Checked against the source by a first reader, then confirmed independently by a second reader who fetched the source without seeing the first reader's notes (Independent review agent (Claude Sonnet), blind second pass from passage text and citation only, no repository access, 2026-10-31).
I downloaded the PDF with curl and extracted its text with pypdf. The sentence appears verbatim as a bullet in the annual report: 'In 2023, Cora, our AI virtual assistant, handled 10.8 million(*) Retail Banking conversations, almost half of which required no human input.' It is NatWest's own report text.
How to cite this passage
NatWest Group, “NatWest Group annual report, strategic report (the company's own annual publication)”, NatWest Group annual report, strategic report (the company's own annual publication), 2024-02. https://investors.natwestgroup.com/~/media/Files/R/RBS-IR-V2/annual-reports/ar-2023/strategic-report-2023.pdf Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/natwest-2023-cora-ai-virtual-assistant-handled-10-2024