Industries — Banking
Banks operate under long-established model-risk and IT-examination requirements. Optimus puts the models, the prompts, and every log line inside the perimeter your examiners already understand.
Why sovereign
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SR 11-7 makes you accountable for every model that touches a decision — including the ones a vendor runs for you. When the weights sit in your rack, validation, versioning, and retirement are things you do, not things you request.
02
GLBA safeguards and state privacy laws follow customer data wherever it flows. A prompt that leaves the building is a data flow. On Optimus, there is no egress to explain, monitor, or document.
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FFIEC guidance treats AI as part of your technology risk profile. A sealed appliance with full decision logs gives the exam team one auditable system instead of a chain of cloud subprocessors.
The pain point — compliance
Every AI answer a bank acts on is potentially examinable. Cloud AI turns that into a third-party-risk file: subprocessor lists, regional failover you don't control, retention policies written by someone else. On-prem, the control environment is simply yours.
The regimes in play
SR 11-7 / OCC 2011-12
Model risk management — inventory, validation, and documentation of every model influencing decisions.
FFIEC IT Handbook
AI and ML examined as part of architecture, infrastructure, and operations — including where it runs.
GLBA Safeguards
Administrative, technical, and physical controls over non-public personal information.
EU AI Act
High-risk classification for credit decisioning — with documentation and logging duties that follow the system.
What cloud AI puts at stake
Optimus removes this exposure entirely: no external calls, no subprocessors, no egress — the full AI stack runs inside the controls you already operate.
Use cases
Every workload below runs on the appliance, against your documents and systems, with full logs — no internet connection required.
Screen alerts against internal files and watchlists, draft dispositions, and keep the entire reasoning chain on the box for the BSA officer.
Spread financials, summarize borrower files, and draft credit memos on models your validation team has actually inspected.
Assemble CTR, call report, HMDA, and CRA workpapers from source systems without any record crossing the firewall.
Point the machine at your policy library and prior findings; get evidence packs and answers in exam language.
Fuse core, card, and case-management records into investigation timelines investigators can defend in court.
Give staff a permission-aware assistant over procedures, products, and rates — answers grounded in your documents, not the open internet.
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