The detection layer for gambling in financial data
We turn the gray market that merchant-category codes miss — sweepstakes casinos, prediction markets, skin markets, and P2P book settlement — into a factual, auditable classification. Banks, processors, and clinical teams use it to see gambling exposure their current filters score as clean.
Why we exist
MCC filtering was built for a market that no longer exists. The US gray market doesn’t carry the codes, and the account holders most exposed are the youngest. We close that gap at the layer where it actually settles: the transaction. Classifications are factual, never accusatory; the account holder always controls enrollment.
One engine, one source of truth
A single canonical registry of gambling and gray-market entities, their payment signatures, and their legal status across 51 jurisdictions. Different policies per customer, never different facts. Products run on the engine; the engine is the asset.
Factual, never accusatory
Classifications describe what an entity does.
The account holder is in control
Enrollment is always opt-in.
One canonical registry
Same facts for everyone; policies set per customer.
A small team building deliberately
Detect The Bet is founder-led and early by design. We’re building the engine and earning the first pilots before we scale the team.
Founding engineering and partnerships roles open soon — see careers
We’re not hiring broadly yet
We’re heads-down on the engine and the first pilots. We’ll open founding roles once that work is funded and proven. If you’re exceptional at detection systems, ML evaluation, or financial-infrastructure partnerships and this problem pulls at you, reach out anyway — we keep a short list.
Introduce yourself at [NEEDS: careers/hiring email]
Talk to us
Start with a free exposure audit, or book a call with the team.
Contact details only — never send transaction data through a web form.
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