Agentic banking · Fintech · belo · 2026
rumbo
agentic banking
Company
belo · feature concept
Role
Product Designer · Concept, UX, UI & prototype
Event
belo Agentic Banking Buildathon 001 · 28.10.2026
Team
5 people · 10 hours
Built on
belo REST API (staging)
Rumbo · a feature inside the belo app
An agent that walks you toward your money goals.

Rumbo reads your movements, your salary, your savings pots and the market. At the right moment it brings you an opportunity with the exact number and the action ready. Nothing moves without your OK.

Try it: it opens like belo. Demo figures; the screenshots below keep the Spanish copy of the app.

Situation & task
Money everywhere. Working nowhere.

belo's Agentic Banking Buildathon asked what an agent could do with belo's API, in 10 hours. The task we set: turn every relevant moment of the month into one clear decision, tied to a goal the person actually has.

My role. I brought the starting insight: our money stays parked, and nobody nudges us on what to do with it or walks with us along the way. We talked it through as a team and gave it shape, and I sketched the low-fi flow with the first possible screens. From there I designed the UI and built the clickable prototype you can try above.

10
Hours to build it, as a team of 5
5
Moments in the month when Rumbo speaks
1
Recommendation at a time, with the number and the action ready
0
Moves made without the user's OK
The opportunity
Don't add another app. Put the advice inside the one where the money already is.
belo already holds pesos, dollars, stablecoins and crypto. Rumbo reads that, and suggests the next move: to another currency, into a savings pot, or toward a new goal.
Context · belo today
The app Rumbo lives in
Pesos, dollars, stablecoins and crypto in one wallet

belo already lets people hold pesos, dollars and stablecoins, swap between them, transfer, pay with QR in several countries, and save in pots that earn yield. The tools are there. What's missing is someone who says, at the right moment, which one to use.

A grid of screens from the current belo app: the home with Deposit, Swap and Transfer, savings pots with yield in USDT, transfer confirmations, paying with QR across Latin American countries, and requesting money by bringing phones together.
Action · 01 The problem
Plenty of information, no decision
Three barriers
73%
Scattered
use two or more wallets. Most of the activity is moving money between them, not growing it.
Parked
Not working for you
Many people don't do anything with their money, even with all the information within reach. In Argentina, parked pesos lose value to inflation every month.
AI?
Afraid of losing control
When an agent shows up, the first fear is that it decides for you. Any answer has to start from there.
The problem, in numbers
Market data + our projection for belo

Parked doesn't mean still. The money moves all the time, from one app to another, just never toward a goal.

ARS 96 trillion
moves every month in instant transfers in Argentina. 77% goes through a digital wallet.
19.2
transfers per adult per month. In 2023 it was 7.7.
7 in 10
people keep their money split between a bank and a wallet.
Projection for belo
ARS 355 bn

a month leaves belo for other accounts of the same user. Money that could stay inside and keep working.

LowARS 106 bn
BaseARS 355 bn
HighARS 828 bn

Base case: 600k active users × 19.2 transfers × 25% to their own accounts × ARS 123k average transfer. These are our assumptions, to be validated with belo's internal data.

Sources: BCRA, Retail Payments Report (Aug 2026) · Kantar / IAB Argentina

Action · 02 The solution
That's why we built Rumbo
Everything it does so your money never sits parked

Swapping currencies is only the start. Rumbo watches your salary, your spending and the dollar, and brings you the move that puts your money to work.

Change currency
Pesos sitting still go to dollars or USDT, so they don't lose to inflation. Idle dollars go to USDT, so they earn.
Set part of your salary aside
On payday, it suggests a share of what's left this month and puts it in your savings pot.
Create a savings pot
No pot yet? It suggests one with a goal, an amount and a date, so the money has a direction.
Turn a trip into a goal
It spots flights and stays on your card and offers to build the goal for that trip.
Watch the dollar for you
When USDT/ARS moves more than 1.5%, it tells you how much to sell. Just what you need; the rest keeps earning.
Protect your goals
Before you withdraw from a pot, it shows how many weeks your goal moves. It never blocks.
And it runs for real
How it works →
How every proposal works
It reads, it proposes, you decide
01
Reads
Salary, spending, savings pots and which currency the money is in.
02
Checks the traffic light
How much risk this move carries for your investor profile.
03
Proposes
One move, with the amount, the cost and the reason: change currency, set money aside for a goal, or start a new one.
04
You decide
Accept or decline. Freeze the agent whenever you want.
The difference
You're in control.

