Audare AI: intelligence for banks and credit unions

For banks and credit unions

Outmanned. Outspent. But never outsmarted.

One record of what more than 2,000 US banks and credit unions publish, captured every week. Put to work where rates are set, where the offer is spoken, and where customers have started to ask.

See your market

Your institution and three competitors, side by side. Free.

What a rate increase really costs

A five-minute read before the next pricing committee.

  • 2,000+US banks and credit unions, captured weekly
  • Every valueLinked to source data
  • Live in daysNo core connection. No IT project.
  • No member dataPublic data only. One less thing for compliance.
Why we built this

Three places a customer's choice gets made.

What the people in those rooms told us, and what the market data says.

Where rates are set
The habit: take the median of the market, and price the CD there.An investor in community banks, describing pricing committees they have sat on.For scale: five basis points on a billion dollars of balances that reprice is $500,000 a year. And the money moves: one in five checking customers moved some away from their main bank in the last three months (J.D. Power, 2026).
Where the offer is spoken
"We have no idea how those conversations sound."A chief retail officer, on a branch conversation that plays out a hundred times a day. Meanwhile banks are building branches again, Chase alone more than 160 in 2026, and in 2025 more than a third of bank customers under 40 said they were looking for advice (J.D. Power, 2025).
Where customers have started to ask
More than 200 million people a month ask ChatGPT about money.OpenAI's own count, May 2026. The answers name banks and credit unions, in conversations those institutions never see. Among Americans looking for financial guidance, about one in four Gen Z and millennials have asked an AI tool (Gallup, 2026).
The common thread

One market record. Three places it goes to work.

Every week Vira captures the public shelf of more than 2,000 US banks and credit unions. Name any competitor and it reads that institution down to the product: every rate, fee, feature, promotion and program, with its terms and who qualifies, dated and linked to its source.

A rate page is overwritten the day the rate changes. Vira keeps what it said. Your competitors' websites have short memories. Ours doesn't.

What we've seen

Proof

"This usually would take us a whole day or more."

A member of a retail team, on how long a competitive review used to take.

1 in 6assistant answers in one market named a credit union that ceased to exist in 2020
1,000+assistant answers read in one audit, across three markets
Everymarket we measured: the most-named institution was a bank with no branches
1 in 3Denver banks and credit unions over $500M in assets never named, across hundreds of assistant answers
Works with what you've got

What we don't touch is part of the design.

Your core stays exactly where it is. Here is what each product touches, and what it doesn't.

Public pages, read directly

The market record is built from what institutions publish on their own websites. The same pages any visitor sees. No surveys, no consortium, no data sharing.

No core connection

None of the three connects to your core. The branch screen runs in its own browser window beside it, and the two are not connected.

Nothing that identifies the customer

There is nowhere on the branch screen to enter a name or an account number. It makes no decisions. It suggests, and the employee decides.

Every word written in advance

Every response on the branch screen is written ahead of time, so your team can read it before a customer hears it. No AI writes anything during the conversation.

Totals, not accounts

The committee tools were designed with finance leaders to work from totals by term and size, or inside your own warehouse. The audit needs nothing from your systems at all.

Source-linked, and easy to switch off

Every value links to the page it came from. AI can make mistakes; source links let you tell when. And the branch screen goes away when one URL leaves your allowlist.

Questions we get

Fair questions. Straight answers.

"Our core system is older than some of your engineers."

Then we have something in common: we leave it alone. Vira works from what institutions publish. The branch screen sits beside your core in its own browser window. The audit needs nothing from your systems. Your core stays exactly as it is.

"We don't have IT resources for another vendor."

The record and the audit need none. The branch screen runs in a browser and needs one URL added to your allowlist.

"Will competitors know we're watching them?"

No. We read what they publish, the same as any visitor to their website.

"Are we the right size for you?"

We built for community and regional banks and credit unions, from $500 million in assets up. The record covers the largest banks too, because that is who you compete with.

"How much?"

Less than you're losing to competitors each month. We recommend a conversation. But we're biased.

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About us

We could build for anyone. We chose banking.

Every community bank and credit union knows what makes it worth choosing.

  • The people at the counter.
  • The loan someone else turned down.
  • The branch that stayed when others left.

What has changed is where people look first. Rates are compared in seconds. More and more questions about money go to an AI assistant before they reach a branch. The largest banks have teams and tools watching all of it, every week. Many community institutions are working from a spreadsheet someone built by hand.

Size was never the problem. Seeing the market, and being seen in it, is.

That is the work we do

The market view the largest banks take for granted, built for the institutions that need it most.

THE TEAM

Built where accuracy is everything.

Alumni of PayPal, Intuit, Target, McKinsey, Philips, eBay and MIT. We have shipped machine learning at consumer scale in payments, lending and medical imaging: regulated fields where a wrong answer has consequences.

HOW IT WAS BUILT

Shaped by the people who live it every day.

Built with the finance, lending and retail leaders who use it. Their teams put it to work on real decisions and told us where it fell short. We kept iterating until it held up.

WHAT DRIVES US

Designed with intention.

Big-bank questions. Community-sized teams. So we build in the depth each question needs, and leave out the project your roadmap has no room for.

Ready?

See your market before your next committee meeting.

Bring your institution and three competitors. We'll show you what they publish, side by side, and where you stand.

Prefer email? partners@audareai.com

No contracts that require a law degreeNo implementations that require a project managerNo surprises except the good kind