KYB Readiness Score
10 questions to see how much of your business-verification flow is held together with duct tape.
How do you verify that a business actually exists?
How the score works
10 questions, 4 options each (0–3 points), 30 possible total. Add them up, find your tier, get your playbook. Easy.
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At Risk
0–9Manual registry lookups, self-declared ownership and slow onboarding.
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Developing
10–17Registry data in place, but ownership unwrapping and monitoring are still manual.
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Solid
18–24Automated entity and UBO verification, with room to compress onboarding time.
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Best-in-Class
25–30Automated, continuously monitored business verification at scale.
📌 Themes covered
Entity verification · UBO discovery · Registry coverage · Onboarding speed · Document collection · Risk scoring · People screening · Ongoing monitoring · Audit readiness · Confidence.
📚 Sources we drew from
FATF Recommendations, the Wolfsberg Group AML principles, FinCEN guidance, and patterns we've seen across Zyphe customers in fintech, banking, crypto, marketplaces and gaming.
After the score, the work
Use these alongside your readiness score to close the highest-leverage gaps first.
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KYC Software
Automate identity verification end-to-end.
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KYB Software
Verify legal entities and beneficial owners.
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AML Software
Continuous AML, sanctions and PEP screening.
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Decentralised KYC
Reusable KYC for privacy-first onboarding.
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Compliance Guides
In-depth playbooks by region and use case.
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More Quizzes
KYC, KYB, combined, AML and CaaS - find your next score.
Common questions
- What is the KYB Readiness Score?
- A KYB readiness assessment is a structured scoring of how mature your Know Your Business programme is across entity verification, UBO discovery, registry coverage, ongoing monitoring and audit-readiness. Zyphe's free 10-question assessment scores you out of 30 and places you in one of four tiers - At Risk, Developing, Solid, or Best-in-Class - with tier-specific next steps.
- How does the score work?
- Each of the 10 questions has four answer options worth 0, 1, 2 or 3 points. The maximum total is 30. Scores are mapped to one of four tiers - At Risk (0-9), Developing (10-17), Solid (18-24), Best-in-Class (25-30) - each with concrete next steps.
- How long does the quiz take?
- About 3 minutes. Questions are multiple-choice and based on day-to-day operating decisions.
- Who is this quiz for?
- Compliance officers, fintech and B2B platform founders, KYB operations and onboarding managers
- Is the quiz free?
- Yes. The quiz is free. We ask for a work email at the end so we can send you the full report and tier-specific recommendations.
- What does the report include?
- Your tier rating, a written diagnosis of your current state, a tier-specific recommendation (book a demo, get the gap-fix guide, benchmark against peers, or join our thought-leadership track), and a breakdown of every answer.