Forward-deployed delivery
How HD Trust gets stood up. By the people who built it.
HD Trust and Centurion are delivered with a forward-deployed team — senior practitioners who integrate the system into your production stack, operate it alongside your team, and stay accountable to the outcomes it produces. HD Trust is Hudson-managed SaaS today; other Centurion work may run in customer-controlled infrastructure when that scope is agreed.
Why not self-serve
Decisions that touch every dollar of authorization aren't systems you self-install from a docs page.
Self-serve SaaS works for tools that fail gracefully — analytics, productivity, dev infrastructure. It fails for systems where a misconfigured threshold blocks legitimate customers, an over-tuned model causes regulatory exposure, or a missed integration leaves a fraud surface open.
HD Trust is that second kind. The deployment, calibration, and operating discipline matter as much as the underlying technology. Forward-deployed delivery is how we make sure both are right.
The engagement model isn't separate from the product. It's how the product becomes a production system.
How an engagement unfolds
From audit to operate. Same senior team throughout.
The same people who run the audit stand the system up, tune it on your traffic, and operate it through the first months in production. Continuity is the point.
01
Weeks 1–3
Audit
The AI-Fraud Audit produces the diagnostic — current posture, gap map against AI-era threats, prioritized recommendations, regulatory alignment notes. Vendor-neutral deliverable. The audit is how we engage; it's also how you decide whether to proceed.
02
Weeks 4–10
Stand-up
The forward-deployed team integrates HD Trust with your web, mobile, decisioning, and investigation workflows; seeds policy context; calibrates on approved historical traffic; and tunes thresholds to your risk appetite.
03
Months 3–6
Tune & integrate
We operate alongside your fraud and engineering teams. Live decisioning into your authorization stack. Champion / challenger strategies against your incumbent controls. Drift monitoring, threshold revisions, integration with your case-management workflow. Your team learns the system while we run it.
04
Ongoing
Operate
Steady-state operations — strategy updates, new threat coverage, regulatory alignment refreshes, quarterly performance reviews. Senior advisor on retainer for board, audit, and regulator-facing conversations. You decide when to take operations fully in-house; we hand off cleanly when you do.
What forward-deployed actually means
Six principles. Every engagement. No exceptions.
Senior practitioners only
Every engagement is staffed with people who have built fraud, credit, and decisioning systems before — at issuer, bank, fintech, and carrier scale. No junior-pyramid managed at a distance.
A deployment model stated up front
HD Trust is Hudson-managed SaaS today. Broader Centurion work can run within customer-controlled infrastructure where agreed. The architecture, data flows, residency, and control boundaries are documented before implementation.
Operated, not delivered
We don't hand you a deck and walk away. We stand HD Trust up, run it alongside your team, and own the outcome metrics. You set the controls; we carry the work.
Accountable to outcomes
Detection-rate lift, false-positive reduction, manual-review-queue drop, customer-protection metrics — measured against the baseline from the audit. The deliverable is the running system, not the deck.
Audit & regulator-aware
Senior MRM-aligned operators on every engagement. SR 11-7, OCC AI, NIST AI RMF, CFPB consumer-protection — we document for the conversations you have with the people watching.
Hand-off as a deliverable
Runbooks, monitoring, on-call playbooks, team training. The engagement ends with your team owning the system on day one — not three months of transition meetings later.
Roles on a typical engagement
Four roles. All senior. Sized to the scope.
Most HD Trust engagements run 3–5 people. Larger Centurion-wide deployments scale up. Every named person is a senior practitioner — no pyramid of juniors managed at a distance.
Forward-deployed engineer
Integrates HD Trust with your production stack. SDK integration, decisioning wiring, performance tuning. Full-stack — frontend, mobile, backend, infrastructure.
Fraud strategy lead
Calibrates HD Trust thresholds to your portfolio, designs the champion / challenger strategy, integrates with your case-management workflow.
Credit / risk modeler
When Centurion components (Model Foundry) are in scope — builds the models, validates against your data, ships them through FlowX.
Senior advisor
Board / executive / regulator-facing engagements. Model risk management, regulatory engagement, post-incident review. On retainer for the conversations that matter.
When to engage
Three signals it's the right conversation.
AI-era fraud is escalating in your environment
ATO is climbing despite existing tooling. Push-payment scams are rising. Synthetic-identity rates are surfacing in 30-day vintages. Your fraud team is hitting walls fingerprinting can't see past.
Regulatory pressure is converging
Consumer-fraud expectations are rising (CFPB, NY DFS). AI-control frameworks are being asked about (OCC, NIST). Your audit, MRM, and compliance functions need an answer — and a documentation trail.
Customer-protection is becoming a board topic
Elder fraud, romance scams, and remote-access scams are targeting your customers — and your leadership wants a response that goes beyond 'not our problem.'
Beyond HD Trust
When credit modeling, graph signal, or unified decisioning is in scope.
HD Trust is the front. Centurion Platform is the broader fabric — Model Foundry for credit modeling, ML Graph for network-fraud signal, FlowX for unified decisioning. The same forward-deployed team that stands up HD Trust extends the engagement when more of Centurion is in scope.
Start with the audit
Three weeks. A written deliverable. Senior team.
The AI-Fraud Audit is the entry point. It produces a vendor-neutral assessment of your session-trust posture — useful to your team whether you proceed with us or not.