Enterprise AI, Engineered — de Risk Partners

Enterprise AI, Engineered.

End-to-end process transformation powered by AI, agentic AI, and intelligent automation. A four-stage operating model that takes regulated enterprises from legacy operations to autonomous, audit-ready AI — with cost savings guaranteed on day one.

— The Guarantee

50%+ cost reduction. At signing.

From the day we sign the contract — not at the end of a multi-year program. The takeover phase delivers measurable, contractually guaranteed cost savings before any AI is built.

Four stages. From legacy operations to autonomous AI.

02

Operate & AI-Native Re-Engineering.

12 – 18 Months

While operating the process at the new cost base, our teams decompose the workflow into AI-ready primitives — data flows, decision points, control gates, exception paths.

The process is rebuilt for AI before AI is introduced. No bolt-on. No retrofitting. The legacy workflow is reborn as an AI-native operating model.

Outcome AI-ready architecture process decomposed & rebuilt
03

AI Automation & Implementation.

6 – 12 Months

AI and agentic AI are deployed across the re-engineered process. Intelligent automation handles routine work. Agents handle multi-step reasoning. Humans handle escalations and judgment calls.

Auditable by construction. Every agent action is logged, explainable, and traceable to a control. Regulatory defensibility is built in — not retrofitted.

Outcome AI-augmented operations 80%+ tasks automated
04

Autonomous Operations & Human-in-the-Loop.

24 Months · Steady State

The process reaches autonomous steady state. Agents run end-to-end with human oversight at strategic decision points, exception handling, and control review.

The economic and operational ceiling is removed. Volumes scale without linear cost. Regulators get the auditability they've always wanted. Your team focuses on judgment-intensive work that actually requires people.

Outcome Autonomous steady state scalable · auditable · resilient

Process domains built for transformation.

— Domain 01

Compliance Operations.

KYC, CDD, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, SAR drafting, regulatory reporting, QA & QC.

BSA / AML · Sanctions · KYC · SAR
— Domain 02

Risk & Controls.

Risk assessments, control testing, issue management, audit support, exception triage, second-line review.

Internal Audit · Issue Tracking · RCSA
— Domain 03

Fraud & Financial Crime.

Fraud detection, alert triage, investigation workflow, case management, false-positive reduction.

Card Fraud · ACH Fraud · Synthetic ID
— Domain 04

Customer & Operations.

Onboarding, service operations, disputes & chargebacks, document review, back-office processing.

Onboarding · Disputes · Doc Review
— Domain 05

Regulatory Reporting.

Call reports, AML/SAR/CTR filings, FINMA / NCUA / DFPI submissions, cross-border reporting.

FINREP · FFIEC · FINMA · Pillar 3
— Domain 06

AI Governance.

Pre-deployment AI assurance, EU AI Act readiness, NIST RMF alignment, model risk management.

EU AI Act · NIST RMF · SR 11-7

Most AI vendors build first and ask the regulator later. We build the other way around.

— Principle 01

Safe by design.

Safety isn't a guardrail bolted on after deployment. It's in the architecture from the first design session — control mapping, audit logging, escalation paths.

— Principle 02

Compliant by default.

When the people who used to audit AI start building it, the systems ship. Every agent action is explainable, traceable, and tied to a regulatory control.

— Principle 03

Scalable by construction.

The four-stage model is built to extend — process by process, business unit by business unit. One operating philosophy across the enterprise.

— Principle 04

Economic from day one.

The Takeover phase delivers contractual cost savings before any AI is built. The transformation pays for itself before it starts.

What the operating model looks like in practice.

A regional bank's KYC review function: from 42 FTEs at $4.8M to autonomous AI operations at $1.6M — with a regulator that prefers the new control environment.
67%
Cost reduction$4.8M → $1.6M. Same volume, fraction of the cost.
42→6
FTEs to oversight teamAgents run the process. Humans run exceptions.
3yr
Full transformationTakeover → re-engineer → autonomous steady state.
Illustrative engagement — Community Bank ($3.4B AUM) Takeover Year 1 · AI-Native Re-Engineering Year 2 · Autonomous Operations Year 3

Most transformations cost before they save. Ours saves before it builds.

A 30-minute call with a partner. We'll walk through one of your processes — what we'd take over, what the day-one economics look like, and what the four-stage path becomes.