Mimasa AI™
Banking · Credit And Risk Operations

AI Credit Decisioning For Governed Underwriting

Bring borrower data, financial evidence, policy checks, and reviewer context into one controlled credit decisioning workflow.

Mimasa AI supports underwriting automation without taking authority away from credit teams. It prepares source-linked analysis, surfaces exceptions, and routes each case for human review.

Support business, SME, commercial, consumer, secured, and mortgage lending with workflows built around your policies.

Borrower Evidence

Financial statements

Source retained · Ready for review

Bank activity

Source retained · Ready for review

Collateral record

Source retained · Ready for review

Policy version

Source retained · Ready for review

Underwriting Evidence Workspace

Human-Controlled

Liquidity

Source linked

Policy tests

2 for review

Memo

Draft

Authority

Assigned

Decision Gate

Evidence → analyst review → authorised decision

AI credit decisioning workspace showing borrower evidence, risk checks, and human review.
Decision Workspace

Start With The Evidence Behind The Decision

View 01

Borrower Evidence

  • Application and customer profile
  • Financial statements and schedules
  • Bank and transaction statements
  • Bureau or scorecard responses
  • Collateral and valuation information
  • Existing exposure and repayment records
  • Relationship notes and supporting documents

View 02

Analysis And Exceptions

  • Key ratios and trends
  • Cash-flow observations
  • Policy tests
  • Missing or conflicting data
  • Risk indicators
  • Proposed conditions
  • Questions for the reviewer

View 03

Decision Control

  • Case owner
  • Review status
  • Open exceptions
  • Required approvals
  • Source-linked credit memo
  • Comments and decision record

Every material observation should lead back to its source, rule, or approved model output.

Direct Answer

What Is Credit Decisioning?

Credit decisioning is the process used to assess a credit request and reach an authorised lending decision.

It combines borrower evidence, risk policies, analysis, approved models, exceptions, and professional judgment.

Automated credit decisioning can organise data, apply configured rules, and prepare a case for review. Mimasa connects the evidence, analysis, tasks, and approvals without replacing lender authority.

Manual Burden

Why Credit Underwriting Still Becomes Manual

Credit teams often have the data they need. The evidence sits in different files and systems.

Analysts re-enter figures, spread statements, compare periods, check policies, and draft the same memo sections. Underwriting automation reduces this coordination burden.

  • Borrower information arrives in different formats.
  • Financial tables require manual spreading.
  • Bank statements need separate analysis.
  • Policy rules sit outside the case workspace.
  • Ratios and figures are rebuilt in spreadsheets.
  • Deviations are discovered late in the review.
  • Credit memos take time to assemble and update.
  • Reviewers cannot trace every statement to its evidence.
  • Comments, overrides, and conditions remain in separate channels.
Four Connected Views

One Credit Case, Four Connected Views

01

Build The Borrower Evidence Stack

Connect approved application, financial, transaction, bureau, collateral, exposure, and document sources. Group them under the correct credit case.

Classify each source by date, owner, type, and status. Flag missing or stale evidence before detailed analysis begins.

02

Create An Analysis-Ready Financial View

Extract configured line items from statements and schedules. Map them to the lender's approved financial model or spreading template.

Calculate only configured ratios and transformations. Keep the original value, mapped value, period, unit, and source visible.

03

Test Policy And Surface Exceptions

Run approved rules against the prepared case. Show the rule, input, result, severity, and required reviewer.

Do not treat every exception as a rejection. Route it to the professional or committee authorised to assess it.

04

Prepare The Decision Pack

Generate a draft credit memo with evidence links, assumptions, exceptions, and open questions. Route it through the required review and approval path.

The final decision, override, conditions, and rationale belong to authorised employees.

Financial Evidence

Automate Financial Spreading Without Hiding The Source

Automated financial spreading can reduce repetitive entry across balance sheets, income statements, cash-flow statements, and supporting schedules.

Mimasa can map configured values into an approved structure. Reviewers can compare each mapped value with its source document.

AI financial statement analysis can explain period changes and highlight configured measures. Unclear values enter a review queue.

