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Certified AI Investigator, Level 1 — GAFA × IIRIS Consulting

Certified AI
Investigator Course

An Initiative by
GAFA and IIRIS Consulting
Level 01  /  Foundations

An artificial intelligence certification for investigation professionals, conferred jointly by the Global Association of Forensic Accountants (GAFA) and IIRIS Consulting.

AI-driven investigation intelligence
Duration 48 Hours Live, instructor led
Format Online Weekend batches
Investment INR 65,000 USD 680 / taxes applicable
Timing 14:00–17:00 IST Sat & Sun
Programme Highlights

Built for the investigation professionals, not adapted from a general course.

First-of-its-kind AI credential

India's first artificial intelligence certification built exclusively for the investigation profession.

48 hours,
8 modules,
8 platforms

Forty-eight hours across eight modules, taught on eight working platforms — not slides.

14:00–17:00 IST, weekends

Live online sessions within the working day across Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe.

India, Gulf & international practice

Faculty drawn from India, the Gulf and international technology practice, all working practitioners.

At a Glance
CAIIC / L1 — Specification
Conferred by
GAFA and IIRIS Consulting jointly.
Instruction
Forty eight hours, live and instructor led.
Structure
Eight modules across six phases.
Schedule
Saturday and Sunday, 14:00 to 17:00 IST.Teaching weekends within eight week window.
Language
English.
Course materials
Each module carries a study handbook, guided questions, test scenarios for the platforms taught, and a one page summary.
Examination
Within six months of completion.Two attempts permitted.
Prerequisites
No coding background is assumed.Minimum 3 years of work experience in relevant field.
Joining from outside India?

The cohort is open in any jurisdiction. Session timing falls within the working day across a wide band.

Location Local session time
India14:00 → 17:00
United Arab Emirates & Gulf12:30 → 15:30
East Africa11:30 → 14:30
Continental Europe10:30 → 13:30
United Kingdom09:30 → 12:30
Singapore, Hong Kong & Malaysia16:30 → 19:30

↳ Timings anchored to Indian Standard Time

Certification & Fees
Certification

Certified AI Investigator, Level 1 — conferred jointly by GAFA and IIRIS Consulting.

Examination
Taken within six months of completing the taught programme. Two attempts permitted.
Format
To be announced

Fee structure

Training, being 48 hours of live instruction and all course materials
INR 45,000
USD 470
Certification and examination
INR 20,000
USD 210
Total
INR 65,000
USD 680
The fee covers live instruction, module handbooks, guided questions and test scenarios, one page module summaries, the examination and one reattempt, and the credential on completion.
The Programme
AI and investigation

Fraud is engineered with technology, crosses jurisdictions within hours and leaves its trail in data rather than in files. The material in an ordinary corporate matter has outgrown what a team can read, and the relationships that decide a case are rarely visible in any single document.

Certified AI Investigator Course teaches investigation professionals to work with artificial intelligence across the full investigative cycle, from acquisition and structuring, through correlation, anomaly detection and network analysis, to reporting and evidence governance. It is taught on working platforms. Participants run the tools themselves, build agents for their own recurring tasks, and carry a matter end to end in a capstone.

On completion

Participants can

01
Plan an AI assisted investigation and choose the right tool at each stage.
02
Collect, clean and structure multi source data into an analysable base.
03
Correlate identities, entities, transactions and ownership across sources.
04
Detect anomalies, score risk and test the authenticity of documents and media.
05
Build and read link analysis graphs that expose collusion and hidden control.
06
Report findings traceable to evidence, and govern that evidence throughout.
Who it is for

Fraud examiners and forensic accountants

Review full populations rather than samples, and show the analytical basis behind every finding.

Corporate investigators, internal audit and compliance

Triage complaint volumes consistently, and map related party networks that manual review does not surface.

Due diligence and background verification

Collect open source material at scale across languages and jurisdictions, and resolve entity ambiguity.

Law enforcement and financial intelligence

Run link analysis across large datasets while keeping chain of custody intact.

Legal, disputes and electronic discovery

Triage document populations before review, and judge what an AI derived finding can support in proceedings.

Corporate security, insider threat and intelligence

Replace point in time checks with continuous monitoring on a shorter production cycle.

