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Insights & Signals

Make your notifications worth opening

Timely, personal, actionable signals derived from your customers' financial data. Each one tells them something they didn't know, and gives them something concrete to do about it.

Signals worth listening to

An insight is not a push notification. It's a structured object with up to six elements that banks can adopt together or individually: the signal (what was detected), the customer's personal data, notification text, a rich detail page, concrete actions, and full lifecycle state management from detection through resolution.

Every insight is actionable, personal, and timely. It arrives at the moment of maximum relevance, not before, not after. It's grounded in the customer's actual data, never generic. And it always gives them something concrete to do.

The result is a system that earns attention through accuracy and relevance rather than volume. Silence is better than a wrong signal. When a Subaio insight arrives, the customer thinks: this is always worth my time.

1

Signal

The detected event, pattern, or state change, categorised, timestamped, confidence-graded

2

Personal data

The customer's specific numbers, amounts, merchants, dates, calculated figures

3

Notification text

Best-practice copy for push, SMS, or in-app, localised and personal

4

Detail page

Rich context with full personal data, visuals, and educational content where relevant

5

Actions

Concrete next steps, at least one completable in-app. Plus dismiss and remind-me

6

Lifecycle state

Tracked from triggered through delivered, seen, engaged, acted, to resolved

88 insights across 11 categories

A comprehensive catalog covering subscriptions, cash flow, spending, savings, credit, bills, life events, risk, periodic summaries, investments, and financial firsts.

Subscriptions

12 insights

New subscriptions, price changes, trial endings, unused services, annual renewals

~18 triggers/customer/year

Cash flow & liquidity

9 insights

Balance forecasts, salary tracking, surplus detection, month-end projections

~18 triggers/customer/year

Spending & transactions

8 insights

Category spikes, unusual transactions, duplicate charges, spending trends

~18 triggers/customer/year

Savings & wealth

7 insights

Goal progress, savings opportunities, interest changes, idle balance alerts

~12 triggers/customer/year

Credit & debt

9 insights

Overdraft alerts, credit utilisation, refinancing windows, debt milestones

~10 triggers/customer/year

Bills & household

7 insights

Utility spikes, insurance renewals, provider switch opportunities, rent changes

~10 triggers/customer/year

Life events

9 insights

Travel, moving, new child, job change, vehicle change, detected through spending patterns

~3 triggers/customer/year

Risk & protection

8 insights

Payee changes, coverage gaps, emergency fund status, financial resilience scoring

~6 triggers/customer/year

Periodic summaries

6 insights

Monthly reviews, year in review, financial health scores, positive streaks

~22 triggers/customer/year

Investments & pension

8 insights

Performance summaries, fee transparency, pension adequacy, rebalancing signals

~13 triggers/customer/year

Financial firsts

5 insights

First salary, first savings, first credit, first investment, formative moments with literacy content

Ultra-low frequency, high impact

Total catalog

88 insights

~130 triggers per customer per year before governance

~1 insight per week delivered after filtering

Earned attention, not demanded attention

Every insight competes with dozens of other notifications on a customer's phone. We don't win by being loud or frequent, we win by being the notification that's always worth opening. If the first three insights a customer sees are correct, personal, and useful, they learn that the next one is worth opening too.

The core dynamic is a self-reinforcing loop: accuracy builds trust, trust drives opens, opens deliver value, value deepens trust. If even one insight is wrong or irrelevant, the flywheel breaks. This is why we grade confidence on every signal, and why silence is always better than a wrong call.

Quick wins come first. A new subscription they forgot about. A price increase they didn't notice. A trial about to charge. These high-accuracy, immediately verifiable signals train the behaviour: this system catches things I miss. More complex insights follow once the habit is established.

The trust flywheel

1
Accurate signal arrives, personal, timely, correct
2
Customer trusts the source, opens the next one
3
Detail page rewards the tap, richer than the preview
4
Action is low-friction, completable in-app
5
Resolution confirmed, value delivered, habit formed

Three lenses on every customer

Every insight sits at the intersection of where someone is in life, what they hold, and what's flowing through their accounts right now.

The customer's life

People go through life stages that fundamentally reshape their financial needs. A young professional accumulating subscriptions has almost nothing in common financially with someone approaching retirement.

  • Student and early independence
  • Young professional, peak subscription density
  • Building, nesting, peak earning
  • Transitioning and retirement

Assets & bank products

What the customer holds shapes which insights matter. A mortgage holder with insurance and investments has a fundamentally different insight surface than someone with only a current account.

  • Property, mortgage, insurance
  • Investments and pension
  • Savings accounts and credit products
  • Current account only, the starting point

The daily financial life

Every customer lives through a recurring rhythm of financial activity. This is the operational layer, the ground truth from which signals are generated in real time.

  • Earning, salary, benefits, side income
  • Committing, subscriptions, rent, insurance
  • Spending, groceries, dining, transport
  • Saving, borrowing, protecting

An insight in action

A customer has 4,200 DKK in their account. Three payments are due before their next salary: Netflix (119 DKK), rent (8,500 DKK), and gym (299 DKK). If salary arrives a day late, they'll be 1,240 DKK short.

The insight fires eight days before the shortfall, with a push notification: "Your account may be short 1,240 DKK around March 3rd. Three payments are due before your next salary." The detail page shows a timeline, the three payments, and historical salary dates for context.

