Ceto today announced an expansion of Ceto NOVA™, its unified intelligence platform for community banks and credit unions, extending the platform through NOVA Lucira™, an AI-powered guidance capability, and NOVA Vector™, a predictive intelligence capability.

Together, these capabilities expand NOVA’s ability to connect intelligence across the institution and help leaders move from fragmented information to clearer priorities, informed action and ongoing evaluation.

Community banks and credit unions do not lack data. Their information is distributed across systems, functions and outside providers. The challenge is connecting that information, understanding what matters, and determining where leadership attention can create the greatest value.

NOVA builds on more than three decades of Ceto experience helping community financial institutions understand competitive position, performance and vendor economics. The platform extends that expertise by connecting intelligence that has traditionally been evaluated across separate areas of the institution.

NOVA Lucira™ sits at the center of the platform, interpreting intelligence across these areas and surfacing relationships that may not be apparent when competitive, operational, vendor and market information is evaluated separately. By examining these signals together, Lucira helps leaders identify what warrants attention and make more informed decisions.

NOVA Vector™ extends NOVA into predictive intelligence, helping financial institutions look beyond current conditions, evaluate emerging opportunities and identify areas for deeper analysis.

“Community banks and credit unions don’t have a shortage of data, systems or dashboards,” said Douglas Ceto, CEO of Ceto. “The challenge is understanding what matters across the institution, determining where to act and knowing whether those decisions are creating value. That’s where we believe financial intelligence needs to go.”

NOVA also extends how Ceto delivers intelligence to its clients. Traditional advisory engagements address a defined business challenge at a particular point in time. With NOVA, intelligence developed through that work can remain accessible and be revisited as institutional priorities change.

Ceto NOVA is available to community banks and credit unions as a standalone platform and can also be used within Ceto’s consulting engagements. This connects Ceto’s technology and advisory expertise so institutions can extend intelligence into deeper analysis and action when needed, while allowing that intelligence to persist beyond the engagement that produced it.

For community banks and credit unions, the objective is not another dashboard. It is a more connected decision process: understand the institution, identify what matters, prioritize where to act, evaluate results and continue assessing what changes next.

As NOVA evolves, Ceto is expanding its intelligence capabilities and connections across its advisory work, with the goal of making institutional intelligence an ongoing resource for leadership rather than an output confined to a single point in time.

Community banks and credit unions interested in Ceto NOVA can request a demonstration at info.ceto.com/nova or contact Ceto directly.

About Ceto

Ceto helps community banks and credit unions improve performance, navigate transformation and make more informed decisions through specialized advisory expertise, proprietary intelligence and technology. Ceto’s work spans strategic growth, operational performance, vendor management and enterprise transformation.

Ceto NOVA™ extends that expertise through a unified platform connecting competitive, operational, vendor, geographic and predictive intelligence.

For more information about Ceto and Ceto NOVA™, visit Ceto.com.

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