Celent Analyst Report: Castellum.AI Adverse Media
Celent names Castellum.AI a Functionality Standout for Adverse Media Screening in 2026.
Celent analyzed 25 adverse media vendors and recognized Castellum.AI’s Adverse Media solution as a Functionality Standout. The report evaluates each provider based on their ability to screen and analyze adverse media and other external data to surface customer risks, support enhanced due diligence (EDD) and perpetual KYC (pKYC).
The recognition reflects how Castellum.AI eliminates noise before alerts reach an analyst.
Data ingestion and enrichment: 200,000+ global sources, refreshed and enriched in real time.
Victim, perpetrator and bystander analysis: We identify the subject’s role in the story to drive down false positives.
AI summaries: Each alert comes with structured context for the underlying article, including what happened, why it matched and what the risk signal is.
100+ customizable categories: Define which adverse media categories align to each institution’s risk appetite.
Relevance-based screening: Our algorithm matches on relevance, not just keyword proximity.
Arbiter Adverse Media Agent: Alert review, adjudication and documentation that instantly resolves false positives and surfaces relevant risk to analysts.
“Castellum.AI brings a lot to the table, including extensive proprietary adverse media data, scalable throughput, and a rich library of risk categories, all topped off by agentic AI-based remediation.”
- Neil Katkov, PhD, Director at Celent and author of the report
Featured Resource
Adverse Media Buyer’s Guide
A practical framework for evaluating adverse media solutions built for real-time compliance.
Data coverage: Why global, local and sector-specific sources are critical.
Real-time capabilities: How real-time monitoring prevents compliance gaps.
Screening features: How advanced filtering, risk categorization and relevancy scoring reduce false positives and surface genuine risks.
Data integrity: Why source reliability and enrichment ensure defensible decisions.
Vendor evaluation: Key questions to ask when assessing adverse media vendors.