Case Study · Financial Services

Reading bank statements at scale — accurately.

A European financial-services company was drowning in manual bank-statement review. CONE RED built the automation engine that now extracts and classifies their transactions — measured, in production.

Measured in a production reporting period

4,716
transactions extracted in the measured period
0.24%
transaction-direction error rate
84%
of statements processed in under 30 seconds
21
banks supported across differing statement formats

The challenge

Bank statements arrive in dozens of layouts — every bank formats dates, running balances, and debit/credit columns differently. Reviewing them by hand is slow, and a single mis-read of a transaction’s direction (money in vs. money out) corrupts every downstream reconciliation. The client needed statements turned into clean, structured, correctly-signed transaction data without a human checking every line.

What we built

CONE RED engineered a document-processing pipeline that normalizes any supported bank’s statement into a common schema, extracts each transaction, and classifies its direction and category. The system was built to be measurable: every run logs volumes, processing time, and a transaction-level accuracy check, so quality is a number the client can see rather than a claim they have to trust.

The measured result

Across a production reporting period the engine processed hundreds of statements and 4,716 transactions spanning 21 banks, holding a 0.24% transaction-direction error rate with 84% of statements returned in under 30 seconds. Those are operational figures from live runs — not a projection.

A note on these numbers. The metrics above are measured operational results from one engagement’s production reporting period. They are specific to that client’s data and volumes; results vary by engagement, document quality, and scope. AI systems are probabilistic, so we report measured accuracy honestly rather than promising a fixed figure. Client identity withheld by request.

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