked my firm to buy a seat. We had been sampling selfies and never asking whether the onboarding fee existed.”
I wanted more time on watchlist tickets than the lab gave. The retest memo in module 06 still saved our January follow-up from being a copy-paste of October.
No. This lab does not grant ICAEW, ACCA, ICA, or any other professional-body credit. If you need CPE hours, ask your institute; we will not issue a certificate that implies we can.
Never. The packs are synthetic, with invented names and deliberately broken timestamps. If your firm cannot export even a dummy log, you will feel the limitation of module 03 more than others — that is named in the reviews.
No. Pricing here is informational. Seats, if offered, are invoiced after a conversation. See refunds for how cancellations work once an invoice exists.
Product managers who want to redesign a KYC UI, and engineers who want an API tutorial. The yard is for people who have to sign an audit file.