AI pattern

Anomaly detection use cases

Models that flag unusual behaviour in transactions, networks or processes for review.

Use cases
40
Deployments
134
Organizations
122
Outcome disclosed
57%

40 Anomaly detection use cases

122 organizations in 23 countries run these use cases in public. 57% of those 134 deployments disclose a measurable outcome.

Telecommunications

Agentic AI for autonomous, intent based network operations

AI agents that run closed loops over a telecom network: they take an intent from the operator (for example a latency or availability target for a service), observe the network, diagnose deviations and execute corrective actions across radio, transport and core, within guardrails set by engineers and with human approval for major changes.

Deployments
6 public, best grade B
Reported cycle time reduction
at least 95%
Deutsche Telekom, organization claim
Cross industryTechnology and software

AI agent for cloud cost optimization and FinOps

An AI agent that continuously reads an organization's cloud usage and billing data, uses machine learning to separate normal spend from waste, and either rightsizes resources and buys a mix of committed capacity matched to forecast usage on its own within set limits, or proposes higher risk changes for an engineer to approve.

Deployments
2 public, best grade C
Reported cost reduction
at least 40%
Akamai Technologies, organization claim
Cross industryTechnology and software

AI agent for data quality monitoring and observability

An AI agent that watches data pipelines and tables continuously, uses machine learning to learn the normal pattern of freshness, volume, schema and distribution for each one, flags anomalies before they reach a dashboard or a downstream model, and traces the lineage back to the change that caused them so an engineer can fix the source, not just the symptom.

Deployments
2 public, best grade C
Reported productivity gain
50%
SeatGeek, vendor claim
Telecommunications

AI agent for network outage detection and customer communication

An AI agent that turns network alarms into a clear picture of which customers are affected by an outage and why, tells them proactively by message, app or phone with a cause and an estimated fix time, answers their questions during the incident, and updates them until service is restored.

Deployments
1 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Supervised agent
Cross industryPharma and life sciences

AI agent for travel and expense report audit

An AI agent that checks every travel and expense report line against policy, receipts and prior submissions instead of a small manual sample, flags duplicates, altered receipts and policy violations with the evidence attached, and auto approves the clean majority so auditors spend their time on the reports that are genuinely risky.

Deployments
2 public, best grade C
Reported automation rate
72%
Databricks, vendor claim
Energy and utilities

AI analytics for smart meter and AMI data

AI that turns the flood of readings from smart electricity, gas and water meters into usable information: it monitors meter and network health at scale, estimates which appliances drive a household's usage from the meter signal alone, flags unusual consumption, and targets efficiency and electrification programmes at the customers who will benefit most, instead of a utility treating every meter and every customer the same way.

Deployments
2 public, best grade C
Autonomy
Assist
Healthcare

AI command center for hospital bed and staff capacity planning

An AI powered operations center that predicts patient admissions, discharges and transfers across a hospital or health system, and helps a team of coordinators sitting in one room sequence real time bed assignments, staffing levels and patient moves, so patients get into the right bed faster and existing capacity is used fully without adding beds.

Deployments
2 public, best grade B
Reported cycle time reduction
38%
Johns Hopkins Medicine, organization claim
BankingInsurance

AI copilot for model risk validation and monitoring

A copilot for independent model validation and review, whether run by a bank's validation function, an external tester or a supervisor, that checks model documentation against the model risk standard, generates and scores challenger tests (for generative AI, often with an LLM as a judge calibrated against human experts), watches production models for drift and drafts and consistency checks the validation report. An accountable validator owns every conclusion.

Deployments
3 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Copilot
Telecommunications

AI copilot for network operations centre fault triage

AI in the network operations centre (NOC) that correlates alarms and performance data from radio, transport, core and fixed networks into a small number of probable faults, ranks them by customer impact, proposes the likely root cause and fix from runbooks, vendor documentation and past tickets, and routes the ticket to the right team, while an engineer decides what to change.

Deployments
6 public, best grade B
Reported cycle time reduction
at least 95%
Deutsche Telekom, organization claim
Retail and ecommerce

AI demand forecasting and automated replenishment for retail

Machine learning that forecasts demand for every item in every store or fulfillment center, day by day, from sales history, promotions, prices, weather and local events, and turns the forecast into automatic store and warehouse orders within limits set by planners, who handle the exceptions.

Deployments
4 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Supervised agent
Banking

AI early warning and covenant monitoring for loan portfolios

A monitoring system that tracks covenant tests and borrower reporting across a loan book, reads financials, filings and news, and combines them with payment and sector signals to flag borrowers whose credit is deteriorating, with the evidence and a suggested next step for the relationship manager.

