Underwriting automation for SMB finance

Deeper data, faster offers

Heron analyzes 60,000+ small businesses a day to make sure good deals reach your underwriters in minutes, and bad deals never do.
Trusted by 200+ funders, brokers, and fintechs
Powering underwriting across small business finance and insurance: MCA, term loans, SBA, and commercial insurance.
submission capacity without increasing headcount
30%
quarter-over-quarter growth in on-balance-sheet originations

“We really feel confident that when a deal makes it through the Heron process and we send out a yes, it's a high likelihood that it's an accurate approval. We can stand behind it.”

Nobody sees more of small business finance

Heron automates the hardest parts of small business underwriting based on patterns from analyzing a double-digit share of American businesses every year. You get speed, accuracy, and scale that scrubbers, BPOs, and DIY workflows can’t touch.

15%
of US businesses seeking capital
60K
submissions analyzed daily
3x
more volume per underwriter

Give us the chaos.
We give you decision-ready deals.

Heron handles the full process from application to offer and delivers decision-ready deals to your CRM. Whether you’re processing ten subs a day or a thousand, Heron scales with you.

Emails come in as usual

Subs arrive just like they do now: forwarded emails, API, Portal, however you get your existing intake. No behavior change for your brokers, no new portal for your team.

Heron scrubs the deal

Heron parses and verifies bank statements, applications, and external data. No-hopers and kickouts get flagged early. Stips are requested automatically. You get a full picture of the business while the file is still warm.

Underwriting policy
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+ Add rules

Your rules, your systems

Heron declines junk and delivers decision-ready deals to the systems your team uses.

Deliver the right deals to the right lenders

Each deal is matched to best-fit lenders based on your criteria and lenders’ rules. Deliver deals however lenders want them—via API, email, or portals, with no manual work.

Get decisions back directly to your CRM

Heron monitors decisions and syncs approvals and declines straight to your CRM in seconds. Respond faster without copying and pasting.

Fund more of the right deals

The best deals rise to the top, so underwriters spot them fast and make the call. Offers go out in minutes, brokers stay engaged, and the same team clears more volume without adding headcount.

Our team makes sure everything works

Heron engineers work hands-on to design workflows and make sure they perform. Even if your system is held together with duct tape and Excel macros.

Capabilities
Featured capabilities
Heron takes deals from application to offer — intake, scrubbing, cashflow analytics, fraud detection, background checks, decisioning, and more. These are the tools our customers use most.
Email ingestion and scrubbing that never sleeps
Heron instantly reads every email body and every attachment and auto-classifies everything. Bank statements, handwritten docs, driver's licenses, and more. Nothing to set up. Nothing sits in a queue.
Background checks that catch what a business hides
Heron runs deep identity and risk checks for unreported owners and officers, criminal records, bankruptcies, liens and judgments, UCC filings, and OFAC sanctions across premium public-records sources. Know exactly who you're funding before the money moves.
Cashflow analytics that reveal true repayment capacity
Heron reads cashflow from bank statements, tax returns, and financials and tracks every position from funded to paid off. Missed payments and risks are flagged the moment they show up.
Fraud detection that sees the network, not just the file
Heron catches doctored statements and inconsistent data on individual files and identifies coordinated fraud patterns across applicants before they cost you seven figures.
Decisioning that happens where you already work
Set your policies once, and Heron can auto-decision every deal against them, syncing the outcome straight into your CRM. No new dashboard, no re-keying.

Heron saves a ton of time for our adjusters. These are highly analytical people, you want them using their brain for adjudication, not thinking about manually copying information.

Heron customer

We want this information on every deal...Heron is positioned at the top of our funnel because it's handling the most important data.

Heron customer

We're more consolidated and organised in the underwriting space now. And candidly — we're funding more deals.

Doug Christison
CEO

We used to be online at 10 p.m. and work until 1 a.m. just entering applications. With Heron, we're finally out from behind the keyboard — we're meeting partners, traveling, growing the business. That just wasn't possible before.

Matthew Sapnar
President and Co-Founder

An application comes in with bank statements. Nobody touches it. Heron automatically takes all that data, parses it, automatically sets up a contact record, an account record, and an opportunity in Salesforce. And then it automatically digitizes the statements.

Heron customer

We get an application emailed in, the statements go straight to Heron, and we do nothing else. Then the underwriter's got all the data they need to decide. It's the piece that kicks the whole process off...if you can't parse the bank info, you can't do anything else.