Today there's a real fear that AI takes over. In Rumbo, the agent suggests. You decide. Every proposal waits for your OK, explains where it comes from, and can be stopped with one tap.

Action · 03 Recommendations
Four screens, one recommendation
How we turn parked money into a decision
belo home with a bottom sheet: Recommended, Pass ARS 360,000 to USD, you receive about USD 246, cost USD 1.99, with the data from your history and the buttons Quiero avanzar and No por ahora.
01Bottom sheet on the homeWhen belo opens, the month's main recommendation slides up. One card: the move, what you get, why, and two buttons.
Detail screen: Pass ARS 360,000 to USD, chips Safe, Low risk, Moderate profile, and two columns comparing doing nothing (about USD 231) with doing it (about USD 246).
02Doing it vs. doing nothing"Ver detalle" (see detail) puts both outcomes side by side, with the traffic light, the risk and your profile on top.
Rumbo section titled Tu historial financiero: investor profile card set to Moderate with 3% in crypto against an ideal of up to 30%, salary card with income and spending bars, and a green button Ver recomendaciones.
03My history, ready to actRumbo shows what it read: your investor profile, salary and spending. The recommendations to execute are one tap away.
Bottom sheet over Rumbo with a carousel of recommendation cards, 1 of 4, with arrows and page dots.
04All of them, in a carouselInside Rumbo, "Ver recomendaciones" (see recommendations) opens every proposal of the month to swipe through. Accept, decline or see the detail.
Action · 04 From the home
Two doors into your financial agent
A banner in the home and a new tab in the nav
belo home with the Rumbo banner under the balance card: Rumbo, your AI agent, Make your money work for you, button Ir a mi agente. The bottom nav shows a new Agent item with a violet dot.
01Rumbo banner"Que tu plata trabaje por vos" (make your money work for you). Built from belo's own night banners: coins in orbit, the countries of belo, a white pill button.
Rumbo section scrolled down: salary and spending cards and a list of habits: ARS 360,000 unused, USD 1,820 not moving for 74 days, saving 30% of the salary.
02My financial agentThe banner opens Rumbo: your history, the habits the agent detected, and the recommendations that come from them.
Chat with the agent: the user asks if they should move their pesos to dollars, and the agent answers with data from their history and a recommendation card with Quiero avanzar and Ver detalle.
03Chat with your agentThe Agent tab opens a bot that already knows you and keeps recommending on demand, with the same cards and the same buttons.
Action · 05 Savings pots with goals
Goals give the agent a direction.

belo already has savings pots. We gave each one a clear goal, an amount and a date, so Rumbo knows what the money is for. On payday it suggests how much to set aside to arrive on time. Before a withdrawal, it shows how far the deadline moves.

  • Payday"Separá USD 160 para Viaje a Brasil" (set aside USD 160 for the trip to Brazil): the exact amount to reach the goal by its date.
  • Progress at a glanceA ring per goal, the amount saved against the target, and the date.
  • Before withdrawingHow the withdrawal changes the deadline, before the money leaves.
Savings pots screen: total reserved USD 3,450, a Rumbo card after payday suggesting to set aside USD 160 for a trip to Brazil, and three goals with progress rings: trip to Brazil 60%, emergency fund 21%, new laptop 30%.
Savings potsThree goals and a Rumbo suggestion right after payday.
Action · 06 The moments of Rumbo
When the agent speaks
Only at the right moment, with the number and the action ready
  1. 01PaydaySet aside part of the salary for your goal, based on what's left this month.
  2. 02Buying a tripBuild the goal for that trip: how much, and by when.
  3. 03Parked moneyHow much it loses to inflation, and how much it would earn working in belo.
  4. 04Before a transferSend just what's needed and let the rest keep earning. This is the moment behind the ARS 355 bn a month.
  5. 05Before withdrawing from a potHow the withdrawal moves the deadline of your goal.
Action · 07 The traffic light
Investment risk × investor profile
A concept people already know from banks and brokers
Seguro

The risk fits your profile, and your crypto share stays within your ideal

Or the move lowers your risk, like turning parked pesos into dollars.

