Specter is engineered as a low-latency, high-throughput engine. Local rules and velocity counters are evaluated in-process, with no external calls, so they add minimal latency. Because Specter integrates natively into the CPA rather than as a bolted-on third-party API, its scoring feeds directly into routing and decisioning with effectively zero added latency.

External risk backends, when used, are invoked only where your rules call for them – you control the trade-off between depth and speed.

→ See Specter's architecture