Meridian Bank

Retail Lending — Digital Origination

Application LOAN-2026-00141   APPROVED

Jacqueline Donahue · customer CUST-10263 · submitted 2026-08-31T16:20:34+00:00 · demonstration path C (Human-in-the-loop referral)

$25,000 Requested 60 Months 4 Documents in 0 Outstanding

Assessment

Generated by the workflow. Advisory only — a lending decision remains with authorised credit staff.

55% AI confidence MEDIUM Risk level 742 Bureau score 32.9% Debt to income

Income is triangulated across three independent sources and the 6,300 debt obligation reconciles to the bank statement, so the top line of the file is solid and the bureau is clean. But the affordability conclusion does not rest on those figures alone — it rests on a residual of 4,824 that is arithmetically driven by a 2,200 monthly rent figure taken from the applicant's own declaration and never tested against the same bank statement already in the file. That is a material gap, not residual risk: the verification tool is present, the check was simply not performed, and a higher actual housing cost or a second housing-linked debit would compress the cushion directly. Separately, the 6,300 is described as a single facility but the bureau reports three active facilities summing to that amount; the reconciliation to the statement may be an unstated aggregation of two or three debits. That does not change whether the obligation exists, but it does mean Condition 1 as drafted ("the 6,300 facility", singular) will likely return incomplete, and the re-assessment trigger keyed to "residual term exceeds 36 months" has no single term to apply to. Recommendation remains APPROVE because nothing discovered contradicts the file — the debt is real, the income is corroborated, the bureau is clean — but confidence is held down because the single number the recommendation is most sensitive to is uncorroborated, and it is cheaply corroborable. Condition 1 should be rewritten to name all three facilities and require terms, balances and rates for each, with the 36-month trigger applied to the longest residual term.

Your offer

Approved amount
$25,000
Interest rate
11.5% per annum
Tenure
60 months
Monthly instalment
$550
Processing fee
$125
Total repayable
$33,000

Documents

What we need, and what we have verified so far.

Social Security card — social-security-card.pdf
via email · verified
verified
Latest salary slip — salary-slip-july-2026.pdf
via email · verified
verified
Last 6 months bank statement — bank-statement-feb-jul-2026.pdf
via email · verified
verified
Address proof — address-proof-electricity-bill.pdf
via email · verified
verified

Submit documents

Upload through the portal, or send them to us by email — either channel feeds the same workflow.

Email lands in the bank's Outlook mailbox and is picked up by the ingestion workflow, which has to work out which application it belongs to.

Generated documents

sanction-letter-LOAN-2026-00141.pdf
Sanction Letter · 4,915 bytes · sha256 e6a0dae90e6cb784…
generated

Messages from Meridian Bank

Your loan is approved - LOAN-2026-00141
to akshay.kolte@etlok.com · 2026-08-31T16:26:09+00:00

Progress

Every step, as it happened.

  • 2026-09-09T14:57:06+00:00
    Agent Posted Decision
    agent · Meridian Core Banking
    APPROVE at 25000 / 11.5% filed under human approval.
  • 2026-09-09T14:56:29+00:00
    Agent Read Bureau
    agent · Meridian Bureau Gateway
    Credit file retrieved under a brokered tool grant.
  • 2026-09-09T14:54:04+00:00
    Agent Read Bureau
    agent · Meridian Bureau Gateway
    Credit file retrieved under a brokered tool grant.
  • 2026-08-31T16:26:09+00:00
    Crm Status Updated
    workflow · CRM
  • 2026-08-31T16:26:09+00:00
    Customer Notified
    workflow · Microsoft 365
    Your loan is approved - LOAN-2026-00141 via email
  • 2026-08-31T16:26:09+00:00
    Sanction Letter Generated
    workflow · Document generation + Azure Blob Storage
    sanction-letter-LOAN-2026-00141.pdf (4,915 bytes) -> loan-applications/LOAN-2026-00141/generated-documents/sanction-letter-LOAN-2026-00141.pdf
  • 2026-08-31T16:26:09+00:00
    Offer Calculated
    workflow · LOS
    25,000 at 11.5% over 60 months, EMI 550
  • 2026-08-31T16:26:09+00:00
    Decision Approved
    Priya Raghavan · LOS · confidence 55
    Human-approved after AI referral
  • 2026-08-31T16:26:08+00:00
    Human Review Recorded
    Priya Raghavan · Mantle human-in-the-loop
  • 2026-08-31T16:24:33+00:00
    Teams Notified
    workflow · Microsoft Teams
    Loan application needs a credit decision
  • 2026-08-31T16:24:33+00:00
    Ai Assessment Generated
    workflow · Azure OpenAI · confidence 55
    APPROVE at 55% (risk MEDIUM)
  • 2026-08-31T16:22:47+00:00
    Credit Bureau Pulled
    workflow · Credit bureau
  • 2026-08-31T16:22:47+00:00
    Decisioning Requested
    workflow · Mantle
    loan-decision -> HTTP 202
  • 2026-08-31T16:22:47+00:00
    Ai Missing Information Assessed
    workflow · Azure OpenAI
  • 2026-08-31T16:22:43+00:00
    Documents Read
    workflow · Claude
    4 document(s) read
  • 2026-08-31T16:22:24+00:00
    Documents Emailed
    customer · Gmail
    4 attachment(s) from message 1a058a0e670ca5dc
  • 2026-08-31T16:20:51+00:00
    Correspondence Sent
    workflow · SendGrid
    Meridian Bank - documents needed for your loan application
  • 2026-08-31T16:20:34+00:00
    Initial Validation Completed
    workflow · LOS
    passed
  • 2026-08-31T16:20:34+00:00
    Crm Application Created
    workflow · CRM
  • 2026-08-31T16:20:34+00:00
    Crm Customer Upserted
    workflow · CRM
  • 2026-08-31T16:20:34+00:00
    Application Submitted
    customer · Mantle form
    form submission