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Banking reimagined with AI at its core, delivering personalized customer experiences and measurable business impact, from day one.

Built like Backbase's AI-native Banking OS — Zung.ai unifies every customer touchpoint across Portfolio, Intelligence, Scheduling, Analytics, and Engagement in one cooperative-native platform.
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AG Agri
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EM Emergency
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While platforms like Backbase serve tier-1 banks at enterprise cost, Zung.ai delivers the same AI-native architecture — Agentic AI, Intelligence Fabric, and composable banking — purpose-built for cooperative finance.
From AI-native core banking to agentic loan origination, open integration, and conversational self-service — the full Zung.ai ecosystem, purpose-built for cooperative finance.
Like Backbase's engagement banking model — but built ground-up for cooperative finance. Zung.ai unifies every customer touchpoint from onboarding to repayment, across every role in your institution.
Run your entire lending lifecycle — from credit scoring to disbursement — in one intelligent dashboard. The same unified engagement model Backbase delivers to tier-1 banks, built for your SACCO scale and budget.
Agentic AI that works like Backbase's AI Factory — automating credit decisions, repayment reminders, and member engagement without needing an in-house tech team. Cost-effective pricing that scales with you.
Role-based access, audit trails, and approval workflows — the same multi-user collaboration infrastructure Backbase offers enterprise banks, delivered for independent cooperative operators at a fraction of the cost.
Manage member savings, track capital reserves, and automate interest calculations — with the same composable banking architecture Backbase uses for credit unions, natively adapted for your cooperative model.
Real-time PAR tracking, branch benchmarking, and AI-generated risk alerts. Backbase clients report a 44% reduction in acquisition costs using data-led engagement — now accessible to every MFI on Zung.ai.
Automated audit trails, KYC workflows, and regulatory reporting — all governed by the same trust-first AI principles Backbase builds into every bank deployment. Every decision is transparent, auditable, and secure.
AI-native architecture, agentic workflows, SACCO integrations — answers to what financial institutions ask most.
Zung.ai is an AI-native banking operating system built ground-up for SACCOs, MFIs, and cooperative financial institutions. Traditional SACCO software manages data. Zung.ai orchestrates decisions — coordinating members, loan officers, and autonomous AI agents across every touchpoint from onboarding to repayment.
Unlike platforms such as Mambo or legacy cores that bolt AI onto existing architecture, Zung.ai's entire stack is built with intelligence at the core — the same paradigm Backbase applies for 150+ global banks, now at cooperative-finance pricing.
Agentic AI means Zung.ai deploys autonomous software agents that take real actions, not just surface recommendations. When a loan application arrives, an AI agent automatically scores credit, checks bureau data, flags risk, drafts a disbursement schedule, and notifies the loan officer — all without manual steps.
Agents handle entire workflows autonomously while keeping humans in control of policy and exceptions.
No. Zung.ai is designed for progressive modernisation — it sits above your existing system as an intelligence and engagement layer. This mirrors how Backbase defines a Banking OS: it coordinates the work between systems rather than replacing them.
You keep your core intact. Zung.ai connects via the Integration Fabric and immediately adds AI-native workflows, member engagement, and real-time portfolio analytics on top.
The Integration Fabric provides bi-directional real-time connectors to the payment rails and data sources your SACCO already uses — shipped ready-to-go, no custom development required. Comparable to Backbase's 50+ marketplace connectors, scoped for East African cooperative finance.
The Intelligence Fabric is a unified data foundation that continuously ingests member behaviour, transaction patterns, repayment history, and external signals — bureau data, mobile money activity — to build a real-time risk picture across your entire portfolio.
Instead of waiting for PAR to escalate, the platform surfaces early delinquency signals at 30–60 days and triggers autonomous agent interventions before a loan becomes at-risk.
Zung.ai occupies a unique position: it delivers enterprise-grade AI banking architecture (Backbase / Temenos tier) at SACCO-accessible pricing, purpose-built for cooperative and microfinance institutions.
Backbase targets large commercial banks at multi-million dollar budgets. Temenos and Oracle FLEXCUBE are full core replacements requiring 2–3 year implementations. Mambo/Navision are solid accounting cores but have no native AI layer. Zung.ai wraps or integrates with all of them and adds agentic intelligence on top.
Yes — by design, not by addition. The Process Fabric ensures every AI decision is governed by explicit policies, fully audit-trailed, and explainable to regulators. No AI agent can act outside its defined boundaries. Loan officers retain override authority. Every disbursement and credit decision produces a timestamped immutable audit record. Bank-grade encryption protects data at rest and in transit.
Zung.ai uses SACCO-tier cooperative pricing — designed specifically so tier 2 and tier 3 institutions can access enterprise-grade AI banking without an enterprise price tag. Backbase and Temenos are built for large banks with multi-million dollar budgets. Zung.ai delivers the same architectural capability at a fraction of the cost.
Pricing scales with your institution size and active member base. No hidden implementation fees, no credit card required to start, and full onboarding support is included at every tier.
Yes. Zung.ai's composable architecture supports multi-branch operations, umbrella SACCO networks, and multiple independent institutions from a single platform. Role-based access ensures each branch sees only its own data, while head-office administrators get a consolidated view across all branches and loan books.
Each branch operates independently while contributing to shared portfolio intelligence — AI agents operate across all branches simultaneously.
Members interact through mobile app, USSD, WhatsApp, and agent banking — all channels unified under one intelligence layer. The platform delivers personalised nudges, repayment reminders, product recommendations, and instant loan status updates via the channel each member uses most.
AI agents handle routine member queries autonomously — balance checks, loan eligibility, statement requests — escalating to human staff only when genuinely needed.
Still have questions?
Our team of SACCO banking specialists is ready to walk you through the platform.
Thriving SACCOs, microfinance institutions, and community cooperatives across East Africa manage their AI-powered operations efficiently with Zung.ai — from loan origination to real-time portfolio intelligence.
Read user storiesZung.ai completely transformed how we manage our loan portfolio. The agentic AI catches delinquency signals weeks before we would have noticed manually. Our PAR dropped from 8.2% to 2.9% in six months.
The M-PESA integration works seamlessly out of the box. We went live in under two weeks — something our previous vendor promised would take eight months.
As a loan officer, the AI does the heavy lifting — credit scoring, bureau checks, risk flags — and I focus on member relationships. My throughput has tripled in three months.
We evaluated Backbase and Temenos but neither was built for cooperative finance at our scale. Zung.ai gave us the same enterprise-grade intelligence layer at a price point that actually makes sense for a tier 2 SACCO. The composable architecture means we added multi-branch support in a single afternoon.
USSD channel works perfectly for our rural members with no smartphones. The AI engagement layer sends repayment reminders via SMS and our on-time rate jumped from 71% to 94%. I'd recommend Zung.ai to any SACCO that's serious about digital transformation without disrupting core operations.
Plan financial operations, score loans, schedule tasks, and effortlessly maintain smooth SACCO workflows — all powered by agentic AI that acts, not just advises.
"The agentic loan pipeline reduced our processing time from 5 days to under 4 hours. Incredible."
"Finally — a SACCO platform that actually understands cooperative finance. The credit bureau integration alone is worth the price."
"We migrated from Navision in 11 days. Zero downtime. The Integration Fabric just works."