Flare AI Partnership Positions Liberty Bank as AI Leader Among Community Banks

MIAMI, FL – July 13, 2026 – Flare AI today announced that its partnership with Liberty Bank has been featured in Hartford Business Journal, highlighting Liberty’s pioneering approach to artificial intelligence adoption across the organization.
While many community banks are still exploring AI, Liberty Bank is already leading. The Hartford Business Journal article details how the partnership is reshaping Liberty’s operations across multiple functions including loan processing, software testing automation, and commercial lending analysis.

“AI is here and we need to get on board and we need to learn,” David Glidden, Liberty Bank’s President and CEO, told Hartford Business Journal. “You’re not going to do that unless you start using it.”
With Deploy IQ, Policy IQ, and Lead IQ now live across the organization, Liberty is pulling ahead and demonstrating what’s possible when you partner with a technology vendor who understands banking. From reducing loan processing time to automating software testing and identifying new lending opportunities, Liberty is moving faster than the competition.
“This is what first-mover advantage looks like in banking,” said David Mitchell, President and Chief Strategy Officer at Flare AI, who spent six years as Liberty Bank’s Chief Digital Officer before founding the company. “When a bank and its technology partner truly align, transformation happens.”

The gap between leaders and followers in AI adoption is widening fast. 

Read the full Hartford Business Journal article [here].