Moderado

The move takes you over the crypto share of your profile

Or it goes back to pesos, which lose value to inflation.

Riesgoso

The risk is well above your profile

More than 20 points over your ideal crypto share. On a manual move it asks for an extra confirmation instead of blocking: it's your money.

Conservativeup to 5% crypto
Moderateup to 30% crypto
Aggressiveup to 60% crypto

The profile is inferred from history (someone who buys BTC every month reads as moderate) and confirmed by the user. Without history, it comes from three onboarding questions. Every result is a colored dot plus a word, never color alone.

Action · 08 Under the hood
It works on a real belo account
Built by the team on belo's staging API

The prototype shows the experience. Behind it, the team built a working version that reads a belo staging account and runs the moments on its own. The code does the math. The agent only decides whether it's worth telling you, and how.

01
Jobs watch the account
Salary coming in, travel purchases, pesos sitting still, USDT/ARS moves, spending habits.
02
Code does the math
What's free to save after fixed costs, inflation, belo's yield, how far each goal is.
03
The agent decides
Claude, with read-only tools, picks the level and writes the message. Every number comes from a tool.
04
Guardrails filter
Up to 3 urgent alerts a day, one per topic, quiet from 10 pm to 8 am. They can lower a level, never raise it.
05
You approve
Nothing executes from the agent. You tap, and belo returns the approval for the operation.

Urgent

A push notification. Salary in, pesos about to lose value, a big jump in the dollar.

Feed

Waits in the app. A trip to plan, a goal falling behind, a habit that changed a lot.

Daily digest

Everything else. A coffee doesn't interrupt you. If you mark two alerts as not useful in a week, it waits.

Action · 09 Design decisions
What shaped the screens
Iterated live during the buildathon
01
One recommendation at a time
The first version showed three proposals in a list. In the home it became one card in a bottom sheet: decide or close. The rest live in a carousel inside Rumbo.
02
Every proposal says why
Each card cites the data that triggered it: "The last 3 months you got paid on the 5th and had about ARS 360,000 left unused." Trust comes from the evidence, not the tone.
03
Doing it vs. doing nothing
The detail puts both outcomes side by side, with the same rows. Doing nothing is also a choice, and it has a cost.
04
Risk × profile over an emergency fund
The first traffic light measured months of cushion. We moved to investment risk and investor profile because people already understand it.
05
Look like belo, not like a new app
Inter, 16px radius, grey hairline borders, flat surfaces, thin icons, belo's medium-weight buttons. The only new piece is the night banner, borrowed from belo's own.
06
Copy that sells the outcome
"Que tu plata trabaje por vos" (make your money work for you) instead of "your AI agent that improves your finances". The benefit first; the AI is the how, not the headline.
Action · 10 Guardrails
What Rumbo does not do
Scenarios for the user to decide, not personal investment advice
No move without an explicit acceptA declined proposal asks why (optional) and doesn't come back the same way.
Freeze in one tapThe agent stops proposing and executing. Money stays where it is, and the user can still move it by hand.
Only what belo's API supportsBuilt on belo's staging REST API. Anything it can't execute appears as a manual step, without an accept button.
Validate the advisory framingRecommending by investor profile is close to personal advice, which is regulated in Argentina. Next step before any launch: belo's legal team.
What we'd measure
If Rumbo moved past the buildathon
Three numbers to know if it works
Acceptance rateHow many proposals get an OK. If people decline most of them, the moment or the number is wrong.
Money retained in beloHow much of the ARS 355 bn a month stops leaving, and how much of it ends up working toward a goal.
Freezes and opt-outsHow often people pause the agent. The signal that it talks too much, or at the wrong time.
The team
Five Rumbo screens layered on belo's night gradient: the belo home with the Rumbo banner in a phone at the center, the recommendation bottom sheet and the agent chat behind it, and the financial history and savings pots on the outer edges.