In short
How does regulatory intelligence support a regulator's enforcement work?
It turns an estimate into a list. A regulator usually knows its market is leaking; it rarely knows which sites, run by whom, reaching how many people. A Helios engagement delivers that list for one jurisdiction and one period: found by an AI-driven discovery engine, verified against the register, confirmed by a human expert and carrying tamper-evident evidence, so blocking, payment and referral actions can be prepared from the report itself.
Can AI help find illegal gambling sites?
Yes, and at a scale no team reaches by hand. Helios runs a proprietary, AI-driven, multilingual discovery engine across the channels players use in a jurisdiction, and models developed in-house separate the operators from the noise. Audience intelligence then ranks what was found, so the operations reaching the most people come first. The technology finds and prioritises; it does not decide.
Can the evidence be verified?
Yes. Every finding carries evidence captured at the moment of observation, and that evidence is tamper-evident and independently verifiable: a third party can confirm it has not changed since it was taken, without relying on Helios. Nothing is inferred and nothing is guessed. Every finding carries the channel it came from, the evidence behind it and the expert who confirmed it. The report is written to survive the question every enforcement action eventually meets: prove it looked like that when you saw it.
Does a human decide?
Always. A human expert confirms every finding before it is recorded, keeps unapproved distinct from confirmed illegal, and records the reasoning. Whether an operator is unlicensed in your jurisdiction is a determination only the regulator makes; Helios records the evidence underneath it.
What you receive
- A report scoped to your jurisdiction and period, with unapproved and confirmed illegal findings recorded as distinct categories
- Operators, not just domains: the groups behind the sites and the domains each one runs
- Findings ordered by estimated audience so the largest operations come first
- Tamper-evident, independently verifiable evidence for every entry, ready for proceedings
- The complete engagement history with a tamper-evident evidence trail
Engagement shape
Engagements are on demand and scoped: one jurisdiction, one practice, one period, one deliverable. Many regulators commission a first engagement to size the problem, then a recurring one to track it. Both are the same method; the recurring one adds the history that shows what changed.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Helios detect?
- Unlicensed gambling operators and unapproved streaming sites targeting a specified jurisdiction, found from publicly available information and confirmed by an analyst.
- Does Helios automatically declare a site illegal?
- No. The method distinguishes unapproved from confirmed illegal, and every finding is reviewed by a human analyst. The determination remains the regulator's.
- Which jurisdictions does Helios cover?
- Any jurisdiction with a public register of licensees or an approved list. Helios has run discovery across 28 European markets for the Euromat study and runs jurisdiction engagements on demand.
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