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The kennek Brief, issue 02: Build the edge, not the engine. AI is changing lending technology. What to build yourself, and what to partner for.

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Market insights

AI in lending: build the edge, not the engine

AI is changing lending technology. What to build yourself, what to partner for, and six questions to get the most from AI on a loan book.

kennek team

8 min read

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What if your loan book could answer questions? Ask Claude or ChatGPT. Get answers from your live loan book.

Product

What if your loan book could answer questions?

Ask Claude or ChatGPT about your loans, portfolio, pipeline and tasks, and get answers from the live loan book. Read-only, with your kennek login.

Cameron M'Crystal · 1 min read

The kennek Brief, issue 01: Funders can't back a loan book they can't see.

Market insights

Funders can't back a loan book they can't see

What the MFS administration tells UK bridging and development lenders, and why the answer is a system, not another spreadsheet.

Cameron M'Crystal · 5 min read

Breeze Capital runs on kennek

Company news

Breeze Capital's new leadership team runs on kennek

Breeze Capital adds a new Managing Director, Operations Director and two senior underwriters from Shawbrook, with kennek for origination and loan management.

kennek team · 1 min read

HM Land Registry, inside your collateral tab: find the title, buy the live register and populate the loan in a few clicks

Product

HM Land Registry, inside your collateral tab

kennek now integrates with HM Land Registry: pull title, charges, tenure and price paid data into any loan, saved as an auditable snapshot.

Cameron M'Crystal · 1 min read

Default interest in the kennek loans dashboard, with loans in arrears

Product

Default interest, applied without leaving the loan

Flag a loan in arrears, apply the default rate uplift with a reason, and it's already in the schedule. End it the same way when the loan recovers.

Cameron M'Crystal · 1 min read

The restructure screen in kennek, extending a loan's term

Product

Term extensions inside the kennek platform

A borrower asks for six more months. In kennek, term, rate, interest type and extension fees are one flow, with the schedule impact shown before it goes live.

Cameron M'Crystal · 1 min read

The kennek activity log, filterable by date, name, reference, event type or user

Product

Full auditability, every event

Every action across your loan book lands in one activity log in kennek, filterable by date, borrower, event type or user, and exportable in seconds.

Cameron M'Crystal · 1 min read

Your portfolio data is already in Power BI: real-time dashboards from kennek

Product

Your portfolio data is already in Power BI

kennek feeds live portfolio data straight into Microsoft Power BI: performance, LTV distribution, arrears and regional concentration, with no CSV exports.

Cameron M'Crystal · 1 min read

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Run your loan book on kennek.

We'll walk your team through a live kennek environment, pre-loaded with a loan book shaped like yours.

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30-minute walkthrough
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