Lendflow
Lendflow is embedded credit infrastructure sold to alternative lenders, banks, credit unions, brokers and the software platforms that reach small businesses, positioned as neutral infrastructure rather than a lender. Lendflow Connect links a single integration to a network of more than 75 lenders through hosted pages, widgets, a unified API and a borrower platform, with a second look marketplace for declined applicants.
Lendflow Intelligence is a real time decisioning engine with explainable trust scores, data enrichment and a visual workflow builder in which risk teams set who gets funded on what terms, and Lendflow Automate runs AI agents that analyze documents, classify industries, score trust and follow up with borrowers by voice, chat and email. Named customers include Experian, BHG Financial, OnDeck, eCapital, Stax Payments and BuilderTrend.
Capability Axes
Capability grades
15 of 15 axes rated · 9 graded A or B
Named agents parse documents, classify industries and follow up with borrowers, and Lendflow Intelligence produces trust scores. Without the intelligence layer, though, Lendflow Connect's lender reach and payout rails still stand, so the network is the foundation.
Credit policy stays with the lender, whose visual workflow builder sets who gets funded, on what terms and in what order. The Automate agents, meanwhile, contact applicants by voice, chat and email and update case status continuously, with no stated limit on unsupervised action or point of escalation.
Trust scores are described as explainable, and an analytics engine reports conversion and program metrics, giving a risk team something to inspect. Extraction accuracy, industry coding accuracy and the performance data behind the scores are unpublished.
Two customers carry hard figures: Experian reports 65 percent more completed loan applications, and BHG Financial is cited with approval rates of 20 to 70 percent. Neither figure states a method or baseline, and approval gains measure volume rather than loan quality.
The same business can appear before competing lenders in the network, and Lendflow Intelligence keeps an open data repository behind its scores. Whether a decline at one lender is visible to another, or whether one customer's outcomes tune the scores served to the next, is unaddressed.
A privacy policy dated February 28, 2025 reaches the platform, covering business owners and individuals who apply, the bureau and bank data gathered on them and sharing with lenders and service providers. Retention periods are not given, and neither the lenders nor the service providers are named.
Thoropass issued the SOC 2 Type II badge shown on the homepage. Audit period, report request route and trust portal are not offered, and the banks and credit unions on the buyer list will need the report itself.
Compliance is listed as a capability, yet no statute, regulator or rule is named on the homepage, pricing page or privacy policy. Bureau reports feed the platform and disclosure duties fall somewhere in its chain of borrowers and lenders, yet the privacy policy is silent on the Fair Credit Reporting Act and on federal financial privacy law.
Industry classification can decide eligibility before any assessment, since the Industry Map agent assigns industry codes and lender policies often exclude whole categories. Lendflow publishes no fair lending testing, disparate impact analysis or adverse action guidance for a product that routes small business credit across many lenders.
Applicants can access, correct and delete what was collected about them, bureau and verification data included, under the privacy policy. A second look marketplace offers declined businesses more lenders rather than a way to contest, and Lendflow publishes no guarantee or indemnity on its scores.
Inputs are named by category only: credit bureau reports, bank verification data and public information. Which bureau, aggregator or model supplier stands behind them is undisclosed, and small business data coverage varies sharply between sources.
One connection reaches more than 75 lenders through landing pages, embedded widgets or a unified API, and platforms such as Stax Payments and BuilderTrend embed it among more than 80 integrations. API documentation sits behind a portal login, and no bureau, bank data aggregator or origination system is named on the input side.
Routing among lenders makes the live question where application data sits in transit and how long each lender keeps it after a decision. Hosting appears in the privacy policy only as a service provider category, with no provider or region named.
Billing dimensions are published per product without figures: Connect as a revenue share or transaction fee, Intelligence as a fee per module, and Automate as monthly pay as you go or a prepaid bundle. Cost scaling is visible before contact, while rates come from sales.
Lenders lead the buyer list, from alternative lenders such as OnDeck and eCapital to banks and credit unions, followed by brokers and the software platforms that supply distribution. Coverage runs across term loans, equipment financing and merchant cash advances for domestic small businesses, with thin material by institution type.
Product updates
Material product, regulatory, evidence and commercial changes at Lendflow, each verified against a live source and tagged to the capability axis it bears on. Funding rounds and awards are not product changes and are not logged.
Lendflow launched a hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that connects a customer's Lendflow environment to AI assistants, available as a Lendflow plugin in ChatGPT and as a custom connector in Claude and Grok. Authenticated users can query applications, offers, funders and statuses in natural language and can also take write actions, including creating applications, adding notes and uploading documents, with the available actions set by the user's Lendflow permissions and configuration.
Compared With
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Pricing
Vendor-published figures are labeled as such. Figures labeled “Estimated” are derived from third-party sources and have not been confirmed by the vendor.
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Not published as a figure. Charged by billing model: a percentage of revenue or a transaction fee for Lendflow Connect, a software fee per module for Lendflow Intelligence, and monthly pay as you go or prepaid bundles for Lendflow Automate.
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Lendflow Connect, the embedded lending network of more than 75 lenders, is priced on a managed model as a percentage of revenue or on a direct model as a transaction fee. Lendflow Intelligence, the decisioning engine with trust scores and data enrichment, is priced per module as a software fee. Lendflow Automate, the AI agents for documents, industry classification, voice, chat and email, is billed monthly on a pay as you go basis or as a prepaid bundle. Rates, percentages and minimums are quoted on request; Lendflow says it prices to align incentives with each customer. | Not tiered on the pricing page. | No implementation fee is published. | Vendor Published |
Taken from Lendflow's own pricing page on 2 October 2026. The page publishes billing models without figures, so the cost of any program has to be quoted.