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Smart Africa TRUST SDK
Smart Africa TRUST SDK

AI-Driven Risk Scoring

Generate transaction risk and trust scores using AI models.
TECHNICAL DESIGN WORKSPACE

Scoring Architecture

AreaDesign responsibility
Scoring objectivesDefine what the score predicts or measures and how it supports operator decisions.
Input feature groupsTransaction, behavioral, system, corridor, temporal and contextual features.
Feature engineeringNormalize, aggregate and derive stable signals from raw transaction metadata.
Model architectureSelect models appropriate to supervised, unsupervised, anomaly and ensemble scoring.
Training strategyDefine training, validation, holdout and cross-system evaluation datasets.
Anomaly detectionIdentify unusual transaction behavior without requiring a known fraud label.
Fraud / risk signalsModel known adverse patterns where reliable labels exist.
Trust score calculationProduce normalized scores with clear range, interpretation and decision thresholds.
Confidence scoreExpress uncertainty and data sufficiency separately from the trust score.
ThresholdsSupport configurable action bands rather than hard-coded universal decisions.
CalibrationEnsure score meaning remains consistent across systems and corridors.
Bias / fairness testingTest for unjustified disparate performance across relevant populations or contexts.
Drift monitoringDetect material change in input distributions or scoring behavior.
VersioningTrack model, feature, threshold and calibration versions.
Acceptance criteriaDefine measurable performance, stability, explainability and operational thresholds.