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Run safer BSA/AML AI plays with evidence-ready review.

43 skills for bsa / aml work, a data test, and a prompt check. Fill in the blanks, or add them to Claude.

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  1. 01Pick a skillEach one does one job you already do.
  2. 02Fill in the blanksCopy the finished prompt into any AI tool.
  3. 03Or add it to ClaudeDownload it once. It works in chat, Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook.

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Where BSA / AML can use AiBI immediately.

  • Draft a SAR narrative scaffold

    Organize synthetic or approved redacted facts into a human-reviewed who, what, when, where, why, and how structure.

  • Triage alert patterns

    Summarize recurring alert rationales for reviewer analysis without changing scenarios, thresholds, suppressions, or dispositions.

  • Build CDD baseline libraries

    Document segment-level expectations for analyst consistency without setting or changing customer-specific risk ratings.

  • Create synthetic analyst training

    Turn public typology patterns into fictional practice scenarios with answer keys and reviewer notes.

Check every draft before it goes out

  • No SAR, SAR draft, SAR-supporting fact, investigation note, customer transaction detail, alert detail, or SAR-existence information in public AI tools
  • Approved enterprise tool status confirmed before any restricted workflow
  • Narrative scaffold answers who, what, when, where, why, and how
  • CDD baseline content stays segment-level and does not change customer-specific risk ratings
  • Alert tuning, threshold, suppression, and disposition changes stay in the approved BSA/AML system-change process
  • Prompt, output, reviewer, final version, and retention location are saved

Test yourself

Green, yellow or red?

Six things you might paste into an AI tool. Sort each one.

  1. A real alert with the customer's name and transactions

  2. Anything that says a SAR was filed on someone

  3. A FinCEN advisory on a fraud typology

  4. A redacted timeline: Subject A, dates and amounts only

  5. Monthly counts of alerts, cases and filings for the board

  6. Your CDD procedure

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Scaffold a SAR narrative

You have a redacted case timeline and need a clean starting structure before you write the narrative yourself.

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See the full prompt
ROLE
You are a BSA/AML analyst at a community bank who organizes case facts for a SAR narrative. You structure facts. You do not decide whether a SAR is filed; the analyst and the BSA officer do.

CONTEXT
Redacted case timeline:
"""
[Redacted case timeline]
"""
Activity under review: [Activity under review]
Expected activity on file:
"""
[Expected activity on file (redacted)]
"""
(if blank, write "Profile not provided" in the scaffold and list it as a missing fact)
Evidence references: [Evidence references] (if blank, leave each "Source evidence" line as "[reference needed]")

TASK
1. Confirm the input is redacted. If you see what looks like a real name, account number, SSN or TIN, address, or date of birth, stop and ask me to replace it with a reference code before you continue.
2. Sort every event in the timeline by date. Keep each amount, date, branch and channel exactly as written.
3. Fill the ten-part scaffold below, using only facts from the timeline and profile.
4. Compare the activity with the expected activity and state, in neutral words, what does not fit.
5. Describe the pattern with standard FinCEN typology vocabulary (for example structuring, funnel account, rapid movement of funds) only when the facts show it. Say "appears consistent with", never "is".
6. Write a draft narrative in chronological order, third person, past tense, built from the scaffold.
7. List every fact the analyst must confirm, every gap a reviewer would ask about, and anything you could not support.

OUTPUT
Line 1: "DRAFT - for analyst review. Not a filing decision."

SAR narrative scaffold
1. One-line activity summary
2. Who is involved (reference codes and roles only)
3. What occurred (instruments, amounts, frequency)
4. When it occurred (date range and key dates)
5. Where it occurred (branch, channel, account type)
6. How the activity operated (method, typology language)
7. Why it appears unusual (what departs from the profile)
8. Source evidence used
9. Missing facts / verify before filing
10. Reviewer sign-off: Analyst ____ Reviewer ____ BSA officer or designee ____ Decision ____ Date ____ Retention location ____

Draft narrative (introduction, body in date order, conclusion that states what was reviewed; no more than about 400 words)

RULES
- Do not invent facts, amounts, dates, names, counterparties or explanations that are not in what I gave you. If a section has no support, write "[not in the facts provided]".
- Do not decide or recommend whether to file. Leave the decision line in section 10 blank.
- Never write anything addressed to the customer or member, and never suggest telling the subject about the review or a SAR. SAR confidentiality applies to everything this skill produces.
- Do not state a legal conclusion ("laundered", "committed a crime"). Describe the activity and why it is unusual.
- If you mention the CTR requirement, describe it exactly: cash transactions of more than $10,000 in a business day. Add "confirm against your BSA policy". Track the filing deadline your BSA policy sets; do not compute one.
- This draft must stay inside the bank's approved environment and the case file.

IF SOMETHING IS MISSING
If the timeline has no dates, no amounts, or no description of the activity, ask for them before drafting. If the profile is missing, still build the scaffold but mark section 7 as incomplete and ask for the expected activity. Ask, don't guess.

Check before you use it

  • Every date, amount, branch and reference code matches the case file.
  • No real name, account number or identifier appears anywhere.
  • The decision line is blank; you and the BSA officer make that call.
  • Every "why" statement points to a source document in section 8.
  • Nothing in the output could reach the customer.

Never paste: Real names, account numbers, SSNs or TINs, addresses, or an actual SAR or SAR draft into any tool your bank has not approved for BSA work.

Did this work?

Check a prompt for customer data before you paste it.

Type or paste a prompt you would send to an AI tool. It flags customer details — names, account numbers, SSNs, phone numbers — and rewrites the prompt with placeholders. It runs in your browser; nothing you type leaves this page.

Found 4 customer details

  • Customer nameRobert Chen
  • Date of birth02/14/1975
  • Account number8812004
  • Dollar amount$9,500

Safer version

write a SAR narrative for [customer name], dob [remove — not needed], account [account number], who made 9 cash deposits of [amount] last month

Placeholders in gold; red means delete it — the task doesn’t need it.

A pattern check, not a judgement — it can miss things. A named person still reviews before anything is used.

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