We know how this usually goes: credit review doesn’t get new budget, procurement resists another license, and security has questions before the first meeting ends. So Argus is not sold that way. It is built into your environment, on your cloud, by our team — and it joins the systems you already run.
Every bank’s environment is different — Microsoft shops, Google shops, AWS shops, warehouses of every vintage. So Argus is not shipped to you as a box. It is built into your environment, by our team, working inside your walls.
A forward-deployed engineer — one of ours, working under your security regime and your access controls — builds Argus inside your environment, alongside your review team, your IT organization, and your information security people. Questions get answered in your conference room, not on a support ticket.
Whether you run Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or AWS, Argus is built from cloud services your infrastructure team has already approved — your identity and access management, your logging, your encryption standards, your model endpoints. Nothing exotic arrives; nothing bypasses your controls.
Argus connects to the loan system, the data warehouse, and the document repositories you already run — and its drafts land in the workpaper and workflow tools your reviewers already use. Nothing gets ripped out. No one relearns their job. The agent joins your stack; it does not compete with it.
Your teams see how it is built while it is built — architecture, connections, and controls documented to your standards as we go. After handover, the maintenance retainer keeps it current: model updates, trigger refinements, and recalibration as your policy evolves.
“Built into your environment” does not mean built from scratch. The agent is identical in every bank; what differs per bank is deliberately thin. That discipline is what makes the tenth deployment faster than the first — and what keeps your deployment maintainable for years.
Document reading and extraction, the trigger engine, tier routing, draft writing, the audit trail, and the governance metrics. This is the same code in every bank, improved for all banks at once through the maintenance retainer — never customized for one.
Every bank’s loans, borrowers, financial statements, covenants, documents, and ratings are normalized into one canonical model the core understands. Your credit policy, your rating scale, and your thresholds are configuration expressed against that model — encoded in the calibration engagement, changed without touching code.
Connectors that map your specific systems — the loan system, the warehouse, the document store, your cloud’s identity and model services — into the unification layer. Each adapter is built once and joins the kit: the next bank running the same loan system inherits it. Every deployment makes the next one faster.
The rule we hold ourselves to: never more bespoke than the adapter. If a requirement can’t be met as configuration or a connector, it becomes a proposal to the Standard — not a fork of the agent.
Because Argus runs inside your environment, most of what a vendor-risk review probes — where data lives, who can reach it, how it is encrypted, how access is logged — is answered by your own controls, with the same evidence your teams already produce for examiners. What remains is us: our people and our code. Here is the direct answer on both.
Data residency, identity and access management, network boundaries, logging, and encryption standards are the bank’s own. Argus operates under them; it does not bring parallel infrastructure that your security team has to trust separately.
Inference runs inside your own cloud perimeter — AWS Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex — or through your own Anthropic account under zero-data-retention terms. Borrower financials are not retained and never become training data, under any configuration.
Forward-deployed engineers work under your access controls, your monitoring, and your background-check requirements — the same footing as any contractor your bank clears today. Access is scoped to the engagement and revoked at handover.
What we deploy inside your walls is inspectable: architecture and data flows documented to your standards, dependencies inventoried, changes versioned, and every build reviewable by your teams before it touches production data.
Attestation applies where we run the systems: our hosted platform and our build-and-maintenance tooling, where SOC 2 is in progress with the evidence trail built from day one. Inside your environment, your existing attestations govern — and we complete your vendor due-diligence questionnaire either way, with a signed DPA available for every engagement.
The fastest way to test this model is to put our engineer in a room with your architecture and security people. If the answers aren’t direct, you’ll know in an hour.