January 23, 2025

Applying Causal AI Across Industries with Geminos Causeway

Causal AI is revolutionizing decision-making by enabling organizations to move beyond correlation-based analytics and uncover the true cause-and-effect relationships within their data. This advanced approach empowers businesses, governments and institutions to make smarter, more impactful decisions by understanding not just what is happening, but why.

The versatility of Causal AI means it can be applied in any setting where important decisions need to be made — from healthcare and finance to sales, entertainment and manufacturing. Whether it's improving patient outcomes, refining credit risk models, optimizing marketing strategies, or enhancing supply chain resilience, Causal AI provides a powerful framework for addressing complex challenges with clarity and confidence.

Geminos Causeway provides an end-to-end platform to build, deploy and operationalize Causal AI solutions. This document explores how Geminos Causeway empowers organizations across industries to harness the power of causality.

Healthcare

Application: Optimizing Patient Care Pathways

Hospitals often struggle to improve patient outcomes due to the complexity of treatment pathways and external factors. Causal AI identifies the root causes of poor patient outcomes — such as insufficient follow-up care or medication side effects — enabling providers to design targeted interventions.

How Geminos Causeway Helps

The Decision Causal Models (DCMs) in Geminos Causeway simulate a wide variety of complex treatment plans simultaneously, allowing healthcare providers to test combinations of interventions and devise tailored treatment plans for specific individuals. This ensures medical strategies are both personalized and evidence based.

Application: Drug Effectiveness and Side Effects

Clinical trials and pharmaceutical research benefit from Causal AI by isolating the true effects of a drug from confounding variables. In complex scenarios where it may initially be unclear what causes what — whether side effects stem from the drug itself, interactions with other medications or patient-specific factors — Causal AI clarifies these relationships. This enables researchers to move beyond associations and understand direct causation, leading to more accurate treatment recommendations and enhanced patient safety.

How Geminos Causeway Helps

The Causeway Studio module empowers researchers to build and test causal models, even in the face of ambiguous data. Using Causal Discovery and the Causal Co-Pilot, researchers can uncover hidden variables and refine their models iteratively.

Finance

Application: Fraud Detection and Prevention

Financial institutions face constantly evolving threats, with fraud tactics shifting as soon as preventative measures are introduced. Traditional AI models, which rely on historical data, struggle to adapt quickly enough to emerging schemes. Causal AI, however, identifies the root causes of fraudulent behavior by revealing how different factors — transaction patterns, user behavior and external events — interact to produce fraud. This allows financial institutions to build proactive, adaptable strategies that evolve alongside emerging threats.

How Geminos Causeway Helps

Causeway Studio makes it easy for business and data science teams to collaboratively build and update causal models through its low-code interface. When new fraud patterns emerge, models can be swiftly edited or expanded without extensive reprogramming. Decision Deployment ensures financial institutions can apply continuous, real-time causal monitoring to transaction streams — keeping fraud detection agile and effective.

Application: Credit Scoring and Risk Assessment

Traditional credit scoring models often rely on correlations that frequently disadvantage certain groups. Causal AI mitigates bias by distinguishing whether a borrower’s risk is driven by systemic factors — such as economic conditions or demographic patterns — or individual financial behaviors. This allows for fairer, more accurate credit evaluations, helping lenders make decisions rooted in causation rather than misleading correlations.

How Geminos Causeway Helps

Geminos Causeway provides a transparent interface that allows financial analysts to easily identify sources of bias within credit risk models. The platform’s built-in analysis tools automatically adjust for confounding variables, ensuring the models reflect true causative relationships.

Sales

Application: Optimizing Marketing Campaigns

Marketers often struggle to attribute revenue growth to specific campaigns. Causal AI helps determine which marketing efforts genuinely drive customer conversions by differentiating between causation and mere correlation. Businesses can allocate budgets more efficiently, focusing on high-impact campaigns and eliminating ineffective ones.

How Geminos Causeway Helps

Geminos Causeway Studio enables marketing teams to quantify and compare the causal impact of different advertising strategies, while Decision Deployment operationalizes real-time campaign adjustments based on true causal drivers.

Application: Sales Forecasting and Strategy Development

Many sales predictions rely on historical trends without considering the underlying factors influencing purchases. Causal AI helps businesses understand the real drivers of sales fluctuations — such as seasonality, competitor actions or pricing changes — allowing for more accurate demand forecasting and dynamic sales strategies. Unlike traditional AI models, causal models can adapt to shifts in demand by continuously updating based on new data, ensuring sales strategies remain responsive to real-world changes.

How Geminos Causeway Helps

Causeway Studio empowers business and data science teams to collaboratively develop and refine causal models using its low-code interface. These models can be quickly adjusted when market conditions shift, such as sudden changes in customer demand or competitor actions.

Entertainment

Application: Content Recommendation Systems

Streaming platforms use recommendation algorithms based on user preferences, but correlation-based models often lead to repetitive content suggestions. Causal AI identifies why users engage with certain content, enabling more diverse and personalized recommendations that improve user satisfaction and retention.

How Geminos Causeway Helps

Causeway Studio supports the simultaneous simulation of a wide variety of user recommendation options, allowing marketing teams to devise tailored recommendations for specific individuals. Similar to the application of Causal AI in healthcare with treatment plans, this ensures that content recommendation strategies are both personalized and evidence based.

Application: Box Office and Audience Engagement Predictions

Film studios and production companies can use Causal AI to predict the success of movies and TV shows by analyzing factors like star power, genre trends and release timing. Unlike traditional analytics, Causal AI helps studios understand which elements truly drive audience engagement and box office performance.

How Geminos Causeway Helps:

Causeway Studio allows production teams to quickly visualize the primary driving factors behind box office performance through each stage of the content-lifecycle (production, marketing, release). Decision Deployment makes it straightforward to align and enact decisions throughout the entire lifecycle of a film while accounting for other releases.

Manufacturing

Application: Supply Chain Optimization

Manufacturers face disruptions from supplier delays, demand fluctuations and logistical inefficiencies. Furthermore, current supply chain software only supports decisions for reactive strategies based on individual units, instead of taking a holistic approach to the entire system. Causal AI pinpoints the root causes of supply chain bottlenecks and enables proactive strategies such as adjusting inventory levels, synchronizing supplier ordering and improving demand forecasting.

How Geminos Causeway Helps

Decision Deployment provides real-time causal monitoring of supply chain variables, enabling organizations to react quickly to emerging risks. Causeway Studio allows supply chain managers to take an entirely different, macro-oriented approach to optimizing their inventory levels compared to current solutions.

Application: Predictive Maintenance

Equipment failures lead to costly downtime. Traditional predictive maintenance models often predict failures based on correlations, which may lead to unnecessary maintenance or unexpected downtime. Causal AI identifies the actual causes of equipment failures, allowing manufacturers to implement precise maintenance schedules that reduce downtime and extend machinery lifespan.

How Geminos Causeway Helps

Causeway Studio supports root cause analysis for predictive maintenance, ensuring interventions are targeted and effective. Causal Co-Pilot can be configured to reference maintenance logs and inspection reports to assist with the causal model building process.

Conclusion

Causal AI provides organizations across industries with deeper insights into their data, enabling them to make more informed, transparent and effective decisions. By moving beyond correlation-based analytics, businesses can optimize operations, improve customer satisfaction, and drive innovation in a way that is both explainable and actionable. Geminos Causeway serves as the ultimate platform for implementing Causal AI at scale, offering tools for modeling, decision deployment and enterprise-wide knowledge sharing.