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Cali vs. TRM, Chainalysis, Elliptic, and other analytics vendors.

Teams often deploy tools from providers like TRM Labs, Chainalysis, Elliptic, and others for screening and network analysis. Cali is built to complement or, in some environments, replace these tools as the place where investigations actually get worked, written, and defended. Cali investigations span on-chain activity, centralized execution, and fiat-linked records.

Instead of competing on a single score or one visualization, Cali focuses on the end-to-end investigation: activity intake, flows, OSINT posture, balances, contract behavior, and report drafts in a single system, with an AI layer that understands the case.

Put simply

Cali is an investigation workspace, not just an analytics console.

Legacy blockchain analytics tools are excellent at network views, screening, and alerting. Cali is built for the work that happens after the alert: tracing flows, assessing risk, pulling in OSINT, and drafting narratives and reports that can withstand supervisory and legal review.

Where Cali sits
  • • Many teams keep existing tools (TRM, Chainalysis, Elliptic) for screening, then use Cali as the primary investigations hub.
  • • Some teams adopt Cali first, then add or maintain other providers for redundancy and external data coverage.
  • • In all cases, Cali is evaluated on whether cases are faster, clearer, and easier to defend.
High-level comparison

The table below is not a scorecard for any particular vendor. Instead, it summarizes how Cali positions itself relative to the way many teams use tools from TRM, Chainalysis, Elliptic, and other analytics platforms today.

Dimension
Cali
Typical analytics platforms*
What this means in practice
Primary focus
End-to-end investigations: from intake and tracing to written, review-ready outputs.
Network analytics, screening, alerting, and visualizations (varies by vendor and deployment).
Cali is where analysts spend time when building a case; other tools often remain upstream for signals and supplementary views.
Activity coverage
Multi-rail normalization: on-chain activity, centralized execution, and fiat-linked records unified into a single investigation model.
Primarily on-chain blockchain data and network analysis; centralized and fiat-linked coverage varies by vendor.
Cali normalizes activity across all three rails, allowing investigators to see the full picture of exposure and behavior in one place.
Surfaces
Activity, Pivot, Graph, Centralized Market Intelligence, OSINT Intelligence, Balance, Assets, Contract Intelligence, Report Station, Resources.
Typically: alerts, address/entity profiles, graph/network views, screening outputs, and case notes.
Cali consolidates surfaces specific to AML, fraud, forensics, and OSINT work, all tied back to the same case context.
AI orientation
AI is applied across all surfaces to explain activity, flows, contracts, OSINT posture, and draft reports—always tied to concrete filters and time windows.
AI usage and depth varies by provider; often focused on entity risk, scoring, or select workflows.
Cali's AI layer behaves more like an analyst embedded in the workspace, with multi-voice narratives and risk rationales rather than single scores.
Narratives & reporting
Report Station with AI-drafted summaries, findings, provenance sections, exhibits, and exports intended for SAR-style or court-facing materials.
Case notes, exports, and integrations back into case systems; reporting features vary by vendor.
Cali is opinionated about output structure, helping teams produce documents that can be read, challenged, and defended long after the investigation closes.
OSINT treatment
Dedicated OSINT Intelligence surface for sanctions, PEP, adverse media, complaints, victim systems, and community intel aligned to entities and cases.
Screening and risk views integrated into entity profiles; OSINT scope and presentation styles differ across vendors.
With Cali, OSINT posture is treated as part of the investigation record, not just a pre-check or isolated alert.
Modularity & fit
CALI modules are licensed individually or together, allowing teams to purchase exactly what they need.
Some vendors are adopted as all-in-one solutions; others fill a specific screening or analytics niche.
Cali emphasizes co-existence: it can sit alongside existing deployments and gradually take on more of the investigation workflow.
Auditability
Every narrative and risk explanation is tied to traceable filters, views, and underlying events. The goal is to be re-readable months or years later.
Many tools provide robust histories and case notes; depth of written rationale and narrative guidance varies.
Cali is oriented toward supervisory and legal expectations from the outset: clear fact patterns, explanations, and exhibits.

*“Typical analytics platforms” here refers to how many teams describe their use of tools from TRM Labs, Chainalysis, Elliptic, and similar providers today. Exact capabilities and configurations differ by vendor and deployment.

When teams look at Cali vs. TRM, Chainalysis, Elliptic

When teams lean toward traditional analytics vendors

  • They need broad screening coverage and watchlist support as a primary requirement.
  • They are focused on a single workflow (e.g., exchange compliance) and are standardizing on an existing vendor chosen at group or regional level.
  • They want network views tightly integrated with a particular external data provider or law-enforcement partnership.

When teams bring in Cali

  • They need a unified workspace for investigations across activity, flows, balances, OSINT, and reporting.
  • They want AI to help with explanations and narratives, but not replace human judgment or accountability.
  • They care about how cases read six months later—to auditors, supervisors, or courts—as much as they care about the initial alert.
  • They want the flexibility to license specific modules and scale into a full platform as value is proven.
See Cali next to your current stack

Bring real cases and compare Cali to your existing tools.

In a typical evaluation, we work side-by-side with tools like TRM, Chainalysis, and Elliptic on your real alerts, victim reports, or investigations. The goal is simple: see whether Cali makes cases clearer, faster, and easier to defend.