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A customer banking by phone while identity, policy, privacy and escalation controls sit behind the conversation

APPLIED AI SOLUTIONS · CONVERSATIONAL BANKING AI

Conversational AI for banking services

We build conversational banking AI grounded in your policies and systems, with permission controls and escalation to your team.

  • Every answer grounded in your approved policies, with the source attached
  • Gated on anything that moves money, changes entitlements, or gives advice
  • A clean handoff to a human the moment a request becomes consequential
SIGNS YOUR SERVICE CHANNEL IS READY

High volume still needs a safe containment model.

We build assistants that contain volume safely, not ones that improvise. These are the patterns that tell us a channel is ready for that.

Balances, transactions, card controls, and straightforward servicing can be resolved without a human. The question is never whether the volume exists. It is whether the assistant can be trusted with it.

SIGN 01

Buried contact centre

High-volume, low-complexity queries that do not need a human, but every one currently gets one.

SIGN 02

Bots that frustrate

Existing bots deflect calls only to frustrate customers into calling anyway, dragging down CSAT.

SIGN 03

A compliance veto

Compliance will not sign off on a black-box assistant that cannot show why it said what it said.

SIGN 04

Spikes you cannot staff

Wait times spike at month-end and after any incident, and headcount cannot flex fast enough.

If the grounding is not there, the assistant says it does not know and routes the customer onward. It does not guess.

GROUNDING, NOT GUESSING

The difference between an assistant and a risk.

A general model will answer anything, confidently, including things that are not true for your bank. Our assistants run on retrieval-augmented generation: every answer is grounded in your approved policy documents, product terms, and knowledge base, with the source attached.

For anything transactional, the assistant uses tool calling against your core systems through governed APIs, so it reads a real balance rather than inventing one. Grounding is what separates a helpful assistant from a liability.

COMPLIANCE AND GUARDRAILS, BY DESIGN

Guardrails belong inside every response path.

In a regulated deployment they are the architecture. Five of them run in every build.

GUARDRAIL 01

Scope control

The assistant answers only within an approved domain; out-of-scope, advice-seeking, or complaint-flagged requests are escalated, never improvised.

GUARDRAIL 02

PII and data residency

Personal and account data stays inside your security perimeter, with residency honoured and sensitive fields masked from the model where they are not needed.

GUARDRAIL 03

Groundedness checks

Responses are validated against retrieved sources before they reach the customer, so an unsupported claim is caught, not sent.

GUARDRAIL 04

Full auditability

Every conversation, source, and action is logged, so compliance can reconstruct exactly what happened and why.

GUARDRAIL 05

Action limits

The assistant informs freely but is gated on anything that moves money, changes entitlements, or gives regulated advice.

DECIDING WHAT THE AI MAY DO ALONE

The central design choice, and in banking it sits conservatively.

High-confidence, low-stakes contacts are contained automatically. Anything consequential, or anything the model is unsure of, reaches a human with full context, so the customer never repeats themselves.

Informational, well-grounded: balances, FAQs, transaction lookupHandled straight through, with source.Automated
Low-risk servicing within policyAutomated within strict, rule-bounded limits.Automated, bounded
Financial advice, disputes, hardship, fraud, complaintsEscalated to an agent with full context.Human-in-the-loop
Low model confidence or missing groundingEscalated, never guessed.Human-in-the-loop

Agent corrections feed back into the knowledge base and evaluation set, so the assistant improves within its guardrails rather than drifting.

WHAT IS INCLUDED

From a grounded build to audit-ready reporting.

INCLUDED 01

Grounded assistant build

RAG over your approved content plus governed tool calling into core systems.

INCLUDED 02

Guardrail and escalation design

Scope, PII, action limits, and the human handoff path, defined with your compliance and risk teams.

INCLUDED 03

Channel integration

Web, app, and voice-adjacent channels in your existing servicing stack.

INCLUDED 04

Evaluation harness

Groundedness and safety tested continuously on our LLMOps foundation.

INCLUDED 05

Audit and reporting

Conversation logs and metrics aligned to your governance requirements.

TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGIES

Chosen for production control and auditability.

Retrieval and groundingVector search · hybrid retrieval · source citation · groundedness validation
Tool calling and core systemsGoverned API gateways · Model Context Protocol (MCP) · scoped service accounts
GuardrailsNVIDIA NeMo Guardrails · Guardrails AI · Llama Guard · PII masking
Evaluation and observabilityLangSmith · Langfuse · Arize · groundedness and safety evals
ChannelsWeb and in-app messaging · voice-adjacent servicing · existing contact-centre stack

Guardrails and auditability are governed under Responsible AI & Governance, and evaluation runs on LLMOps.

HOW IT IS MEASURED

Containment counted honestly. A frustrated escalation is not a containment.

  • Containment and deflection
  • Resolution rate and CSAT
  • Groundedness, trending unsupported answers to zero
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What risk and compliance ask us first.

Grounding plus guardrails. Every answer is checked against approved sources before it is sent, out-of-scope requests are escalated, and anything regulated is gated behind a human. Unsupported claims are blocked, not returned.

No. Data is handled inside your perimeter under your residency rules, and your content is never used to train third-party models.

On any consequential request: advice, disputes, hardship, complaints, suspected fraud, and whenever the assistant confidence or grounding is insufficient. The agent inherits the full conversation, so nothing is repeated.

CONTAIN CONTACT VOLUME WITHOUT CUTTING CORNERS

Let us map which contacts are safe to automate and where the human line belongs.

Grounded in your policies, gated on anything consequential, and auditable end to end.