Theft Detection System
Retail shrinkage eats into margins that are already thin. This agent monitors video feeds and transaction data to spot suspicious patterns, unusual voids, sweethearting, and organised theft behaviour, and alerts your security team before losses add up.
About Theft Detection System
The Problem
Shrinkage is one of the biggest controllable costs in retail, and most of it goes undetected until stocktake. Traditional loss prevention relies on security guards watching monitors and hoping they catch something, or POS exception reports that someone has to manually review days after the fact. Organised retail crime is getting more sophisticated, and the old methods aren’t keeping up.
How It Works
This agent combines video analytics with transaction data analysis to detect theft patterns in real time. On the video side, it flags behaviours like concealment, tag removal, and unusual movement patterns. On the POS side, it identifies anomalies, excessive voids, suspicious refund patterns, sweethearting (scanning one item but bagging two), and till discrepancies. When it detects something, it alerts your security team immediately with the relevant footage and transaction records linked together.
Protecting Australian Retail Margins
For Australian retailers operating on tight margins, reducing shrinkage directly improves profitability. This agent doesn’t replace your loss prevention team; it makes them more effective by directing their attention where it matters most. The system learns your store’s normal patterns and gets better at distinguishing genuine concerns from false alarms over time. Our custom AI development team can tailor the detection models to your specific retail environment and risk profile.
Key software integrations
The systems this agent typically reads from and writes to. We integrate 800+ tools, so a different stack is rarely a problem.
What a build like this costs
Agent builds typically start at around $10,000 AUD depending on scope, and we scope every build to pay for itself. If the numbers do not stack up for your volume, we will tell you before you spend anything.
FAQs
Theft Detection System: common questions
What retail trade teams ask before building an agent like this.
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