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An AI-first platform built for
banking-grade demands.

Cornytis is built on four guarantees: data stays in-bank, decisions are auditable, the system continuously improves, and core banking systems stay untouched.

/01 · ARCHITECTURE

Six layers. One intelligence fabric.

Cornytis is built on four guarantees: in-bank data, auditable decisions, continuous improvement, and untouched core banking systems.

01Experience layer

Customer-banker chatbots handle Q&A and guided journeys across every channel.

POWERED BY CORTEX
02Intelligence layer

The AI fabric manages memory, routing, retrieval, tools, and responses through clear business rules.

POWERED BY CORTEX
03Action layer

Chatbots guide customer-bank interactions with personalized support across all channels.

POWERED BY CONDUCTOR
04Foundation layer

Core banking, KYC, and credit systems connect via OpenAPI APIs without custom connectors.

POWERED BY FORGE
05Knowledge layer

A vector store and Neo4j graph allow for relationship-aware retrieval of regulatory texts.

POWERED BY HIPPOCAMPUS
06Control layer

Genesis handles tenant isolation and audits, while Shipyard and Evolution manage deployment.

POWERED BY GENESIS, SHIPYARD, EVOLUTION

Agents become the new APIs. Business logic lives in plain language, not code. When a regulation changes, the compliance officer updates a description — not an IT ticket.

/02 · PLATFORM SERVICES

Eight services. Independently scalable. One cohesive system.

Cornytis runs as eight independently scalable microservices, powering AI agents and deterministic banking workflows.

Genesis Identity & control

Manages tenants, users, roles, and API keys. Every request is authenticated and scoped to the correct organisation before any agent logic runs.

Cortex Cognitive engine

Powers all AI-driven conversations. Orchestrates the full reasoning loop: memory consolidation, intent routing, RAG retrieval, tool selection, streamed response generation.

Conductor Workflow engine

Executes deterministic, multi-step processes — loan applications, onboarding, approval chains. Supports human-in-the-loop pauses with role-gated approvals. State persists across sessions via LangGraph checkpoints.

Hippocampus Knowledge & RAG

Stores regulatory texts, product rules, and policy documents as vector embeddings and a Neo4j knowledge graph. GraphRAG combines semantic search with relationship traversal.

Forge Tool execution

Connects agents to any external system — credit bureaus, KYC providers, core banking APIs — via OpenAPI import. Configuration-based integrations for standard services; secure sandboxed extensions for domain-specific logic.

Dendrite UI gateway

Serves embeddable chat widgets and translates agent state into frontend UI schemas — forms, approval buttons, progress screens.

Shipyard Deployment

Provisions and manages the full stack on the bank's own AWS or on-premise infrastructure. The Data Plane — agents, knowledge base, LLM calls — never leaves the bank's environment.

Evolution Continuous improvement

Monitors agent performance, detects failures, proposes targeted optimisations, validates changes against a regression vault before promoting them to production.

/03 · TWO EXECUTION ENGINES

Cognitive when it should be. Deterministic when it must be.

Most AI platforms force every process through one execution model. Cornytis routes each banking task to the runtime that fits its nature — which is what makes the platform simultaneously flexible and auditable.

Cognitive engine

Probabilistic · language-driven

Handles open-ended reasoning: customer chat, document Q&A, fraud pattern detection, plain-language rule interpretation. Streamed in real time via SSE.

Used for: Customer support · KYC Q&A · Fraud typology analysis · Product chatbot

Workflow engine

Deterministic · guaranteed step order

Executes structured process graphs: collect data, call APIs, branch on conditions, pause for human approval, resume. Every step logged. State persists across sessions via LangGraph checkpoints.

Used for: Loan origination · Onboarding · Reconciliation · Regulatory reporting
/04 · KNOWLEDGE STORAGE & RETRIEVAL

Hippocampus: vector search where it helps, graph traversal where it matters.

Hippocampus combines two complementary stores so agents can retrieve the right rule and context for every case.

