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WorkFusion

WorkFusion sells AI agents that do the Level 1 and Level 2 work of financial crime compliance, reviewing the alerts that screening and monitoring systems generate rather than generating more of them. Its argument is that banks have spent fifteen years tuning screening engines to suppress false positives, and that the more productive move is to have a machine review every alert and decide which ones need a person. UiPath, the automation software company, completed its acquisition of WorkFusion in February 2026. The product line continues as WorkFusion, a UiPath company, UiPath's documentation now lists its agents as UiPath financial crime compliance solutions, and it is being coupled with UiPath's orchestration platform for routing escalations and human review.

The agents are personified and each owns a single process. Evelyn reviews name and politically exposed person screening alerts, Evan reviews adverse media, Tara adjudicates transaction sanctions screening alerts in near real time, Edward handles enhanced due diligence and high risk reviews, Isaac investigates transaction monitoring and fraud alerts, and Kayla supports KYC and perpetual KYC. They sit on top of the screening, monitoring and case management systems a bank already runs, named by WorkFusion as including NICE Actimize, Verafin, SAS, Oracle, Fiserv and FIS, draw enrichment data from LexisNexis, Thomson Reuters, Moody's, Dow Jones Factiva and World Check One, and write a narrative explanation of each decision back into the source system. A joint offering with Thomson Reuters pairs Evelyn with the CLEAR investigative data set.

Deployment spans UiPath Automation Cloud, WorkFusion hosting on AWS or Google Cloud in a region agreed at onboarding, and installation inside the customer's firewall, and the company states that it never takes possession of an institution's data. Tara's design is published in useful detail: models interpret and enrich payment message fields, then a configurable rules engine decides how the alert is handled, and the agent records every data point and decision in an audit trail. UiPath documents Evan's design: sentiment, name matching, focal subject and age models feed a decision with a confidence score and written justification, and articles below the confidence threshold go to an analyst.

As of March 2025 the agents were processing one million sanctions and adverse media alerts a day, which WorkFusion equates to the capacity of 5,052 Level 1 analysts, and it says it is trusted by 10 of the top 20 banks. Named customer stories include Scotiabank, Deutsche Bank, Standard Bank, Valley Bank, Carter Bank and Trust, Raymond James and Bank of Asia.

Last VerifiedOctober 2, 2026
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Headquarters
New York, New York, United States
Categories
aml-kyc-financial-crime, fraud-and-transaction-risk, compliance-and-surveillance
Assessment

Capability Axes

Capability grades

15 of 15 axes rated · 11 graded A or B

AI Capability
AI Centrality
AA on AI CentralityThe artificial intelligence is the product. Remove the models and there is nothing left to sell.
Vendor Published

Judgment on alerts that other systems produce is what WorkFusion sells, with agents reading the payment message or news article, enriching it from licensed sources and deciding whether to close or escalate. Robotic process automation, where the company began, is what the models' absence would leave.

Autonomy and Oversight Model
AA on Autonomy and Oversight ModelWhat the system runs alone, what constrains it, and how a person checks it are all published: modes, thresholds, sampling or audit controls, and the route a case takes to human review.
Vendor Published

Articles Evan cannot disposition within predetermined confidence thresholds go to an analyst, and in Tara a rules engine the bank configures makes the call after models read the payment message. Threshold values live in configuration rather than in published defaults, and the agents do close alerts without a person.

Model Risk Management and Transparency
BB on Model Risk Management and TransparencyReal transparency mechanisms are published, such as per alert explainability, confidence scoring or split testing, without the validation package or supervisory mapping behind them.
Vendor Published

A validator can test Evan component by component: a sentiment model, a name matcher and a focal model that decides whether the searched person is the subject, trained on articles labeled by compliance experts and tracked on accuracy dashboards. Accuracy, precision and recall figures, test method and supervisory mapping are all absent.

Operational and Outcome Evidence
AA on Operational and Outcome EvidenceNamed customers with hard performance figures and enough method to test them.
Vendor Published

Scotiabank is credited with a 95 percent cut in false positives and Carter Bank and Trust with $3 million saved a year, with Standard Bank automating one million transactions a month. Each figure measures work removed, and none comes with a true positive retention or missed hit rate.

AI Safety and Data Stewardship
BB on AI Safety and Data StewardshipA categorical stewardship commitment is published without the retention schedule or the engineering detail behind it.
Vendor Published

Institution data never passes into WorkFusion's possession and none is kept after a process completes, and hosted deployments run as a virtual private cloud for a single customer, per its chief technology officer. Nothing in writing says one bank's adjudications never reach the pretrained models other banks receive.

Regulatory and Compliance
GLBA and Data Privacy Posture
BB on GLBA and Data Privacy PostureA substantive privacy document that reaches the product itself, short of the subprocessor list or the full data handling detail.
Vendor Published

Records are purged on the institution's own retention schedule, according to UiPath's documentation for Evan. The same documentation says the model learns from analysts' decisions, which carries information forward after purged records are gone, and the Gramm Leach Bliley Act is not named.

