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Lama AI wants your banker to stop chasing paperwork
Colony Bank cut 95 manual tasks to 32 with Lama AI. The larger wager: make small business loans worth the work, while leaving credit judgment with the people who know the borrower.
Lendistry turns big money into small-business breathing room
From Amazon sellers to airport coffee counters, Lendistry finances businesses that do not fit neatly into a bank’s checklist. Its next test is making that approach work beyond the emergency-aid boom.
Preferred Bank makes a business of staying lean
The Los Angeles lender pairs personal service with tight operating costs. Its history shows both the appeal of that approach and the price of reaching beyond it.
Lukas Haffer Wants a Three-Day Business Loan. He Started With a Mini Cooper.
A risk-averse German banker, a competitive gamer and a freshly minted Stanford MBA drove straight from graduation to Y Combinator. Three years later, Lukas Haffer is trying to make a 90-day loan feel almost ordinary in three.
Casca Tried to Automate the Whole Bank. Then One Customer Showed It the $1 Trillion Wedge.
The Stanford founders began with AI agents for everything a bank might do. A failed platform deal and one unusually candid customer pushed them toward the unglamorous bottleneck that mattered: getting small-business loans out of inboxes and into underwriting.