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Plaid and Sierra Let AI Agents Pull Live Bank Data Mid-Conversation Without Leaving the Chat
Announced August 4, 2026, Sierra's AI agents can now invoke Plaid Link inside a conversation to request permission for a customer's bank account and immediately use the cash-flow data. The concrete case: a borrower who fails on credit score alone previously waited for a human loan officer to verify income manually; the agent now reviews cash-flow data and continues the application in the same thread. The same pattern is being applied to insurance claims and fraud resolution — this is the agent-permission boundary moving from read-only advice to permissioned action on real financial data.
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