# Capital One: AI agents, dated Source: https://www.bankingnewsai.com/banks/capital-one/ai-agents Record last changed: Oct 19, 2026 12 dated AI-agent moves from Mar 4, 2025 to Sep 29, 2026; 4 agent use cases on the profile, 4 in production. Strategy page: https://www.bankingnewsai.com/banks/capital-one ## Agent use cases | Use case | Stage | What it does | |---|---|---| | **Chat Concierge** | In production | Multi-agent assistant on dealer websites; compares vehicles, schedules appointments, routes to sales. | | **Brex agentic payments** | In production | Agentic AI products for corporate cards and expenses, acquired with Brex. | | **VulnHunter** | In production | Agentic code-security tool with attacker-first analysis and a falsification engine; open-sourced in July 2026. | | **AI and model risk in the 10-K** | In production | The 2025 10-K names models and AI in pricing, fraud detection, loan grading, credit decisions and software development as a risk, plus agentic-commerce fraud and AI intellectual-property uncertainty. | ## Timeline ### Sep 2026 | Date | Move | Stage | Source | |---|---|---|---| | 2026-09-29 | **Natarajan: cutting latency and token costs with smaller, open-weight models** Chief enterprise AI officer Prem Natarajan says the bank has put more emphasis on agentic AI infrastructure to reduce latency and lower token costs, building customised open-weight and specialised models with less context targeted at the desired output; customer-service agents now edit only one-fifth of AI-drafted copy. | Announced | [Fortune, Sep 29, 2026](http://fortune.com/2026/09/29/how-banks-are-using-ai-agents-copilots-roi) | | 2026-09-28 | **Shetty: 'agentic AI now must be treated as an end-to-end system'** VP of enterprise AI Rashmi Shetty says 14 years of data-infrastructure work gives agents a strong foundation and context, and that the bank adopts platform-first governance — rule-based validation, sandbox simulations, observability of agent trajectories, standardised harnesses and human-in-the-loop controls for high-risk actions — before developers build agents, rather than retrofitting it later. | In production | [CIO Dive, Sep 28, 2026](https://www.ciodive.com/news/capital-one-agentic-ai-strategy/831435/) | | 2026-09-22 | **Agentic-commerce principles with five other banks** With Bank of America, CBA, ING, NatWest and ASB, a paper on transparency, safety, privacy and data, choice and interoperability. | Announced | [American Banker, Sep 23, 2026](https://www.americanbanker.com/payments/news/are-banks-falling-behind-on-agentic-commerce-standards) | ### Aug 2026 | Date | Move | Stage | Source | |---|---|---|---| | 2026-08-13 | **MACAW and open-weight models, described** A machine-learning engineering leader explains the multi-agent fraud-call workflow and fine-tuning open-weight models on proprietary data. | Announced | [VentureBeat (sponsored by Capital One), Aug 13, 2026](https://venturebeat.com/orchestration/why-capital-one-built-its-multi-agent-ai-platform-around-open-weight-models) | ### Jul 2026 | Date | Move | Stage | Source | |---|---|---|---| | 2026-07-16 | **VulnHunter open-sourced** An internally built agentic AI code-security tool released on GitHub under Apache 2.0; the CISO cites the brief window before AI attack tools spread. | In production | [VentureBeat, Jul 17, 2026](https://venturebeat.com/technology/capital-one-releases-vulnhunter-an-open-source-ai-tool-that-finds-software-flaws-before-hackers-do) | ### Apr 2026 | Date | Move | Stage | Source | |---|---|---|---| | 2026-04-20 | **ICLR 2026: alignment and guardian-model research** Gold sponsor and contributor on LLM alignment, uncertainty and responsible agentic systems, including the DynaGuard guardian model. | Announced | [Capital One newsroom, Apr 20, 2026](https://www.capitalone.com/tech/ai/capital-one-at-iclr-2026/) | | 2026-04-07 | **Brex deal closes** Brex, which Capital One's January announcement said serves over 25,000 companies, brings a suite of agentic AI products to the business-banking strategy. | Announced | [Capital One newsroom, Apr 7, 2026](https://www.capitalone.com/about/newsroom/capital-one-completes-acquisition-of-brex/) | ### Feb 2026 | Date | Move | Stage | Source | |---|---|---|---| | 2026-02-19 | **2025 10-K: 'our evolving use of AI' is a risk factor** Models and AI in pricing, fraud detection, loan grading, credit and software development; agentic-commerce fraud liability; uncertain IP protection for AI output. | In production | [Capital One via SEC EDGAR, Feb 19, 2026](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/927628/000092762826000024/cof-20251231.htm) | ### Jan 2026 | Date | Move | Stage | Source | |---|---|---|---| | 2026-01-22 | **Q4 2025 call: a stack built 'working backwards from the AI revolution'** Fairbank says the bank is 'now building AI solutions across our businesses' and that Brex has deployed in-house AI agents for expense management and audit. | In production | [The Motley Fool (Yahoo Finance), Jan 23, 2026](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/capital-one-cof-q4-2025-002436593.html) | ### Nov 2025 | Date | Move | Stage | Source | |---|---|---|---| | 2025-11-20 | **Applied AI research agenda published** LLM training, customisation and alignment; synthetic data; multi-agent reasoning. | Announced | [Capital One newsroom, Nov 20, 2025](https://www.capitalone.com/tech/ai/applied-ai-research) | | 2025-11-20 | **NeurIPS 2025: 20-plus accepted papers** Responsible AI, multi-agent systems, LLM evaluation and fraud detection. | Announced | [Capital One newsroom, Nov 20, 2025](https://www.capitalone.com/tech/ai/neurips-2025/) | ### Mar 2025 | Date | Move | Stage | Source | |---|---|---|---| | 2025-03-04 | **Chat Concierge launches for auto dealers** A multi-agent assistant that compares vehicles, books appointments and hands off to sales, on the Auto Navigator platform. | In production | [Capital One newsroom, Mar 5, 2025](https://www.capitalone.com/tech/ai/future-of-ai-car-dealerships-shopping) | --- Canonical page: https://www.bankingnewsai.com/banks/capital-one/ai-agents Part of [BankingNewsAI](https://www.bankingnewsai.com/). 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