BLACK FLAG.
Forward-Deployed Product Engineering
For Nymbus
From Keith Pattison, Black Flag Design (Denver)
July 2026
Partner Acceleration · One Page

You shipped the MCP server. The agents that run on it need a build team.

In April, Nymbus shipped the industry's first secure MCP server for core banking actions. That was the hard part, and it was the right call: it makes Nymbus the rails that AI-era banking runs on. But an MCP server is supply-side infrastructure. What your financial institutions and partners will ask for next is the demand side: governed, auditable agents and member-facing surfaces built on it, faster than any roadmap team can staff. That is the lane we fill.

The clock everyone is on

APR 2026Nymbus ships a secure MCP server for core banking actions. First mover.
MAY 2026FIS + Anthropic launch financial-crimes agents. Fiserv announces agentOS.
JUN 2026Jack Henry + Google Cloud expand agentic AI across ~7,400 institutions.
AUG 2026Fiserv agentOS reaches wide availability. The marketplace race starts.

Every core provider now sells agents. The winners will be decided by supply: who has the deepest library of trustworthy agents running on their rails. First movers deserve a faster build lane than headcount allows.

Who we are

Black Flag Design is an AI-native product studio in Denver. Keith Pattison spent years inside bank-core integration (Jack Henry, Fiserv, Q2 ecosystems) building and shipping deposit and lending workflows at Z Suite Tech, including the operational reality: reconciliation, statementing, CIP exceptions, the two-cent interest checks. We ship governed agent systems with approval gates, evals, kill switches, and hash-chained audit logs, because in banking the audit artifact is the product.

Proof, not promises. We built a working agent console for banking rails in a single overnight build: a 16-agent library with one fully playable run (core query, segmentation, drafting, officer approval gate, CRM writes, audit export, kill switch). Synthetic data, real interaction. We will gladly cut a Nymbus skin: same runtime, your rails.

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The pilot: $50,000 · first agent live on your sandbox in 30 days

  1. Week 1: one working session. Pick the agent (deposit retention, onboarding exceptions, ops triage, or your call) and map policies and approval points.
  2. Weeks 2 to 4: we build forward-deployed against the Nymbus MCP surface, with the controls package your risk and implementation teams need.
  3. Day 30: adopt it, price it, ship it to a client, or reject it. You keep the spec, the evals, and the audit spine either way.

Easy next steps

  • 30 minutes at fintech_devcon (Denver, Aug 3 to 5). We will be at the "AI vs. banking core" session.
  • Or coffee in Boulder / Denver any week; we are local.
  • Or a live 15-minute walkthrough of the demo, your team on the kill switch.
Black Flag Design · blackflag.design · keith@blackflag.design Demo runs on synthetic data. Nymbus product references are from public announcements.