Vector store

Semantic search

Documents like regulatory texts, product sheets, and policy manuals are processed and embedded. During inference, the agent retrieves the most relevant chunks for the query. Supported formats include PDF, DOCX, CSV, JSON, and HTML.

Knowledge graph

Neo4j GraphRAG

Entities from documents, such as regulations and customer profiles, are stored as nodes and relationships. During queries, retrieval uses vector similarity and graph traversal, allowing the agent to answer questions that require reasoning across related entities.

/05 · DATA SOVEREIGNTY

The bank's data never leaves the bank.

Not a configuration choice but an architectural constraint: Cornytis separates into two planes to keep data and AI operations inside the bank's perimeter.

/CONTROL_PLANE · SAAS

What we manage

  • User authentication and tenant identity.
  • Billing and entitlement.
  • Global orchestration and deployment coordination.
  • Platform release management.
  • Never sees customer or transaction data.
/DATA_PLANE · INSIDE_YOUR_BANK

What runs in your VPC

  • Every agent runtime instance.
  • Vector store and Neo4j knowledge graph.
  • All LLM API calls — using your API keys.
  • Customer PII, transaction data, document content.
  • Never leaves your infrastructure.
Deployment dimension
Cloud-hosted (AWS)
On-premise / private cloud
Data plane location
Bank's own AWS VPC
Bank's own data centre
LLM API key ownership
Bank-owned
Bank-owned
Customer data leaves bank?
No
No
Encryption at rest
AES-256 (PostgreSQL + Neo4j)
AES-256 (PostgreSQL + Neo4j)
Provisioning
Shipyard one-click deploy
Docker export bundle
Internal traffic
Mutual TLS (mTLS)
Mutual TLS (mTLS)
/06 · SECURITY & GOVERNANCE

In regulated environments, governance is table stakes.

Cornytis enforces it at every layer — and the controls below are not opt-in.

STRUCTURAL

Multi-tenant isolation

Every query is filtered by tenant_id at the ORM layer, making each bank's data structurally invisible to other tenants.

RBAC

Role-based access control

Three core roles — Super Admin, Tenant Admin, and User — with granular API-level permissions for builders, operators, and viewers.

EVIDENCE

Immutable audit trail

Every agent decision is traceable, every conversation searchable, and performance trends surfaced automatically — regulator-ready by default.

NETWORK

Network isolation

Databases and backend services run in private subnets, with public access limited through a load balancer. Egress controls, rate limiting, and WAF rules prevent exfiltration, SQL injection, and XSS.

/07 · CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

Evolution: agents that continuously get better without IT.

Most AI systems degrade over time. Cornytis continuously improves through automated feedback loops.

When an agent interaction fails — wrong tool selection, hallucinated output, latency threshold exceeded, or a user thumbs-down — the system:

Failure Analysis

Categorises failures and selects the right optimisation strategy.

Targeted Optimisation

Proposes precise changes to the agent configuration.

Regression Testing

Validates updates against a vault of test cases.

Safe Promotion

Deploys changes to production only after passing validation.

/08 · CORNYTIS VS LEGACY ARCHITECTURE

An AI fabric for banking
without multi-year migrations.

Dimension
Rule EngineTraditional
CornytisAgentic model
Logic ownership
TraditionalIT team — hard-coded configuration
CornytisBusiness analyst — plain language
Time to update a rule
TraditionalWeeks (IT ticket, test, deploy)
CornytisHours (plain text update)
Agent architecture
TraditionalNone, or bolted on after the fact
CornytisNative — cognitive + deterministic layers
Data sovereignty
TraditionalVariable — often SaaS with shared infrastructure
CornytisGuaranteed — data plane in bank's own VPC
Human-in-the-loop
TraditionalManual escalation, ad-hoc
CornytisStructured, role-gated, fully audited
Continuous improvement
TraditionalManual retraining / re-configuration
CornytisAutomated — Evolution service, regression-safe

The banking industry is converging on AI-first architecture. Cornytis is a fast, low-friction path to get there — without replacing core systems, without multi-year migrations, and without compromising governance or control.

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