Half the team uses some AI tool. I could not give you a list.
Browser extensions, free chatbots, note-takers on personal accounts. It arrived one convenient shortcut at a time, and nobody decided it.
Soundings looks for itSolutions · compliance, governance, consulting
The tools got into the building before the rules did. We find them, test what they can cause, and put a named person in charge. Read-only, and tuned to your regulator.
What is happening right now
Composites from conversations, not quotes from named clients. If one of them sounds like your week, you are not behind. You are normal.
Half the team uses some AI tool. I could not give you a list.
Browser extensions, free chatbots, note-takers on personal accounts. It arrived one convenient shortcut at a time, and nobody decided it.
Soundings looks for itWe gave an agent access to make life easier. What can it actually do?
Most agents get set up for what they should do. Very few get tested for what they could do on a bad day.
Sentinel tests itIf the regulator asks who is accountable for this, who do I name?
Under SM&CR and FINMA, a shrug is not an answer. Somebody has to own each use of AI, by name.
Keel assigns itThe AI got it wrong and my team did not notice.
This is the one people go quiet about. The tool is rarely the whole problem. Tired, busy people trust a confident answer.
The free instruments test thisOur answer
Each one reads your environment, investigates and files a report. Nothing changes until someone with a name approves it.
Finds the AI already running in your organisation.
Reads files exported from your systems, on one machine. Nothing leaves your firm.
Open Soundings →Tests what your AI agents can actually cause.
Follows each agent from what it can touch to what it could set off, and marks where a person has to be in the loop.
Open Sentinel →Governs how AI gets approved and who answers for it.
A named accountable person for every AI use, mapped to SM&CR and FINMA expectations.
Open Keel →How honest the output is
Each finding is marked observed, declared, inferred or unknown. A guess never gets dressed up as a fact, and if nobody owns an AI tool yet, the finding says so.
Seen directly in the files we were given.
The method
Who is acting? A human, an AI agent, or a shared and delegated login. We establish who, for every action.
What may it do? Least privilege by design, with approval workflows for anything above the limit.
What does it use? The data it reads, the outside information it trusts, and how good that data is.
What can it cause? Read, write, execute, or trigger other agents. A person stays in the loop where it matters.
Can we reconstruct it? Inputs, outputs and the approver, in a record that cannot be quietly edited.
What should change? Near-misses become control recommendations, and they go back to the start.
claims-agent-07, running on a shared login. Nobody can say which person started it.
Real-life cases
Financial crime, credit decisioning, enterprise machine learning and real-time fraud. Led by Abhinav Gaurav.
Antara and the alternatives
Free instruments
No account needed. They measure what you do under pressure, and never ask how confident you feel.
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