Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Chief Executive Dave McKay has revealed that custom "agentic AI" tools, built by his own team, are now part of his daily routine, with him reviewing AI-generated briefing reports each morning.
June 16, 2026 · Royal Bank of Canada
A Bank CEO's Morning Now Starts With AI — and a Briefing in 4 Seconds
Dave McKay, CEO of Canada's largest bank, opens each day reviewing custom agentic-AI reports on the economy, markets, risk and mortgages — work that once took roughly a week now arrives in seconds.
From a week's wait to a 4-second briefing
~1 week
Old way: email request at night, report days later, then follow-up
→
~4 sec
Now: custom agentic-AI tools generate the briefing on demand
$700M–$1B
Targeted enterprise value from AI (revenue + savings) by 2027, in C$
$5B+
Annual technology investment, with AI spending spanning over a decade
1 hr+
Spent each morning reviewing the AI-generated CEO briefing
What the daily briefing pulls together
Economy
Markets
Consumer behavior
Risk
Mortgages
HR module — in development
Built by an internal RBC team drawing on both internal and external data — part of a dedicated "AI Group" reporting directly to the CEO.
The CEO's framing
AI handles administrative and procedural work and expands team capacity rather than replacing people. The human role — context and insight — stays essential, with priority on growing client-facing frontline staff.
The open questions
As the industry races to deploy agentic AI, concerns persist over hallucinations, data security and replacing human judgment . The remarks did not address specific limits, stumbles or the models used.
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