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Sound CU AI Score

Credit union in Tacoma, WA · NCUA charter #66331 · State charter (federally insured)

Legal name: Sound

Latest filed figures, Q2 2026. Every number below comes from the credit union's own NCUA 5300 Call Report.

Total assets$3.40B
Total loans & leases$2.74B
Total shares & deposits$2.93B
Members184,800
Net worth$375M
Net worth / assets11.01%
Loans / assets80.64%
Return on assets (annualized)0.94%
Loan growth (YoY)6.20%
Member growth (YoY)6.07%
Delinquency, all loans (60+ days)1.18%
CharterState charter (federally insured)
Asset band$1B–$5B
NCUA peer groupover $500M
Sponsor typeCommunity (inferred from the name)

AI readiness

AI Score: 4 of 5 stars, AI embedded in workflows

AI makes or shapes decisions inside a business process: AI-driven loan decisioning or underwriting, AI in collections, document processing or onboarding, AI routing in the contact centre.

A 2022 vendor announcement names Sound Credit Union as implementing Black Knight's Empower loan origination system with artificial intelligence among the originations tools it will use, placing AI inside its mortgage and home equity origination process. The Glia script on soundcu.com only shows the digital service platform is installed, not that an AI assistant is in use.

Filed signals, from the credit union's own NCUA call report (Q2 2026): uses fintech partners, fintech auto lending, fintech mortgage lending, fintech secured lending, fintech unsecured lending, fintech P2P payments, fintech for communication / chat, online membership application, online loan application, online account opening, online loan payments, bill payment, account aggregation, e-signature, e-Statements, external transfers / ACH, remote deposit capture, mobile payments. These are relationships and channels, not AI as such.

The AI Score runs from one to five stars; one star, no public evidence, is never shown on a credit union. Scores and sources for every credit union: CU AI Ready Report.

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