Automating risk assessment at an investment firm

The challenge

Analysts spent much of their week extracting the same fields from the same document types by hand, then re-keying them into a risk model. It was slow, expensive, and inconsistently done.

What we did

• Built an extraction pipeline for the highest-volume document types
• Routed every low-confidence extraction to a human, rather than guessing
• Preserved a complete audit trail: every field traceable back to the page and line it came from
• Worked with compliance from week one, not as a final gate

Outcome

• Manual processing time reduced dramatically on covered document types
• Full auditability — every extracted value traceable to its source
• Analysts moved onto judgement work instead of transcription

“The audit trail was non-negotiable and they understood that before we had to explain it.”

— Investment banking firm

Client names are withheld under our confidentiality agreements. Outcomes are described qualitatively rather than with precise figures we are not permitted to publish — we would rather say less than overstate.

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