In short
How does Helios discover and verify illegal gambling and streaming activity?
An engagement is scoped to one jurisdiction, one practice and one period. Helios's proprietary, AI-driven discovery engine then sweeps that practice's public channels in the local language. Every result is checked against the official register, related findings are traced to the operator behind them, a human expert confirms each one, and the confirmed findings are delivered as a report in which every entry carries tamper-evident, independently verifiable evidence and the record of how it was found.
1. Commission
A regulator or authority requests an engagement. The practice, the jurisdiction, the period and the local coverage are defined up front, including the languages searched and the registers used for verification.
2. Collect
Helios's proprietary discovery engine runs on demand across the practice's channels, in the local language, for that jurisdiction and that period only. Every observation is captured at the moment it is made: the page as served, the advert as shown, the listing as published. Each capture is made tamper-evident as it is taken, so a third party can later verify that nothing was altered.
3. Validate
In-house machine learning sorts the findings so analysts review what matters. Every finding is cross-referenced against the official register and approved lists; licensed operators are recorded and set aside. Shared signals between findings are surfaced so an analyst can group them into operators. A human expert then reviews every finding, confirming identity and rejecting noise, before anything is recorded as a result.
4. Deliver
Confirmed results are compiled into the jurisdiction's report, ranked by audience intelligence, with registration data and hosting details where public records provide them. Every entry's evidence is tamper-evident and independently verifiable: a third party can confirm it has not changed since it was captured, without relying on Helios. The engagement's complete history stays available: what was searched, what was found, what was rejected and why.
What Helios does not do
- It does not use restricted information or anything behind a login. Publicly available information only.
- It does not declare a site illegal. It records the site's status against the register and the evidence of targeting; the determination is the regulator's.
- It does not group domains into operators automatically. The grouping is an analyst's recorded decision.
Frequently asked questions
- Why should regulatory intelligence findings be human-reviewed?
- Because a finding in a regulator's report may be acted on. Automated discovery is thorough but literal; an analyst confirms that a site is what it appears to be, rejects false matches and records the reasoning, so the report stands up to challenge.
- What should an enforcement evidence trail contain?
- What was served, when it was captured, where it was observed from, and who handled the record afterwards. Helios captures the full response rather than a rendering, timestamps it independently and keeps it tamper-evident, so a third party can verify it later.
- Can a third party verify the evidence?
- Yes. Every capture is tamper-evident and independently verifiable, so a court, a counterparty or an auditor can confirm it is unchanged since it was taken without relying on Helios's word.
- How long does an engagement take?
- It depends on the practice and the market. Discovery for one jurisdiction and one period is typically a matter of weeks, with the analyst review the longest step.
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