Making Banking Human Again
Technology should work quietly in the background, freeing bankers from keyboards so they can focus on people.
Our Mission
Banking used to be personal.
You knew your customers. You listened to their story. You understood how their lives and businesses actually worked.
Then screens took over.
Data fractured across systems. Relationships turned into workflows. And bankers spent more time managing tools than helping people.
We're changing that.
Ascent connects the data, automates the administrative work, and gives time back to the people who make banking matter. Not by adding more systems, but by helping the ones you already use finally work together.
Our Story
Ascent started with a simple observation.
Even smart, capable teams struggle to make good decisions when information lives in silos.
Before Ascent, Arjun was leading a company and Allan was advising across institutions. They shared updates constantly, compared notes, and stayed aligned. And still, opportunities were missed. In one case, a customer that had been pursued for months turned out to be a relationship that already existed. The data was there. The context was not.
That experience made something clear.
The problem was not effort. It was not intelligence. It was fragmented understanding.
People had the right information, but no shared view of it.
So we built Ascent to connect the dots.
Not just to aggregate data, but to turn it into shared context that teams can see, understand, and act on together.
From Insight to Execution
Since then, we've worked alongside more than 25 institutions and helped power over 150 real workflows across onboarding, lending, servicing, and renewals.
What we've learned is this.
Insight alone is not enough. Dashboards don't change outcomes. Alerts don't move work forward.
Execution does.
Ascent was built to take what institutions already know and turn it into action. To surface what matters now, guide the next step, and quietly move work forward in the background, without ripping out systems or forcing massive change.
Our Vision
The next decade of banking will not be defined by more apps.
It will be defined by intelligence that understands context, runs across systems, and helps people act at the right moment.
Ascent is building that intelligence layer.
One that sits behind the scenes. One that grows stronger as work happens. One that supports bankers instead of replacing them.
When systems take care of themselves, bankers can finally take care of people again.