Customer Story
How a model-risk-management SaaS built its Performance platform on Akka — a 10× reduction in the cost of validating financial models, with audit-ready governance.
Yields built Yields for Performance, its model-risk-management SaaS, on Akka and cut model validation costs by up to 90% — a 10× reduction — for many financial-institution customers. The platform automates and standardizes model testing, detects model failures early, and records every step as an auditable event trail for GDPR and NIST compliance.
Akka ROI Scorecard
faster validation cycles. Model tests that ran manually over weeks now execute as standardized, automated runs, shortening each governance review.
lower model management cost. Validation that once required dedicated teams and repeated manual review runs at a fraction of the prior expense.
more models governed in parallel. A single validation team covers dozens of complex models concurrently on one platform.
Business outcome: earlier detection of model failures, reduced capital requirements, and full auditability for GDPR and NIST.
Financial institutions run mathematical models to value assets, price loans, and set investment strategy. Every model carries risk: if it drifts or fails, the institution can misprice exposure and hold the wrong amount of capital. Model risk management exists to govern those models — validating that each one is accurate, effective, and documented. Done manually, validation is slow, inconsistent, and expensive, and it does not keep pace as an institution scales across dozens of complex models.
Yields set out to automate and standardize that work. The platform had to test models repeatedly, flag failures early, and prove compliance with regulatory frameworks including GDPR and NIST — which meant every validation action had to be recorded, traceable, and secure.
Yields represents everything on its platform as events. Each event captures a validation step and can trigger the next process, which gives the platform a complete, replayable record of how every model was tested. Yields built this on Akka, which provided the event-driven foundation, durable state, and auditability the team needed without building that infrastructure themselves.
"We wanted to represent everything on our platform as events, which Akka enabled us to do. These events, in turn, could trigger other processes, which enabled us to build this system much more easily, while also giving us ability to perform audits and governance. That's very important to us, and Akka was able to deliver." — Sebastien Viguie, Co-founder and CISO of Yields.
This is the Never Fail guarantee: Akka handles durable state, resilience, and event history, so a model-governance workload keeps a trustworthy record even through failure.
Scale. A single validation team now governs dozens of complex models concurrently on one platform, standardizing tests that were previously run model-by-model.
Real-time healthcare. Health professionals can instantly and securely discuss patients' cases and protocols with colleagues and peers through rich media messaging or voice and video calling without interrupting time-sensitive workflows.
Security and compliance. This solution maintains the highest of global standards and complies with the GDPR, E-Privacy, the NHS information governance, DCB 0129, ICO, ISO 27001, and NEN 7510, 7512, and 7513.
Cost to operate. Model validation costs fell up to 90% — a 10× reduction — for many financial-institution customers, replacing repeated manual review with automated, standardized runs.
Speed to production. Automated, event-driven validation shortened each governance cycle and made results reproducible, so reviews that took weeks complete far faster.
Business impact. Early detection of model failures let customers improve models before they broke, reducing capital requirements, while the auditable event trail satisfied GDPR and NIST obligations.
Model risk management is where agentic AI now adds direct value: an AI agent that continuously validates, monitors, and documents financial models — running standardized test suites, flagging model drift or failure the moment it appears, and generating audit-ready compliance records for GDPR and NIST. On the Akka Agentic AI Platform, those behaviors run as governed agents on the same event-driven foundation Yields already proved, with durable state that preserves a complete, traceable history of every decision.
The platform that lowered Yields' model management cost by up to 90% is the same platform that builds and runs agentic AI today. Financial institutions build on the Akka Agentic AI Platform directly, or have a governed system delivered and operated through Akka Specify. Both provide the auditability and production guarantees regulated finance requires.
