Branch Employee Assistant for banks and credit unions

Branch Employee Assistant

The customer came in for a wire. The banker sent the wire.

That's the whole story, a hundred times a day. A guidance screen that gives branch employees the next question, in their own words, and the facts to handle what comes back.

See the screen

A thirty-minute walkthrough, live. No recordings, no deck.

Golf simulators or espresso bars?

A three-minute read on what brings customers into a branch.

  • The next question, in the banker's own style
  • In the banker's own words
  • Your catalog beside the competitor's, dated
  • Word-for-word answers to common objections
  • Says so when the customer's deal is better
  • A training version for role play
  • Live in days. No core connection.
  • Nothing that identifies the customer
  • Every word written in advance
  • Off with one URL
Why it exists

Branches are back. Customers are coming in for a conversation.

The build-out
Chase set out to open more than 160 new branches in 2026. PNC, more than 300 by 2030.By mid-2026 the industry had its first run of net branch openings since 2009 (NCRC on FDIC data, 2026).
Not for routine
Only 3% of Gen Z bank mostly in a branch.They come for help: in 2025, more than a third of bank customers under 40 said they were looking for advice (ABA and Morning Consult, 2025; J.D. Power, 2025).
More to think through
The average checking customer keeps deposit accounts at three institutions.And 37% of adults could not cover a $400 emergency with cash or its equivalent (J.D. Power, 2026; Federal Reserve, 2026).
Advice pays
Personalized advice lifts satisfaction 195 points on a 1,000-point scale.And 76% of customers who get advice act on it (J.D. Power, 2024, large-bank customers).
The problem today

The conversation is the hardest part to get right.

What retail and branch leaders told us.
Their name for what was missing: sales confidence.

Order takers
No more order takers in the branch.A retail leader's goal, as reported to us.
Nobody hears it
"We have no idea how those conversations sound."A chief retail officer, on a conversation that plays out a hundred times a day.
The ramp is long
Six to nine months before a new banker can hold that conversation.A regional manager, as reported to us. And many do not stay: within a year of hire, nearly half of bankers have left, by figures shared at CBA Live 2025.
Newer bankers hold back
The question that would help feels personal, so it goes unasked.A trainer and a regional manager, on newer bankers, as reported to us. Asking it well, out loud, is a skill. Like any skill, it takes practice.

When the goal is the next product, the conversation feels pushy. When the goal is the customer's problem, the one they brought and the one they didn't know to ask about, it feels like help. The business follows the trust.

What a banker gets

The right question. The right facts. On one screen.

It sits in a second browser window on the banker's desk, which is where bankers told us they wanted it.

For every banker, especially the newest.

The next question, in their own words.

The prompts follow the way the banker likes to talk. One banker said it helped to see what to cover, then say it in their own words. Which is the point.

Came in for: a wireyour words
"Sounds like something exciting. Is this for a house, or a business?"

Illustrative.

At the desk

The customer's need first. The product only if it fits.

A product shows up only as the answer to something the customer said, with the reason in plain sight.

No pitch list. No quota in the conversation. If the customer's own deal is better, the banker says so.

At the desk

"All set, the wire's on its way. Can I ask what it's for? Sometimes there's a way to make the next one easier."

If they say a house: "Congratulations. Have you thought about where the down payment sits until closing?"

Customer's name on screennone

Illustrative.

What it does not touch

Built for the questions your compliance team will ask.

It makes no decisions

It suggests. The employee decides.

No core connection

It sits in a browser window beside the core system. The two are not connected.

Nothing that identifies the customer

There is nowhere to enter a name or an account number.

Every response written in advance

No AI writes anything during the conversation. Every word can be reviewed before a customer hears it.

Public facts, dated

Competitor facts come from what competitors publish, with the date they were read.

Off with one URL

Remove one URL from your allowlist and it is gone.

From the leaders

Built with the people who run branches.

Built around your products, the competitors your customers name, and the objections your bankers hear every day. Made for consultative conversations: the confidence to ask, an honest path to a deeper relationship, and the customer's outcome first. The business results follow.

On the job it does
"This is only providing some additional guardrails and structure around a conversation that today plays out a hundred times a day."
A chief retail officer
On the banker's own voice
"I love the fact that the employee could customize the approach based on their preference."
The same chief retail officer, who asked that each style stay rooted in the institution's service standard
On why the branch matters
"Do I trust the person that's sitting in front of me?"
A chief information officer, on the question a customer is really asking
On keeping score

Confidence first. Then deeper relationships, counted as products per customer.

How branch leaders said they would judge it
Who it's for

One screen. Five people who care about it.

BRANCH BANKERS

Confidence with a customer they've never met.

The next question and the facts, without leaving the conversation to go looking.

TRAINERS

A rehearsal room that looks like the real thing.

The same screen in training mode, so practice transfers one to one.

RETAIL LEADERS

The same footing in every branch.

Every prompt can be checked against your service standard before it goes live. A conversation you can finally describe.

MARKETING

Test a message where it's spoken.

Put a new value proposition in front of customers through your bankers, hear what lands, and refine it without waiting for a campaign cycle.

COMPLIANCE AND IT

Easy to review. Easy to switch off.

No integration, nothing that identifies the customer, every word written in advance, and an off switch.

What it is not

What it won't do, on purpose.

Not a script to read aloud.

A banker reading a script sounds like a banker reading a script. These are prompts in their own style.

Not a sales quota machine.

A product only appears as the answer to something the customer said. No add-on stage, no pitch list.

Not an AI that improvises.

Nothing is generated during the conversation. If it's on the screen, someone wrote it and someone can review it.

Not a CRM.

Your CRM knows your customer. It doesn't know your competitors. This sits beside it.

Not an integration project.

One URL on your allowlist. That's the project plan.

Not a replacement for good bankers.

It gives the newest banker the same questions and facts as the most experienced one.

Ways in

See it first. Then put it in a branch.

See the screen

Thirty minutes, live, with your products in mind.

Walk through a real conversation from the banker's side of the desk. Bring your head of retail and your trainer.

See the screen

Run a pilot

A few bankers, a few branches, your measures.

A paid pilot on your own catalog and the competitors you name. You set what success looks like before it starts.

Email sales@audareai.comAsk about a pilot

P.S.Somewhere, a customer just finished a transaction and walked out without anyone asking a thing. That's the conversation this is for.

FAQ

The questions a compliance officer asks first.

Does it connect to our core?

No. It runs in a browser window beside your core system, and the two are not connected.

Does it see customer information?

It doesn't connect to your systems, and there is nowhere to enter a name or an account number. Its loan comparison uses only the figures a customer chooses to share, such as a rate or a balance.

Does AI write what the banker says?

Not during the conversation. Every response is written in advance, so your team can review every word before a customer hears it.

Who decides what the banker says?

The banker. The screen suggests and the employee decides. Because every response is written in advance, your team can check each response against your own service standard before anyone uses it.

Where do the competitor facts come from?

From what competitors publish on their own websites, read by Vira and dated, so the banker can see how fresh each fact is.

What if our bankers don't use it?

The right question to ask. That's what a pilot is for: your leaders set the measures, and the pilot shows whether it earned a place on the desk.

Questions we didn't cover? partners@audareai.com

One more question

Ask it with confidence.

See the screen a banker sees, in a thirty-minute walkthrough.

Prefer email? partners@audareai.com