
Marcus Halloran
Former Group COO · Major Systemic Bank
Twenty-five years scaling treasury and risk operations across three continents. Advises Madison on enterprise rollout.
Madison for Marketing · The Agentic Banking OS
Madison for Marketing turns a one-line brief into a compliant, launch-ready campaign, built on your own data, with a human approving every step. Campaigns that took weeks now take days.
Objective, product, audience, and timing parsed from one line.
4,182 customers and members matched, with fair-lending guardrails.
Six variants scored, the winner selected.
Reg DD disclosure inserted before any human review.
Marketer first, then compliance, independently.
Queued to your own send tools.
The problem
Your marketing team is two to ten people. Every line of business, deposits, lending, cards, wealth, sends it work. Marketing produces every asset for every channel. And anything that states a rate or a term has to clear compliance and legal before it ships.
So one campaign takes four to five weeks to reach launch. The delay is not creativity. It is coordination and clearance. You are running the same regulatory gauntlet as a hundred-billion-dollar bank, with a fraction of the people and no dedicated data analyst or compliance desk of your own.
The bottleneck is not the work. It is getting the work through the gate.
Where Madison fits
What it is
Madison for Marketing takes a one-line brief and produces a segmented, multi-channel campaign that is already checked against your own compliance rulebook, built on your own customer and member data. Your team reviews and approves. Nothing regulated sends itself.
One line from the business.
Your data, with fair-lending guardrails.
On-brand copy for every channel.
Checked against your rulebook, disclosures inserted.
Marketer, then compliance. Independently.
Through the tools you already send from.
You keep a healthy balance in checking. It deserves to earn more. Our new high-yield savings pays 4.25% APY (Annual Percentage Yield)...
$1,000 minimum balance required to obtain the advertised APY. Fees could reduce earnings on the account. Insured by NCUA.
$1,000 minimum balance required to obtain the advertised APY. Fees could reduce earnings on the account. Insured by NCUA.
Willamette CU: Your new high-yield savings is here. 4.25% APY. Open in the app in about a minute. Terms: willamettecu.example/hys
In-app and social, same rulebook.
The foundations
Madison runs on one shared data layer for your institution: your CRM, your brand kit, your compliance rulebook, and the history of every campaign, approval, and outcome. Every agent works from the same source. There are no disconnected tools holding stale copies of your data.
Madison does not hand you a finished asset and ask you to trust it. It shows the full reasoning trail, step by step: what it checked, what it changed, and why. A human approves every regulated step, and every decision is logged for the exam.
Draft states 4.25% APY without the Reg DD minimum-balance disclosure.
$1,000 minimum balance required to obtain the advertised APY.
Fees could reduce earnings on the account.
The agents
Madison ships with a working set of marketing agents on day one. Over time it composes new ones from your own history, tuned to your disclosures, your tone, and your sign-off chain.
Brief to compliant, launch-ready, multi-channel campaign.
First-pass-clean drafts against your own rulebook.
Audience segments with disparate-impact guardrails built in.
On-brand, compliance-aware copy, scored and selected.
A daily brief of local competitor rates, offers, and creative. No integration needed.
Tracks outcomes, attributes lift, writes results back to the brain.
Monitors and drafts responses within brand and compliance guardrails.
Exam-ready reporting straight from live activity.
Madison builds agents on the fly from your brain: your rulebook, brand kit, product catalog, past campaigns, approval chains, and outcome history. These compound with every campaign you run and are specific to your institution. The longer you run Madison, the more it knows that no competitor can copy.
Autonomy
You choose how much each agent does on its own, function by function. Madison keeps a human in the loop wherever it matters.
A copilot to your team. It helps, you drive.
It prepares and drafts. Your team decides.
It runs end to end, with your team on exceptions and every regulated step still gated by a human approval.
The human-approval gate is present across the range.
Security and governance
Built to pass second-line review. Your compliance team reads landing pages too, so we wrote this part for them.
The rules decide. The model drafts and explains. A human approves.
Each item is checked by the Compliance Pre-check agent before a human sees the draft.
Every check is logged with the rule cited, so the trail an examiner asks for already exists.
