How intelligent automation is transforming risk assessment, compliance, and investigative workflows for corporate and government professionals
Highlights
- CLEAR Investigate introduces agentic AI capabilities, enabling multi-step, goal-driven investigative workflows with human oversight.
- Purpose-built for professionals, the platform streamlines data gathering, analysis, and recommendations while ensuring transparency and compliance.
- Agentic AI elevates investigative quality and efficiency, supporting both government and corporate organizations with auditable, actionable insights.
Most professionals are familiar with generative AI, but a new class of intelligent systems is reshaping investigative work: agentic AI.
CLEAR Investigate represents the first purpose-built agentic AI capabilities for professional investigations, combining the trusted CLEAR platform with AI-enabled workflows that think, plan, and act independently, all subject to human review.
Unlike traditional AI that simply responds to prompts, agentic AI capabilities help to interpret goals, plan multi‑step actions, gather information, and adapt as it uncovers unknown connections, making it ideally suited for the complex, multi-step processes that define professional investigations.
All outputs from this platform are presented to human experts who review and reach a final conclusion. For corporate risk managers, compliance officers, fraud investigators, and government agency professionals, this technology represents more than an incremental improvement. It’s a paradigm shift that’s already delivering measurable results.
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How agentic AI capabilities work in investigations
CLEAR Investigate: Purpose‑built agentic AI for professionals
Key capabilities of CLEAR Investigate
Why agentic AI capabilities matter
Preparing for the future of investigations
How agentic AI capabilities work in investigations
Traditional investigations require significant manual effort—searching databases, cross‑referencing information, mapping connections, and consolidating findings.
Agentic AI capabilities streamline this process:
- You provide an objective or question.
- The AI identifies the appropriate sources.
- It searches across multiple datasets simultaneously.
- It analyzes relationships and surfaces findings in real time.
- It generates a clear summary and recommends next steps.
This AI-enabled workflow is the foundation of CLEAR Investigate, the first purpose‑built agentic AI capabilities for professional investigations.
CLEAR Investigate: Purpose‑built agentic AI for professionals
Government agencies and corporate teams face pressure to work faster with limited resources. CLEAR Investigate addresses these demands by pairing AI-enabled workflows with trusted public records data and transparent auditability.
I have really appreciated the conclusions and summaries, as well as the suggestions for next steps that I may take to further my search. In addition, I appreciate the history function and the ease of finding past information vs. running another search.
This data is from a survey of Thomson Reuters users and was verified by UserEvidence.
CLEAR Investigate is a time saver for detailed research because you are able to ask a question specific to your needs. It alleviates having to look at multiple resources to find answers. First National Bank Texas
This data is from a survey of Thomson Reuters users and was verified by UserEvidence.
Key capabilities of CLEAR Investigate
Agentic AI capable chat interface
Executes multi‑step investigative workflows, interprets data, validates findings, and adapts based on the user’s goal.
Comprehensive data access
Includes entity and business search, phone records, arrest and incarceration data, adverse media, sanctions, global beneficial ownership, web and social media information, and connection analysis tools.
Professional‑grade audit trails
Every answer includes source material and a transparent record of AI actions to support compliance requirements.
Intelligent recommendations
The AI suggests logical next steps based on all information collected, helping users move quickly while remaining in full control.
Seamless integration
Built within the CLEAR platform that agencies and organizations already rely on.
Why agentic AI capabilities matter
Organizations adopting agentic AI capabilities see meaningful improvements in investigative quality, speed, and consistency.
Government agencies
- Program integrity: AI detects fraud patterns and anomalies that manual review may overlook.
- Regulatory oversight: Automated monitoring and investigation improve efficiency and compliance.
- Built on government‑grade security with role‑based access controls and full audit logging that align with federal, state, and local requirements.
- Defensible, transparent outputs support child support enforcement, benefits program integrity, court support, and other sensitive workflows.
- Automation lets agencies reallocate staff toward mission‑critical work without increasing headcount.
- Regulatory oversight: Automated monitoring and investigation improve efficiency and compliance.
Corporate organizations
- Financial crime, fraud & claims investigations: Quickly connect fragmented data to surface fraud, financial crime, and claims risk with trusted, audit‑ready insights.
- Due diligence & regulatory compliance: Streamline enhanced due diligence and compliance reviews with automated, defensible investigative outputs.
- Commercial lending: Quickly assess borrower risk and validate commercial relationships by surfacing ownership, financial, and fraud indicators in a single, trusted investigative view.
The human‑AI partnership
Agentic AI capabilities elevate professional judgment rather than replacing it. CLEAR Investigate handles the time‑consuming work—gathering data, connecting information, and drafting summaries—while investigators focus on analysis, next steps, and applying expertise.
Thomson Reuters professional‑grade AI is shaped by legal, compliance, risk, and investigative experts to ensure recommendations meet professional expectations.
Preparing for the future of investigations
Organizations that adopt AI‑enhanced investigative tools build capabilities that will define the next decade of professional work. Early adopters report:
- Faster investigations
- Greater accuracy through pattern and relationship analysis
- Stronger compliance through auditable documentation
- Improved resource allocation
Agentic AI is quickly becoming essential for organizations that must investigate efficiently and confidently. CLEAR Investigate enhances the trusted CLEAR ecosystem with intelligent automation that helps teams resolve cases faster, uncover deeper insights, and support more well-informed outcomes
Accelerate your investigative workflows, uncover unknown connections, and strengthen analytics confidence by exploring more of possibilities with CLEAR Investigate.
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