Alphy Adds Monica Alvarez-Mitchell and Radicle Impact’s Dan Skaff to Board as HarmCheck Gains Traction in Financial Services and Legal AI

Alphy, the company behind HarmCheck, announced that investor Monica Alvarez-Mitchell and Radicle Impact co-founder Dan Skaff have joined its board of directors, marking another step forward for the fast-rising AI company as it expands across financial services, legal, and other highly regulated markets.

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The appointments follow a strategic investment from Alvarez-Mitchell and additional backing from Radicle Impact as demand accelerates for AI that can detect unlawful and high-risk language across digital communications, before it becomes a regulatory issue, legal exposure, or reputational event.

HarmCheck operates as a real-time protection layer across modern communication systems, as well as a rapid-response analytics engine for large retrospective datasets such as eDiscovery. The platform deploys nearly 50 proprietary AI classifiers, trained with human-led precision, to surface context that traditional keyword-based systems routinely miss. (Forbes on HarmCheck). One platform. Two defenses: always-on active-listening protection and rapid response crisis analysis.

Unlike legacy tools that rely heavily on static rules, HarmCheck identifies a wide range of conduct risks, including insider trading, document tampering, unfair lending, off-channel communication, harassment, discrimination, and threats.

Communications surveillance is among the fastest-growing segments of compliance software, projected to grow from approximately $5 billion in 2025 to $12 billion by 2033. Meanwhile, the broader regulatory compliance technology market is expected to surpass $70 billion by 2030, and the legal technology market is projected to exceed $50 billion over the next decade. AI adoption in legal services alone jumped to 79% in 2024 from 19% the prior year.

“Regulated industries are reaching a breaking point,” said Monica Alvarez-Mitchell. “A single message can create regulatory exposure, litigation risk, or reputational damage. What impressed me about Alphy is that HarmCheck is built to understand context with the rigor required for real-world use. This can become an essential layer of protection for organizations navigating increasingly complex communications risk.”

Alvarez-Mitchell is the founder and CEO of Pulse Creative, an award-winning global creative and strategy agency. Through longstanding work with clients in technology, financial services, and professional services, including Alvarez & Marsal Private Wealth Partners, Persistent Systems, Consello, and Broadfield Law, she brings valuable connectivity to the sectors where HarmCheck is seeing early demand.

“Monica brings tremendous strategic value and creativity to Alphy,” said Julian Guthrie, CEO and founder. “She understands how companies build trust, how markets evolve, and how important it is for AI to solve real business problems rather than generate more noise.”

Dan Skaff, who co-founded Radicle Impact with impact investing pioneer Kat Taylor, joined Alphy’s board to help the company scale. Skaff previously served as co-CEO, president, and vice chair of Beneficial State Bank.

“Every organization is sitting on a growing volume of digital communication that carries legal and reputational exposure,” said Skaff. “HarmCheck brings precision to surfacing that risk, and helps stop harm to individuals, from discrimination and harassment to threats and retaliation.”

Guthrie praised the focus of Skaff and his team at Radicle Impact, who led the company’s recent financing round. “Radicle Impact invests in companies with real-world impact and helps scale them into strong market performers,” Guthrie said.

In financial services, HarmCheck enables active listening across communications surveillance and conduct monitoring, where context is everything. Its rapid deploy engine accelerates eDiscovery and enterprise-wide analytics, quickly surfacing themes, risks, and evidence across datasets.

“Our strategy is to start where the pain is sharpest, and the existing tools are weakest,” Guthrie said. “From there, we’re building a new standard for how organizations understand and manage communication risk.”

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