
AI Sandbox

From Strategy to Technical Implementation
Financial institutions are working out how to embed AI into critical processes in a way that meets global standards, protects consumer rights, and gives teams the means to assess and oversee these systems with confidence.
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To support this journey, we build tailored auditing and supervision sandboxes that use AI to help maintain transparency and explainability across your tech-enabled workflows.
Made for when you need:
Stable, reliable AI decisions
Transparent tech support for human judgement
Alignment with regulation (EU AI Act, NIST, FSI)
Collaborative and scalable model oversight
An infrastructure designed around consumer rights
We create tooling that shows how models operate, where issues may emerge, and how outcomes are formed – an AI sandbox with clear, direct outputs that are easy to act on. This gives teams the confidence to manage AI safely at scale.
Proven Results, Outcomes That Matter
A metrics catalogue and dashboards
Our work includes defining a structured set of measures and visualisations that surface hidden risks and test models for bias, drift, and adversarial behaviour.
Integrated explainability tools
We add SHAP, LIME, and counterfactual analysis to the sandbox, supported by plain-language summaries for teams. These features are built into the prototype, presented clearly to support confident use and supervisory judgement
A scalable framework
We develop a modular setup that can absorb new checks and requirements as they emerge, allowing the sandbox to evolve without major rebuilds.
Engineered for multi-bank use
Containerised, modular architecture enables expansion, is tested for weak points, and offers aggregated views across participating banks.
AI Risk

Transforming Risk and Compliance Processes with Artificial Intelligence in Investment and Wealth Management
AI and automation are transforming core banking processes at pace. Leaders are under pressure to adapt, and a key challenge lies in moving beyond tools to implement, govern, and manage these processes to support customers and deliver on business priorities.
Our Solution
A 12-week Risk and AI programme.
Led by experts, built for CROs. We will:
Diagnose existing processes, data, and customer experience to identify opportunities for AI enablement.
Determine how to build a bespoke AI-enabled risk process based on trust and human intervention.
Develop a test and iterate approach to refine the AI-enabled process, alongside a supporting governance framework.
Implement a clear plan covering people, process, policy, and execution risks. Includes integration of risk platforms to enable smart control, optimisation, and reporting.
Proven Results, Outcomes That Matter
A Validated AI and Risk Framework
Fully designed governance model, including insights and pilot data with ownership guidance.
An Implementation Plan
A set of practical and tested recommendations on areas of improvement and where AI can be applied for the prioritised risk process
Opportunity Cost and Business Case
A business case outlines that determines the size of the prize along with a clearly defined set of risks.
Real-World Risk Process Delivery
Practical implementation of risk processes, either with your internal teams or via our trusted partners like RiskSmart.
AI Strategy

Transform your business
AI is set to transform businesses and industries at pace. As leaders, you are under pressure to adapt and introduce AI to solve challenges and gain new value. This needs to go beyond using AI tools for efficiency gain and towards how AI integrates at a strategic level to deliver better customer experiences, stronger performances, and a competitive advantage.
Before the technology, we start with strategy, business, and most importantly, people.​
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Our offerings include:
Creating an AI strategy that identifies opportunities along with how to implement AI solutions to deliver on goals.
Identifying AI use cases at a business, product and feature level.
Prototyping AI concept solutions to test ideas and hypotheses quickly and efficiently
Building AI Products (0→1) as well as introduce AI into existing Products.
Integrating AI tools and AI agents (e.g. voice) for rapid creation, productivity gains and personalisation.
Supporting your teams to build a business case for AI Products.
Helping build in-house AI and innovation capability.
At Sorai, we bring the essentials of data and AI including:​
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AI Product Management
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AI Design (Service & Product)
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AI Ethics and Governance
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AI Leadership
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AI Business & Venturing
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Data Science, Data Engineering, AI & Technology

Futures Strategy

Introducing Sorai's
Future Strategy Programme
Leaders face pressure to adapt strategies to future business, market, and customer needs. How do you encourage new ways of working and embrace emerging technologies? If you want to shape a coherent, dynamic business strategy, Sorai can help.
Our Solution
A four-month engagement that includes a senior leadership strategy session, resulting in clear insights and actionable recommendations.
Surface themes and trends
Identify insights and value levers across the business through targeted activity streams, using approaches such as the STEEP framework and Speculative Design.
Expand ideas and recommendations
Build on your existing expertise while bringing in perspectives from start-ups and emerging markets. These inputs will inform a high-level roadmap towards your vision.
Engage stakeholders
Bring the right parties together to uncover shared challenges and ambitions, ensuring ownership through collaboration and co-creation.
Desirability
Viability
Feasibility
We’ll take a balanced view to any strategy, particularly ensuring we take a human perspective and not just a business or tech one.

“ Incredibly helpful in guiding and executing the development of frameworks and models for a custom digital innovation process - taking the shape of an 'Innovation Playbook'. Proactive and very receptive to feedback, I’d absolutely recommend working with them."
Head of Innovation Consulting & Product Incubation, Novo Nordisk
Our Specialisms
AI & Data
We provide the knowledge, means, and strategy to make the most out of your tools.

Design
DESIGN →
Leverage any existing work and artefacts to build an atomic design system.

Product
PRODUCT →
Turn your boldest ideas into market-ready products.

Regulation
REGULATION →
Turn your compliance obligations into a strategic advantage.

Our tailored consulting services cover the full spectrum of customer experience design.
Customers
CUSTOMERS →
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