Problem💯
When a small business applies for a loan or cash advance, an underwriter has to answer one question: can this business pay us back? To answer it, they manually review months of bank statements, tax returns, and business documents, calculating cash flow, spotting risks, scoring against the lender's policy, and writing a recommendation.
This takes a skilled human 4-8 hours per file, and lenders process hundreds per week. It's slow, expensive, and two underwriters often reach different conclusions on the same file.
What we built🙌
- A platform that compresses this work from hours into minutes, while keeping a human in control of the final decision.
- The system ingests applications and supporting documents, extracts and validates the underlying financial data, evaluates it against the lender's risk policy, and produces a reviewable recommendation the underwriter can approve, modify, or reject.
- AI handles the heavy lifting, reading documents, summarizing patterns, generating draft assessments.
Outcomes🎉
- Underwriting review time reduced from ~6 hours to under 30 minutes
- 5-10× more files processed per underwriter
- Eliminated manual data entry from bank statements
- Consistent, explainable decisions with full audit trails
Stack🧰
FastAPI, Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, GCP, React, TypeScript, and a mix of LLM and document-AI tooling.
Best fit for🔥
Lenders, fintech startups, credit and risk teams, MCA/lending platforms, and anyone building AI for financial workflows where decisions need to be fast, auditable, and trustworthy.
👋 I'm new to Contra and I did my first post without realizing I hadn't even introduced myself!
Hey I'm Katya, I'm an AI Systems Architect, marketer and yoga teacher.
I build AI systems that bring in business and handle the work behind it. A voice agent that calls new leads back within seconds and books the appointment. A pipeline that traced 16,900+ leads to the ads that brought them. Listing videos made from the photos a real estate agent already has.
The marketing side came first. I built the multi-channel campaign for Jay Shetty's launch (22 million followers). After that I discovered the tech world and when AI came along, I realized I'm a builder at heart and never looked back! Building is so much fun 🤍
Last thing, if you're building with AI video or automation, I'd like to see what you're working on
And if you're hiring: I may be new to Contra but definitely not new to this work. Reach out for AI agent builds, apps, websites or anything in between.
P.s The video below is my AI avatar. My profile video is the real me :)
Then: 1 month, 1 template.
Now: 1 week, 15 templates.
Same designer, different workflow.
I wrote up how I built no-code.supply: fifteen website templates, each with its own brand, in HTML and React, and some in Framer too. Claude Code did most of the typing. I did the directing.