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What does manual underwriting cost your book?

Four numbers about your operation today. The calculator shows the analyst time and cost tied up in each month’s applications, and what the same volume looks like when DocuMind and Sentinel do the reading and scoring. Assumptions are stated below. Change them in the demo if yours differ.

Your operation today

400
6 h

Reading statements, re-keying data, preparing the credit memo.

$15
12 days

On the rail: estimated

Analyst hours freed per month1,920 h
Underwriting cost recovered per year$345,600
Full-time analyst capacity that represents12 FTE
Decision time12 days  →  hours, same day

Your inputs and this estimate, in one email. Nothing else.

The assumptions, stated plainly

80%

of per-file analyst hours are assumed absorbed by the rail: statement reading, data extraction, signal preparation, and first-pass scoring. Judgment calls, exceptions, and committee work stay human. Design-partner books have run higher and lower; this is the planning midpoint.

160h

per month is the full-time-analyst equivalent used for the capacity line. Freed capacity is usually redeployed to larger files and portfolio work, not headcount reduction.

Hours

is the rail's decision-time claim for files with complete data: signals extracted in minutes, policy rules and scoring in seconds, and the remainder is your team's review queue, not a re-keying backlog. Excludes files that need manual documents chased.

Not incl.

Approval-rate lift from richer data, lower fraud losses from verified signals, and faster capital turns are all excluded. The estimate above is the labour line only, deliberately conservative.

The honest version of this exercise uses your files, not sliders. Book a working session and bring a few anonymised statements. We run them through the rail live.