Your embedded risk team.

Your embedded risk team.

Expert Support for Fraud, Ops, and Eng — From the Teams Behind Stripe, Mercury & Interac Risk.

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MEET THE TEAM

Founded by an all-star team.

Misha and Tahin met at Stripe, where they worked on high-scale risk and fraud systems — blending machine learning with distributed systems to protect billions in payments. Across roles at Stripe, Mercury, and Interac, they've spent over a decade building risk systems that turns real-world signals into actionable insight.

With deep experience across AI, engineering, and data science, they started Canonical Labs to solve a hard but common problem: how to catch fraud faster, scale ops without adding headcount, and bring clarity to messy signals. Their work helps financial institutions reduce losses, improve decision systems, and build automation.

Canonical partners with high-growth teams to tackle the problems that traditional vendors ignore — from reducing alert fatigue to unblocking approvals, accelerating market expansion, and bringing AI into production risk workflows.

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SERVICES

Expert risk support that scale with you

Fraud Mitigation

We analyze your fraud losses and product vulnerabilities, then deliver a targeted plan to reduce exposure.

Reduce your fraud losses

Alert Optimization

Dealing with large alerts backlog? We cut through noisy alerts by improving signal quality and reducing operational overload on your risk team.

Deal with noisy alerts

AI Automation

We prototype AI workflows to unlock automation opportunities without burdening your engineers.

Say goodbye to manual tasks

Revenue Unlock

We review your existing risk stack to highlight opportunities to safely approve more good users — without increasing fraud exposure.

Increase your growth

Clients

Who we work with

From fraud prevention to smarter decisioning, we help teams move faster and scale with confidence.

FINTECHS

From Seed to Scale

Whether you are launching a new product or expanding into new markets, we help fintechs navigate fraud risk, streamline ops, and stay ahead of threats — without growing headcount.

RISK EXECUTIVES

Less noise - sharper decisions

We work with CROs, heads of risk, and fraud leads to reduce alert fatigue, improve decision quality, and bring AI-driven automation into production.

FOUNDERS & CEOs

Unlock Growth

We pinpoint what is slowing you down and fix it fast — so fraud filters, ops bottlenecks, and vague metrics do not hold your teams back.