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Grow loans, deposits and income by unlocking your data

FI Works is a customer data platform built specifically for community banks and credit unions. Connect all your systems, answer questions in plain English, and automate campaigns that drive real growth.

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Your customer data is trapped. It’s scattered across loan systems, deposit platforms, and third-party tools. Your team spends hours manually pulling reports, searching for insights, and struggling with legacy systems that weren’t built for modern banking. Frustration builds. Opportunities slip away. You know your customers better than anyone—but your tools don’t reflect that.

Meet FI Works – the next step in solving these problems

FI Works is a customer data platform designed exclusively for financial institutions. We connect your systems, clean and organize your data, and give you a single, real-time view of every customer relationship.

With FI Works, you can segment members based on actual behavior, automate targeted campaigns, and measure what works – all while staying compliant with banking regulations. No more guesswork. No more manual exports. Just clear insights and tools that help you act on them.

How it works

Activate

Integrate your loan systems, deposit platforms, and third-party tools. FI Works connects everything in minutes, not months.

Ask

Ask questions in plain English. No SQL. No data scientists. Get answers instantly.

 

Act

Automate campaigns that drive growth. Target the right customers with the right message at the right time.

 

Why FI Works?

Get Insights Fast

Ask questions of your data in plain English and receive instant, accurate answers. Automatically detect anomalies, trends, and drivers, moving beyond static dashboards to explainable insights.

Act Immediately

Provide actionable intelligence for your teams at every point of decisioning. Precisely target customers using all of your data.

Drive Behavior

Give frontline bankers clear, actionable guidance on which customers need attention, along with tailored recommendations for presenting the products and services that will add the most value to each relationship.

Onboard New Customers

Automate onboarding with data-driven campaigns that keep new customers engaged, support team organization, and drive long-term retention.

Expand Relationships

Deliver the right products to the right customers at the right time — deepening relationships and driving growth.

Reduce Attrition

Reduce customer attrition by identifying and acting on trends in balances, transactions, and behavioral data.

We deliver these kinds of results

Customer Onboarding

23% Attrition Drop

$400,000 Increase in Annual Profit
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Internet Banking

25% Response Rate

Improved retention through sticky services
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Debit Card Cross Sell

70% Debit Card Penetration

$700,000 in new annual revenue
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You’re in good company

“We were thrilled to find the FI Works solution, which allowed us to combine three separate platforms that we were using for marketing analytics, CRM, and marketing automation. Now my entire team can work together to serve our organization and provide expertise as a unit rather than as separate functions. We’ll be able to supercharge our work with the added benefit of tracking campaigns within the platform. Their insight and counsel are unparalleled and FI Works customer service are the best in the business!” 

 

““FI Works provided the structure we needed to formalize our CRM approach and gain clear visibility into our sales pipeline. Rather than relying on manual spreadsheets and constant follow-up, we implemented a pilot, secured buy-in from our commercial lenders, and successfully integrated the process into our weekly routine. It transformed an outdated, labor-intensive system into one that is efficient, transparent, collaborative, and aligned with our goals.

 

 

““Our decision to implement FI Works Customer Data Platform is driven  by our strategic vision to provide all our memberowners and the university community with a financial advantage. With this platform’s robust capabilities, we can harness valuable insights from our member data and leverage AI capabilities that enable us to craft highly personalized and relevant solutions for our member-owners.”

“After exploring and trying a few different CRM platforms, we were very pleased to find one specifically designed for banks that is so simple to use and integrates well with our system. The FI Works team is incredibly responsive and have dedicated the time and attention needed to ensure we have a valuable client management system with extensive reporting and analysis capabilities.”

“FI Works and their platform has become an integral part of our daily operations. They are very easy and responsive to deal with. They have helped transform our reporting, marketing and email campaigns.”
Joseph G. Vitale
President and CEO

“FI Works is fast, easy to use, giving me access to up-to-date relevant data making it easer to manage the balance sheet.”
Vincent Fazio
EVP and CFO

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FI Works gives sales and marketing a full picture of their best opportunities and produces results you can see – all at a fraction of the cost of other systems. 

Frequently asked questions

FI Works eliminates data bottlenecks by empowering business users to perform their own analysis — no analyst required. Traditional dashboards assume that all questions can be answered with a standard set dashboards. Behind every polished data visualization lies a growing backlog of filter and drill-down requests, derailed insight-to-action timelines, and abandoned dashboards collecting digital dust. With FI Works, you simply ask questions in plain English and instantly see which customers to call and what to say — not just static lists to export.

FI Works is designed for the modern world. According to Wipfli’s 2025 industry survey, over 52% of community banks and credit unions are actively replacing their MCIF systems due to weak integration, real-time limitations, and poor analytics. Are MCIFs dead? Not everywhere yet, but they are quickly becoming obsolete.

Major CRMs try to force-fit your needs into their standard models, leading to low adoption, expensive implementations, and a high cost of ownership. FI Works is purpose-built for financial institutions — unifying every data source into a single, complete view of your customers and turning insights into action.

No way. FI Works does the heavy lifting. Our team sets up the data connections and cleans everything. Your staff simply logs in, asks questions in plain language, and gets answers. It’s designed for everyday bankers.

Our clients are up and running in a few weeks, not months. We work with your IT or data team to integrate systems and then do the rest. Clients often see results that deliver greater than 100% ROI in the first few weeks.

Absolutely. FI Works was built for financial institutions, with bank-grade security and audit trails. Your data never leaves our control. We follow best practices and regulations so compliance teams rest easy.

Yes. Many clients run just a couple focused campaigns through FI Works and pay for the platform’s cost from the new revenue. You’ll target customers with the right offers at the right time, so more deposits stick and more loans close.

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