Implementation Guide
A practical integration plan for teams connecting WatchTower to their transaction stack.
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Recommended implementation sequence
- Create the organization and first admin
- Generate the organization ingestion API key
- Send a controlled test transaction
- Validate alerts, cases, and decision outputs
- Invite analysts and risk leads
- Configure thresholds, SLA, and webhook settings if needed
- Move to production traffic in controlled phases
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What your team needs
- an engineering owner for API integration
- a compliance or fraud operations owner
- an admin who manages users, keys, and settings
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Integration model
WatchTower is designed to sit beside your transaction flow. Your platform sends transaction events to WatchTower as they occur, and WatchTower evaluates them in real time.
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Rollout recommendation
Start with low-risk staging or simulator traffic and validate one production stream before expanding coverage.
Increase coverage once you trust
- ingestion success
- decisioning outputs
- alert and case workflow response
- team access and support processes
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Validate before production expansion
- ingestion API key works
- idempotency is implemented
- transaction payload fields are stable
- analysts can see and act on alerts
- admins can manage users and settings
- MFA is enabled for key roles
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