Directory of AI collections and debt recovery vendors
The AI FinTech Index holds 9 of them, each graded on the same 15 capability axes from public sources, with the artifact every grade was read from attached to the record.
No vendor pays for inclusion, placement or rating. Counts generated 2026-08-24 across 490 indexed vendors. What moved is in the change log.
Persuasion optimisation applied to people in financial distress is the sharpest conduct exposure in the index, and a self cure path can bypass the hardship identification a human collector would perform. Ask what the system does when it detects vulnerability, and who pays when it gets a legal window wrong.
What is in this directory. Screened to software and platforms. A collections agency recovering on placed accounts is the regulated party rather than the supplier, which is a different purchase, and is excluded.
Part of the wider Lending & Banking Operations category.
What the public record shows in this directory
The share of the 9 indexed vendors here whose public record answers each of the nine regulatory questions a financial institution diligence process works through, and where this directory ranks against the other 50 directories in the index on the same question, highest share first. A thin share means the public record is thin, not that a control is absent.
The AI FinTech Index lists 9 AI collections and debt recovery vendors, graded on 15 capability axes from public sources with no paid placement and no aggregate score. Across this directory the best documented part of the public record is how much the system decides on its own at 56 percent, and the thinnest is data privacy posture under GLBA at 0 percent, which is 45 highest of 50 directories in the index on that question. Across the whole index of 490 vendors, none documents all nine regulatory axes in public and the average documents 2.94.
Source: AI FinTech Index, August 2026
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C&R Software
C&R Software is the collections and recovery technology company behind Debt Manager, an enterprise system of record covering the whole delinquency lifecycle, sold to banks, credit unions, alternative lenders and fintechs alongside telecom operators, utilities, debt buyers and collection agencies in more than sixty countries. Its lineage runs through three owners: CR Software was established in 1984, Fair Isaac acquired it in 2012 and folded it into its collections and recovery line, and in 2021 Constellation Software's Jonas Software operating group bought that entire business, including Debt Manager, Platinum, the Recovery Management System, Placement Optimizer, PlacementsPlus and the Agency Management Network, establishing C&R Software as an independent company under the existing management team. The platform spans pre delinquency intervention, early and late stage collections, recovery, agency placement, legal action, bankruptcy and post charge off work across more than six hundred and fifty debt types, and the company states it is in use at five of the ten largest United Kingdom banks with more than two hundred and eighty organisations on the hosted service. The analytical layer comprises FitLogic, a decision engine that lets a collections team build and deploy its own machine learning models inside the collections environment with champion and challenger testing, an agentic framework built on Amazon Bedrock, a customer facing chatbot, and FitAgent, an operator interface that reconfigures itself according to customer situation, account status and applicable regulatory requirements. A hardship feature routes customers to a directory of more than twenty five thousand vetted financial support resources. The hosted service runs in the company's own cloud on Amazon infrastructure with a multi region design, continuous backup and disaster recovery, and is documented against payment card industry data security standard level one, service organisation control type two and the 2022 edition of the international information security management standard.
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Lending & Banking Operations | C | crsoftware.com |
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Colektia
Colektia built what it calls the first AI-driven digital collections infrastructure in Latin America, managing more than 15 million individuals and 1.6 billion dollars of debt for banks, fintechs, insurers, telecoms and retailers across seven countries in the region, with operations in Spain from 2026. Machine learning, predictive analytics and language processing segment delinquent portfolios and determine the optimal moment, frequency and channel to reach each debtor, which the company reports lifts early-stage recovery by up to 25 percent and cuts collection costs by up to 30 percent within eight weeks. Its stated purpose is re-entry rather than recovery alone: millions of Latin Americans are locked out of credit by default registries, and its consumer product Alivia exists to give them a route back. It also acquires past due portfolios for its own account.
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Lending & Banking Operations | A | colektia.com |
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Equabli
Equabli sells EQ Suite, a cloud native platform covering the delinquency and recovery lifecycle from early servicing through charge off, to banks, fintech lenders, debt buyers and collection agencies. EQ Engine is the analytics layer, scoring accounts for repayment probability, segmentation and net value to direct effort toward recoverable accounts. EQ Collect orchestrates recovery across internal teams and external agencies and law firms, automating placement routing, compliance checks and reporting through one dashboard. EQ Engage handles borrower communication with digital self service repayment, and EQ Docs manages documentation across the credit lifecycle. The platform aggregates, standardises and enriches data from a lender's internal systems including loan management systems, and runs automated federal, state and local compliance checks across all collection activity, including activity carried out by third party recovery partners, which the company positions as giving a bank visibility into its agencies and reducing reliance on outside audits. Its predictive models are described as built by a founding team whose prior roles involved more than 15 billion dollars of collections across 100 million consumers. Founded in 2021 in Austin, Texas by Paul Grinberg and Blake Hogan with colleagues from a large debt purchasing company, it has raised 6.35 million dollars including from the bank backed fund BankTech Ventures, and operates with more than 50 staff across five countries.
