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"The Trusted Voice" series. Fano rebuilt voicebots for a tier-1 bank with a five-layer guardrail system

August 3, 2026 | AEF | Portfolio
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Our CEO Dr. Miles Wen has been quieter than usual lately: fewer panels, fewer posts. It wasn't a retreat — it was a rebuild.

He pointed half his R&D team at a single problem: rebuilding, from the ground up, a product Fano Labs first shipped almost a decade ago — the first Cantonese 主題標籤voicebot in Hong Kong, back in 2016.

Kicking off "The Trusted Voice", a new blog series on building enterprise-grade voice AI for regulated industries. Miles opens with the question that started it all: LLMs finally made conversation feel human — so why has essentially no bank put a genuinely generative voicebot in front of customers? The answer isn't imagination. It's accountability, and in regulated finance that accountability is personal.

The bar in a regulated industry isn't "impressive." It's "never catastrophically wrong."

Read Episode 1 here