Agentic Index

Kastle vs Salient (2026)

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Kastle and Salient both sell AI agents for regulated lending, through demos with no public rates, and they differ in scope. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.

Kastle covers the loan lifecycle from origination through servicing with five named agents, a Loan Officer Assistant and Collections, Servicing, Compliance and Loss Mitigation agents, working borrower calls, texts, email and chat and escalating anything beyond their authority. Salient focuses on consumer loan servicing for banks, credit unions, captive and specialty lenders, where Taylor handles collections and servicing with borrower level memory and payment processing, Marshall audits every call and account event for compliance, and further agents cover total loss claims, disputes and charge offs. Salient adds an API with webhooks for every agent interaction and SAML sign on with roles scoped by product. Choose Kastle when origination is in scope. Choose Salient for servicing depth and an audit of every call.

This comparison is published by Agentic Index, an independent agentic AI vendor research platform. Kastle and Salient are each graded against the same 14 capability Agentic Index taxonomy, from the vendor's own public materials under the Agentic Index verification standard, alongside 1,084 researched vendors. No vendor pays for placement and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded

Choose Kastle if

  • Origination is in scope, and an assistant that issues pre approval letters and books appointments is part of the need.
  • One vendor should cover collections, servicing, compliance and loss mitigation with named agents.
  • Agents must escalate anything beyond their approved authority to your staff.

Choose Salient if

  • Every call and account event should be audited for compliance by a dedicated agent.
  • Borrowers should be remembered across calls, with payments taken in the conversation.
  • Total loss claims, disputes and charge offs are call types you need covered.
Feature
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Action & orchestration

Integrations & Tool Calling

Ability to connect agents to real systems through native integrations, OAuth-authenticated actions, custom tools, APIs, webhooks, or MCP-compatible tools.

Workflow Orchestration

Ability to sequence, branch, retry, route, and combine deterministic workflow nodes with autonomous agent steps.

Triggers & Channel Coverage

How agents wake up and where they work: schedules, webhooks, message events, CRM events, inbox events, chat, email, voice, and collaboration tools.
Knowledge & context

Knowledge Grounding & RAG

Ability to ground agent behavior in company data through document ingestion, retrieval, external knowledge APIs, semantic search, or RAG layers.

Memory & State Persistence

Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer.
Control & trust

Human Oversight & Guardrails

Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls.

Security, Identity & Governance

RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy.

Observability & Auditability

Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior.

Deployment & Data Residency

Deployment modes and options, including SaaS, dedicated cloud, VPC, on-prem, hybrid, local runtime, and self-hosting.
Solution readiness

Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs

Ready-made workflows, packaged employees, templates, blueprints, industry solutions, and role-specific agents that reduce time-to-value.
Platform extensibility

Model Flexibility & Routing

Ability to work across multiple foundation models, route tasks to different models, or let buyers bring their own providers and keys.

APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility

Composability layer: stable APIs, SDKs, MCP tool consumption/serving, custom tools, and integration into internal systems.

Testing, Debugging & Optimization

Testing, debugging, scoring, retries, fallbacks, quality gates, and optimization loops for improving agent workflows before and after deployment.
Specialist automation

Browser & Computer Use

Browser, desktop, or remote/local computer control for workflows that cannot be handled through stable APIs alone.

Pricing snapshot

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Pricing
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Entry price

Lowest public entry point

 Contact sales Contact sales

Pricing confidence

How public the numbers are

 Contact only Contact only

Billing

Primary billing axis

 enterprise contract enterprise contract

Variable cost

Workload / overage exposure

 Medium variable cost Medium variable cost

Free tier / trial

Try before you buy
No free tier
No free tier

Buying motion

Self-serve vs sales call

 Sales call Sales call

Pricing verified

When this pricing was last checked
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