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AI overlays guide: Integrating AI into your solution stack

04.29.2025

Give your compliance, fraud, AML, and sanctions teams a faster, smarter way to uncover risk without replacing your core systems.

This free guide will help you:

  • Understand the role of AI overlays in modern financial crime prevention
  • Evaluate which overlays will deliver the highest ROI for your institution
  • Learn from real customer transformations and measurable results
  • Build a roadmap for adopting AI responsibly, efficiently, and at scale

What you’ll learn

How AI overlays supercharge your existing financial crime systems

Learn what AI overlays are, how they integrate seamlessly with your current tech stack, and why they provide immediate performance gains without requiring a costly ‘rip-and-replace’ overhaul. The guide explains how overlays augment your existing tools with generative and predictive AI for faster, more accurate investigations.

Where AI overlays deliver the biggest impact

Explore practical, real-world use cases across the entire financial crime lifecycle, including:

  • AML transaction monitoring – detecting anomalies that rules miss, and reducing false positives by up to 77%.
  • Sanctions screening – scanning watchlists in milliseconds with 100% retention of true positives.
  • Payment fraud – real-time scoring, blocking, and decisioning.
  • Data aggregation and investigationunifying siloed systems and providing a holistic, enterprise-wide view of risk.
  • KYC/CDD – enabling perpetual customer profiling with continuous risk refresh.

What to look for when evaluating AI overlays

The guide walks you through the must-have criteria to ensure AI overlays deliver value on day one, such compatibility, scalability, user experience, transparency, and continuous updates. These checkpoints help organizations avoid vendor lock-in and ensure future-proof AI adoption.

How leading banks are already succeeding with overlays

Study real customer results, including:

  • €3.5M saved annually with Sensa Investigation.
  • 77% reduction in false positives with SensaAI for AML.
  • Significantly improved sanctions screening accuracy and efficiency.

Why you should download it

Transform financial crime operations without replacing your current systems

AI overlays allow institutions to unlock immediate productivity gains by enhancing your existing systems rather than rebuilding your tech stack. The guide shows how overlays layer seamlessly on top of your current processes and dramatically accelerate speed-to-value.

A practical playbook for staying ahead of criminals and regulators

Financial crime threats are evolving quickly, and regulators are raising expectations. This guide provides a roadmap for adopting AI responsibly. This helps you boost detection accuracy, reduce false positives, and demonstrate strong governance across AML, fraud, sanctions, and KYC functions.

Built on real results from global financial institutions

The guide is packed with case studies from banks across Europe, Africa, and the U.S. that have already deployed AI overlays to reduce risk, cut investigation time, and achieve award-winning improvements in compliance operations.

Clear next steps for choosing and deploying overlays successfully

From initial assessment to phased implementation, the guide includes practical steps for enabling overlays across your enterprise. You’ll get insights into governance, stakeholder alignment, PoV setup, and optimization best practices.

Download the guide today

Get immediate access to AI overlays guide: Integrating AI into your solution stack and discover how intelligent AI overlays supercharge your current tech stack, reduce false positives, and help your teams uncover risk faster.

Related resources

Sensa Risk Intelligence

SensaAI for Sanctions

Guide to SensaAI for Sanctions Screening

Case Study – Leading European bank upgrades investigations, saves €3.5M annually

Case Study – Absa transforms its financial crime capabilities with AI

 

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