AML AI Overlay Augment your AML system with award-winning AI

Get fast, impressive results from tailored AI-driven AML detection without the time and effort of build-it-yourself approaches.

Product Highlights

Catch what your system is missing — without the time and effort of replacement

• Overlay for existing system: Strengthen efficiency and effectiveness without compromising defenses; Hawk’s overlay directly integrates with your existing AML technology
• Industry-leading precision: Reduce false positives and reveal hidden risks with custom AI that guarantees results, even against well-tuned detection
• Accessible, white-box explanations: Accelerate alert review and ensure that decisions are defensible with contextual AI explanations and complete model governance

How it works

Elevate your existing AML system with explainable AI in 5 steps

Filter out the noise and detect more money laundering signals

1. Secure Data Transfer

Send customer and transaction data to Hawk through a secure integration layer

2. AI Analysis

Hawk conducts behavioral analysis on all transactions, not just those flagged by your underlying system, using custom AI models built based on your needs. AI models may include XGBoost, CNNs, VAEs, and Big Bird LLMs.

3. Dual-Risk Assessment

Hawk assesses for threats, scoring activities based on their false positive likelihood and suspicious behavior likelihood.

4. Transparent Explanations

Each score includes a detailed explanation highlighting transaction elements that both deviate from and align with the entity’s expected behavior.

5. Presentation in Your Case Manager

Hawk delivers the scores and their detailed explanations back to your AML system, impacting which alerts are presented to analysts for investigation.

Hawk's Solution

Why Hawk’s AML AI Overlay exceeds where alternatives fail

The AML AI Overlay delivers results, allowing you to realize up to a 70% reduction in false positives and 3-5x increase in detection precision, without a heavy lift.

Integrate and get started in no time

• Deep learning models trained for you by Hawk data scientists using a proven, domain-specific feature library
• Direct integration with your existing system, regardless of vendor
• Industrial-grade model pipeline for collaborative development and model retraining in <1 day
• Real-time, high throughput model performance (30,000 TPS)
• AI analysis of all transactions, flagged or not, to check and balance existing detection
• Human-language AI explanations that increase analyst understanding and defensibility

Seamless governance, monitoring, and deployment

• Automated model governance, including versioning, model QA, and validation
• Proactive performance monitoring and sampling to pinpoint model degradation early
• Virtual private cloud (VPC), Hawk cloud, and on-premise deployment options

The Impact

Improve AML effectiveness and efficiency

A tier 1 bank chose to augment their existing transaction monitoring system with Hawk’s AML AI Overlay. In 3 months, they witnessed:

Higher Prediction Accuracy

+88%

False Positive Reduction

-85%

Higher Threat Detection

+2X

Using an Overlay to Leverage AI Without Ripping and Replacing a Legacy Solution

In this whitepaper, Deloitte unpacks:

• What an overlay is
• Key use cases and benefits of overlays
• How overlays compare to other strategic options available to AML teams

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Awards & Recognition

Hawk's AML AI Overlay wins innovation award from Datos Insights

Hawk’s AML AI Overlay solution was recognized in the 2025 Datos Insights Impact Awards in the category of Best AML Transaction Monitoring Innovation.

“Hawk doesn’t just offer AI — it delivers it in production,” said Chuck Subrt, Practice Director, Fraud & AML at Datos Insights. “Rather than simply providing algorithms, the company fully operationalizes AI through automated model pipelines, built-in governance, and seamless integration, enabling institutions to deploy it efficiently and at scale.”

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