Underwrite businesses faster and with greater confidence
Underwriting businesses is hard, time-consuming and document-heavy. Powered by proprietary ML models, Heron helps Financial Institutions (Small Business Lenders, MGAs and Carriers) to automate data entry, process documentation, analyze data, and ultimately grow revenue.
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What we do
Email to CRM
We extract key details from application data (e.g. state, industry, time in business) and for SMB Lenders, bank data (deposits, debt positions etc.) and for Commercial Insurance, loss run data (claim frequency, claim severity etc.) and sync this data directly with your CRM -
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Auto-decline
We run your pre-underwriting guidelines against the submission, executing a waterfall of checks with cheapest first (e.g. state, time in business etc.). We auto-decline deals that don’t meet your underwriting box and auto-reply to brokers when there is missing information -
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Bank statement OCR
Instantly view key metrics e.g. revenue, debt positions, month-to-date calculations etc. We can parse 90% of PDF bank statements with 99% accuracy, or link directly to your customer’s bank accounts with open banking aggregators -
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Transaction enrichment
We annotate transactions with merchant logos that we extract from the transactions and we categorize each transaction with a P&L line item category -
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Financial analysis
We develop a complete picture of a company’s financial performance based on their transaction data, including their debt position, profitability, and affordability -
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Scale your output
Analyze more lending opportunities, faster with our dashboard. Zoom in on the companies within your portfolio and filter out the rejections -
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Portfolio Monitoring
Clearly monitor the performance of your loans over time. See which companies are growing and see which companies are shrinking and are at risk of defaulting
Use Cases
We work with Financial Institutions (Small Business Lending and Commercial Insurance). We process documentation (50+ document types) and extract, enhance and summarize data used for underwriting to improve decisioning, revenue, and underwriting speed (e.g. loss run reports, bank statements etc.)
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Merchant Cash Advance
We help MCA Funders get from application to decision in < 5 minutes with merchant application & bank statement parsing and scrubbing
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Commercial Insurance
We help MGAs and Carriers get from application to quote in minutes not hours, with automated data entry, document processing and driving a file to completeness
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Lines of Credit
We work with short term lenders including providers of business credit cards and revolving lines of credit
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Revenue Based Financing
We help revenue-based financiers provide non-dilutive working capital to e-commerce or SaaS businesses
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Business Credit Cards
We help new-age business credit cards underwrite as well as provide merchant locking services to help their customers manage their business expenses
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Embedded Finance
We help embedded finance providers underwrite instantly using our fully automated process without a human-in-the-loop
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Traditional Lenders
We also work with traditional providers of long-term, secured credit products such as SBA loans
Application to decision in minutes
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Ingest ISO submissions for Funders
Heron parses ISO email packets and classifies the attachments in your CRM, kicks out deals that don’t meet your credit box, and auto-replies to brokers
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Automate submissions intake for MGAs & Carriers
Heron ingests email submissions from brokers, processes attached documents e.g. Loan Loss Runs, Acord forms and pushes data downstream
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Parse PDF bank statements
We can automatically parse 90% of PDF bank statements with 99% accuracy, without any delays from having a human-in-the-loop
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Summarize bank statements
We clearly break down monthly revenue, withdrawals, MCA debits and fess on a monthly basis
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Create a cash-based P&L
We take bank transactions and group them at the P&L line item level so you can get an accurate view of profitability
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Predict Company Events
Predict the likelihood that a company will incur an NSF fee based on historical performance
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Predict Loan Outcomes
Predict the likelihood that a company will payback their loan
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Integrate directly to Plaid
Connect your customers’ accounts directly to Heron to get an automated feed of transactions on an ongoing basis
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Don’t just take it from us!
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“Heron is best-in-class at making sense of bank data. Building the tech ourselves instead of partnering with Heron would have been like hosting our own servers rather than using a Cloud provider. As soon as we tested the product, we knew it was a no brainer.”
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“Working with Heron has been a hugely successful partnership for us at Torpago. We’ve been able to process applications more efficiently, reducing underwriting turnaround time by 96%, and improved our cash coverage ratio for customers by up to 10x.”
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“Processing new applications is so much faster now, meaning that we are not only able to offer a much better customer experience with quick decisions, but also enable us to simplify the underwriting process and approve more applications.”
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“I could go as far as saying that we almost wouldn’t be able to properly underwrite without Heron, or at the very least not do it in an effective manner. We would need to build a transactions tagging and aggregator tool, which would take us months and require us to hire data scientists, credit experts and developers.”
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”Heron has eliminated the data entry phase of our underwriting process. We now have a clear picture of revenue, positions, and the legitimacy of the file within minutes of the submission email. This enables us to quickly say ‘no’ to applications we don’t want to fund and make faster and larger high-conviction offers to those we do”
Customer Stories
More Case StudiesUse our output to make critical decisions and power features. We built all the tools to give you access to, control over and trust in the data.
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Secure API
SOC 2 Type 2 certified. Data is encrypted in-transit and at-rest and we follow strict security processes
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State-of-the-art ML
Our highly skilled ML Team builds and trains cutting-edge and custom-built models
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Guaranteed Uptime
We provide uptime and performance-based SLAs to ensure we provide what we promise
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Automated Feedback
We re-train our models frequently to guarantee we provide an always-improving service
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Easy Integration
We maintain clear API Docs and provide sample SDKs for integration
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Personalized Support
Our dedicated account managers are highly responsive and provide direct customer support via Slack or Email
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Interested in learning more?
Book a call today to trial our product and see how we can improve your underwriting speed, reduce risk, and ultimately grow revenue
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