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93% Of documents processed with zero human touch
An equipment finance operator was buried in emailed statements and applications. We built the intake system that reads, validates, and files them on its own, and routes only true exceptions to people.
I kept two people re-keying in parallel for the first month because I didn't trust it. Those two run our exceptions desk now. When a file is missing something, they call the client that same morning knowing exactly what's needed, instead of discovering the gap a week later. Deals stopped dying quietly in the inbox.
93%
Documents processed, zero human touch
Same day
From arrival to deal-ready
100%
Of files carry a processing record
01The challenge
Every file arrived by email: statements, applications, invoices. The ops team opened, identified, re-keyed, and chased each one by hand. Volume grew, the team did not, and files went quiet in inboxes.
02The system
A portal clients actually use
We built an upload portal where an AI assistant guides each client through submitting their own documents, confirms what was received, and chases whatever is missing. Files complete themselves without a single reminder email, so the pipeline is automated from the very first touch.
Classification on arrival
Every attachment is identified by type and matched to its deal, however it was named. Statements, applications, and invoices each follow their own handling path from the moment they arrive.
Validated extraction
OCR turns each scan into figures, then checks them back against the source, so a smudged page cannot become a wrong number. Bank statements are parsed to the transaction level and verified against their own arithmetic.
Rules the team owns
Completeness and consistency checks live in configuration, not code. Operations can tighten or relax a rule without an engineering ticket, and changes apply from the next file onward.
True exceptions only
People see only files that need judgment: an unreadable scan, a document matching no open deal, figures that disagree internally. Each lands with its context assembled, so the desk can call the client that morning knowing what is needed.
Every action on record
The system logs what it read, which checks ran, and why each file was filed or flagged. The record covers 100% of files, clean ones included.
Fails toward people
When the system is unsure, it stops rather than guesses. A suspected alteration halts the document cold and a person decides, every time. That is why 93% is a floor, not a stretched target.
03The impact
93%
Almost every inbound file is read, checked, and filed without anyone touching it. Volume can grow without headcount growing with it.
Same day
A file is deal-ready the day it arrives, not when someone finally reaches the inbox. Gaps get chased the same morning, so deals no longer die quietly while paperwork waits.
Every file
Every file carries a record of what was read, checked, and flagged. When a figure is questioned later, the answer is a lookup, not a reconstruction.
What the system reads Expand
Document handling, by type
| Document | What happens on arrival |
|---|---|
| Bank statements | Parsed to transaction level. Balances cross-checked against the statement's own arithmetic before any figure is trusted. |
| Applications | Fields extracted, validated for completeness, and matched to the deal record automatically. |
| Invoices and payouts | Matched to their deal and counterparty, flagged when amounts disagree with terms. |
What routes to a human
- Unreadable sourceA scan too degraded to trust goes to a person with the original attached.
- Mismatched dealA document that fits no open file, or two equally well.
- Suspected alterationInternal inconsistencies in a document stop it cold. A person decides, every time.
Why the number holds
93% zero-touch is a floor the exception rules protect, not a target the system chases. Nothing ambiguous is auto-filed to keep a statistic pretty, which is exactly why the ops team stopped re-checking the clean ones.
The flagged queue is my whole morning now, and it's the interesting part of the job. Everything in it genuinely needs a decision, and the file is already open to the reason it landed with me.
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