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).
Downloaded the PDF with curl and extracted its text with pypdf. It reads: 'In 2024, Cora, our AI virtual assistant, handled 11.2 millionLA Retail Banking conversations, almost half of which required no human input.' The 'LA' is in the source text, probably a footnote marker, and the passage keeps it. The match is character for character apart from whitespace and line breaks. NatWest's own report.
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), 2025-02. https://investors.natwestgroup.com/~/media/Files/R/RBS-IR-V2/annual-reports/ar-2024/strategic-report-2024.pdf Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/natwest-2024-cora-ai-virtual-assistant-handled-11-2025