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SENAE's Palantir Platform — Ecuador Customs Reports $9.5M in Seizures From AI Risk-Profiling in First 100 Days

Ecuador · Guayaquil · See the Ecuador profile

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 47% 60/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

Ecuador's customs authority (SENAE) deployed a Palantir AI/data-analytics platform in May 2025 to risk-profile import/export declarations. In its first 100 days, SENAE reports $9.5M in contraband seizures, $1.17M in prevented fiscal loss, and over 90% of declarations screened.

9.5 USD million
Contraband seized (first 100 days)
1,173,327 USD
Prevented fiscal loss (first 100 days)
>90%
Declarations algorithmically risk-profiled
17.2 USD million
Contract renewal/extension procurement (3-year, 2026)
SENAE's Palantir Platform — Ecuador Customs Reports $9.5M in Seizures From AI Risk-Profiling in First 100 Days

Details

Maturity
Scaling
Promoter
Servicio Nacional de Aduana del Ecuador (SENAE)
Period
2025–2026
Keywords
customs, trade facilitation, tax administration, law enforcement

Context

In May 2025, Ecuador's SENAE deployed a Palantir Technologies AI/data-analytics platform to risk-profile import/export declarations for smuggling, tariff fraud and biodiversity trafficking, integrating customs, tax (SRI) and law-enforcement data.

Results

SENAE's own 100-day report (Sept 2025) states the platform helped seize USD9.5M in contraband, prevent an estimated USD1,173,327 in fiscal loss, identify ~USD1M in omitted tariffs, and that over 90% of declarations are now algorithmically risk-profiled.

Conclusions

In 2026 the government opened a ~USD17.2M three-year procurement to renew and extend the contract.

Implementation
Indicative cost
High (€500k–€5M)
Time to results
Short (< 1 year)
Staffing & skills
SENAE risk-profiling analysts, Palantir Technologies contract team

Conditions for success

  • cross-agency data pooling (customs, tax, law enforcement)
  • continued contract renewal funding

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