About
About Devanka
A small software company being incorporated in British Columbia, building one product for banks and credit unions.
The company
Devanka is a software company being incorporated in British Columbia, Canada. We are building Ankasum, an offer and reward-integrity platform for banks and credit unions. The company name is meant to outlast one product; the product name says what it does: every reward should add up to the right sum.
The name comes from Sanskrit: deva and anka, roughly “a divine mark or number”. Most people say it “deh-VAHN-kuh”.
Who we build for
Our first focus is US credit unions and community banks of roughly $1 billion to $10 billion in assets that run deposit and checking bonuses, followed by Canadian credit unions and banks. Regional banks, larger credit unions and card issuers come later.
These institutions run real promotions with small teams. In many of them, marketing waits on IT for each campaign, and no single system owns the offer terms, who qualifies, the disclosure and whether the payout was right.
The people
Devanka is founder-led and small. We do not put our names in marketing. Institutions evaluating us get the names and backgrounds of the founders, directors and owners, and the named executive accountable for security, in our due-diligence pack, and in every contract.
When you write to us, a person reads it and a person answers.
How we use AI in our own work
We use AI tools to research, draft and check our work. We tell you where it matters:
- Articles we publish will be produced with AI assistance and reviewed by the company before they are published, under the byline “Devanka Research Team”, not an invented author.
- Every message we send outside the company is approved by a named person first. A message written and sent by an AI assistant says so in the sender name or signature. We never present an AI assistant as a person.
- Our company tools never hold institution customer data. The systems we use to run the company are separated from the product and its data.
- Security questionnaires and due-diligence answers are reviewed and signed by a named founder.
And in the product
In Ankasum, language models are assistants, not decision makers. A model may help draft an offer from plain English (planned for a later release) or explain a flagged case to a reviewer. Deterministic code will validate every offer and compute every amount, and a person will approve. No model will run in the checks that decide whether a payout is held.