And for the leaders sending them.

Partners, practice heads and function leaders build the workflow, tooling and governance for a team rather than for a single user, and set the internal standard of review that AI assisted work will be held to.

The Curriculum

The phases run from foundations, through data acquisition and preparation, correlation and analysis, network analysis and reporting, to governance and the capstone.

MODULE / 01

Foundations of investigation, fraud and AI

Investigation principles, fraud ecosystems, open source intelligence, how models actually work, and responsible use covering confidentiality, bias and hallucination risk.
ClaudePerplexity
Choose an AI approach for a given question and state its limits.
MODULE / 02

Data acquisition, scraping and ingestion

Collection from registries, digital sources and live feeds, automated and agent based, with the legal and ethical boundaries of each.
PerplexityManusApache NiFi
Build a repeatable collection pipeline for a defined scope.
MODULE / 03

Data cleaning and structuring

Validation and reconciliation, entity resolution where names and registrations overlap, and transformation of unstructured material into analysable form.
KNIMEClaude
Turn a fragmented multi source dataset into a structured analytical base.
MODULE / 04

Intelligence correlation and transaction mapping

Connecting identities, entities, transactions and ownership structures across sources, including beneficial ownership tracing.
MaltegoKNIME
Build a correlated entity and transaction map, and identify its gaps.
MODULE / 05

Fraud detection and anomaly analysis

Red flag frameworks, behavioural patterns, machine assisted anomaly detection, risk scoring, and authenticity assessment including synthetic media.
KNIMEClaudeLM Studio
Score a population for risk and justify why a flagged item warrants work.
MODULE / 06

Link analysis and relationship mapping

Graph based methods, centrality and community detection, hidden structures, collusion rings and patterns of influence.
GephiMaltego
Build and read a graph that identifies control, collusion and concealment.
MODULE / 07

Reporting, visualisation and defensible findings

Structured reports, timelines, dashboards and visual narratives, separating fact from inference and documenting method so work can be re performed.
ClaudeGephi
Produce a report in which every conclusion traces to evidence and method.
MODULE / 08

Evidence preservation, governance and capstone

Preservation and metadata integrity, chain of custody, local model deployment for confidential matters, governance, and a full cycle capstone.
LM StudioFull toolset
Run a complete investigative cycle and produce a governed, defensible output.

Platforms taught

Claude

For document analysis, reasoning across evidence sets and building investigative agents.

Perplexity

For sourced open source research and verification.

Manus

For agent based autonomous collection.

Apache NiFi

For automated ingestion pipelines.

KNIME

For data preparation, anomaly detection and risk scoring without code.

Maltego

For entity correlation and ownership tracing.

Gephi

For network graph construction and centrality analysis.

LM Studio

For local deployment where material cannot leave the environment.

8 Platforms / Live Demonstration / One Capstone Matter / Carried End to End
Official Faculties & Partners

The programme is taught by practitioners from investigation, forensic accounting and applied technology, across India, the Gulf and international practice.

Our Faculties
Tee Ganbold

Tee Ganbold

Co-Founder & CEO
Frontier/1 Technologies

Sagarika Chakrabortyi

Sagarika Chakrabortyi

CEO — India & Gulf
IIRIS Consulting

Umashankar K H

Umashankar K H

Data Scientist
AI Engineer

Kanwaljeet Kaur Soni

Kanwaljeet Kaur Soni

President
GAFA

Garry Singh

Garry Singh

President
IIRIS Consulting

Further faculty from international practice are being confirmed for this cohort and will be announced ahead of the batch commencing.
The Partners

IIRIS Consulting

IIRIS Consulting is a specialist risk management consulting firm bringing deep, practical industry expertise in fraud risk, investigation, and corporate due diligence to this program, enabling real-world, actionable learning experiences.

Global Association of Forensic Accountants

The Global Association of Forensic Accountants (GAFA) is a recognized global authority that work towards strengthening trust in financial systems by advancing professional excellence in forensic accounting and also in fraud investigation.

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Twenty five seats. One cohort.

Enrolment is active. Speak to the programme team to secure your place, or write to us directly.

Programme Team
Gargi Bhardwaj
+91 92894 60509
Programme Team
Anil Kumar
+91 89200 02020
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