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From 21 days to 24 hours

B2B client onboarding / KYC

Your onboarding process has nine steps, and a new client cools off while it runs. Agents read documents, verify registers and create master data; people make the decisions where they are needed.

21 daysis how long client onboarding takes at this example leasing company. 19 of them are spent waiting for someone to re-type data.

Executive summary

Challenge

Onboarding and KYC stretched over weeks; revenue and the client wait for paperwork.

What changes

Agents read documents (IXP), verify registers and create data; Maestro™ drives the case end-to-end.

Business value

Time-to-revenue from weeks to days; no lost applications; every check leaves a trail.

Systems & scope

CRM, registers (company/VAT), SAP/core, archive; UiPath agents + IXP + Action Center.

Illustrative scenario

Leasing, 400 applications a month

Sales sends the document pack. Operations re-types data into the CRM, someone else checks registers, a third person creates the client in the core system. At every handoff the application waits in a queue.

Meanwhile the client receives a competitor's offer. Deals that go cold this way appear in no report.

The current reality

  1. HumanSales collects documents and emails them on
  2. WaitingThe application waits in the operations inbox
  3. HumanData re-typed manually into the CRM
  4. HumanManual checks: company register, VAT, sanctions lists
  5. Error riskA VAT-ID typo caught only at invoicing
  6. WaitingWaiting for signatures and missing items
  7. HumanClient creation in the core system and archiving
HumanWaitingError risk

The hidden cost of the current process

A process where 90% of the time is waiting

  • 300 hours a month of re-typing and checking data.
  • Every day of delay is a day without revenue from a de-facto signed deal.
  • With manual KYC, quality depends on the day of the week and team load.

The cost of doing nothing

A year of manual application work≈ 100 800 €
3 years of the same process≈ 302 400 €
Deals gone cold across 21-day waitsnot visible in reports

You pay for the automation once; the manual process costs you again every month.

The process after automation

  1. AutomationThe agent reads the application and documents in a minute (IXP)
  2. AutomationAutomatic register and list verification
  3. AutomationData created in CRM and core without re-typing
  4. HumanAn analyst decides only in elevated-risk cases
  5. AutomationClient active; full document set archived with a trail
HumanAutomation

What the automation handles

  • Reading and validating registration documents
  • Register and sanctions-list checks
  • Creating consistent data across all systems

When a human decides

  • KYC decisions on elevated risk
  • Deviations from standard terms
  • Conversations with the client

Before

Onboarding time~21 days
Data re-typing3 systems
Manual work / application~45 min
Documentation completenesscaught late

After

Onboarding time~24 h
Data re-typing0
Manual work / applicationrisk cases only
Documentation completenesschecked in minute one

Value model: example assumptions

Illustrative model
400 applications × 45 min of manual work= 300 h / month
300 h × €28 hourly cost= 8 400 € / month
12 months× 12
Annual capacity released≈ 100 800 €

Business benefits

  • A client active in 24 h, so sales closes while the decision is fresh
  • Applications no longer get lost between inboxes
  • KYC of constant, auditable quality regardless of workload
  • The operations team works on verification and exceptions

Board-level KPIs affected

time-to-revenue · cost per onboarding · drop-off rate · compliance findings

What management gains

  • A live onboarding funnel: where each application sits
  • Measurable SLAs towards sales
  • A compliance trail ready for any audit

Estimate it for your organisation

hours released per month
annual capacity released

An illustrative estimate based on your inputs. It models released capacity and is not a savings promise.

Systems in this scenario

Inputs

  • CRM / application form
  • PDF documents and scans (IXP)
  • Registers: KRS, VIES, sanctions

Mientha agentic layer

  • UiPath Agent Builder
  • UiPath robots
  • Maestro™ · Action Center

Core systems

  • Core system / SAP
  • CRM
  • Document archive

Human approval: Teams / Action Center

What we deliver

  • An onboarding map with handoff-time measurement
  • A document agent (IXP) reading the full application pack
  • Automated register and sanctions checks
  • Robot-driven data creation in CRM and core
  • A risk path with human decisions in Action Center
  • An SLA dashboard and compliance report

What we need to start

  • 20 sample applications with documents
  • The required-field list for CRM and core
  • KYC risk criteria (even draft ones)
  • Test access to CRM and core

Implementation roadmap

Discovery

We map the process, data and exceptions with process owners.

Design

Target flow, business rules, approval thresholds.

Build

Agents, robots and integrations in your environment.

Validate

Tests on real cases, exception handling.

Go-live

Controlled rollout with human oversight.

Optimise

Monitoring, reporting and continuous improvement.

Duration depends on the number of systems and rules; a single process usually takes a few weeks.

Risk and controls

Autonomy under control

  • Elevated-risk cases always go to an analyst
  • Every check logged with source and timestamp
  • Personal data processed only in your environment
  • Four-eyes control for risk-rule changes

Why now

  • Every week cut from onboarding is a week of revenue gained on every deal
  • KYC requirements keep growing, and the manual process will only get slower
  • Clients compare you with fintechs

Why this matters to:

CEO

Sales growth without proportional back-office growth.

CFO

Faster revenue and KYC with a full audit trail.

Sales Director

The client is active before competitors answer their email.

Questions we usually hear

"Compliance will never accept automation in KYC."

We automate fact gathering and verification; risk decisions stay with people. Compliance gets a full record of every check.

"Our applications arrive in dozens of formats."

IXP reads formats you cannot standardise, and a pilot on 20 real applications shows the exact straight-through rate.

"We already have a portal; clients enter data themselves."

A portal shifts typing to the client, but verification, cross-system consistency and exceptions are still yours. Agents take over that part.

When this may not be the right solution

  • A dozen high-margin onboardings a month: the team can handle them manually
  • The process is unstable: required documents change monthly
  • The core system is being replaced: finish the migration first

A question for your next board meeting

If onboarding took a day, how many more deals from last quarter would you have closed?

How many clients changed their mind between day 1 and day 21?

A one-hour workshop with the process owner is enough to show which of the nine steps disappear.

Let us map your onboarding

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