  • Source statement and reporting period
  • Original label and extracted value
  • Standardised line-item mapping
  • Currency and unit treatment
  • Adjustments or normalisations
  • Reviewer comments
  • Confidence or review status
  • Approval history for material changes
Cash-Flow Context

Add Bank-Statement And Cash-Flow Context

Automated bank statement analysis can organise transactions, totals, balances, recurring flows, and configured exceptions.

Automated cash flow analysis can compare patterns with submitted financial information. It may surface items that need explanation.

These prompts are not a credit verdict. They organise evidence for credit risk analysis.

Review Prompts

  • Does the period cover the required dates?
  • Are account holders and entities consistent?
  • Do opening and closing balances reconcile?
  • Are expected inflows visible?
  • Are there unusual gaps or concentration patterns?
  • Does transaction evidence align with declared activity?
  • Which observations require an analyst's explanation?
Policy Review

Turn Credit Policy Into A Visible Review Matrix

Credit policy automation should make policy tests easier to trace. It should not turn policy into an unexplained black box.

Policy AreaEvidence UsedConfigured TestResultRequired Action
Borrower eligibilityApproved customer and facility dataLender-defined rulePass, review, or exceptionContinue or assign reviewer
Financial thresholdSource-linked financial measuresApproved policy thresholdWithin or outside rangeRecord explanation
ExposureConnected exposure recordsLender-defined limitWithin or outside limitRoute to authorised owner
CollateralValuation and security recordsApproved coverage ruleComplete, review, or missingRequest evidence or review
DocumentationRequired case evidenceChecklist or ruleComplete or incompleteCreate a task

Each rule result should display its version and source inputs. Overrides must record the authorised person, rationale, and time.

Source-Linked Memo

Prepare A Credit Memo That Reviewers Can Challenge

Credit memo automation can create a structured first draft from approved case information. It can refresh affected sections when source data changes.

An automated credit memo remains a draft until an authorised employee reviews it. Every material figure and statement should retain a source link.

  • Borrower and facility summary
  • Purpose and requested structure
  • Business and relationship context
  • Historical financial analysis
  • Cash-flow observations
  • Existing and proposed exposure
  • Collateral or security context
  • Bureau or approved scorecard outputs
  • Policy results and deviations
  • Key strengths and risks
  • Conditions or open questions
  • Reviewer comments and decision record
Human-Gated Path

How The Credit Underwriting Workflow Moves

  1. 1

    Evidence Ready

    Receive the prepared case from the loan-processing workflow or approved connected systems.

  2. 2

    Financials Prepared

    Extract, map, reconcile, and review configured financial information.

  3. 3

    Risk Context Assembled

    Bring together approved bureau, scorecard, exposure, transaction, collateral, and relationship information.

  4. 4

    Policy Tested

    Apply lender-defined rules. Create named exceptions for results that need review.

  5. 5

    Memo Drafted

    Prepare a source-linked summary with calculations, risks, assumptions, and open questions.

  6. 6

    Analyst Reviews

    An analyst checks evidence, corrects issues, adds judgment, and records recommendations.

  7. 7

    Authority Decides

    The authorised person or committee approves, declines, returns, or applies conditions under the lender's process.

  8. 8

    Outcome Recorded

    Record the decision, rationale, conditions, approvals, and permitted downstream hand-off.

Controlled Agents

Use AI Agents Without Creating An Autonomous Credit Officer

Agentic lending can coordinate multi-step work across approved data, documents, systems, rules, and teams.

Agentic underwriting means coordinated work with controls. It does not mean an agent has independent lending authority.

  • Watch an approved queue for cases ready for underwriting.
  • Collect permitted evidence from connected sources.
  • Check whether required information is present and current.
  • Extract and map financial values for review.
  • Run approved calculations and policy checks.
  • Compare values across documents and systems.
  • Create tasks for missing or conflicting evidence.
  • Draft source-linked analysis and credit-memo sections.
  • Route policy exceptions to the correct authority.
  • Pause before any consequential decision or action.
Explainable Evidence

Support Credit Risk Assessment With Explainable Evidence

A credit risk assessment considers evidence about a borrower, facility, repayment capacity, exposure, security, and policy fit.

AI credit risk assessment can organise evidence and identify review points. The lender defines approved data, models, rules, and decisions.

