The account opens in 48 hours. The file takes six weeks.
Many private banks can now open an account in days. The cost has not moved — in the region of CHF 8,000 per new relationship. It does not come from speed: it comes from the four or five people who handle the file, and the two or three times it goes back because a document is missing.
Speed is no longer the problem. The number of hands is.
Relationship manager, compliance, management, sometimes legal and the custodian: four to five people handle the same file, each in their own tool, each waiting on the one before. The client, meanwhile, is asked two or three times for documents they thought they had already sent — and 38% of prospects walk away when it drags on (Capgemini 2025).
That is where the cost sits — not in the signature. Which is why shortening the delay never brought it down.
Today vs. with Wecan.
Onboarding, step by step.
The relationship manager opens the file
Create the client profile in seconds. Wecan picks the right KYC form, document checklist and scoring model based on the client type (individual, company, trust, foundation).
The client is asked once
Secure link or branded portal. Client chats with an AI agent (FR/EN/DE/IT) or fills a structured form. No access to your internal tools.
The file fills itself in
OCR + AI agents extract every piece of information from the documents and map it to the right field of each client KYC. Dates and countries normalised. Confidence score per field.
Compliance reviews, it does not re-key
Your compliance officer sees the pre-filled file next to the source document, with field-by-field traceability. No blind pre-fill on client uploads.
Screening goes out on its own
Sanctions, PEP, adverse media via your chosen provider. AML risk score, explainable by criterion.
Everyone knows when it is their turn
Configurable pipeline (steps, assignees, approval policy, SLA). Audit trail complete and continuous.
The opening pack is ready
Once approved, Wecan assembles the complete onboarding pack — contracts, supporting documents, audit-ready file. From templates with placeholders, in any language, personalisable by AI prompt.
Capabilities active in this journey.
AI document extraction
OCR + AI agents · mapped to each client KYC · normalisation · confidence per field
Explainable risk scoring
0–100 · low / medium / high · criterion-by-criterion justification
Screening marketplace
World-Check · LexisNexis · KYC Spider · Polixis — pick your provider
Multilingual collection
AI chat or structured form in FR / EN / DE / IT
Workflow engine
Four-eyes · SLA · reason taxonomy · auditable end-to-end
Append-only audit trail
Every field, every action, audit-ready forever
"What convinced us in this RFP was the ability to industrialise onboarding and periodic reviews across the entire chain, from the asset manager to the end client, while keeping full control over our data and full transparency over how decisions are produced."
Wecan facilitates the daily life of our customers by reducing their operational work while allowing secure information sharing between stakeholders.
As a private bank on a human scale, we are very close to our GFI partners and their needs. It is important to support them through a visionary digital solution that aims to optimise compliance processes.
At Pleion we have been innovating for 40 years for our clients. It is obvious that new solutions like Wecan are transforming our industry and it makes sense for us to be part of it.
Wecan's innovative, targeted and community-based digital platform will enable us to meet our regulatory requirements in a shorter time, to the benefit of the service provided to our customers.
We take our data security responsibilities seriously and were impressed by Wecan's use of blockchain technology to offer enhanced solutions.
Common questions.
Also crawled by Google for long-tail SEO on real compliance pains.
No — Wecan orchestrates them. You pick World-Check, LexisNexis, KYC Spider or Polixis in our marketplace; we standardise the output and feed your scoring model.
Each client type can have its own KYC form, document pack and scoring model. Trust + multiple BOs + protector + beneficiaries: handled.
Yes — fully branded for your institution, in 4 languages (FR / EN / DE / IT).
Every field carries its source (upload, AI agent, human validation). Full continuous audit trail. ISO 27001 since 2022.
See onboarding in action.
A live walkthrough on real KYC scenarios — no slides, no commitment. Just see if it fits your context.