I Gave an AI Agent 8 Hours to Investigate Fraud. Here's What It Found
A hands-on look at long-horizon AI agents — and why this technology will matter whether you're running a Fortune 500 or a five-person startup.
I tried something this past week. I wired up an AI agent — my local vLLM serving Nemotron-3 Nano Omni alongside a cloud-hosted GLM-5.1 — handed it a bundle of expense reports plus six years of company data, and walked away. Eight hours. No supervision. No checkpoints.
When I sat back down at my desk, three things were waiting for me. Three findings that a routine human review would almost certainly have walked right past — and that, to be honest, I had walked right past myself when I'd read those very same documents the week before.
What follows is what the agent surfaced, and what I think it tells us about the road ahead for fraud detection, compliance work, and the broader trajectory...
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