Hawk | AML AI Overlay

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.

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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

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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

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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

Whitepaper

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.”