It was an unexpected but pleasant surprise to see a paper I wrote appear in my inbox earlier this week; thank you for all of your paper writeups, I find them quite useful!
You're right that the customer screening side was a bit undercooked in that paper. Sarah Carter and I wrote up a few more thoughts on Customer Screening late last year (whitepaper summarized / linked here: https://ibbis.bio/translating-customer-screening-guidance-into-practical-tools/) and EBRC and IBBIS now working on an enforceable minimal KYC standard... it also feels like early days with tools like Cliver (recent preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.27.708645v1), TwentyTwo, and Aclid's expanded KYC support; providers increasingly don't have to DIY that part of the screening process, which I think makes it reasonable to ask for higher standards.
Thanks, Tessa! Really glad the writeups are landing well, and thanks so much for reading!
And thanks for the links to your screening whitepaper and the Cliver preprint, I hadn't seen either of those yet. Both are on my reading list. Your point about providers not having to DIY the KYC piece anymore is well taken, and it does seem like the right moment to push for higher standards now that tooling is catching up. Looking forward to seeing what comes out of the EBRC/IBBIS work on enforceable KYC.
It was an unexpected but pleasant surprise to see a paper I wrote appear in my inbox earlier this week; thank you for all of your paper writeups, I find them quite useful!
You're right that the customer screening side was a bit undercooked in that paper. Sarah Carter and I wrote up a few more thoughts on Customer Screening late last year (whitepaper summarized / linked here: https://ibbis.bio/translating-customer-screening-guidance-into-practical-tools/) and EBRC and IBBIS now working on an enforceable minimal KYC standard... it also feels like early days with tools like Cliver (recent preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.27.708645v1), TwentyTwo, and Aclid's expanded KYC support; providers increasingly don't have to DIY that part of the screening process, which I think makes it reasonable to ask for higher standards.
Thanks, Tessa! Really glad the writeups are landing well, and thanks so much for reading!
And thanks for the links to your screening whitepaper and the Cliver preprint, I hadn't seen either of those yet. Both are on my reading list. Your point about providers not having to DIY the KYC piece anymore is well taken, and it does seem like the right moment to push for higher standards now that tooling is catching up. Looking forward to seeing what comes out of the EBRC/IBBIS work on enforceable KYC.
Good paper! Thanks for the tip. https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/ai-customer-screening-dna-synthesis