  • What evidence was used
  • Which values were extracted or calculated
  • Which connected model produced a score
  • Which policy rule produced an exception
  • Which assumptions remain open
  • Who reviewed or changed an item
  • Why a case moved to the next stage

This traceability makes AI credit analysis easier to review and govern.

Scoring Boundary

Where Credit Scoring Fits

AI credit scoring and automated credit scoring are distinct from workflow automation. A score may come from a bureau, internal scorecard, or another approved model.

Mimasa can call an approved scoring service and record its response beside other case evidence.

Credit scoring automation does not make Mimasa the authoritative scoring model. The lender remains responsible for governance, validation, monitoring, and use.

Lending Segments

Adapt The Workspace To Different Lending Segments

Lending SegmentTypical Evidence And Workflow Emphasis
Business And SME LendingEntity information, bank statements, tax records, financial statements, owner context, cash flow, and policy exceptions
Commercial LendingDetailed financial spreading, group exposure, collateral, covenants, facility structure, multi-level review, and committee decisions
Consumer LendingApplication data, approved bureau or scorecard results, income evidence, affordability inputs, policy checks, and exception review
Secured LendingBorrower analysis, asset or property information, valuation records, coverage rules, conditions, and legal-document status
Mortgage LendingIncome, obligations, property, valuation, approved score outputs, policy rules, conditions, and human approval

Business credit analysis may require more narrative and financial context than a standardised consumer case. Configure each workflow around the lender's approved process.

System Boundary

Credit Analysis Software Or A Governed Intelligence Layer?

Credit analysis software may provide spreading, ratios, scorecards, or risk models. Loan origination platforms may own applications, product rules, and decision records.

Mimasa does not need to replace these systems. It connects approved data with documents, analysis, policies, tasks, agents, and human approvals.

Professional Authority

Keep Consequential Decisions With People

Mimasa is not a credit bureau, scoring model, loan origination system, core banking platform, risk engine, or policy owner.

Credit policies, risk appetite, overrides, pricing, approval, rejection, and final decisions remain with authorised professionals.

Operational Measures

Measure The Quality And Flow Of Underwriting Work

Filter configured measures by product, segment, team, and review stage.

Metric definitions depend on the lender's data and operating policy. Mimasa does not present invented outcomes.

  • Cases waiting for underwriting
  • Time spent at each review stage
  • Financial statements awaiting review
  • Spreading adjustments by type
  • Missing or stale evidence
  • Policy exceptions by rule
  • Cases returned for more information
  • Credit memos awaiting completion
  • Review workload and ageing
  • Overrides and recorded reasons
  • Conditions pending after approval
  • Source corrections and rework
Start Focused

Start With One Decision Journey

Choose one lending segment with stable policies, known evidence, and enough case volume to test the workflow.

  1. Step 01Map the current underwriting steps and decision authorities.
  2. Step 02Define source systems, documents, models, and policy versions.
  3. Step 03Select the financial fields, calculations, and memo structure.
  4. Step 04Configure permissions, rules, exceptions, and approval gates.
  5. Step 05Test normal cases, poor-quality inputs, and policy deviations.
  6. Step 06Compare AI-supported outputs with analyst-reviewed outcomes.
  7. Step 07Validate controls before any wider rollout.
  8. Step 08Monitor changes and expand only after acceptance.
Security And Governance

Protect Sensitive Credit Work

Credit cases contain sensitive customer, business, financial, and risk information. Access and action must remain controlled.

Mimasa supports cloud, private-cloud, and on-premise deployment. Banks decide which users and agents can access each source, tool, case, and action.

Discuss Security And Deployment Requirements
  • Role-based access control
  • Human approval checkpoints
  • Limits on agent tools and actions
  • Separate permissions by team and workflow
  • Source-linked analysis for review
  • Policy and model version context
  • Data, agent, approval, and workflow audit trails
  • Configurable retention and integration patterns
  • Governed datasets and reusable snapshots

Credit Underwriting Intelligence FAQs

Common questions about credit decisioning, financial spreading, risk analysis, scoring boundaries, credit memos, and human control.

Build A Reviewable Credit Decision Journey

Connect evidence, approved analysis, policy tests, exceptions, and human authority in one governed workflow.