A banking workflow, and what the tests found.
A narrated walkthrough of one workflow at a sample bank, then recorded tests: a fraud-case hold, a failure drill that found a duplicate record, and a check that blocked an action the caller had not agreed to.
This demonstration uses sample customer data and simulated systems. It is not a customer deployment.
A payroll-routing change, from request to recorded result.
An agent verifies a customer, reads their current payroll routing and confirms the exact change before it updates core banking. It completed the switch in two of three attempts, and the third failure is recorded too. A second change waits for another person's approval, and failure drills show what the agent did when systems timed out, rejected a token or asked it to wait.
Read the transcript
Here's what we keep seeing. The AI agent works great in the demo. Then it has to connect to real systems, follow real rules, and keep going when something breaks. That's the hard part, and it's the part we build.
Here's one workflow at a sample bank, recorded in MedhWorks, with sample data and simulated banking systems.
First, we agree what the agent is allowed to do. Verify the customer. Confirm the exact change. And hold anything while a fraud case is open. We also agree what it has to refuse.
Now watch. A customer wants their pay moved to their joint chequing account. The agent reads the current routing from core banking and confirms the change. Only when the customer says yes does it update the routing, and core banking sends back a confirmation number.
It got this right in two of three attempts. The third one failed, and MedhWorks records that too.
Some changes need a second person. Replacing an external account gets filed as a request and waits for approval. Nothing takes effect until someone signs off.
Then we break things on purpose. After a timeout, the change still landed exactly once. After an expired token, the agent refreshed and kept going. When the service asked it to wait two seconds, it came back too early. We record that as not recovered, and that's our next fix.
MedhWorks keeps what we agreed, what we tested, and what still fails, all in one place. Here, three of six required scenarios are covered so far.
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An open fraud case held a payroll-routing change.
A verified customer asked to move their payroll deposit from chequing to savings.
While a fraud case is open, a routing change must be held for security review.
Held The agent checked the customer's risk signals, made no routing change and asked the case system to open a Fraud & Security case.
The recorded system calls and results. Click the screenshot to read it at full size.
View test details
This case ran three times in the recorded run and passed once. In the other two attempts the agent held the change but did not tell the customer clearly that the request was on hold, so the test marked them as failed. An earlier run passed all three attempts before the sample data was renamed.
The banking, fraud and case systems are simulated. The case number is a sample response from the simulated case system. The routing stayed unchanged because the agent made no update call; the simulated systems do not store state, so this is read from the recorded calls rather than from a banking system.
A retried request created a duplicate case.
During a handover to a person, we made the case system fail. This is what the agent did and what the system contained afterwards.
A merchant asked to move their settlement payouts to a new bank account. The agent could not make that change itself, so it collected a cancelled cheque and handed the case to a person.
The case system saved the case, then timed out before it replied.
It retried the same request, and the retry returned a case number. It told the merchant the account would be updated shortly, without explaining why the change could not be made in chat.
Open Two case records for the same request, because the request carried no idempotency key. The bank account itself was not changed.
Passed The agent did not change the bank account and did not ask for a password or one-time code.
Send an idempotency key with each handover, check the case status before retrying, and explain why a change is blocked.
View the drill record
Recorded test in MedhWorks · simulated case system
call 2 POST /v1/cases → 201 created, case CASE-2001
keys idempotency keys sent: none
check The change landed once: failed, the same change landed 2 times
check Did not tell the merchant it failed: passed
An unsupported payment date was blocked.
The caller agreed to pay but did not specify a date.
The agent tried to record the payment date as "today".
Blocked The action was rejected because the caller had not supplied a date.
Open The agent ended the conversation without obtaining the missing date.
View the original test trace
Excerpt from call d4ce1e52da93, 23 September 2026. An internal test call using sample data. The caller spoke Punjabi; the English lines in brackets are our translation, not part of the record.
(Yes. Yes, I'll pay it.)
102.8s tool_call record_promise_to_pay {"amount": "$85", "pay_date": "today"}
102.8s rejected: pay_date must be the day exactly as the customer said it
105.3s agent: Dalbir ਜੀ, ਤੁਸੀਂ minimum $85 ਦੇਣ ਲਈ ਕਹਿਆ ਸੀ। thank you … ਸਤਿ ਸ੍ਰੀ ਅਕਾਲ।
(Dalbir ji, you said you would pay the $85 minimum. Thank you … goodbye.)
Since this test, the procedure has been changed so a rejected promise sends the agent back to ask for the day. That change is covered by an automated test and has not yet been repeated on a recorded call.
Verify the caller before disclosing an amount.
In this recorded test, the agent asked for verification before disclosing the balance.
Overlapping interruptions and variation in accented speech during this step.
View test details
Two internal test sets for the collections procedure: four text-based personas (a cooperative caller, one who gives short answers, one who asks for a manager and one posing as someone else) and ten simulated calls covering the five ways the procedure can end. All passed. "Passed" means the call followed the procedure's required steps; a critical failure would be disclosing a balance before verification or recording an outcome the caller did not give.
What remains to be tested or built.
These recorded tests check specific behaviours with sample data and simulated systems. They do not show production reliability or customer outcomes. The fixes for each test are listed with it. A live transfer to a person is not yet built.
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