Heron customer

The OCR piece is obviously valuable, but everybody does that. What made us choose Heron was its ability to plug directly into our intake workflow, automate submission processing, and integrate deeply with our underwriting system.

Heron customer

Being able to automate bank statement scrubbing and structuring data allowed us to eliminate agents to about half of our total, and also to repurpose some agents in more verification roles, as opposed to doing this heavy manual lifting.

Heron customer

Heron is quite easily number one in importance for our tech stack...Realistically, you are not going to be able to put together an educated view of someone's account if you're only doing open banking-based underwriting.

Heron customer

By using Heron, I was able to eliminate our data processing function, which was 3 humans making $60-75K per year, that capped out at a total max output of 100 applications processed per day

Heron customer

With our growth, we would not have been able to handle the volume without Heron. I can triple my volume and not worry.

Heron customer

If we got a straight-through application... we could get a quote out the door in five minutes. Before, it was 24 hours.

Heron customer

With Heron, we went from 30% default ratio to 10.7%. That's ~$6 million per year saved in defaults for us.

Heron customer

If Heron goes down, our entire card approval decisioning system goes down.

Heron customer

That's what we like about Heron — they deliver a superior product. Faster, smarter, genuinely outstanding, and they blow their competition out the water.

Lawrence Pross
Founder, Managing Partner

Heron analyzes all of those historical records and evaluates fraud risk automatically within 5 seconds. Literally like 5 seconds.

Alay Mehta
Director of Operations

Send Better Offers. Fund More Deals. Spend Less Time.

Heron saves a ton of time for our adjusters. These are highly analytical people, you want them using their brain for adjudication, not thinking about manually copying information.

Heron customer

We want this information on every deal...Heron is positioned at the top of our funnel because it's handling the most important data.

Heron customer

We're more consolidated and organised in the underwriting space now. And candidly — we're funding more deals.

Doug Christison
CEO

We used to be online at 10 p.m. and work until 1 a.m. just entering applications. With Heron, we're finally out from behind the keyboard — we're meeting partners, traveling, growing the business. That just wasn't possible before.

Matthew Sapnar
President and Co-Founder

An application comes in with bank statements. Nobody touches it. Heron automatically takes all that data, parses it, automatically sets up a contact record, an account record, and an opportunity in Salesforce. And then it automatically digitizes the statements.

Heron customer

We get an application emailed in, the statements go straight to Heron, and we do nothing else. Then the underwriter's got all the data they need to decide. It's the piece that kicks the whole process off...if you can't parse the bank info, you can't do anything else.

Heron customer

The OCR piece is obviously valuable, but everybody does that. What made us choose Heron was its ability to plug directly into our intake workflow, automate submission processing, and integrate deeply with our underwriting system.

Heron customer

Being able to automate bank statement scrubbing and structuring data allowed us to eliminate agents to about half of our total, and also to repurpose some agents in more verification roles, as opposed to doing this heavy manual lifting.

Heron customer

Heron is quite easily number one in importance for our tech stack...Realistically, you are not going to be able to put together an educated view of someone's account if you're only doing open banking-based underwriting.

Heron customer

By using Heron, I was able to eliminate our data processing function, which was 3 humans making $60-75K per year, that capped out at a total max output of 100 applications processed per day

Heron customer

With our growth, we would not have been able to handle the volume without Heron. I can triple my volume and not worry.

Heron customer

If we got a straight-through application... we could get a quote out the door in five minutes. Before, it was 24 hours.

Heron customer

With Heron, we went from 30% default ratio to 10.7%. That's ~$6 million per year saved in defaults for us.

Heron customer

If Heron goes down, our entire card approval decisioning system goes down.

Heron customer

That's what we like about Heron — they deliver a superior product. Faster, smarter, genuinely outstanding, and they blow their competition out the water.

Lawrence Pross
Founder, Managing Partner

Heron analyzes all of those historical records and evaluates fraud risk automatically within 5 seconds. Literally like 5 seconds.

Alay Mehta
Director of Operations
Small business owner smiling while planing a wooden plank in his workshop

We’re on a mission to eliminate the underwriting tax on American small businesses

The standards and systems that make underwriting simple for consumers and big businesses don’t exist for small businesses. That’s why small business financial products are expensive. Heron is changing that.

Deals are won and lost in minutes.
Don’t waste another one.