Your AI is ready.
Your auditors aren't.
Phronesis captures every decision your AI agent makes — so when the regulator calls, you have the forensic evidence ready in seconds, not days.
Three crises. One frozen AI project.
Banks are trapped between engineering teams pushing forward and risk teams holding them back. The result is millions in stranded investment.
"Pilot Purgatory"
The Head of AI Platform built working agentic workflows. Then the Risk Committee vetoed production deployment. The AI sits unused — costing millions in missed savings every quarter.
The DORA Clock
Under DORA Article 5, when an AI agent hallucinates an unauthorized action it's an ICT incident. Banks have 4 hours to file an initial report — but engineers need 3 days to reconstruct what happened.
The Governance Vacuum
Datadog tells you the system crashed. ServiceNow logs traditional model metadata. Neither can map the business context of why a probabilistic AI agent made a specific, multi-step decision.
A flight recorder doesn't prevent crashes — it survives them and provides the exact, undeniable chronology of what the pilot did. Banks need the same thing for their AI agents.
Your AI's Black Box.
Finally readable.
Phronesis sits passively alongside your AI agents, ingesting every decision as it happens and transforming raw telemetry into structured, legally defensible evidence.
Forensic Reasoning Replay
Ingests standard OpenTelemetry traces and automatically translates them into a human-readable, chronological decision tree — step by step, in plain English.
1-Click DORA Evidence Pack
When an incident occurs, your CRO opens the dashboard, clicks one button, and receives a perfectly structured, regulator-ready PDF — not a frantic Slack thread.
Context-Aware Append-Only Ledger
A high-velocity event-streaming backend that chains scattered agent traces into a single, tamper-evident system of record. The logs are immutable — just like a real flight recorder.
Deploy Anywhere: Hosted or Air-Gapped
Your data, your rules. Choose a fully managed cloud for convenience, or deploy 100% on-premise behind your firewall. In our air-gapped mode, your sensitive telemetry never leaves your infrastructure.
From chaos to clarity
in four steps.
Phronesis uses a "passive interceptor" model. Your AI agents don't change. We sit alongside them and do the translation work.
Connect
Point your existing OpenTelemetry exporter to our ingestion endpoint. One config change. No SDK to install. No code changes to your AI agents.
exporters:
otlp:
endpoint: ingest.phronesis.ai
headers:
x-phronesis-key: "your-key"Capture
Every agent decision undergoes Double-Gated Semantic Validation before being locked into our append-only, hash-chained ledger in real time. The machine complexity is invisible to you.
Monitor
Your CRO's board-level dashboard shows continuous oversight: agent workflows governed, anomaly counts, and compliance posture — all in plain English.
Report
When an incident occurs, click "Generate Evidence Pack." Receive a perfectly structured, legally defensible incident report mapped to DORA or RBI guidelines in seconds. Not days.
Built for institutions where
the stakes are real.
We're not selling to every bank. We're solving a specific problem for institutions caught between AI innovation and regulatory accountability.
Tier 1.5 & Tier 2 Banks
$50B – $500B in assets
Face the same punitive regulatory pressure as Mega-Banks, but lack the 10,000-person engineering army to build governance infrastructure in-house. Structurally forced to buy.
Regulated FinTechs
The "Speedboats"
Modern, heavily funded FinTechs, payments processors, and digital-only banks. They buy with engineering-driven POCs. Fast decisions, minimal bureaucracy.
Extreme data sovereignty paranoia, 100% air-gapped deployments, and no off-the-shelf SaaS adoption. A distraction for a seed-stage startup — revisit in Year 4+.
Land and expand.
No surprises.
Priced per agentic workflow governed — so your cost scales with the value you're extracting. Start with a staging pilot, expand as your AI goes live.
Design Partner Pilot
- ✓ OpenTelemetry ingestion setup
- ✓ Forensic Reasoning Replay (1 workflow)
- ✓ Sample DORA Evidence Pack generation
- ✓ Architecture review session
- ✓ Staging data only — no SOC-2 required
Single Workflow License
- ✓ Everything in Design Partner Pilot
- ✓ Live production telemetry ingestion
- ✓ 1-Click DORA Evidence Pack export
- ✓ Append-only ledger with hash proofs
- ✓ Autonomous Data Mirror (SQL + NDJSON)
- ✓ Dedicated Slack support channel
Enterprise Compliance Shield
- ✓ Everything in Core License
- ✓ Unlimited agentic workflows governed
- ✓ Centralized Board-Level Risk Dashboard
- ✓ Multi-business-line coverage
- ✓ Dedicated SLA guarantees (99.9% uptime)
- ✓ Custom on-premise / VPC deployment
- ✓ SR 26-2 Model Risk validation support
AI should be accountable.
Not a black box that gets banks fined.
The financial system is undergoing a once-in-a-generation transformation. Agentic AI has the power to save billions in operational costs and eliminate human error in critical workflows. But that promise collapses the moment a regulator asks "why did the AI do that?" and no one can answer.
We built Phronesis because we believe the gap is not a technical one — it's an infrastructure one. The tools to safely deploy AI at enterprise scale already exist. What was missing was the accountability layer that makes those deployments legally defensible.
Just like the aviation industry didn't abandon flight when crashes happened — they built better recorders — the financial industry doesn't have to choose between AI innovation and regulatory compliance. Phronesis is that recorder.
Get your AI out of Purgatory.
Join a small cohort of banks and FinTechs who are first to deploy Phronesis. Design Partners get hands-on onboarding, early pricing, and direct influence over the product roadmap.
I'm interested in early access to Phronesis.
Name: [your name]
Organisation: [bank / FinTech name]
Role: [your title]
We're trying to solve: [brief description]