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What is Vora?

The problem​

Compliance teams are required to keep watching enforcement actions, sanctions, and license statuses for every company they work with. Today that means checking thousands of disconnected government portals across federal, state, and county agencies (FinCEN, the CFPB, the OCC, the Federal Reserve, and many more) by hand. It is slow, error-prone, and impossible to automate.

Today

  • Analysts visit portal after portal, each with a different layout, search, and data format
  • No API, webhook, or feed: portals are built for human browsing, not automation
  • Every agency structures its data differently, so unified searches and reliable reports are nearly impossible
  • Enforcement actions can go unnoticed for days or weeks
  • A task that should take seconds takes hours per week, per analyst

With Vora

  • One API covers every connected source
  • Built for automation: API keys, JSON, predictable responses
  • Every record follows the same schema, whatever its source
  • Scheduled ingestion keeps data fresh, daily or weekly depending on the source
  • Seconds per lookup, or fully automated

Vora aggregates, normalizes, and serves that data through a single REST API. One call returns structured, up-to-date records from all sources: no scraping, no manual lookups, no custom integrations.

Why today's options fall short​

Manual processes

Spreadsheets and calendar reminders are still the norm at most firms.

Enterprise RegTech platforms

Products like LexisNexis or Thomson Reuters offer compliance data, but they are expensive, slow to integrate, and not built for developers.

DIY scraping

Some engineering teams build their own scrapers, but keeping them working as government portals change is a full-time job.

How Vora works​

  1. Step 1
    Collect

    Scheduled ingestion jobs pull data from each source on a regular cadence.

  2. Step 2
    Normalize

    Every record is converted into Vora's unified schema and stored in Vora's database.

  3. Step 3
    Serve

    Developers query it through standard REST endpoints using an API key.

Always fresh

Ingestion runs daily or weekly, depending on the source.

Always consistent

Every record follows the same schema, regardless of where it came from.

Always traceable

Every record includes the original source URL, so it can be verified.

The value in one sentence

Vora turns a multi-hour manual compliance workflow into a single API call. It saves analyst time, enables automation, and gives developers the data infrastructure to build compliance products without maintaining their own scraping pipelines.

Who it is for​

Vora is built for two primary audiences:

  1. Compliance teams at banks and fintechs who need to monitor counterparties and stay ahead of regulatory actions.
  2. Developers and engineers building compliance workflows, internal tools, or RegTech products, who need reliable data infrastructure they don't have to maintain themselves.

In practice, that means three kinds of users:

Compliance analyst

Works at a bank, fintech, or financial services firm, monitoring counterparties, screening new customers, and tracking regulatory activity. Spends hours each week on manual portal checks. Vora makes that work faster and more reliable, or removes it entirely once their engineering team automates it.

Compliance engineer

Builds automated compliance workflows, internal tools, or data pipelines at a fintech or RegTech company. Needs reliable, structured regulatory data but doesn't want to build and maintain scrapers. Vora is their data layer.

RegTech vendor

A B2B software company building compliance products for banks or fintechs. Needs regulatory data as an ingredient in its own product. Vora lets them embed that data without owning the infrastructure behind it.

Vora is not built for:

  • Individual consumers looking up their own records
  • Legal teams looking for case research tools
  • Companies that need real-time sanctions screening. That is a future vertical, not part of MVP 1.

Key features​

MVP 1
Enforcement action search

Search and filter enforcement actions across FinCEN, the CFPB, the OCC, and the Federal Reserve from a single endpoint.

MVP 1
Multi-source coverage

Every endpoint returns data from all connected sources by default. Filter by source, action type, date range, and entity name.

MVP 1
Scheduled data ingestion

Vora pulls fresh data from every source on a regular cadence. No manual refresh required.

MVP 1
API key authentication

Simple, secure access with API keys. No OAuth flows, no complex setup.

MVP 2
License status lookup

Active and historical licensing data for regulated entities across all 50 states, through NMLS.

What Vora is not​

A data API, not a decision engine

Vora surfaces regulatory information. It does not tell you whether to approve or reject a counterparty: that logic lives in your system, and Vora gives you the data to make the call. It is also out of scope for Vora to provide:

  • KYC decisioning: no approve or reject recommendations
  • Legal advice: Vora is a data tool, not a compliance advisory service
  • Consumer records: Vora is not built for individuals looking up their own records

What success looks like​

Paying customers
3
Within 3 months of launch
Paying customers
10
Within 6 months of launch
Churn from data quality
0
No customer leaves over data quality or reliability
For compliance teams

An analyst can check any company's regulatory history in seconds instead of hours. Manual portal checks disappear, or shrink to edge cases.

For developers

A developer can integrate Vora into a compliance workflow in under a day. The API is predictable, well documented, and needs no custom parsing or source-specific logic.

The bigger picture​

Vora becomes the default data infrastructure layer for compliance teams and RegTech builders who need regulatory data without the overhead of maintaining it themselves.