2026 SPONSORS
A special thanks to our sponsors for supporting this event and helping lead the charge for credit union innovation. Without them, CU Build would not be possible.
INTEGRATOR PARTNERS
Our partners provide systems and access specifically for CU Build and its participants.
Libum is helping equip CU Build participants with modern development tools built for the Jack Henry ecosystem. Their platform focuses on making credit union software development faster, more flexible, and easier to work with across modern tooling.
Resources available to participants
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NexumAPI as a Service (NaaS): the fastest way to use SymXchange in any language and with JSON payloads
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PowerOn Pro+: the most powerful development toolkit for PowerOn on the most popular IDE, Visual Studio Code
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PowerOn Pipelines: version control over Azure DevOps or GitHub for the Jack Henry credit union platform
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Glaci (Beta): a creative platform & workflow orchestrator for Jack Henry credit unions
Tyfone is providing an Open Banking & AI Innovation Sandbox to empower CU Build participants. Their platform offers a Symitar-backed test ecosystem designed to bridge the gap between core data and modern, AI-driven financial experiences, allowing developers to build and launch custom applications with enterprise-grade security.
Resources available to participants
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​Digital Banking & Symitar Sandbox: A full-stack test environment including secure login credentials for test users and accounts for rapid prototyping.
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Open Banking FDX APIs: Industry-standard APIs for account inquiries, transaction history, and internal/GL transfer workflows.
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Agentic MCP Server: Access to Tyfone's Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to build AI-powered assistants, automation workflows, and contextual financial insights.
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Secure SSO Integration: OAuth2 and OpenID Connect-based SSO to enable seamless, embedded application experiences within the digital banking platform.
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Developer Starter Kits: Ready-to-use sample applications in React and .NET to jumpstart the connection between frontend UI and secure banking tokens.
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Interactive Documentation: Complete Swagger/OpenAPI specifications and Postman collections for streamlined API consumption and testing.
FinGoal is a Credit Union Service Organization dedicated to providing predictive analytics and transaction enrichment tools for data and marketing teams. FinGoal enables credit unions to build deeply customized member experiences and "right-place, right-time" financial offers by layering smart metadata and persona tagging over raw transaction data.
Resources available to participants
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Insights API: Access best-in-class transaction enrichment with hundreds of categories and merchant logos for a modern user experience.
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Behavioral User Tags: Identify member lifestyles and habits through indicators like "Coffee Lover" to build more relatable, member-centric interfaces.
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Opportunity User Tags: Utilize smart metadata to pinpoint specific financial milestones, such as HELOC opportunities, to deepen member engagement at the perfect moment.
PortX was built specifically for financial institutions, helping credit unions modernize how they connect core, fintech, and payments systems through reusable APIs, intelligent data orchestration, and real-time observability. Powered by PiXi AI, the platform enables natural language interaction with data and integrations, AI-assisted data mapping, and workflow automation, helping teams move from concept to working prototype faster during the build-a-thon experience.
Resources available to participants
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Integration Manager, the iPaaS purpose-built for banks and credit unions, enables teams to rapidly build and orchestrate integrations across core, fintech, and payments ecosystems using reusable APIs and pre-built connectors.
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Data Manager provides a lightweight, AI-powered data lakehouse that delivers governed, real-time visibility across systems, enabling teams to create trusted dashboards, analytics, and operational intelligence without complex infrastructure.
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Payment Manager streamlines multi-rail payment orchestration for ACH, wires, and FedNow with API-first workflows, automation, and compliance-ready controls.
Q2 is helping equip CU Build participants with an AI-native development environment purpose-built for the Q2 SDK ecosystem. Q2 Code pairs agents with curated SDK expertise from Q2's engineering teams, so participants can go from idea to working extension faster, with the context, tools, and guardrails needed for financial-grade software.
Resources available to participants
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Q2 Code: an AI-native development harness built, pre-loaded with Q2 platform knowledge, SDK skills, and agent instructions authored by Q2's engineers.
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Preconfigured dev containers: dedicated, ready-to-code environments for Q2 SDK development, no local setup required Caliper SDK, full-stack SDK for workflows, SSO, widgets, JavaScript snippets, and mobile components on the Q2 platform.
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Caliper API: open REST APIs for enrollment, user lookup, notifications, and custom endpoints.
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MCP tools: Q2 SDK/API documentation search available directly from the AI assistant, so participants can pull the right platform docs in-context while they build
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Rise Analytics is offering participants exclusive access to its enterprise-grade analytics platform. This hands-on opportunity enables credit unions to explore how Rise’s capabilities can drive strategic growth, improve operational efficiency, and deliver greater value to members. Participants will be able to leverage Rise’s infrastructure.
Resources available to participants
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Ingest, integrate, and model data to rapidly test and validate new use cases across a range of business scenarios
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Query and move data using the platform’s GraphQL APIs
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Harness AI-powered tools to accelerate innovation
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Access, develop, and easily customize Power BI reports to support forecasting and data-informed decision-making