Solutions / Community & regional banks

Underwriting automation software for community banks

Community and regional banks run on lean credit teams that cannot add an analyst for every busy quarter. VisibleSignal spreads business and personal returns, builds global cash flow including the guarantor, computes DSCR and debt yield, tracks CRE concentration, and drafts the credit memo. Your lenders decide faster without new headcount, and loan review and examiners get a consistent, traceable file. It runs alongside your core, so going live takes weeks, not a core conversion.
SOC 2 Type II & ISO 27001100% audit trailProven in US banking & private credit

The workflow, in one system

  • 1

    Intake

  • 2

    Spread

  • 3

    Compute DSCR & global cash flow

  • 4

    Draft the credit memo

  • 5

    Loan review & monitoring

The problem

What slows community banks down

The work that eats analyst time today:

A lean team, the same volume

A handful of credit analysts spread every business and personal return, K-1, and statement by hand. When pipeline spikes, turnaround slips and deals go to faster lenders.

Examiners and loan review want consistency

Files spread differently analyst to analyst, with undocumented assumptions, make exams, loan review, and the second line harder than they need to be.

CRE concentration is under the microscope

Tracking CRE exposure against the interagency 100% and 300% concentration thresholds in scattered spreadsheets is slow and easy to fall behind on.

Can't bolt on another core conversion

Adding a multi-quarter platform project on top of a Jack Henry, Fiserv, or FIS core is a non-starter for a community bank credit shop.

How it works

How VisibleSignal automates it

The underwriting OS owns the workflow end to end, and every output traces back to the source document it came from.
  1. 1

    Intake

    Collect financial statements, business and personal tax returns, and bank statements by upload, email, or cloud drive, tracked against a checklist by loan type.

  2. 2

    Spread

    AI extracts and standardizes business and personal financials and returns, including the scanned and handwritten ones, and our experts verify the exceptions. Your spreading template, applied the same way every time.

  3. 3

    Compute DSCR & global cash flow

    DSCR, debt yield, and combined business-plus-guarantor global cash flow calculated to your bank's definitions, with drill-down to the source line item.

  4. 4

    Draft the credit memo

    A credit memo is generated from the spread figures and source documents, in your template and to your credit and concentration policy.

  5. 5

    Loan review & monitoring

    Every assumption traces to source for loan review and exams; covenant compliance and CRE concentration are tracked post-close with early-warning signals across the book.

Outcomes

Same rigor, a fraction of the time

With a full audit trail your auditors, examiners, and LPs can inspect.
86%
straight-through processing for credit businesses, with reviewers on the exceptions
100%
audit trail, with examinable, consistent files across every analyst
Weeks
to go live alongside your existing core, with no conversion

Frequently asked questions

What is an underwriting OS?+

An underwriting OS runs the whole credit workflow in one place: document intake, financial spreading, risk analytics, credit memo generation, and portfolio monitoring. Instead of moving a deal between a data room, three point tools, and a stack of spreadsheets, you run it in one system. VisibleSignal applies your underwriting framework and credit policies the same way on every deal, and every output ties back to the source document it came from.

Is AI underwriting auditable and explainable?+

Yes. Every figure links to the source document and the calculation behind it, so when an examiner, an auditor, or an LP asks how you got a number, you can show them in one click. VisibleSignal applies the same logic to every deal and keeps a complete audit trail, which is usually the part manual spreading cannot reproduce six months later.

How accurate is the extraction, and is there human review?+

AI extracts, our experts verify, and your analysts review the exceptions. In practice that turns a multi-day spreading exercise into a quick validation. Credit businesses run up to 86% straight through, with people focused on the cases that actually need judgment rather than re-keying a T-12 into Excel.

How does VisibleSignal help community banks underwrite without adding headcount?+

Community banks run lean credit teams, so analyst time is the bottleneck. VisibleSignal spreads business and personal returns, financial statements, and bank statements, builds global cash flow including the guarantor, and drafts the credit memo, so a small team clears more files. AI extracts, our experts verify, and your analysts review the exceptions, which keeps turnaround fast even when pipeline spikes.

Does VisibleSignal produce examinable files for loan review and examiners?+

Yes. Every figure links to the source document and the calculation behind it, and your spreading template is applied the same way on every file. When loan review, an examiner, or the second line asks how a number was derived, you can show them in one click, which is usually the part manual spreading cannot reproduce months later.

Can VisibleSignal track CRE concentration for community banks?+

VisibleSignal computes and monitors CRE exposure as part of portfolio monitoring, so you can track concentration against the interagency 100% and 300% guidance thresholds without rebuilding it in spreadsheets each quarter. Drift and breaches surface early, with drill-down to the individual credits driving the concentration.

Does VisibleSignal work alongside our core banking system?+

Yes. VisibleSignal runs alongside your existing core and loan origination system rather than replacing them, and it works within the tools your team already uses. There is no core conversion, so most community banks go live in weeks.

Does VisibleSignal have customers?+

Yes. VisibleSignal runs in production at large enterprise clients across banking and private credit. Most of them prefer that we do not name them publicly, so we keep those relationships confidential. The product is mature and proven in the US market, and we are glad to walk through relevant, anonymized references under NDA on a call.

Who uses vishwa.ai?+

Large banks and private credit firms use VisibleSignal for live underwriting and portfolio monitoring. We do not publish a client list because our customers prefer to keep their use of the platform confidential. It is an established, production grade system in regulated US lending, not a pilot.

Can you share customer references or case studies?+

Our enterprise clients in banking and private credit prefer to stay anonymous, so we do not post named case studies. We can take you through real, anonymized outcomes and arrange references under NDA during a demo. VisibleSignal is a proven product in the US market, with enterprise deployments already in production.

Is VisibleSignal proven, or is it early-stage?+

VisibleSignal is a mature, production grade platform used by large enterprises across US banking and private credit. It is not a pilot stage tool. We keep client names confidential at their request, but the product is proven at scale in regulated US lending.

Underwrite more credit without adding headcount

Bring a live borrower file and see VisibleSignal spread the returns, build global cash flow, and draft the credit memo, with an examinable audit trail your loan review and examiners can follow.