Technical Deep Dive

One Platform.
Five Advanced Technologies.

Syenah Risk Sentinel fuses Generative AI, GraphDB-based Knowledge Graphs, Supply Chain intelligence, Graph Analytics, and evidence-based GraphRAG in a single platform.

The Fragmented Vendor
Problem

Today’s risk teams use multiple disconnected tools. Data doesn’t flow between systems.

Media
Monitoring

€20-50K/year

Supply Chain Analysis

€50-100K/year

ESG Risk Intelligence

€20-50K/year

Sanctions Compliance

€20-60K/year

Knowledge Graph

€50-100K/year

Analysts drown in alerts, manually connecting dots across siloed systems. Critical risks propagate faster than spreadsheets can track. You pay €150K–300K+/year for intelligence that still can’t see the connections.

Syenah Risk Sentinel Architecture.
Fully Integrated

Six technology layers work together.


Generative AI detects business and sustainability incidents from unstructured sources. These incidents feed a knowledge graph where entities and relationships are resolved. The graph enables supply chain traversal and network analytics. GraphRAG turns natural language questions into evidence-based answers. Together, the layers deliver complete risk intelligence in one platform.

€100K+

Annual Savings

1

Platform, Not 5-10

100%

Data Integration

<5 min

End-to-End Latency

Purpose-Built
AI Infrastructure

NVIDIA
DGX H100

8× H100 GPUs
(640GB HBM3)

Large Language Models

Combination of Open-Source Frontier Models

EU Data Residency

Frankfurt, Germany

We don’t buy API calls from OpenAI.
We run open-source LLMs on our own dedicated NVIDIA DGX hardware. Complete control over model behaviour, zero data leakage, and 90% lower inference costs.

Large Language Model
Engine

Multi-stage NLP pipeline processing 1M+ articles daily.
Open source models 10+ specialised tasks per article, from incident detection to severity scoring, outputting structured JSON directly to our knowledge graph.

Component Technology Specification
Primary Model Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E Complex tasks requiring reasoning
Classification Model Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E Multi-label classification, 256 risk factors
NER/NEL Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E 2.2M+ entity knowledge base
Embedding Model Multilingual-e5-large Semantic search, similarity matching
Severity Extraction Model Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E Complex tasks requiring reasoning

STAGE 1

Multilingual
Processing

Native analysis in 100+ languages, not translated then analyzed. Preserves legal terminology and cultural context.

  • Language detection: Lid.176.bin
  • Unicode normalisation, Script Disambiguation and Text cleanup
  • Native Language Semantic Parsing
  • Legal & Cultural Context preservation
  • Cross Lingual Semantic Alignment

STAGE 2

Incident
Detection

High-precision classification to identify materially relevant ESG and business incidents, distinguishing real-world events (e.g., factory fires, labor protests) from non-incidents such as drills, announcements, or routine communications.

  • Model: Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E
  • Cognitive Filter Separates Real Incidents from Pseudo Incidents
  • Handles partial information and ambiguity
  • Deduplication via Cosine Similarity
  • Temporal clustering for Parent-Child Incident Detection

STAGE 3

Incident Details & Context Extraction

The engine analyzes the core narrative to extract structured data, information and context, transforming unstructured text into database-ready fields.

  • Qualitative & Quantitative Extraction of Incident Impacts
  • Contextual Extraction of What, Where, When, Who, Why
  • Abstractive Summarisation of Incidents
  • Stakeholders Quotation Extraction
  • Legal & Regulatory actions and Fines and Penalties

STAGE 4

Named Entity Recognition & Linking


Maps ambiguous actor names (e.g., “Amazon” vs. “Amazon River”) to a verified global entity DB of 2.2M companies. This process resolves subsidiaries, aliases, and operating units to their ultimate parent organisation.

  • Detects And Classifies Companies And Actors Mentioned
  • Context-Aware Disambiguation Of Homonyms And Overlapping Names
  • Temporal: Event dates, discovery dates, resolution dates
  • Comprehensive Company Database With Names, Aliases, And Parent Relations
  • Maps Subsidiaries and Operating Units to Ultimate Parent Entity

STAGE 5

Risk Factor Classification

Content is evaluated against our proprietary 256-Factor Taxonomy, assessing each incident for specific risks across four strategic pillars. Every risk factor is mapped to global regulatory frameworks to enable automated compliance reporting.