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Lending & Banking Operations | B | equabli.com |
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InDebted
InDebted is an Australian founded digital first collections agency that recovers delinquent consumer accounts on behalf of creditors across the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and other markets. Creditors place accounts rather than licensing software, and machine learning then runs the recovery: models predict when a consumer is most likely to act, select which message to send, and use every interaction to shape the next one, across email, short message and chat, with an AI Collector handling inbound queries conversationally. Headcount is deliberately minimal, and a human customer experience team is reserved for escalations and for customers identified as vulnerable. The company states that regulatory compliance is built into the product code with a multi layered line of defence covering collections and consumer protection law in each market it operates in, and that its infrastructure is ISO certified and SOC 2 and PCI compliant. Published performance claims include outperforming traditional collections by up to 40 percent, a substantial share of inbound requests resolving through conversational AI in some markets, and improved conversion from machine written messages, all of which are company reported. Because it is engaged as the collector rather than as a supplier of software, it is itself the regulated party in each jurisdiction where it operates.
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Lending & Banking Operations | A | indebted.co |
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KredosAi
KredosAi works the window after a payment is missed but before an account reaches collections or write off, using reinforcement learning and behavioural economics to choose the wording, timing and channel of each reminder for each individual borrower. Its models select from thousands of possible messages based on what has worked for similar profiles and update continuously from actual payment outcomes rather than engagement metrics, delivered through rich messaging, text, email and app notifications, and it is sold to auto lenders, banks and financial services lenders alongside telecommunications operators.
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Lending & Banking Operations | A | kredosai.com |
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PAIR Finance
PAIR Finance runs digital debt collection across twelve European countries for more than 600 client companies including a major buy now pay later bank, an insurer and several large retailers, handling receivables from initial out of court procedures through to post judicial monitoring. Its stack combines three named techniques doing distinct work: supervised learning to estimate how likely a person is to pay, reinforcement learning to select strategy, and generative models built on Llama 3 that now handle more than a third of first level consumer queries around the clock in multiple languages. A self learning algorithm typologises debtors from data and behaviour to choose communication channel, timing and tone. Consumers reach a personalised payment page where they can settle immediately or build their own instalment plan, which the company positions as sparing them court proceedings and legal costs.
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Lending & Banking Operations | A | pairfinance.com |
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Symend
Symend sells delinquency and collections engagement to banks, card issuers, credit unions and auto lenders, built on behavioural science rather than call volume. The platform ingests a creditor's customer data, scores past due accounts on more than 100 behavioural signals, sorts them into delinquency archetypes reflecting capacity to pay and readiness to act, then generates and continuously optimises personalised outreach across email, text, push, in app messaging and self service payment portals. Named products cover pre delinquency prevention, cure of past due accounts and conversational follow up. The stated aim is customers resolving accounts themselves without agent contact while remaining customers afterwards.
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Lending & Banking Operations | B | symend.com |
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TrueML
TrueML, operating principally through its TrueAccord brand, recovers delinquent consumer debt for banks, lenders and fintechs using a patented machine learning decision engine called HeartBeat that has been running since 2013. Rather than calling, the engine selects the channel, timing, message and contact cadence for each individual account from copy written by professional collections content specialists, drawing on account characteristics and on outcomes observed across tens of millions of prior consumer interactions. A self service portal lets consumers build their own interest free repayment schedules, and the great majority resolve their accounts without ever speaking to a person. A compliance filter inside the engine checks every outreach against federal debt collection law, the governing federal regulation and state and local rules before it is sent.
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Lending & Banking Operations | A | trueml.com |
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Veritus
Veritus deploys voice first AI agents across the consumer lending lifecycle, from application funnel conversion through servicing to early stage delinquency and collections, conducting regulated borrower conversations over phone, text, email and live chat. Agents run inbound and outbound campaigns with an automated dialler, integrate with lenders' loan management systems and systems of record to reach customer data, and handle adaptive identity verification within the conversation. The company states that its agents negotiate repayment plans, follow up across channels and drive recoveries with no human involvement, and positions that as reducing cost to collect while raising recovery rates. Founded in 2025 and incubated at a leading accelerator, its operating team is drawn from consumer lending, risk and security roles at established lenders.
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Lending & Banking Operations | A | veritusagent.com |
Common questions
Is there a directory of AI collections and debt recovery vendors?
Yes. The AI FinTech Index lists 9 AI collections and debt recovery vendors, each graded on the same 15 capability axes from public sources, with the artifact every grade was read from attached to the record. No vendor pays for inclusion, placement or rating, no vendor is contacted before it is listed, and nothing sits behind a form. Counts generated 2026-08-24.
What counts as collections and recovery in this directory?
Screened to software and platforms. A collections agency recovering on placed accounts is the regulated party rather than the supplier, which is a different purchase, and is excluded. The index holds 9 vendors meeting that screen, drawn from a wider Lending & Banking Operations category and from adjacent categories where the vendor belongs on the same shortlist. A vendor filed under a different category can still appear here, because a buyer building this shortlist does not sort by our filing.
What should a buyer check before shortlisting collections and recovery vendors?
Start with what this segment does not publish. Across the 9 indexed vendors, the thinnest parts of the public record are data privacy posture under GLBA at 0 percent, deployment model and data residency at 11 percent, and AI governance and bias testing at 11 percent. A thin public record predicts the length of a diligence process rather than the absence of a control, so these are the questions to put in writing early. Persuasion optimisation applied to people in financial distress is the sharpest conduct exposure in the index, and a self cure path can bypass the hardship identification a human collector would perform. Ask what the system does when it detects vulnerability, and who pays when it gets a legal window wrong.
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