# How Payward (Kraken) uses Bretton AI (formerly Greenlite)

**52,000 hours**: “recovered over 52,000 hours of manual work”

As published on [bretton.com](https://www.bretton.com/case-studies/payward-parent-company-of-kraken-saves-52-000-hours-of-manual-compliance-work-with-bretton-ai). Captured by usedby on 2026-10-07.

- Company: [Payward (Kraken)](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/payward-kraken.md)
- Tool: [Bretton AI (formerly Greenlite)](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/bretton-ai.md)
- Teams: Compliance

## What the story says

Payward, the parent company of Kraken, uses Bretton's AI agents to automate compliance case work across its seven entities, including document review, ownership and adverse media verification, complex entity due diligence, and high-risk country screening.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of Bretton AI (formerly Greenlite) and Payward (Kraken), not ours.

> Since full integration, Bretton's agents have reviewed more than 21,000 cases and recovered over 52,000 hours of manual work.

- **21,000**: “Since full integration, Bretton's agents have reviewed more than 21,000 cases and recovered over 52,000 hours of manual work.”
- **2.5 hours**: “Case handling time is down 2.5 hours per review, allowing Payward to reduce its contractor workforce by 33%, from approximately 300 to 200.”
- **2,000**: “Bretton now processes approximately 2,000 cases a month for Payward across seven entities.”
- **2.5 times**: “In the first 90 days after launch, case volume grew 2.5 times, and Payward successfully handled the increase without adding headcount or compromising on investigation quality.”

> We are not looking for tools that replace analysts — we always look for infrastructure that makes our analysts more effective and Bretton's architecture was built with this perspective in mind.
>
> CJ Rinaldi, Chief Compliance Officer, Payward & Kraken

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-10-07.

- Checked: the figure 52,000 hours is printed word for word on the page, near the name of Payward (Kraken).
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of Payward (Kraken).
- Checked: Payward (Kraken) uses Bretton AI (formerly Greenlite). Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-10-07.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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