AI case study

The NetworkIllicit business identification

Staff couldn't manually link 500k reviews to businesses shifting names. AI now phonetically matches and classifies every record.

Published|9 months ago

Key results

Reviews Analyzed
500k
Duplicates Removed
9,000
Model Accuracy
85%

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The story

Context

A data-driven counter-trafficking organization monitors over 10,000 illicit massage businesses that pose as legitimate operations to facilitate illegal services.

Challenge

Manual data collection could not scale to analyze 500,000 reviews or reconcile listings that lacked unique identifiers like tax IDs. Staff struggled...

Solution
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Use case

The Network's Illicit business identification is part of this use case:

Cybersecurity
61 case studies(+308% YoY)
Proven impact?
LowModerateVery Strong
4.1Moderate

The company

Nonprofit using data and research to disrupt human trafficking networks in the US.

IndustryNon-Profit & Social Impact
LocationSanta Barbara, CA, USA
Employees11-50
Founded2021

The vendor

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Amazon Web Services (AWS)

aws.amazon.com

Cloud computing platform and on-demand infrastructure services.

IndustryTechnology
LocationSeattle, WA, USA
Employees100K+
Founded2006

The implementation partner

Role in this case study

Helped The Network design and develop an AWS-based data ingestion pipeline using ML and AI.

IndustryTechnology
LocationSeattle, WA, USA
Employees10K-50K
Founded2001

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