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Vertical 01 · Financial Services

For institutions where "usually right" is not a release criterion.

Cohorte's programs for banks, insurers, asset managers, and fintechs. Built on the founder's published research in conformal prediction and self-consistency. Designed to survive the regulators you actually answer to.

ForCIOs · CROs · Heads of AI · L&D Directors
Regimes coveredSR 11-7 · SS1/23 · DORA · AI Act · ISO 42001
Closest referencePwC AI Factory · 60+ shipped systems

Why FS needs different training

In a bank or insurer, an AI output is not "a nice generation." It is a credit decision, a fraud flag, an underwriting note, a suitability assessment, a transaction-monitoring alert. Each is governed. Each has a regulator. Each has a model-risk function whose job is to ask: what does this system do when it is wrong, and how would you know?

SR 11-7 / SS1/23

The supervisors named the gap.

Both regimes require documented evaluation, verification, and ongoing monitoring of any model influencing a business decision. Most "AI training" programs teach the model. They do not teach independent validation, ongoing monitoring, or governance.

DORA & AI Act

Two regimes, one operational obligation.

DORA (in force since January 2025) covers ICT third-party risk. The EU AI Act puts most credit-scoring and insurance pricing into the High-Risk Article 6 category, triggering Articles 12 (logging), 14 (human oversight), 15 (accuracy/robustness).

Your peers chose already

The market is moving.

JPMorgan deploys LLM Suite to ~200,000 staff under strict access controls. Goldman has GS AI Platform with internal evaluation gates. The question is no longer "should we train on AI." It is "how do we train on AI without breaking model risk."

Why Cohorte

The methodology your model-risk team is going to ask for, taught by the practitioner who published it.

Conformal prediction

"Provably right within stated bounds."

The mathematical primitive that converts a model output into a statistically rigorous confidence interval. The closest existing analogue to the VaR / ES discipline already familiar to a market-risk team.

Source: "Conformal Prediction for Trustworthy LLM Outputs," arXiv 2604.04561.

Self-consistency

Detecting confabulation.

If the same prompt run five times produces five different answers, the model is not reasoning. The verification gate that catches this before output reaches a customer-facing channel or a regulator-facing log.

Source: "Self-Consistency as an Operational Verification Layer," arXiv 2604.11623.

Exploitation surface

The red team your CISO asked for.

Prompt injection. Indirect injection through retrieval corpora. Tool-call hijacking. The systematic taxonomy your security team uses to scope penetration testing of an LLM application.

Source: "Exploitation Surface of LLM-Enabled Agentic Systems," arXiv 2604.04230.

Reference stack

Open-source. Inspectable. Yours.

TrustGate (verification gates), Guardrails (policy enforcement), Agent-Auth (authorization), Agent-Monitor (observability). Six public repositories. Your engineers can audit the layer before deploying it.

Where: github.com/Cohorte-ai.

The use cases we train against

The AI work financial institutions are actually shipping in 2026.

Use caseWhere it sitsRisk categoryVerification primitive
Customer service copilotRetail bank, insurerConduct & mis-sellingSelf-consistency, response guardrails, escalation gates
Underwriting assistantLife / P&C insurerAI Act high-risk · fairnessConformal bounds, adversarial fairness tests
Credit memo draftingCommercial / corporate bankCredit risk · disclosureSource attribution, citation-grounded generation, audit logs
KYC / AML alert triageCompliance, financial crimeAML & sanctionsDecision logs, human-in-the-loop gates, explanation generation
Suitability assessmentWealth, retail brokerageMiFID II suitabilityRule-based gates, output classification, regulator-facing logs
Fraud / transaction monitoringPayments, retail bankSR 11-7 / SS1/23Conformal anomaly bounds, false-positive tracking
Equity research / sell-side notesAsset manager, sell-sideDisclosure · market abuseSource attribution, content classifier, publication gate
Code generation for trading systemsQuant, market riskModel riskStatic analysis, regression evaluation
Internal knowledge agentBank-wideConduct · IP leakageAccess control, DLP gates, query auditing

The FS portfolio

Same operating layer underneath every program. Vertical-specific tuning bends the exercises and the regulatory annex. Pricing is fixed; scope is negotiable.

