How a lending ops team cut loan onboarding from 70 hours to under 10

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The problem

The lender’s onboarding team was drowning. Every new loan application required a human to collect documents, run KYC checks, extract fields by hand, and route exceptions. Onboarding a single applicant took more than 70 hours of cumulative work across the team, and the backlog was capping how many borrowers they could serve.

What was built

An agentic pipeline ingested applicant documents, ran OCR and structured extraction, validated fields against source-of-truth systems, and only escalated genuine exceptions to a human reviewer. The design kept a human in the loop for anything the system was not confident about — which is what made the compliance team sign off.

The outcome

Onboarding dropped from 70+ hours to under 10. Roughly 70% of document review became hands-off, with humans handling only flagged exceptions. The pipeline ran at 99.1% uptime over the measurement window.

How a real version of this gets verified

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