Make Legal Write Your Evals: Building Jade, Chime’s Financial Copilot | Interrupt 26
Chime built compliance evals for its AI co-pilot Jade by having legal teams co-author risk definitions.
“I would argue that evals are your alignment surface.”
A Chime engineer described how the company structured AI compliance risks into domains and concrete risks, then had legal and compliance teams author the risk definitions and questions used to bootstrap evals for its financial co-pilot Jade. It matters because it offers a replicable framework for aligning agentic AI with non-engineering stakeholders and embedding governance throughout the build cycle rather than at a final release gate.