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Lending & Finance

Cut loan document review from days to hours

A North American specialty lender

A specialty lender drowning in manual document review on every loan file could turn that work over to an agent. The idea: extraction and reconciliation that reads the package, checks it against policy, and surfaces only the exceptions an analyst needs to decide.

4x
target: faster loan file review
72%
target: files cleared without manual checks
100%
of decisions logged for audit

The opportunity

Every loan file arrives as a stack of bank statements, tax forms, and pay stubs that analysts retype and cross-check by hand. Review can take two to three days per file, throughput caps the lending team, and the audit trail is inconsistent. Most files are clean, so skilled analysts spend their time on rote checking instead of credit judgment. That is the opportunity.

Target outcome

4x

target: faster loan file review

7 weeks to pilot
The build

What we would build

No black box. These are the concrete pieces we would put in place, in the order they matter, with a human in the loop wherever the stakes are high.

  1. 1

    Build layout-aware extraction tuned to the lender's real statement and tax-form formats, with a confidence score per field

  2. 2

    Reconcile income and balances against the loan application and policy rules, clearing confident matches automatically

  3. 3

    Add duplicate, tolerance, and consistency checks so only genuine exceptions reach a human

  4. 4

    Design an exception queue that shows the evidence and a suggested resolution next to each flagged item

  5. 5

    Write every decision and its reasoning to an audit-ready file the credit and compliance teams can review

Target outcomes
4x
target: faster loan file review
72%
target: files cleared without manual checks
100%
of decisions logged for audit

Representative stack

Python LangGraph Anthropic Claude Mistral pgvector Postgres Temporal

We choose tools to fit the job and your constraints, and favor open-source and local options where they fit. We are not tied to any one vendor.

Time to value

7 weeks to pilot

We start narrow, prove the result against your real baseline, and expand once it holds.

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