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Client onboarding and servicing for financial services

Kinetic lets banks, credit unions and wealth firms build client onboarding and servicing portals on top of the CRM, core banking, know-your-customer (KYC) and document systems they already run. A new commercial account moves through one process across all of them, with AI checking the packet and your analysts approving every decision.

GreenState Credit Union Cut manual onboarding work by 85% across HR, IT and security systems, with access ready on day one. Read the GreenState case study

A commercial account touches five systems and four teams

CRM, core banking, KYC screening, document management and usually e-signature. None of them owns the whole process, so the hand-offs between relationship managers, operations, compliance and the client run on email and spreadsheets, and packets arrive incomplete.

Teams fill the gaps with point tools. Each holds another copy of the client.

How onboarding runs today

  • Articles of organization and IDs arrive by email and are re-keyed into the core
  • Screening results sit in a separate system and get pasted into CRM notes
  • The relationship manager tracks open onboarding packets in a spreadsheet
  • A beneficial owner's expired license is found on day six, not day one

Flagship use case

Opening accounts for an LLC with two beneficial owners

The client applies once. Screening, compliance review and account setup happen in the systems you already use, and both sides watch the same status.

Example: commercial account opening

  1. Step 1 Experience layer

    One onboarding packet, online

    The owner enters the company once, uploads the articles of organization and EIN letter, and adds two beneficial owners. Each owner gets a link to submit their own ID.

  2. Step 2 Workflow layer

    AI checks the packet

    AI reads the documents, matches the legal name and EIN to the application, and flags that one owner's driver's license has expired.

    AI step

  3. Step 3 Integration layer

    Screening runs, CRM is updated

    Kinetic sends the business and both owners to your KYC and sanctions screening provider and creates the relationship in CRM.

  4. Step 4 Workflow layer

    A BSA analyst clears the hit

    A possible name match goes to the analyst with the file summarized. The analyst clears it, asks the client for more, or declines.

    Person approves

  5. Step 5 Integration layer

    Accounts open in the core

    Approved accounts are created in core banking, and the packet is filed in document management under your retention schedule.

  6. Step 6 Experience layer

    Client and banker see the same status

    The client sees “Accounts open.” The relationship manager sees the same thing in their queue. The portal stays open for the next servicing request.

What AI does here

  • Extracts entity and owner details from formation documents and IDs.
  • Checks them against the application and flags expired or missing documents.
  • Summarizes the file for the analyst and drafts the follow-up request to the client.

What AI does not do here

  • Screen clients or make KYC, AML or credit decisions.
  • Open accounts or contact clients without a person approving.
  • Keep its own copy of client data. CRM and the core stay the source of truth.

Other banking and credit union workflows

Each reuses the portal, the approval steps or the connections to CRM and the core.

Built for examiners as well as clients

Your policies, screening tools and systems of record stay in charge. Kinetic makes the process between them visible, and keeps the evidence an examiner will want to see in the same record as the decision it supports.

  • Hosted or in your environment

    Kinetic's hosted cloud, or your own environment if your policies or regulators want client data there.

  • Access by role

    Each role sees only the clients and documents it should. Staff sign in through SAML or OIDC, including Entra ID and Okta.

  • A record of every step

    Each packet and servicing request records who submitted, reviewed, approved and changed what. That is the file an examiner asks for.

  • Your screening provider stays in charge

    Kinetic doesn't screen anyone. It runs the process around the screening tools you already use.

Proof

A credit union's result, and the design for client onboarding

GreenState's result is from employee onboarding. No customer has published a client onboarding story yet, so we show that flow as a reference architecture.

Credit union

GreenState Credit Union

Less manual onboarding work
85%
New hire access ready
Day one

HR used to finish its part and email IT, which checked the HRIS by hand and started provisioning, while security ran a separate checklist in a separate system. Now one process covers all three. Managers see status without calling anyone.

Read the GreenState case study

Reference architecture

Client onboarding across CRM, the core and KYC

  1. Experience layer

    Front doors

    • Client onboarding portal
    • Relationship manager queue
    • Compliance review workspace
  2. Workflow layer

    The shared process

    • One onboarding record per client
    • Document checks and exceptions
    • Compliance approval and escalation
  3. Integration layer

    Systems of record

    • CRM and core banking
    • KYC and sanctions screening
    • Document management and e-signature

Kinetic connects to each system through prebuilt connectors or APIs, including cores that run on premises. Nothing is migrated. How the integration layer connects

In development Letting agents take packets from the analyst's queue natively is still in development. An agent can already open a packet or start its workflow through MCP or the API, within the permissions it has.

Frequently asked questions

Answered by Kinetic Data. Last updated .

  • Does Kinetic replace our core banking system or CRM?

    No. The core and CRM stay the systems of record. Kinetic reads from and writes to them through connectors and APIs, and adds the client portal and the cross-team process neither was built to provide.

  • Is Kinetic a KYC or AML product?

    No. Kinetic runs the onboarding process around the screening provider you already use. It sends the client's details to that provider, routes hits to your BSA team and keeps the decision and evidence in one record.

  • What does AI do in onboarding, and which models can we use?

    AI reads documents, checks them against the application, flags what's missing and summarizes files for reviewers. Analysts and bankers make every decision. Kinetic doesn't include a model; institutions connect Claude, Amazon Bedrock, Azure OpenAI or a self-hosted model.

  • Where do financial institutions usually start?

    Often with an internal process like employee onboarding, as GreenState did, or with one product such as commercial account opening. Servicing and the next product line reuse the portal and connections.

Map one client onboarding with us, start to finish.

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