Hickory

Compliance, BSA, and operations teams at banks, fintechs, and credit unions spend heavy time on manual evidence gathering: pulling data for analysis, assembling documentation for complaints, audits, or testing populations, and researching regulations against internal policy. The page describes a data pull taking weeks and case work taking four hours per review, with questions about regulations often sent to outside counsel. This work piles into backlogs that slow down exams, audits, and new program launches.

Hickory provides AI agents built by experts in compliance, BSA, and banking operations, configured into workflows tailored to each institution. Analyst Studio answers data requests in minutes with sources attached, Automated Workflows gather and review documentation against acceptance criteria and present it for approval, and a Tailored Knowledge Base answers regulatory and policy questions specific to the institution rather than generically. The system is positioned as fully audited, with documented and cited outputs ready for exams, and includes independent model validation, single tenant virtual private cloud deployment, logged actions, encryption in transit and at rest, and SOC 2 and PCI DSS compliance. Agents handle the first pass and evidence gathering while the human team retains judgment and final decisions across programs for banks, scaled fintechs, new fintech programs, and credit unions.