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Show HN: Kairos – Open-source risk and fraud decisioning platform

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In short

The platform evaluates events such as sign-ups, payments, and payouts to return risk scores and decisions including approve, step up, review, or block. A core component is Grayson, a specialized decision model that interprets unstructured information like names and emails using calibrated probabilities. Organizations can self-host the system using Docker and connect with it through an HTTP API, a command-line interface, or SDKs for Python and TypeScript.

Key points

  • AI coding agents can directly design experiments, build workflows, and deploy winning fra…: AI coding agents can directly design experiments, build workflows, and deploy winning fraud models on user data.
  • The proprietary Grayson model analyzes unstructured attributes like addresses and emails…: The proprietary Grayson model analyzes unstructured attributes like addresses and emails to feed into logistic regression or XGBoost models.
  • Teams can self-host the infrastructure with Docker while interacting through dedicated Py…: Teams can self-host the infrastructure with Docker while interacting through dedicated Python and TypeScript SDKs.

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Kairos decides every sign-up, login, order, payment and payout as it happens, and keeps each decision with the signals behind it. It is an open-source alternative to Sardine, Sift, Riskified and SEON, with two things they don't have: your coding agent tunes it, and decision models catch fraud before you have the labels to train on.

- Real-time decisions: one call returns approve, step up, review or block, with a risk score and the reasons, from the subject's history, the devices, cards and addresses it shares with others, and the session.

- Workflows: ask a decision model, score with a model, branch, call webhooks, open cases, and decide again later.

- Queues and cases: review work for people, whose resolutions become labels.

- MCP server: Claude Code, Cursor or Codex read your decisions and build workflows, with every action recorded under its key.

- Experiments: your agent proposes model variants, Kairos trains and tests them on your data, and the agent ships the winner.

- Grayson: Finic's decision model answers questions about each request in plain language. It works with…

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