Thirdfort hits 117 releases after AI-assisted platform rebuild
Thirdfort has passed 117 product releases so far this year, with the UK-based client due diligence platform now projecting 150 releases by the end of 2026. That represents a six-fold increase on its prior-year output, a pace the company attributes to a wholesale rebuild of its underlying platform and the adoption of AI-assisted software engineering practices.
The company launched three capabilities as part of the latest batch: a Firmwide Insights Dashboard, a Tasks workflow module, and Co-purchaser Source of Funds Linking. Together, the features are intended to give compliance teams consolidated visibility of anti-money laundering risk, reduce the administrative back-and-forth of client due diligence, and automatically join up the financial checks for property purchases involving more than one buyer.
What was built and why
The Firmwide Insights Dashboard surfaces a real-time, organisation-wide view of AML risk drawn from checks already being run inside the platform. According to the company, it is designed specifically for Money Laundering Reporting Officers, giving them a single pane of glass to identify trends and prioritise cases requiring deeper review.
The Tasks module introduces centralised workflow management inside the platform, consolidating outstanding compliance actions in one place. The Co-purchaser Linking feature addresses a specific pain point in residential property transactions, where multiple buyers completing source-of-funds checks simultaneously have historically produced fragmented results across different client files.
The three releases sit on top of a platform rebuild completed earlier in 2026, which brought together ID verification, Know Your Business screening, AML checks and source-of-funds analysis into one unified product. Olly Thornton-Berry, co-founder and chief executive, said the pace of releases reflects what becomes achievable when AI tooling is layered on top of a modern, unified codebase. "It means we can respond more quickly to customer feedback and continually deliver improvements that make a meaningful difference to regulated firms," he said.
Thirdfort says it now serves more than 1,500 regulated businesses across the legal, property and accountancy sectors, with named clients including Pennington Manches Cooper, Thomas Legal and Chestertons.
Market context and regulatory pressure
The client due diligence software market is under sustained pressure from two directions. Regulators across the UK and EU are raising expectations on regulated firms, particularly in legal and property sectors that remain high-risk channels for money laundering under the UK's Money Laundering Regulations 2017 and the forthcoming sixth Anti-Money Laundering Directive at EU level. At the same time, buyer consolidation is accelerating: larger compliance platforms with identity verification, KYB and AML in a single product are displacing point solutions that handle only one piece of the workflow.
Thirdfort occupies a niche focused on the UK professional-services market, competing with a mix of specialised RegTech vendors and broader identity-verification providers that have added AML modules. Its differentiation rests on the depth of its property-sector workflow integrations and the speed at which it can now iterate. The six-fold release cadence is a credible signal of engineering capacity, though the company has not disclosed how many of the 117 releases represent major features versus incremental fixes.
The AI-assisted development claim sits within a broader industry trend: a growing number of enterprise software vendors are reporting faster release cycles after embedding AI coding tools into their engineering workflows. For compliance software in particular, faster iteration carries both opportunity and risk. Speed to market matters when regulators update guidance, but compliance-critical code also demands rigorous testing. Thirdfort has not detailed the quality-assurance processes it applies to AI-generated code, which is a question sophisticated buyers in regulated sectors are likely to raise.