This Is How We Helped a Lender Rethink Risk—Without Touching Credit Scores
A regional lender came to us with a problem: They were approving borrowers with high credit scores… who kept defaulting on mid-size personal loans. Their model leaned heavily on score bands and stated income. But it wasn’t catching the deeper signal: a mismatch between what people said they could handle, and what they’d actually handled before. What We Did We built them a lightweight decision layer that calculated max historical exposure per borrower, using just the tradeline data in their credit pulls (TransUnion and Experian). No external data sources. No scoring black box. ...