Software that prepares. Professionals who decide.
Vigilae is AML/CFT compliance software for regulated professions outside banking. This page says who publishes it, how we write what you read here, and what the software will never do in your place.
A French company you can identify
Vigilae is published by a company registered in France. Here is its identity, as recorded in the French Trade and Companies Register.
- Company name
- VIGILAE
- Legal form
- Simplified joint-stock company with a sole shareholder (SASU)
- Share capital
- €1,000.00
- Registered office
- 4 ZA Les Grands Prés, 01170 Chevry, France
- Registration
- Bourg-en-Bresse Trade and Companies Register (R.C.S.) — SIREN 108 950 528
The president, the hosting provider and the publication director are named in the legal notice. The providers that process data on our behalf are listed, with their country, on the Processors page.
Vigilae prepares, the human decides, the reporting professional remains solely responsible
The whole product rests on that sentence. It decides what the software does, and above all what it refuses to do.
Vigilae prepares
At your request, the AI reads the documents you give it: identity documents, company register extracts, articles of association, proof of source of funds. A deterministic engine calculates the risk and reconstructs ownership chains. Screening checks the sanctions, asset-freeze and politically exposed person lists. Every step leaves a dated trace.
The human decides
The software never accepts or refuses a business relationship on its own. You confirm every piece of information kept, and you make the call. The AI perceives, the engine calculates; the decision stays yours.
You remain solely responsible
Vigilae prepares the suspicious activity report and its export, in ERMES format for France or in goAML format for the units that use it. It never sends it: filing remains your act, and your responsibility.
What Vigilae is not
A compliance tool that promises too much ends up exposing the people who rely on it. So here, plainly, is what we are not.
- Legal advice. Vigilae is not legal advice. Our guides inform; they do not replace the opinion of a lawyer or of your professional body on your situation.
- A reporting party. The software never sends a suspicious activity report in your place, to any financial intelligence unit.
- A supervisor. Only your supervisor can say whether your framework is compliant. Vigilae helps you show it; it does not certify it.
- A certified body. We hold no certification today, so we display none. What we can show is described, with its dates, on the Trust & security page.
How we write the guides
The Resources section gathers guides on AML/CFT: the obligations of each profession, beneficial ownership, politically exposed persons, asset freezes, the AMLR. This is how they are made.
- Signed Vigilae. The guides appear under the publisher's name, with no author named.
- Sourced. Each guide names the texts it relies on: the French statutes it describes, EU regulations and directives, and supervisors' guidelines where they exist. You can read them at the source, on Légifrance and EUR-Lex.
- Dated. Each guide shows the date of its last review. That date moves only when the article itself has been reread and updated; regenerating the site does not touch it.
- Placed in their jurisdiction. Most guides are written in French and describe French law. They say so in their opening lines, and point readers in Belgium and Luxembourg to their own authorities.
- Informative. A guide is not an opinion on your file, and each one says so under its review date.
- Corrected when needed. A text has changed, a sentence looks wrong? Write to contact@vigilae.org. The correction shows in the article's review date.
- Translated, not yet reviewed. French is the drafting language. The site exists in the 24 official languages of the EU; these versions are translations, and none has yet been reviewed by a native speaker. This page and the Press page exist only in French and English for now.
Where we read the law
We start from the texts, not from what is said about them. The sources we cite most often:
- EUR-Lex, for EU law: Regulation (EU) 2024/1624, known as the AMLR, applicable from 10 July 2027, and Directive (EU) 2024/1640;
- AMLA, the EU Anti-Money Laundering Authority, based in Frankfurt;
- for France, Légifrance for the statutes, and the French authorities: TRACFIN, which receives suspicious activity reports, and the supervisor of each profession (AMF, ACPR, DGCCRF, professional bodies);
- for the other Member States, the European coverage page, which names, country by country, the financial intelligence unit and the supervisor of each profession, with the text they rest on.
Write to us
A question about the software, a mistake in a guide: contact@vigilae.org. For an article, the press release, the logo and the film are on the Press page.