Taktile Cofounder Max Eber on LLMs and Risk Infrastructure

Fintech Layer Cake

Fintech Layer Cake
Taktile Cofounder Max Eber on LLMs and Risk Infrastructure
Jun 26, 2025 Season 3 Episode 10
Lithic

In this episode of Fintech Layer Cake, Reggie Young sits down with Max Eber, Co-Founder of Taktile, to explore how modern fintechs are rethinking risk infrastructure. Max shares insights from building a flexible decision engine used by leading lenders and fintechs around the world. They dive into what it really takes to customize underwriting, how Taktile is approaching AI and LLMs in production, and why success often hinges on enabling teams, not just engineers, to iterate faster.

Whether you're navigating credit models, fraud risk, or just curious about what LLMs can actually do in a fintech setting, this episode delivers a practical, high-level crash course on decisioning infrastructure at scale.