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From Hours to Seconds: High-Performance Fraud Investigation at Scale

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Introduction

For an investigator, time is the most critical resource. Every minute spent waiting for a query to run is a minute a criminal has to cover their tracks. Unfortunately, legacy systems simply can’t keep up with the scale of modern data. The result is a slow, frustrating process where deep, exploratory analysis is impossible. To win the fight against financial crime, investigators need tools that operate at the speed of their own curiosity.

The Investigator’s Dilemma: Too Much Data, Not Enough Time

The reality for most financial crime investigation teams is a constant battle against the clock and the loading wheel. They face terabytes of transactional data, and trying to trace connections across this data with conventional tools is painfully slow. A single “multi-hop” query – essential for uncovering hidden relationships – can take hours to execute, or worse, time out completely. This technology bottleneck forces investigators to abandon promising lines of inquiry and settle for superficial analysis, leaving sophisticated criminal networks undiscovered.

Investigation at the Speed of Thought

Pometry was engineered to eliminate this bottleneck and put the power of high-performance investigation directly into the hands of your team. Our temporal graph engine is built for speed and scale, allowing you to:

  • Query Terabytes in Seconds: Empower your investigators to rapidly ingest and query massive volumes of transactional data. Our engine is up to 200x faster than the state-of-the-art graph systems, and up to 1000x faster than legacy anti-fraud solutions, turning hours of waiting into seconds of discovery.
  • Explore with Unprecedented Agility: The ability to explore complex multi-hop relationships and deep historical behaviours interactively is a game-changer. Investigators can follow a hunch, pivot their query, and get an immediate response, enabling a true “speed of thought” analytical process.
  • Achieve More with Less: Pometry’s extreme efficiency allows a single analyst to perform deep, exploratory work that once required a whole team and a lot of patience, dramatically increasing the productivity of your investigation function. Combining automated risk alerts and triaging, advanced GraphRAG and deep temporal Agentic AI that capable of executing and analysing complex behavioural patterns at the speed of thought.

Conclusion

Don’t let slow technology dictate the pace of your investigations. Empower your team with the performance to match their expertise. With Pometry, you can rapidly explore the most complex datasets, uncover hidden relationships with ease, and give your investigators the speed they need to stay ahead of sophisticated financial criminals.

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