FS Pilot · €8K–€12K · 4 weeks

Verification scoping
For
Head of AI, Head of Model Risk, CRO at a bank, insurer, or fintech.
Outcome
Scoping brief and verification design for one real FS use case, mapped to SR 11-7 / SS1/23 expectations.
Format
Four sessions of 90 minutes. Two to three participants. Applied work on your data.
Investment
€8K (2 ppl) or €12K (3 ppl). Fixed. 100% credit toward follow-on.
Walk-away
Half-fee refund if not usable at week 4.
Why start here
Clears procurement faster than a full engagement. Model-risk teams accept this shape.

FS Team Bootcamp · €4,200/seat · 12 weeks

Private cohort
For
Team shipping AI into regulated work (engineering, risk, compliance, business).
Capstone
One shipped system with verification design, model card, governance log. Designed to walk into a model-risk committee.
Curriculum bend
Exercises rewritten against FS use cases. Verification chapter doubled. Governance mapped to SR 11-7 / SS1/23 / DORA / AI Act.
Cohort size
6 to 15 seats · €25K to €63K total
Funding
Direct L&D budget is the standard path. Qualiopi certification in progress; OPCO-routed engagements via partner. Email teams@cohorte.co.
Post
12 months Engine Room community per graduate

FS Curriculum License · €12,000 / year

Up to 25 seats
For
L&D directors at banks, insurers, asset managers with 200–2,000 employees.
Outcome
Measurable upskilling with completion dashboards your CRO and CFO accept.
Regulator artifacts
Curriculum maps to AI Act Articles 9, 10, 12, 14, 15. ISO 42001. NIST AI RMF. SR 11-7. SS1/23.
Tiers
25 seats €12K · 50 seats €18K · 100 seats €24K
Data residency
EU (Frankfurt) default. UK / CH on request. DPA available.
Upgrade path
~60% of License clients add a Team Bootcamp within 6 months.

FS AI Readiness Program · from €35,000 · 3-6 months

Assessment + advisory + playbook
For
CIO, CRO, Head of AI at enterprises 300+ employees with executive sponsorship.
Outcome
Documented AI operating model defensible to your model-risk committee, supervisor, and board. 8–15 trained operators. Written playbook.
FS work products
Governance policy template. Model-risk extension for LLM / agentic systems. AI Act Article 6 inventory. Approval workflow. Incident runbook.
Tiers
Compact €35–42K · Standard €42–52K · Full €52–65K
Delivery
Charafeddine leads scoping, assessment, monthly advisory, playbook. Certified facilitator runs training.
3-month floor
Operating model has to land across business, risk, compliance, engineering. Less doesn't produce a defensible artifact.

The FS objections we always hear

Asked, answered, on the table.

"You don't have a named retail-bank reference."

Correct. PwC is the closest analogue (60+ systems, 4,000 Copilot users, governance built in). For FS buyers needing a named-FS reference, the Pilot is the right entry point.

"Our model-risk team has SR 11-7 expectations you may not meet."

Curriculum is explicitly mapped to SR 11-7 §III and SS1/23 principles 1 through 4. We walk your model-risk team through the mapping on the discovery call.

"We have an internal AI / ML team."

Good. We are not a replacement. Internal teams teach the stack; Cohorte teaches the operating discipline (taste, scope, verification, governance) that internal teams typically do not own.

"We need on-site delivery inside the firewall."

Supported. AI Readiness assessment and two of four Team Bootcamp sessions on-site in Paris, London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Brussels, Casablanca. No Cohorte infrastructure dependencies.

"Procurement / vendor risk has a 60-day onboarding."

The Pilot is the way around this: fixed-price, fixed-scope, often clears procurement under a faster threshold. We have run Pilots while full vendor onboarding is in progress.

"AI training is not in this year's budget."

Cohorte is not Qualiopi-certified today (in progress, 2026 roadmap), so direct CPF and direct OPCO funding aren't available right now. The standard path is direct L&D budget; OPCO-routed engagements go via a Qualiopi-certified partner. The Pilot at €8K-€12K typically fits inside discretionary spend mid-year.

Bring your worst FS use case.

Suitability copilot. Credit memo. KYC triage. Fraud assistant. €8,000 fixed. Four weeks. The brief that survives the model-risk meeting.

Email Charafeddine