Decipher Credit

COMMERCIAL LOAN ORIGINATION

Move Opportunities From First Conversation to Credit-Ready

Decipher helps commercial lending teams move qualified opportunities into underwriting with less friction. Start a deal directly in Decipher, from your lender website, through an integrated CRM, or from information and documents already provided by the prospect.

Keep borrower information, documents, verification, tasks, and deal context connected from the start.

  • Decipher
  • Website
  • CRM
  • Documents

Acme Manufacturing Co.

Referred by J. Carter

Qualified

Financing Request

$2,400,000

Equipment Refinance · 60-month term

Documents

  • Tax Returns
  • P&L Statement
  • Balance Sheet
  • AR Aging

Outstanding Requirements

  • Business Verification
  • Principal Personal Guarantee

Tasks & Activity

  • Request updated AR Aging — due Friday
  • J. Martinez commented 2h ago on borrower call

What is commercial loan origination

Commercial Lending Origination Goes Beyond the Application

Commercial loan origination software helps lenders move an opportunity from initial borrower interest through qualification, information collection, documentation, verification, and preparation for underwriting.

In commercial lending, origination is also a sales process. BDOs and relationship managers must keep the borrower engaged, gather what credit needs, maintain deal context, and keep the opportunity moving.

Decipher connects those activities in one commercial credit workflow without requiring every lender to originate business the same way.

Start anywhere

Start the Opportunity Wherever It Begins

Not every commercial lending opportunity begins with an online application. Decipher supports multiple origination paths so lenders can use the platform directly or connect it to the sales processes they already have.

  1. Directly in Decipher

    Originators can create and manage opportunities directly in Decipher, capturing the borrower, financing request, relationship context, documents, tasks, and next steps.

  2. From Your Website

    Borrowers can start through a digital application or intake experience connected to the lender's website, with information flowing into the Decipher origination process.

  3. From Your CRM

    If your sales team already works in a CRM, Decipher can extend that workflow into borrower intake, documentation, verification, and underwriting preparation without requiring sales to abandon the tools they already use.

  4. From Existing Documents

    Commercial deals often begin with information that already exists in a term sheet, PDF application, financing package, or other prospect-provided document. Decipher is expanding its AI-assisted origination capabilities to use information contained in supported deal documents to help initiate and populate an opportunity.

One connected opportunity

  • Borrower
  • Deal
  • Documents
  • Verification
  • Tasks
  • Sales Context

Credit-Ready for Underwriting

Borrower information, documents, verification, deal context, and outstanding requirements organized for the credit team.

Why it matters

Keep Good Opportunities Moving

Commercial lending sales teams should not have to spend their time searching email threads for documents, re-entering information, or repeatedly asking underwriting what is still missing. Decipher gives sales and credit a connected view of the opportunity while keeping their responsibilities distinct.

  • Know What Is Still Needed

    See requested, received, and outstanding information so originators know what is preventing the opportunity from moving forward.

  • Reduce Repeated Requests

    Keep borrower information and documents connected to the deal so teams are less likely to ask prospects for information they already provided.

  • Preserve Deal Context

    Carry the relationship, referral source, transaction purpose, timing, notes, and other sales context forward with the credit file.

  • Maintain Visibility Into the Deal

    Give originators appropriate visibility into status, outstanding items, tasks, and next steps as the opportunity moves toward underwriting.

Before vs. with Decipher

Replace Fragmented Handoffs With One Connected Workflow

  • Opportunity creation

    Fragmented process
    Re-entered across systems
    With Decipher
    Start directly or connect an existing entry point
  • CRM information

    Fragmented process
    Sales and credit maintain separate records
    With Decipher
    Relevant information can move into the credit workflow
  • Borrower documents

    Fragmented process
    Spread across email and folders
    With Decipher
    Connected to the opportunity
  • Missing requirements

    Fragmented process
    Sales asks around for status
    With Decipher
    Shared visibility into outstanding items
  • Deal context

    Fragmented process
    Lost during handoff
    With Decipher
    Notes and relationship context remain connected
  • Underwriting handoff

    Fragmented process
    Emails, attachments, explanations
    With Decipher
    Organized credit-ready information moves forward

How it works

From Opportunity to Credit-Ready in One Connected Process

  1. Start the Opportunity

    Begin in Decipher, from the lender's website, through an integrated CRM, or another supported entry point.

  2. Capture the Deal

    Bring together borrower information, financing needs, documents, relationship context, and transaction details.

  3. Engage the Borrower

    Collect required information, documentation, identification, and other items through a structured borrower experience.

  4. Get Credit-Ready

    Track outstanding requirements, organize the file, and preserve the information underwriting needs.

  5. Move Into Underwriting

    Pass an organized opportunity into Decipher's underwriting workflow without rebuilding the deal from the beginning.

Sales + Underwriting

Keep Sales and Underwriting Aligned Without Blurring Responsibilities

Commercial lending works best when sales and underwriting share the same borrower and transaction information while bringing different expertise to the deal.

Sales Brings the Relationship Context

  • Borrower relationship
  • Referral source
  • Financing objectives
  • Competitive situation
  • Timing
  • Deal history

Underwriting Brings the Credit Analysis

  • Financial condition
  • Cash flow
  • Collateral
  • Risk
  • Structure
  • Credit policy
  • Exceptions

Decipher connects both perspectives around the same opportunity while keeping credit analysis and decision authority with the appropriate credit professionals.

Lending models

Origination Built for Different Commercial Lending Models

The information required to move a deal forward depends on the lending product. Decipher allows lenders to configure origination around the way they actually lend.

  • Asset-Based Lending

    Collect financials, A/R and A/P agings, inventory, collateral information, ownership, and supporting documents needed to prepare an ABL opportunity for credit.

  • FactoringFreight Factoring

    Gather client, debtor, operating, banking, verification, and supporting information through workflows designed for faster-moving factoring opportunities.

  • C&I Lending

    Structure the financing request, borrower and guarantor information, financial documentation, and other information required for commercial credit review.

  • Commercial Real Estate & Private Lending

    Capture property, borrower, sponsor, experience, project, financing, and supporting documentation within a lending-specific origination process.

Existing technology

Connect Decipher to the Systems Your Team Already Uses

Some lenders use Decipher as their primary origination workspace. Others already have established CRM, website, referral, servicing, or operating systems. Decipher can connect those environments to the commercial credit process rather than forcing every lender to replace the technology it already uses.

Decipher connects documents, website and CRM intake with origination, underwriting, decisioning and existing operating systems.

A CRM manages the sales relationship and opportunity pipeline. Decipher extends that process into borrower intake, documents, verification, underwriting, decisioning, and ongoing credit workflows.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Commercial Loan Origination FAQs

Commercial loan origination software helps lenders move an opportunity from initial borrower interest through qualification, information collection, documentation, verification, and preparation for underwriting. In commercial lending, it also supports the sales and relationship-management activities required to keep qualified opportunities moving.

See How Decipher Can Streamline Credit Origination

See how Decipher connects borrower information, documents, verification, deal context, and outstanding requirements into a more organized path to underwriting. We'll tailor the walkthrough to your lending products, existing technology, sales workflow, and credit process.