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AI-Powered Loan Application Screening

An automated screening workflow built for a lending platform, handling the first stage of every loan application: reading the documents, scoring the applicant, and routing the decision, before a human ever has to open the file.

n8n workflow for the loan application screening process
Processed applications dashboard with scoring, decisions, and flags
Automated approval and decline emails sent to applicants

The Challenge

Reviewing loan applications by hand is slow, and it's easy to miss things when you're doing it visually: a name that doesn't quite match between an ID and a bank statement, income that doesn't add up against spending, a document that's simply missing. Nothing was scored consistently, and there was no clear record of why one application was approved and another wasn't.

The build itself had its own hurdle: pulling clean, structured data (name, ID number, ID type, date of birth, income) out of unstructured ID photos and bank statement files, reliably enough to score on. That's the piece the AI document analysis stage exists to solve.

What I Built

An end-to-end screening workflow that picks up a new application the moment it's submitted, reads the applicant's ID and bank statement with AI, scores the application against income, spending, and document consistency, and routes it to one of three outcomes: approve, decline, or send to a human underwriter for a genuinely borderline case.

Application submitted, intake formatted automatically
AI extracts ID and bank statement details
Records merged and scored on income, spending, and document consistency
Switch routes the application: Approve, Review, or Reject
Borderline cases go to a human underwriter via Slack, with a manual decision loop
Applicant gets an automatic, personalized decision email, and the dashboard updates

Why It Matters

This isn't a black box that spits out yes or no. Every decision comes with a documented reason, whether that's a strong application sailing through or a flagged one waiting on human judgment. The system does the reading and the first-pass thinking; people only step in where a person actually needs to.

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