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BOND.AI and Onsetto Partner to Turn Commercial Banking Opportunities Into Primary Relationships

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Collaboration connects Autopilot Profit's transaction intelligence with Onsetto's SwitchAssist product to help banks and credit unions identify and activate more valuable business relationships.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. & MINNEAPOLIS, October 19, 2026--BOND.AI, a banking AI company and creator of the Autopilot AI banking platform and patented Empathy Engine®, and Onsetto, a commercial banking operating platform that helps financial institutions identify, activate, expand, and retain business banking relationships, today announced a strategic partnership connecting commercial relationship intelligence with structured account activation. The collaboration gives banks and credit unions a clear path from identifying untapped opportunities to moving the operating activity required to make those relationships primary.

Onsetto helps financial institutions move beyond opening a business account to activating it. Its white-label platform guides the transition of payroll, receivables, payables and other day-to-day operating activity into new or existing accounts. With no core or digital banking integration required, SwitchAssist helps turn accounts into fully funded, primary operating relationships.

Through the partnership, Autopilot Profit will help banks and credit unions see where commercial opportunities already exist within their customer and member bases. Powered by the Empathy Engine®, Autopilot Profit analyzes transaction data to identify businesses whose payroll, receivables or other operating flows remain at competing institutions. It can also surface the broader product, lending and treasury needs those relationships represent.

SwitchAssist then helps institutions act on that intelligence by guiding business customers and members through a structured transition of their operating activity. Together, the platforms create a connected detect-and-activate model: Autopilot Profit identifies fragmented relationships and prioritizes opportunity; SwitchAssist helps move the activity needed to make those relationships primary.

The result is a faster, more precise path to deeper business relationships. Banks and credit unions can focus on their highest-value opportunities, help businesses consolidate more of their financial activity with the institution, and expand those relationships into treasury services, lending and other products over time.

"Opening an account has never been the hard part. Winning the relationship is," said Michael Whitacre, Chief Revenue Officer at BOND.AI. "Autopilot Profit shows banks and credit unions where commercial relationships are fragmented and where the greatest opportunity exists. Onsetto provides a structured way to act on that intelligence, helping institutions earn primacy instead of settling for a foot in the door."