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AI Automation

πŸ‡°πŸ‡ͺ Kenya

SACCO Loan Processing Automation

Replaced a 5-day manual loan approval workflow with an AI pipeline that reviews applications, checks credit history, and routes decisions in under 4 hours.

Client: A Nairobi-based savings and credit cooperative (SACCO)

87%reduction in processing time

The challenge

Where things stood

Loan officers were manually re-keying application data from paper forms into three separate systems, cross-checking credit history by phone, and routing approvals over email threads that regularly stalled for days. Members were waiting up to a week for a decision on straightforward loans.

The approach

What we did

  • Mapped the full loan approval workflow end-to-end, including every handoff and approval gate
  • Built an n8n pipeline that ingests application data directly from the member portal
  • Connected the pipeline to the credit reference bureau API for automatic history checks
  • Added a rules engine that auto-approves low-risk applications and routes edge cases to a human loan officer with a pre-filled recommendation
  • Set up Slack notifications so officers only get pinged when a decision actually needs a human

The outcome

What changed

  • Average processing time dropped from 5 days to under 4 hours
  • Loan officers now handle 3Γ— the application volume without added headcount
  • Member complaints about approval delays dropped to near zero

Tech stack

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