Security Certifications and Trust Center
BB on Security Certifications and Trust CenterA recognized certification named in the vendor’s own material without the artifact, or with a scope or renewal question the buyer has to raise.
Vendor Published

UiPath's Automation Cloud carries ISO 27001, HITRUST and SOC 2 for its dedicated cloud, and WorkFusion's chief technology officer has described keys held in hardware security modules. Those certifications cover agents run on Automation Cloud and not WorkFusion's own hosted deployments, for which none is named.

Regulatory Status and Licensure
CC on Regulatory Status and LicensureThe regulatory position is unstated. Most vendors in this index are technology suppliers and being unlicensed is the correct posture, so this grade records silence about the posture, not a missing license.
Vendor Published

Regulator accepted is the marketing phrase, carried through a blog series, yet no regulator, examination or supervisory statement is named behind it. Sanctions agents are framed around federal sanctions and Bank Secrecy Act obligations, and examiner review of automated alert closure is not discussed.

AI Governance and Bias Disclosure
CC on AI Governance and Bias DisclosureResponsible artificial intelligence committed to in policy language with no evaluation behind it, on a product whose bias surface is modest.
Vendor Published

Entity type, age and location are extracted from each article and matched against the institution's input, and each institution supplies a high risk country list the model detects, which brings geography into who warrants investigation. Text outside English and Spanish goes to manual review, while fairness testing and accuracy by naming tradition are unpublished.

AI Liability and Recourse
CC on AI Liability and RecourseMechanisms that enable challenge, such as audit trails and source traceability, with nothing standing behind the output and no route for the person affected.
Vendor Published

An audit report logs each article, confidence score and analyst decision, giving a bank the trail an examiner will ask for. Only an acceptable use policy is published, with no warranty, indemnity or service level for an alert wrongly closed, and whether WorkFusion or UiPath now stands behind existing contracts is not said.

Integration and Deployment
Model Supply Chain Disclosure
BB on Model Supply Chain DisclosureSubstantial partial disclosure, or a chain that is structurally short: an explicit in house build, on premise deployment, per customer instances, or zero retention at the model layer.
Vendor Published

Evan runs on WorkFusion's own model ensemble, with Google's search interface in the base product, Google Translate for some providers and licensed connectors to Factiva, World Check One and LexisNexis. Language models can be installed locally, yet the model drafting case narratives is never identified, with Llama and Mistral offered only as examples, and a subprocessor list is unpublished.

Core Systems and Integration Depth
AA on Core Systems and Integration DepthNamed integrations with the systems of record, core banking, policy administration, custodial or contact center platforms, verifiable in marketplace listings or public API documentation.
Vendor Published

NICE Actimize, Verafin and Oracle are named as platforms the agents work on, with a narrative of each disposition written back into the source system. A joint offering with Thomson Reuters embeds Evelyn beside the CLEAR data set, and agents reach data through documents and email where no interface exists.

Deployment Model and Data Residency
AA on Deployment Model and Data ResidencyOn premise or hybrid deployment is offered and documented, alongside where data rests.
Vendor Published

Two hosted models are documented: UiPath's Automation Cloud under its standard residency policy, or WorkFusion hosting on AWS or Google Cloud in a region agreed at onboarding. Several customers also run the agents inside their own firewall, though which agents use which hosted model is not listed.

Commercial
Commercial Transparency
CC on Commercial TransparencyNo price is published and engagement runs through a demo form, which is the norm in this index.
Vendor Published

Savings at named banks and a build versus buy white paper frame the economics, while price, billing unit and contract term are absent. Premium data connectors need the institution's own license, and since the February 2026 acquisition the agents may be sold inside a UiPath platform subscription.

Institution and Segment Coverage
AA on Institution and Segment CoverageThe financial segments served are named and each carries its own maintained material, whether the coverage is broad or deliberately narrow.
Vendor Published

Deutsche Bank sits at the top of a named base that runs through Valley Bank in the regional tier and Raymond James in broker dealer and wealth business, with agents spanning name screening, sanctions screening and KYC refresh. Insurers, payment companies and fintechs are not visible among those names.

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Commercial

Pricing

Vendor-published figures are labeled as such. Figures labeled “Estimated” are derived from third-party sources and have not been confirmed by the vendor.

Entry Price Pricing Basis Data Protection Terms Implementation Source
Not published. Savings are published for named banks, and cost is not.
Not published. The natural units are alerts reviewed, agents deployed or analyst capacity replaced, and WorkFusion's arithmetic equating alert volume to a count of Level 1 analysts suggests pricing set against headcount displaced, which is inference rather than disclosure. UiPath's documentation states that Evan's Google search connector is part of the base product and that other media connectors need the institution's own license. Since the February 2026 acquisition by UiPath the agents may be licensed inside UiPath's platform, and nothing published says whether the commercial model changed. No tiered terms are published. WorkFusion states it never takes possession of an institution's data and that agents can run inside the customer's firewall, and UiPath's documentation describes a data purge on the institution's own retention schedule, but no data processing agreement is published for the hosted service. No implementation fee is published. The agents arrive pre trained and are positioned as packaged processes rather than custom builds, and named integrations with major screening and monitoring platforms point to a defined integration path, with no duration or services rate stated. Vendor Published

WorkFusion's agent, customer story and blog pages and UiPath's financial services documentation as of 2 October 2026.

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