The last thing a regulator wants to see in a fraud decision is an AI agent improvising. Markie Wagner, founder and CEO of Poetic, is betting that the future of banking involves using AI technology that mirrors an employee with a firm understanding of its rulebook. After working on AI at Google and Waymo, earning a Thiel Fellowship, and walking away from Stanford, Wagner built Poetic around a contrarian idea: let AI write the code once, then let the code do the work, predictably, auditably, and without the runaway costs of a model reasoning from scratch on every case.
With funding from Kleiner Perkins and Founders Fund, Poetic's technology is already running fraud, KYC, and dispute operations at SoFi, Chime, and AIG, Join us for an unfiltered conversation about why so many AI pilots stall before production, where humans must stay in control, and what happens to the banks that wait too long to rebuild their operations as software.
