Continued development across the platform
Our contribution extends from architecture and integrations to member interfaces and AI features. The partnership supports an evolving product whose capabilities build on one another.
Telos Labs
Partnering to build the technology behind financial resilience
SaverLife is a mission-driven nonprofit that helps people build financial security. As their long-term technology partner, Telos works with them across strategy, product, design, and engineering.
The partnership
A platform that grows with SaverLife
We've partnered with SaverLife to build its savings platform and help members plan their next financial steps.
Over the years, our work has expanded to savings challenges, points, reward payments, emergency cash assistance, personalized onboarding, and the AI-powered Financial Navigator.
A financial-wellness product has to do several jobs at once. Members need an experience that's clear and useful. Program teams need to set up activities, run incentives, and adjust when member needs change. And the technology has to connect all of that to the data and operations underneath.
Our work covers each of those jobs. We rebuilt the platform's architecture, help design and develop the product, build integrations, and keep engineering as SaverLife launches new programs and member experiences. SaverLife brings the mission, the program expertise, the research, and its knowledge of members. We help build the product and the software that put those priorities into practice.
Connected capabilities
How the work has evolved
The platform migration moved established member data into a new application architecture while preserving the ability to sign in with existing passwords. That work became part of the foundation for later programs and product changes.
Savings activities, assistance applications, reward approvals, and payment integrations introduced workflows for both members and staff. Each program needed its own rules and a dependable connection to the surrounding platform.
A custom points and quest system, challenge rules, and redemption flows gave SaverLife application-level control over its engagement capabilities. Financial-health onboarding and dashboard work connected members with relevant activities.
The AI navigator introduced contextual conversations. The debt-planning journey added structured tools for understanding debts, exploring payment scenarios, reviewing expenses, and planning a savings buffer.
Product, design, and engineering
What Telos contributed
Operational software behind the experience
The work includes the systems staff use to administer programs, validate rewards, handle exceptions, and connect decisions with payments and communications.
Product work grounded in member needs
Design and engineering connect SaverLife's understanding of its members with practical experiences: applying for support, joining a challenge, reviewing finances, or finding a useful next action.
Technical guidance and ongoing operations
Beyond new features, we help SaverLife's team weigh technical tradeoffs and plan what comes next. We also maintain the infrastructure, integrations, and dependencies that keep the member experience dependable.
The projects
Eight projects within one continuing partnership
Explore the product decisions and engineering behind SaverLife's platform, program operations, member engagement, and financial guidance.
A new foundation for an established platform
Move member data and preserve sign-in continuity while rebuilding the application for continued development.
Savings activities connected by a custom engagement system
Bring challenges, quests, points, and redemption into a system shaped around SaverLife's programs.
Financial guidance that can use member context
Bring conversational AI, financial information, and relevant resources into the SaverLife experience.
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