AWS Financial Services United States

BankUnited

Enterprise Knowledge Search

Cultivating service-oriented relationships is central to BankUnited's core mission. As such, the company wanted to help its employees more effectively surface information from its policy and procedures system, which consists of approximately 400 documents.

Key Outcomes accuracy rate 95% response times (less than 10 seconds) <10s support model established 24/7
Using Anthropic's Claude 2 model in Amazon Bedrock, BankUnited achieved an accuracy rate of 95 percent and response times of less than 10 seconds.

Reported impact

Business outcome

BankUnited has rolled out an initiative, "OpportunitiAI," to help identify other generative AI use cases and align its business divisions. "This solution proved the technology for us," says Morales.

  • Customer Experience
  • Productivity Improvement

Solution

Regional bank BankUnited Inc. (BankUnited) strives to deliver accurate, timely answers to its small and medium business (SMB) customers when they reach out with questions. However, employees struggled to quickly find information, which resulted in lengthy call times and inconsistent responses. To solve this problem, BankUnited created a generative artificial intelligence (AI) model using Amazon Bedrock , which helps build and scale generative AI applications. This application can answer policy-related questions almost instantly, helping BankUnited boost efficiency and enhance customer and employee satisfaction. With SAVI, employees can phrase their questions naturally while getting reliable responses.

Data flow

"It also reduces the training life cycle of the employees." Empowering its employees has had downstream effects.

Solution architecture

3 components · 2 layers
  1. Compute
    • Amazon Bedrock Runs the foundation model layer for the knowledge search and question-answering workflows.
    • Claude 2 Provides a large language model used by the knowledge search and question-answering workflows.
  2. Serving
    • Amazon Kendra Indexes enterprise content and retrieves source material for the knowledge search and question-answering workflows.

Evidence from the source

"It also reduces the training life cycle of the employees." Empowering its employees has had downstream effects.
"The seamless integration of AWS services streamlined our development process," says Jhon Pereda, AVP BI and analytics manager at BankUnited.
So, BankUnited turned to Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build an AI application: SAVI.
The bank also adopted Amazon Kendra , an intelligent enterprise search service, to help its employees quickly find information.
To solve this problem, BankUnited created a generative artificial intelligence (AI) model using Amazon Bedrock , which helps build and scale generative AI applications.
Using Anthropic's Claude 2 model in Amazon Bedrock, BankUnited achieved an accuracy rate of 95 percent and response times of less than 10 seconds.
Transparency Evidence & methodology 86/100 reference value · 87% confidence · 1 source

Review how this reference was scored and trace each normalized claim back to its documented source.

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Scoring methodology

How scores are calculated

Customer Reference Value measures usefulness as a customer reference. Evidence Confidence measures the quality and traceability of available evidence, not independent verification.

Customer reference value86/100
  • Problem clarity20/20
    Measures whether the customer's operational problem is specific enough to compare.
  • Implementation depth15/25
    Rewards named components, data flow, integrations, and architecture detail.
  • Outcome specificity16/20
    Measures whether the reported benefit is concrete rather than a generic claim.
  • Quantified impact25/25
    2 metrics describe measurable impact.
  • Deployment scale10/10
    Rewards evidence of a live or scaled deployment and meaningful integration scope.
Evidence confidence87%
  • Source authority20/25
    The main evidence is an official vendor-published customer story.
  • Claim traceability21/25
    10 of 12 key fields link to a named source.
  • Direct evidence20/20
    6 direct source quotes retained.
  • Date provenance8/10
    The publication date comes from publisher-controlled metadata.
  • Source transparency8/10
    1 source reference document publisher, URL, authority, retrieval, and supported fields.
  • Implementation specificity10/10
    Rewards source-backed components, data flow, quantified impact, and a specific outcome.
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Traceability

Sources & provenance

Field coverage shows which facts each source supports. Dates are shown only when documented by the source.

  1. AWS

    BankUnited customer story

    First-party
    https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/bankunited-case-study/
    Source type
    Vendor-published customer story
    Published
    Nov 7, 2024
    Supports
    • Customer
    • Business problem
    • Solution
    • Products
    • Solution components
    • Data flow
    • Integrations
    • technical area
    • use case category
    • Business outcome
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    • Metrics
    • Architecture
    • evidence quotes
    • Publication date

Date evidence

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