# What is Hummingbird? Hummingbird is a platform for case management, investigation, and regulatory reporting in financial compliance. Hummingbird is used by companies in the financial industry to manage workflows and operations in several practice areas, including anti-money laundering (AML), customer diligence, transaction dispute management, compliance testing, and more. {% embed url="" %} We work with different Know Your Customer (KYC) data providers, watchlist data sources, and transaction monitoring services. Once you license those services, you’ll need a place to bring them all together – that's what Hummingbird is. For example, when unusual financial transactions are detected by an algorithm, analysts use Hummingbird to investigate the transactions and report the behavior to law enforcement. To learn more, check out our [platform features](https://hummingbird.co/platform-features) and [use cases](https://hummingbird.co/use-cases), or reach out to our team at to get started. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://help.hummingbird.co/general/what-is-hummingbird.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.