  • Taxonomy Structure: 3 Categories → 256 Factors (Environment: 95, Social: 83, Governance: 78)
  • Aligned To CSDDD, LkSG, SFDR PAI, UN SDGs, Modern Slavery Act, Uyghur FLPA
  • Multi-Label Capability: Assigns Multiple Relevant Risks Per Incident
  • 3 Risk Factors Detected Per Incident
  • Chain-Of-Thought Explanations For Each Assigned Risk Factor

STAGE 6

Severity
Scoring

Context-aware, multi-dimensional scoring that evaluates the true impact of each incident across key risk dimensions, distinguishing minor issues from critical crises with consistent, auditable rigor.

  • Severity Dimensions: 8 Independent Impact Areas Scored Individually
  • Coverage: Environmental, Social, Governance, Financial Materiality, Legal & Regulatory Exposure, Health & Safety Risks, Reputational Damage, Corporate Responsibility
  • Scoring Scale: LOW | MEDIUM | HIGH | CRITICAL
  • Per Dimension With Weighted Aggregate Score
  • Evidence-based Explanation for Each Dimension’s Severity Score
  • Context Calibration: Adjusted For Company Size, Sector, And Materiality Thresholds

Knowledge Graph

TigerGraph-powered Knowledge Graph storing 2.2M+ entities, 1B+ relationships, and real-time incident data.

Multi-hop graph traversal in under 100ms, map every connection to sanctioned entities, high-risk suppliers, or flagged counterparties across your entire exposure. Queries that SQL can’t express, answered before you finish asking.

Node Type Count Key Properties
:Company 2.2M id, name, aliases[], industry, country, risk_score
:Person 2.1M id, name, roles[], pep_status, sanction_status
:Incident 4.2M id, summary, severity, risk_factors[], date, sources[]
:Location 890K id, name, type, country, coordinates
:Article 45M id, url, title, published_at, source, language

Performance for High-Value Query Patterns

Optimized for real-time risk analysis and deep supply chain exploration across large enterprise graphs.

Direct company lookup (<10ms):

Retrieve profiles, risk indicators, sanctions, and key relationships in real time

Tiered supply chain expansion (1–3 hops):

Explore upstream and downstream exposure with controllable depth, even for the largest global enterprises (<4s)

Incident impact propagation (<200ms):

Trace how incidents and risk events spread through ownership and supply chain networks

Sanctions & regulatory exposure (<2s):

Detect direct and indirect connections to sanctioned or restricted entities

Path discovery & explanation (<1s):

Identify and explain why two entities are connected, including intermediate nodes and relationships

Data Integration

Continuous ingestion across structured data, unstructured text, and AI-generated signals.

Real-time data Updates:

Incidents, sanctions, and relationship updates become queryable with low latency

Near real-time AI ingestion:

AI-extracted entities, relationships, and external risk signals streamed into the graph within seconds

Incremental graph updates:

Continuous merges without full reloads or analytical resets

End-to-end traceability:

Every relationship and risk signal is linked to its source and supporting evidence

AI-ready graph outputs:

Updates immediately usable by AI agents and graph-based RAG workflows

Infrastructure

Built for large-scale, always-on supply chain and risk intelligence workloads. A production-grade graph infrastructure designed to support real-time traversal, high-concurrency access, and continuous data growth without sacrificing performance or availability.

High-availability graph cluster:

Multi-node enterprise graph cluster with fault tolerance and automatic failover, ensuring uninterrupted access to critical risk insights.

Horizontal read scalability:

Designed for concurrent analytical and exploratory queries across large, highly connected graphs.

Memory-optimized execution:

Large in-memory footprint per node with NVMe-backed storage for fast traversal and predictable latency.

Advanced graph operations:

Support for complex traversals, path analysis, and network analytics required by supply-chain and risk use cases.

Enterprise-Grade Supply Chain & Risk Graph

A high-fidelity relationship model connecting companies, incidents, and risk signals across ownership, Supply chain, financial exposure, and real-world events.

Company with Incident:

Direct links capturing ownership exposure, operational involvement, and downstream impact from ESG, compliance, and risk events.

Supply Chain Relationships:

Multi-layer supplier and customer connections, with optional access to transaction-level shipment details (time, origin, destination, value, goods).

Ownership & Corporate Structure:

Subsidiaries, affiliates, investment arms, and merged entities, preserving both control and economic relationships.