Deployments
3 public, best grade C
Autonomy
Assist
BankingPayments and cards

AI for AML transaction monitoring alert triage

Machine learning and AI agents that score anti money laundering alerts for genuine risk, close clear false positives with a written and stored rationale, and hand investigators the remaining alerts already enriched with the customer, counterparty and transaction context.

Deployments
8 public, best grade B
Reported false positive reduction
86%
Shift4, vendor claim
BankingPayments and cards

AI for application and identity fraud detection

AI that checks incoming account and loan applications for forged or AI generated documents, synthetic and stolen identities, and coordinated application rings, by analysing documents, device and application data across the whole queue and cross checking against bureau and official sources.

Deployments
6 public, best grade B
Reported detection improvement
2.5x
Department for Work and Pensions, organization claim
Government and public sector

AI for benefit fraud and error detection in social security

Risk models that help a social security or benefits agency decide which claims, payments and recipients to check for fraud or error, so that caseworkers verify the riskiest cases first, while every decision on entitlement stays with a person and the model is tested for fairness before and during use.

Deployments
5 public, best grade B
Reported detection improvement
2.5x
Department for Work and Pensions, organization claim
Cross industryManufacturing

AI for cash application and remittance matching

AI that reads remittance advices in many formats, matches incoming customer payments to open receivable invoices, proposes deduction and short pay reason codes from prior resolutions, and routes only the genuine exceptions to a cash application analyst, so the accounts receivable sub ledger clears itself for the clean majority of payments.

Deployments
2 public, best grade C
Reported automation rate
98%
Keurig Dr Pepper, vendor claim
Cross industryBanking

AI for continuous controls testing and control self assessment

AI that moves control testing from periodic samples to continuous, full population assurance: it collects evidence from source systems, maps each artefact to the control it supports, tests every transaction or record against the control's rule, flags exceptions for a human to judge and prepares the risk and control self assessment from incident and loss data for the business to review.

Deployments
3 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Supervised agent
BankingPayments and cards

AI for fee and interest leakage detection

An independent verification layer that recomputes what each fee, FX margin, spread and interest charge should have been under the contract and pricing tables, compares it with what was actually billed, and surfaces overcharges and undercharges account by account for correction, customer remediation and revenue recovery.

Deployments
1 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Copilot
Insurance

AI for insurance claims fraud detection

AI that scores every insurance claim for fraud from first notice of loss onwards, combining claim, policy, document, image and network data to find suspicious claims, organised rings and inflated losses, and sends each alert with its reasons to a claims handler or special investigations unit for review.

Deployments
5 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Assist
Cross industryBanking

AI for IT incident triage and root cause analysis (AIOps)

AI that turns a flood of monitoring alerts into one probable incident, routes it to the right team, proposes likely root causes and remediation from runbooks and past incidents, and drafts the stakeholder updates and the post incident review, while an engineer authorizes every change.

Deployments
5 public, best grade B
Median accuracy
90%
3 deployments
BankingPayments and cards

AI for ledger and payment reconciliation

AI that matches entries across nostro and vostro statements, card and scheme settlement files, the general ledger and suspense accounts, proposes matches and clearing journals, and routes only the genuine breaks to an operator with a plain language explanation.

Deployments
4 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Supervised agent
Capital marketsBanking

AI for market abuse surveillance alert triage

AI that helps surveillance analysts triage market abuse and conduct alerts, such as spoofing, layering, wash trades, ramping and insider dealing, by gathering the trade, order, news and communications context, explaining in plain language what triggered each alert and drafting the investigation narrative for the analyst to disposition.

Deployments
5 public, best grade B
Reported handling time reduction
about 33%
Nasdaq, organization claim
Payments and cardsTechnology and software

AI for merchant underwriting and risk monitoring

AI that helps acquirers, payment facilitators and software platforms with embedded payments decide which merchants to accept and on what terms, by checking what a business really sells and how risky it is at onboarding, and then watches every active merchant for changes in behaviour, ranking the few that need an analyst so fraud, prohibited trade and credit losses are caught early.

Deployments
4 public, best grade B
Reported alert volume reduction
about 89%
Weave Communications, vendor claim
Telecommunications

AI for mobile network planning and capacity optimization

Machine learning that forecasts where and when a mobile network will run out of capacity, recommends where to add cells, spectrum or hardware, and continuously tunes radio parameters so existing capacity carries more traffic, with planners approving investments and major changes.

Deployments
5 public, best grade B
Reported cycle time reduction
at least 95%
Deutsche Telekom, organization claim
BankingPayments and cards

AI for money mule account and network detection

Graph and behavioural machine learning that finds money mule accounts and the networks around them, such as circular flows, layering chains and clusters of newly linked accounts, and supports investigators in tracing scam proceeds and restricting accounts before the money is gone.

