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Shahaf Lavi

Founder · Zero Evoke

I write about where AI automation actually pays off in financial services — approval rates, fraud, time-to-decision — and where a simpler approach wins. Less theory, more of what we've learned taking real fintech systems live and keeping them there.

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15+years of Fintech experience

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Underwriting·26 Aug 2026 How AI Changes Modern Underwriting Engines AI’s biggest change to underwriting lands before the decision: it turns unstructured documents and transactions into evidence rules and models can use. Engineering·02 Sep 2026 Where LLMs Actually Belong in Financial Services LLMs earn their place in finance on the messy language around the core systems — not on the money movement or the regulated decisions themselves. Engineering·09 Sep 2026 AI Automation Without Losing Control AI automation is only a win if control survives it: separate recommendation from action, keep a manual path, and make every outcome reconstructable. Risk·12 Aug 2026 What a Risk Committee Actually Asks Before You Go Live The eleven questions that decide whether a system ships — and the artefacts that answer each one before it's asked. Engineering·29 Jul 2026 Eleven Weeks to a Live Decisioning Engine What the schedule actually looked like, week by week, from first data pull to production traffic. Opinion·03 Jul 2026 When a Rules Engine Beats a Model Three cases where the boring answer shipped sooner, cost less and survived the audit.