BusinessFunding / M&ABusiness, Funding & Industry · Agents & Tool Use1 source · Oct 21, 2026

AI Cut Our Research Time From 7 Days to 15 Minutes — Gareth Yoder, Vanguard

Gareth Yoder leads the cash program at Vanguard.

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Key points

  • He walks through modernizing a cash ledger that takes up to 30 million calls a day, running data, producer and consumer migrations in parallel.
  • Research that took a mainframe engineer seven days dropped to 15 minutes.
  • 01:10 What a cash ledger is
  • 02:32 Legacy code over MCP: 7 days to 15 minutes

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