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For BaaS platforms

BaaS economics, sponsor-bank readiness — modeled in the browser, exported as Policy Mandates.

Provider comparator, embedded-lending unit economics, BIN sponsorship, programme agreements, wallet float, VRP mandates, AP2 BaaS infrastructure mandates. Six scenarios that walk a BaaS adopter from "which provider" all the way to "what mandate does the agent runtime read." ~$40B → ~$75B addressable (Grand View Research; estimates vary by scope), every output mandate-replayable.

For teams working with Unit · Synctera · Treasury Prime · Marqeta BaaS · Galileo  ·  useful to any product team evaluating BaaS for a programme

6scenarios in this stack
~$40B → ~$75BBaaS market · 2026 → 2030 (Grand View Research)
AP2programme-policy export

Six scenarios sequenced the way a BaaS adoption actually unfolds.

Start with provider economics. Model the embedded-lending product. Apply to a specific cohort (the SME passport scenario is the only one already live). Layer in the float revenue. Design the VRP sweep logic. Make the whole thing readable by an agent runtime via an AP2 BaaS mandate.

Step 1 · Pick providerLive
Scenario #14 · BaaS

BaaS Provider Economics & Comparator

Compare BaaS provider unit economics — sponsor-bank costs, programme agreement terms, BIN sponsorship, regulatory passthrough. Surfaces the cost of choosing the wrong provider before the contract is signed.

BaaS~$40B → ~$75BComparator
Step 2 · Model productLive
Scenario #12 · Embedded Finance

Embedded Lending Unit Economics Lab

Unit economics for embedded-lending products — origination cost, default curves, capital cost, partner take-rate. The model the product team runs before the BaaS provider sees a term sheet.

Embedded Finance$148B+ 2026Unit Economics
Step 3 · Apply to cohortLive
Scenario #06 · IFC / BCBS 207

Global South SME Lending Passport

Board-ready SME readiness scorecard for Brazil + Nigeria — credit score, CCC gap, factoring + RBF blend, AP2 credit-mandate export with IFC / BCBS alignment. The only one already shipping.

IFC SME FinanceBCBS 207AP2 Credit
Step 4 · Float revenueLive
Scenario #17 · BaaS revenue

Wallet Float Yield Estimator

Allocation mix (sweep / MMF / non-yielding) × rate scenario × cost stack → net yield in bps + annual revenue + revenue per active user. FDIC pass-through aware, with the Synapse-Evolve programme-failure cost framed as value-at-risk. AP2 treasury mandate output.

Wallet FloatBaaS RevenueFDIC Pass-thru
Step 5 · Mandate designLive
Scenario #18 · VRP · UK CMA9

VRP Mandate & Sweep Logic Designer

Sweep window × amount caps × idempotency × beneficiary scope across UK CMA9 / EU PSD3 / SEPA VRP / US OBA. Live 24h permitted-window timeline visualisation, allowed-beneficiary whitelist with editable pills, Policy Mandate the bank-side validator can re-read on every PISP call.

VRP4 regimesTimeline viz
Step 6 · Make agent-readyLive · Cross
Scenario #24 · AP2 × BaaS

AP2 BaaS Infrastructure Mandate Builder

Programme-policy slots + sponsor-bank gates + BIN-tier ceilings + rail caps + handoff cadence → machine-readable Policy Mandate. Same surface used by the Agentic Runtime hub for the "Apply (BaaS)" step.

AP2BaaSProgramme Policy

The BaaS economics question is the same question every time — just with different inputs.

Sponsor-bank passthrough, programme agreement terms, BIN sponsorship tiers, float revenue under a given rate path, BaaS comparator economics — these all collapse to the same calc. Every BaaS evaluation rebuilds the spreadsheet from scratch. Every embedded-lending product team relearns origination economics. Every programme manager renegotiates VRP mandate parameters that should be the AP2 standard.

The catalog's BaaS cluster is the curated answer to that — modeled in the browser, exported as an AP2 programme-policy mandate the runtime can enforce. Six scenarios walk the buyer from "which provider" to "what mandate does my agent runtime read at execution time" — the last cell in the spreadsheet that always gets left out.

The cross-link scenario (24) is the same surface the Agentic Runtime hub exposes — because the BaaS team's policy and the agent-runtime team's policy converge at this mandate format.

For the acquirer reader A BaaS surface that exports policy as Policy Mandates is the way a buyer plugs embedded-finance customer demand into an agentic future without rebuilding the programme-policy layer.

Seven tools underneath the BaaS scenarios.

The catalog's BaaS cluster (T152–T164) plus the rules-based engines (RBE-08, RBE-13). AP2-exportable, MCP-discoverable, none stateful.

See where these six scenarios sit in the full 400+ tool chain.

The Tool Chain Composer renders the AINumbers catalog as a DAG with the 45 scenarios highlighted. The BaaS cluster connects upward to the agentic runtime and sideways to processors — same mandate schema across all.

BaaS / Lending

Designing a BaaS or embedded-finance programme?

Sponsor-bank economics, unit economics, programme policy, card and lending stacks — we've modeled and built them. Let's pressure-test yours before it reaches committee.

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