Actions: transfer from savings, reschedule a payment, or dismiss. The customer transfers 2,000 DKK. The insight resolves. If they'd ignored it, it would resurface in their monthly summary: "We flagged a shortfall, it's still open."

INSUFFICIENT_BALANCE_FORECAST · Grade A

Current balance 4,200 DKK
Netflix · Mar 1 –119 DKK
Rent · Mar 1 –8,500 DKK
Gym · Mar 3 –299 DKK
Salary (expected 28th–1st) +28,500 DKK
Projected shortfall –1,240 DKK

Transfer from savings

Reschedule payment

Dismiss

Triggered Delivered Acted Resolved

Quality over quantity, by design

The catalog contains 88 insight types generating roughly 130 triggers per customer per year. But not every trigger becomes a delivered insight. A governance layer, frequency caps, confidence filtering, relevance-window expiry, and priority ranking, ensures customers receive only what matters, when it matters.

The result: approximately one insight per week. Each one earns its place. Customers who receive one insight a week and find it useful will keep opening. Customers who receive one a day and find half irrelevant will turn notifications off entirely.

Banks control the final layer. Subaio provides best-practice defaults, but every threshold, cap, and priority can be configured. The system is built to work well out of the box and to adapt as banks learn what resonates with their customers.

Designed against failure modes

  • The cry-wolf problem

    Too many low-value insights → customer stops opening any

  • The stale feed

    Expired insights still visible → erodes confidence

  • The dead end

    Insight with no viable action → customer frustrated

  • The broken promise

    Wrong data → trust destroyed disproportionately

Bank-configurable

Every frequency cap, confidence threshold, and priority ranking can be tuned. Defaults are best practice, built from our experience across European banks. Override what you need, keep what works.

Financial literacy built in

The best moment to teach someone about finance is when it's relevant to their own money. A customer who just saw a price increase on their insurance is ready to learn about shopping around. Someone approaching a negative balance is open to understanding how overdraft fees work. Literacy insights arrive at exactly these moments, grounded in the customer's real situation, not abstract advice.

We provide premade literacy packages that are ready to deploy, covering topics from subscription awareness and savings fundamentals to credit health and pension planning. Every package is fully customisable: adjust the tone, swap in your own content, or extend with topics specific to your market. And if your bank already has financial education programmes in place, we support those too. Existing content, existing voices, existing brand guidelines, our system wraps around what you've built rather than replacing it.

Ready to deploy

  • Premade literacy packages across core financial topics
  • Fully customisable tone, content, and branding
  • Supports your existing financial education programmes
  • Delivered at the moment of maximum relevance

From utility to trusted advisor

Banks that invest in genuine financial literacy see measurable shifts in customer behaviour, higher engagement, stronger retention, and a fundamentally different relationship where customers come to the bank first for financial guidance.

From insight to action to goal

The best insights plant a seed. A customer who sees they're spending €340/month on subscriptions starts thinking about what they'd rather do with that money. A balance forecast that flags a shortfall raises the question of whether an emergency fund would help. The moment of understanding is the moment of highest motivation, so our platform connects insights directly to goal suggestions.

The connection runs both ways. Goals generate their own insights, progress updates, course corrections, and streak celebrations that keep customers engaged over months. Together, insights and goals create a continuous loop: understand, act, track, learn, repeat.

Insights that spark goals

  • Spending insight → savings goal suggestion
  • Balance forecast → emergency fund goal
  • Credit alert → debt reduction plan
  • Pension check → retirement contribution goal

Explore Aspirations & Goals

See how aspirations and goals turn one-time insights into lasting financial habits, with streaks, progress tracking, and behavioural nudges that keep customers engaged.

Curated for your customers

The insight catalog is universal, but specific customer segments have distinct needs. Pre-built packages tune the selection, tone, and literacy depth for each audience.

Young adults

18–29 · The formative segment. Financial habits are being set, subscription density is at its peak, and literacy gaps are widest.

  • High literacy content, shorter formats
  • Subscription and spending awareness focus
  • Video, AI chat, relatable educators

Affluent customers

Wealth efficiency, not affordability. Investment awareness, tax efficiency, insurance adequacy, idle cash optimisation.

  • Opportunity and optimisation emphasis
  • Lower frequency, higher signal quality
  • Bank-branded expert voice

Sole proprietors

Business and personal spending tangled in one account. Insights help separate what the bank's infrastructure cannot.

  • Business vs. personal tagging layer
  • Tax-relevant summaries and categorisation
  • Small-business financial management literacy

88

Insight types

Across 11 categories

~1/wk

Delivered per customer

After governance filtering

A/B

Confidence grading

Every signal rated

6

Modular elements

Adopt together or individually

Deploy your way

Deliver insights through your own UX, our managed journeys, or a combination of both.

Standalone

Ready-to-deploy, white-label experiences. Full functionality out of the box with minimal integration effort.

  • Quick time-to-market
  • White-label ready
  • Managed updates

API integration

Full API access for deep integration into your existing systems and user experience.

  • RESTful APIs
  • Embed in existing UX
  • Full control

Hybrid

Mix and match. Use managed journeys where speed matters and API access where you need full control.

  • Best of both approaches
  • Migrate at your own pace
  • Per-feature flexibility

Insights aren't limited to the banking app. Our APIs integrate with MarCom platforms, e-commerce systems, CRM stacks, and any other touchpoint where financial context adds value.

Ready to deliver insights that earn attention?

See how 88 structured insight types can transform engagement and build lasting financial trust.