Global retail bank

The bank’s credit team could approve only two model releases a year. Every regulatory change meant rebuilding from scratch, and challenger models queued for months. We built an automated model-development pipeline, featuring a feature store, automated documentation, challenger testing — inside the bank’s own environment. The risk team’s sign-off was built into the workflow rather than bolted on afterward.

Model-development cycle time fell from about six months to about ten weeks. Three models shipped to production in the first year, with zero remediation findings in the regulator’s next review. The internal team now runs the pipeline without us.