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Reproduce what your credit model knew when it made a decision.

Build credit-risk features once from bureau, application, income, and other decision-time reports — then execute the same feature DAG historically and during live scoring.

What a credit decision actually reads

An underwriting decision is assembled from structured reports that exist around decision time — each with its own shape, its own schedule, and its own moment of arrival.

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Credit bureau reports

Loans, balances, delinquencies, inquiries — the backbone of most PD features.

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Application data

What the applicant declared: purpose, amount, term, employment.

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Income & socio-demographic reports

Income estimates and household context used in affordability logic.

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Transaction information

Account behavior over time, where available to the lender.

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Customer & account context

Existing relationship, product history, prior decisions.

These are the kinds of structured decision-time sources ClearFeature is built to compute over — not a list of packaged vendor integrations.

The architecture problem in most lending stacks

Research features live in notebooks. Historical features are re-implemented in batch pipelines for training data. Underwriting features are re-implemented again inside the decision engine. Conceptually one feature — 'active monthly payment burden' — exists three times, and every model release renegotiates the differences between them.

The consequences are familiar to every credit team: validation findings that trace back to implementation drift rather than model behavior, slow releases because three teams must synchronize, and historical decisions that are hard to reconstruct precisely. The general problem →

The credit workflow on ClearFeature

One Feature Project defines the whole path from raw reports to the model vector — and the same DAG runs for portfolio history and for the application arriving right now.

Decision-time reports

Bureau report

Application data

Income / socio-demographic report

Feature DAG

Source features

per-report computations

Dependent features

affordability, burden ratios, aggregates

Model vector

PD / affordability / limit models

your models — conceptual examples, not ClearFeature components

Decision

ClearFeature computes the feature vector. Scoring models and decision logic remain your systems.

One application, several independently landed reports

A bureau report and an income report for the same application rarely arrive together. ClearFeature joins multiple source manifests by the complete canonical entity key, so dependent features compute over a consistent snapshot of the application — however the underlying reports landed.

Availability is part of correctness

A bureau report can describe last month and arrive an hour after your decision. In ClearFeature, every source carries its availability, and training rows built from historical decisions exclude anything that arrived later — so offline development sees the same information constraints underwriting faced.

How the temporal model works →

Decision reproducibility

When feature code is versioned and source availability is recorded, a historical decision's feature vector can be reconstructed: same implementation, same information boundary. For credit teams answering model-risk and audit questions, that is materially stronger than a saved score.

Model reproducibility in depth →

What changes for the team

The data scientist who designs an affordability feature writes it once, with golden tests. That tested code — not a specification document — is what materializes history and scores live applications. Data engineering stops re-implementing research; backend teams stop owning shadow copies of model logic.

Built to run where lending data lives

ClearFeature is self-hosted: bureau data, applications, and computed features stay in infrastructure your organization controls and governs.

The self-hosted model →

Tell us about your credit decision pipeline.

How do underwriting features get built and kept consistent today? We can tell you concretely what a ClearFeature pilot would look like.