Financial & Strategic Ties:

Investments, creditors, borrowers, strategic alliances, sponsors, and investor-related service providers.

Commercial & Operational Services:

Franchise, licensing, leasing, landlord-tenant, and other long-term contractual relationships.

Sanctions & Regulatory Links:

Direct connections between companies and sanction lists or regulatory sources.

Community & Network-Derived Links:

Algorithmically inferred relationships capturing structural proximity and ecosystem membership.

Incident Context & Evidence Graph:

Incidents connected to countries, industries, risk factors, breaches, NGOs, and source documents.

LLM-Ready Semantic Relationships:

Text units, extracted entities, extracted relationships, and semantic communities enabling graph-based RAG and explainable retrieval.

Tier-1 Relations

0 M+

Extended Network

1 B+

Depth Coverage

0 Tier-N

Graph Analytics & Visualization

Graph Data Science algorithms for real insights: measure centrality, detect communities, trace paths, and find anomalies. Explore everything with an interactive graph visualization tool.

Centrality
Algorithms

Identify critical nodes and influence patterns in the network.

  • PageRank: Overall entity importance
  • Betweenness: Bridge nodes between communities
  • Closeness: Speed of risk propagation
  • Eigenvector: Influence of connected neighbors
  • Degree: Direct connection count

Community
Detection

Discover clusters of related entities for group risk assessment.

  • Louvain: Large-scale community discovery
  • Label Propagation: Fast clustering
  • Modularity: Cluster quality scoring
  • Use case: Industry clusters, geographic risk groups
  • Pre-computed nightly, queryable in real-time

Path Analysis

Trace connections between entities through any relationship type.

  • Shortest path: Minimum hops between nodes
  • All paths: Every connection route
  • Weighted paths: Risk-weighted traversal
  • Use case: UBO tracing, sanctions exposure chains
  • Max depth: 10 hops (configurable)

Anomaly Detection

Identify unusual patterns that may indicate hidden risks.

  • Unusual relationship patterns (sudden new links)
  • Outlier nodes (abnormal connection profiles)
  • Temporal anomalies (activity spikes)
  • Cross-reference with known fraud patterns
  • Alert generation on detected anomalies

Interactive
Visualization

Web-based graph explorer for investigative analysis. Point-and-click traversal, filtering, and export.

  • Technology: React + D3.js force-directed layout
  • Node expansion: Click to reveal connected entities
  • Filtering: By entity type, relationship type, risk score, geography
  • Overlays: Incident markers, sanctions flags, risk heat mapping
  • Export: PNG snapshots, Cypher queries, CSV data
  • Performance: Smooth rendering up to 10K visible nodes
  • One-click actions

Evidence-Based
GraphRAG

Hybrid retrieval combining vector similarity search with graph traversal. Natural language queries return grounded answers with citations, zero hallucination by design.

Stage Technology Output
1. Query Understanding LLM intent classification + NER + NEL Intent, entities, constraints
2. Query Embedding Text-embedding-3-small Query vector
3. Retrieval TigerGraph Top-100 candidate documents
4. Graph Expansion GSQL Related incidents, relationships
5. Response Generation Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E Grounded answer + sources

Hybrid Retrieval

Combines semantic similarity with graph structure for contextually relevant results.

  • Vector search: Cosine similarity on embeddings
  • Graph search: Entity-linked traversal
  • Result: Better recall than pure vector RAG

Citation System

Every factual claim linked to source evidence. Full audit trail for compliance.

  • Inline citations: [1], [2] in response text
  • Source metadata: URL, title, date, publisher
  • Click-through to original articles
  • Export: PDF reports with bibliography

Hallucination
Prevention

Retrieval-constrained generation ensures factual grounding.

  • Generation limited to retrieved context
  • Factual consistency validation post-generation
  • “I don’t know” for insufficient evidence
  • Human-in-loop flag for edge cases

Output Formats

Flexible response types from conversational answers to structured reports.

  • Conversational: Natural language with citations
  • Structured: JSON with typed fields
  • Reports: PDF/DOCX, Exportable
  • Tables: CSV/Excel export
  • API: Streaming responses for real-time UX

Indexed Articles

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Avg Query Time

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Hallucination Rate

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Citation Coverage

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A continuously growing risk graph, indexing thousands of incidents per day

How It All Works
Together

End-to-end flow from raw article to queryable intelligence in under 5 minutes

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