AI at Equifax

Driving AI Innovation

Equifax is leveraging AI to disrupt the industry with higher-performing solutions fueled by proprietary data. Our AI-powered decision intelligence enables our customers to expand access to mainstream financial products and services to more people around the world.

The Equifax Cloud™ foundation gives us an AI advantage, and our AI-powered solutions use unique proprietary data, layered with advanced analytics, to deliver higher-performing models, reduce friction, and uncover new opportunities.

Equifax has driven responsible AI innovation for more than a decade. We are committed to ensuring transparency and explainability in the use of AI and infuse our patented AI techniques into solutions designed to enable customers to obtain insights faster — helping to create new consumer opportunities. See how we’re harnessing the power of AI to accelerate both internal and external innovation:

EFX.AI

How we drive AI-powered innovation for our customers and partners through our advanced technology, analytics, and products

AI 4 EFX

How we pair the invaluable expertise of our people with powerful AI technology to make our work more efficient

AI at Equifax

Governance and Model Risk Management

Learn how we are exploring responsible and ethical ways to implement EFX.AI solutions.

Transparency and Explainability

Equifax led the way towards an industry standard for explainable AI — introducing the first Machine Learning credit scoring system with the ability to generate logical and actionable reason codes for the consumer over a decade ago.

AI-Infused Products: OneScore

Innovative scoring models like OneScore combine the power of the Equifax Cloud with alternative data insights as well as patented AI techniques and machine learning.

Our Commitment to Responsible AI Innovation

Equifax uses AI Systems in a transparent, trustworthy, fair, explainable, and secure manner, to provide benefits to consumers, customers, and our technical and business operations. EFX.AI is aligned to our corporate goals and shared corporate values. Our infrastructure is tailored to manage highly regulated, non-public data – critical to the trusted use of AI.

Patent Spotlight

Our Patented AI Technology

Explore the Equifax Patent Library

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1,100+ Equifax analytics professionals
Anticipating the evolving needs of customers and consumers around the world.

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400+ pending and approved patents**
supporting our approach to AI

The Equifax AI patent portfolio centers on the creation of models for use in financial decisioning and fraud prevention.

** Note: Number of patents as of February 2026

Maximizing AI Performance with the Equifax Cloud™

The Equifax Cloud was custom built to maintain and manage the large volume of diverse, proprietary datasets needed to maximize AI performance. Our vision for the Equifax Cloud is to expand the depth and predictiveness of our data to help our customers innovate faster and create more effective insights into the people and communities they serve.

Explore the Equifax Cloud

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Innovating with Data Science and AI

Our thousands of data scientists and engineers leverage our fully cloud native technology to more effectively harness AI capabilities. Learn how our global team of innovators uses AI to help more people access the financial tools and resources they need.

 
 

AI is leveraged across our software development lifecycle. By automating routine coding and testing, our engineers can focus on the high-value, creative work that drives innovation. We even use AI and automation to enhance our security, speeding up how we identify and resolve potential threats.

Our Agentic AI Platform, slated for full production release in 2026, is accelerating and standardizing the development, deployment, monitoring, and governance of AI agents across our business.

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Helping People Live Their Financial Best

Furthering access to credit with AI and Alternative Data

Industry Leaders in Security

Security is in our DNA

Explaining the Equifax Data Fabric

Making trusted, proprietary data sources accessible for innovation