This webinar will be an essential technical deep dive into the reality of deploying AI within commercial lending. This session moves past the hype of basic generative chatbots to explore "Agentic AI": autonomous systems capable of executing multi-step financial workflows. We will examine why traditional, off-the-shelf AI fails when integrated into ABL cores and provide a blueprint for a secure, audit-ready architecture that protects your capital while providing key action items for integrating AI in day to day operations.
The Venue: Online Via Zoom
The Schedule: Wednesday, September 9, 2026: 11am - 12pm PT (Pacific)
Topics:
During the webinar we will cover:
- The Infrastructure Bottleneck: Why the greatest barrier to scaling ABL businesses today is legacy infrastructure, not a lack of capital or borrowers.
- Generative vs. Agentic: Moving beyond simple text generation to autonomous agents that can analyze complex problems, evaluate options, and execute multi-step tasks.
- Reasoning Loops: How AI agents differ from traditional "if-then" rules by mapping data based on intent rather than static column positions.
- The "Jet Engine" Risk: Why dropping advanced AI into a core accounting system without specialized middleware is dangerous and ineffective.
- The Context Window Failure: Understanding the "Lost in the Middle" phenomenon, where standard AI models ignore critical data buried in the middle of large ledgers.
- The Need for Specialized Architecture: Why relying on standard RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) is insufficient without custom data chunking and deterministic processing.
- The Integration Challenge: Addressing the risk of data corruption, audit trail erasure, and the velocity gap when AI interacts with legacy core systems.
- The Three-Layer Defense: Building a resilient pipeline consisting of an Ingestion Layer (standardization), a Deterministic Rule Engine (math controls), and an Agentic Reasoning Layer (complex pattern recognition).
Speaker:
Isabela Rodriguez - CEO, Zolvo
International Speaker, Isabela Rodriguez, has trained 50+ founders on AI across LATAM and led fintech transformation at Endeavor. She has taken the stage from Bogotá to San Francisco. She now leads AI transformation for lenders at Zolvo (YC P26).
Fee: This webinar is FREE for IFA Members and Ally Members. ($100 for Non-Members)