Logged for exam readiness. The trail an examiner asks for already exists.
Week one
You do not connect a single system to see Madison work. On day zero, the Competitive and Rate Intelligence agent runs against public data and delivers a daily brief of local competitor rates, offers, and creative. It is useful immediately, and it earns the trust to go deeper: on-data segmentation, compliant campaign production, and launch through your own tools.
Public competitor and rate intelligence. No integration, value in week one.
Return weeks to your team, with a visible trail that de-risks the exam.
Connect your CRM and send tools. Campaigns move from brief to compliant launch inside Madison.
Opening detected: a 4.25% APY offer would lead this market at a $1,000 minimum.
Go to market
Start with public intelligence and no integration, connect your stack, prove the numbers against a baseline, then expand.
What you can run
New APY, CD specials, money-market offers, with Reg DD disclosures inserted before you see the draft.
HELOC, auto, mortgage refi, with fair-lending guardrails on every segment.
Tax season, back-to-school, holiday, running on schedule without a scramble.
A daily read on local rates and offers, so you react in a day, not a cycle.
First-pass-clean drafts against your own rulebook, before compliance ever opens them.
Segments built with disparate-impact checks so targeting is safe by construction.
Reporting generated from live activity, ready for the board packet and the examiner.
Monitored and drafted within your brand and compliance guardrails.
Why Madison
General AI writers generate copy. Marketing clouds send it. Compliance tools check it after it exists. Each owns a slice. Madison owns the job: brief to compliant launch, on your own data, with the reasoning shown and a human at every regulated decision.
| Capability | General AI writers | Marketing cloud platforms | Compliance-copy tools | Madison for Marketing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Generate on-brand content | Yes | Partial | Partial | Yes |
| Review against your compliance rulebook | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Run the full brief-to-launch workflow | No | Partial | No | Yes |
| Work on your own data, inside your perimeter | No | Partial | No | Yes |
| Memory that compounds per institution | No | No | No | Yes |
| Shows its reasoning, human approves each step | No | No | Partial | Yes |
| Built for a $1B to $10B institution | Partial | No | Partial | Yes |
A competitor can copy a workflow in a quarter. No one can copy your institution's own accumulated reasoning: every campaign, approval, and compliance decision, compounding on data that only you have. Add sovereign and on-premises deployment, and the case for ripping Madison out gets harder every month it runs.
The business case
Agree the baseline before deployment. Measure the change in production. Expand when the numbers make the case.
Illustrative until baselined with your team. We measure against agreed outcomes in production.
Works with your stack
Madison is the layer on top of the systems your team and your examiners already know. It owns the workflow around them: strategy, brief, on-data segmentation, orchestration, and memory.
Fiserv, Jack Henry (SilverLake, CIF 20/20, Symitar Episys for credit unions), FIS, Finastra
Banno, Q2, Alkami
Salesforce Financial Services Cloud and Marketing Cloud, HubSpot, Total Expert, Braze, Adobe and Marketo
Snowflake, Databricks
Curinos, Competiscan, Mintel Comperemedia, plus Madison's own zero-integration public-data brief on day zero
Persado, inside the Madison flow where you already use it
BYO-LLM against Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, or a private deployment
the Fiserv and Jack Henry marketplaces
Madison sits on top of the estate you already run, never replacing it. Connectors are provisioned per engagement; availability depends on your existing subscriptions, data licenses, and approved connector setup.
The bigger picture
Madison for Marketing runs on the same governed foundation that powers Madison across the institution: one shared brain, agent orchestration, and deployment inside your perimeter. Start with marketing, and the same platform extends to sales, service, and commerce, with no separate data forks and no second vendor to vet.
FAQ
In pilot and production
Illustrative wordmarks — customer names published only with signed approval.
Advisory
Madison is guided by senior leaders from across banking, risk, and regulation — ex-bank executives who help shape how Madison is built and governed.
See it work
Type a brief, watch the agents produce a compliant, launch-ready campaign, and approve each step yourself. No setup, no integration, running on illustrative data for a demonstration market.
We work with a small number of institutions per cohort.