Deployments
3 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Copilot
Telecommunications

AI for predictive network maintenance in telecom

Machine learning that spots the early signs of network failure, such as degrading cells, faulty customer equipment, ageing hardware or planned digging near fibre, and triggers a preventive fix, a remote reset or a targeted intervention before customers lose service.

Deployments
6 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Supervised agent
BankingInsurance

AI for regulatory report assembly

AI that assembles periodic and data driven regulatory filings and returns, such as prudential and statistical returns, threshold and transaction reports and disclosure packs, by pulling data into the regulator's schema, validating it, reconciling figures to source, explaining movements against prior periods and drafting commentary, before a named officer reviews and submits. Narratives for individual suspicious activity cases are a separate use case.

Deployments
2 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Copilot
Cross industryBanking

AI for supplier invoice processing in accounts payable

AI that captures supplier invoices from any format, extracts header and line data, matches them to purchase orders and goods receipts, proposes tax and cost centre coding, flags duplicates and suspected fraud, and routes them for approval and posting, leaving only exceptions to accounts payable staff.

Deployments
4 public, best grade B
Reported productivity gain
80%
Kingfisher, organization claim
Government and public sector

AI for tax compliance risk scoring and audit selection

Models that score tax returns, taxpayers and transactions for the risk of error, underreporting or fraud, so that a tax administration spends its audit and compliance capacity where the risk is highest, with an officer deciding every compliance action and the selection itself monitored for fairness.

Deployments
3 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Assist
Telecommunications

AI for telecom fraud detection (SIM swap, IRSF and Wangiri)

AI that protects the operator's own network, revenue and numbers from fraud: it watches call, messaging, roaming and account activity to detect SIM swap and port out takeovers, international revenue share fraud (IRSF) and Wangiri one ring scams, blocks or flags them in real time, and shares risk signals with banks and other businesses that rely on the phone number for security. Scam calls aimed at subscribers are handled by call blocking.

Deployments
4 public, best grade B
Reported detection improvement
30%
Vodafone, organization claim
Wealth and asset managementBanking

AI portfolio drift monitoring and rebalancing proposals

Continuous monitoring of every client portfolio against its mandate or model, which detects drift beyond agreed bands and prepares a tax aware, low turnover rebalancing proposal with its rationale for an advisor or portfolio manager to approve before any trade is placed.

Deployments
3 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Copilot
Logistics and transportation

AI predictive maintenance for freight rail rolling stock

Machine vision and machine learning that inspect freight railcar wheels, bearings and other running gear as trains pass wayside sensors and camera portals at track speed, learn what a healthy wheel or a healthy reading looks like, and flag the ones that need attention before a crack, an overheating bearing or a worn wheel causes a service failure or a derailment.

Deployments
2 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Assist
Energy and utilitiesManufacturing

AI predictive maintenance for industrial and energy assets

Machine learning that learns the normal behaviour of industrial and energy equipment from sensor and process data, flags early signs of degradation weeks or months before a failure, and turns them into prioritised maintenance work, so plants and utilities plan repairs instead of reacting to breakdowns.

Deployments
3 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Assist
Healthcare

AI prioritization of radiology and imaging worklists

An AI system that analyzes a medical image immediately after a scan, flags time sensitive findings such as a brain bleed, a stroke causing large vessel occlusion or a pulmonary embolism, and reorders the radiologist's worklist and notifies the care team so the most urgent cases are read and acted on first, while a radiologist confirms every finding before it changes a patient's treatment.

Deployments
2 public, best grade B
Reported cycle time reduction
about 44%
Adventist Health + Rideout, vendor claim
ManufacturingAutomotive

AI quality inspection on the production line

AI that inspects every unit on a production line, from camera images, sound or machine process data, to find defects, missing parts and wrong variants in real time, and routes the few anomalies it flags to a quality inspector instead of relying on manual sampling at the end of the line.

Deployments
3 public, best grade B
Reported cost reduction
7%
Pegatron, vendor claim
Banking

AI screening of trade finance transactions for trade based money laundering

AI that screens every trade finance transaction for financial crime risk: it checks parties, vessels and ports against sanctions and watchlists, tests goods descriptions against dual use and controlled goods lists, compares unit prices with benchmarks for over or under invoicing, and reads trade documents and messages for laundering red flags, then prepares a case narrative for a human investigator.

Deployments
3 public, best grade C
Autonomy
Supervised agent
Telecommunications

AI spam and scam call blocking for mobile and landline subscribers

AI in the operator's network that protects subscribers from unwanted calls: it analyses incoming calls in real time, blocks known fraudulent calls, and labels suspected scam, spam and spoofed calls on the customer's screen before they answer, so subscribers can decide whether to pick up. Fraud against the operator itself, such as SIM swap or revenue share fraud, is a separate use case.

