Banks are already in production
Brazilian banks run mortgage-credit and compliance on agent squads; insurers reinvent claims the same way [TI Inside, Aug 2026].
The pilot works. Production is the bottleneck.
From tuned squad to live workflow — one command, supervised, logged, reversible.
Why Runtime
Min→sec, months→weeks
Cycle-time compressions reported from production banking environments — the pace production demands [TI Inside, Aug 2026].
The supervisor profile exists
60% of technology professionals want skills-based organizations; the M-shaped supervisor is the role your seniors grow into [TI Inside, Aug 2026].
What the Team Gains
- When a pilot works, I want one command to production — not a bespoke integration project, so the Friday demo is a live workflow by the next sprint.
- When agents touch live workflows, I want human checkpoints where judgment matters, so autonomy never means unsupervised.
- When something runs wrong at scale, I want kill-switch authority defined in advance, so rollback is a drill we passed, not a meeting we schedule.
- When an auditor asks who decided what, I want the trail on demand — person or agent, logged, so evidence is an export, not an investigation.
The POC-to-Production Gap
The pilot worked on Friday. On Monday it's still a pilot — integration tickets, security review, a quarter of calendar. Gartner: by 2029, agentic AI autonomously resolves 80% of common service issues [Gartner, Mar 2025]; over 80% of organizations expect contact-center headcount cuts within 18 months [Gartner, Dec 2025].
Built on this layer
Runtime Competitive Analysis
| Execution Operational Feature | Point Integrations | Akana Runtime |
|---|---|---|
| Deploy | Bespoke integration projects | One CLI command — the one place 'instant' is literal |
| Supervision | Sandboxed, unsupervised | Human checkpoints, kill-switch authority defined in advance |
| Evidence | No decision trail | akana logs: who — person or agent — decided what |
| Rollback | Hope | Reversible by design |
Deploy a squad
Pick a squad, run the deploy, then pull the logs — governance is bound before anything boots.
Pick a squad
$ akana deploy --squad …The AI Governance Assessment
10 scenario questions. About 3 minutes. Results weighted to what is at stake for your operation — with a plain-language action plan for your two weakest dimensions.
- Oversight & Supervision
- Data Control & Sovereignty
- Auditability & Compliance
- Cost & Spend Visibility
- Execution Discipline
First squad: one workflow, one command
30 days — measured on time-from-deploy-to-production and audit-trail completeness.
Time-to-production
Deploy to live workflow, in days
Audit-trail completeness
Every decision logged — person or agent
Rollback readiness
Kill-switch drill passed in week one