Deployments
5 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Autonomous
BankingPayments and cards

Dynamic AML customer risk rating with machine learning

Explainable machine learning that produces the money laundering risk rating itself: it computes and continuously updates each customer's rating from due diligence data, products, geography, behaviour and screening results, and shows which factors drive the rating and when enhanced due diligence is warranted.

Deployments
1 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Supervised agent
Cross industryBanking

Generative AI copilot for internal audit

A copilot for internal auditors that drafts planning memos and document request lists from prior audits, summarises large evidence sets, builds risk and control matrices from policies and process documents, and drafts findings and reports, with every statement traceable to its evidence and a qualified auditor accountable for every conclusion.

Deployments
3 public, best grade C
Reported handling time reduction
55%
Banco Bradesco, vendor claim
BankingPayments and cards

Real time fraud scoring for card and instant payments

Machine learning that decides in milliseconds, without any conversation, how likely each card authorization and account to account payment is to be fraudulent, combining behavioural, device and network signals, so the bank can approve, challenge or block a payment before the money leaves. Working the resulting alerts and talking to the customer about them are separate use cases.

Deployments
9 public, best grade B
Median fraud loss reduction
30%
3 deployments

What the evidence says

Computed from the 134 public deployments behind these use cases. Numbers update with every checked record.

Benchmarks with at least 3 pooled values

Benchmarks across Anomaly detection use cases
KPIMedianReported rangeData pointsClaimed by
Automation rate84%
57% to 98.7%
61 organization, 5 vendor
Productivity gain57.5%
30% to 80%
Not pooled: up to 87.5%
4plus 1 up to1 organization, 3 vendor
Cycle time reduction41%
34% to 95%
43 organization, 1 vendor
False positive reduction67.5%
50% to 86%
42 organization, 2 vendor
Handling time reduction44%
30% to 90%
41 organization, 3 vendor
Accuracy90%
42% to 98%
32 organization, 1 vendor
Deployments by stage
  • Announced
    13
  • Pilot
    13
  • Production
    69
  • Scaled
    36
  • Paused or rolled back
    3
Public deployments by region
  • North America
    47
  • Europe
    42
  • Asia Pacific
    24
  • Global
    15
  • Middle East
    3
  • Latin America
    2
  • Africa
    1

Organizations with a public deployment

ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, NAB, Suncorp Bank and Westpac (BioCatch Trust Australia), ANZ, HSBC and Lloyds Banking Group, AXA Switzerland, Adventist Health + Rideout, Airwallex, Akamai Technologies, Albert Heijn, Assurant, Audi, Australia Post, BCU, BMO and Amalgamated Bank, BMW Group, BNSF Railway, BT Group, Banco Bradesco, Belastingdienst, Bell Canada, BigPay, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, British Columbia Investment Management Corporation, CNG Holdings, Care Quality Commission, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Close Brothers Motor Finance, Comcast, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Comrade Trustee Services, Consolidated Edison (Con Edison), Contentsquare, Databricks, Department for Work and Pensions, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Telekom, Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, Duke Energy, European Central Bank (ECB Banking Supervision), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Food Standards Agency, Gemeente Rotterdam, General Insurance Association of Singapore, Georgia-Pacific, Ginnie Mae, Google, HM Revenue and Customs, HSBC, Humber River Health, Internal Revenue Service, Japan Exchange Group, Johns Hopkins Medicine, KDDI, Keurig Dr Pepper, Kingfisher, Lemonade, Mastercard, Meta, Microsoft, Mizuho Financial Group, Morgan Stanley, Morrisons, NTT DOCOMO, Nasdaq, NatWest Group, National Bank of Greece (Cyprus), National Credit Union Administration, Nederlandse Arbeidsinspectie, Nederlandse Voedsel- en Warenautoriteit (NVWA), Nexo, Norfolk Southern, OakNorth Bank, One Stop, Orange, PNC Financial Services, Pay.UK, Payoneer, Pegatron, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, Ratepay, ResMed, Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (Reserve Bank of India), Revolut, SeatGeek, Sheba Medical Center, Shell, Shift4, SimCorp, Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas), Stanbic Bank Uganda, Standard Chartered, State Bank of India, Stripe, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, TD Bank, Takeda, Tekmetric, Telefónica España, Telstra, Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Uitvoeringsinstituut Werknemersverzekeringen (UWV), United Bank Limited, United Overseas Bank (UOB), Uphold, VERMEG, Vanguard, Veolia, Verizon, Virgin Media O2, Visa, Vodafone, Walmart, Weave Communications, World Food Programme, XP Inc., bunq, du, stc Group.