The Bridging Platform
Features

Everything a specialist lender needs, in one place

Every module a bridging or specialist lender runs on, from the first enquiry through funding and risk to redemption.

See it running

Sales, underwriting and servicing at work

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Pipelines

Branching, configurable pipelines

Pipelines aren't a straight line. A stage can wait on more than one thing finishing, or open several routes at once. You build them visually on a canvas, not in a config file.

  • Fork a pipeline into parallel stages, then join them back once every branch is done
  • Each stage has its own checklist, and the record shows what's still awaiting
  • Structure locks once records are live on a pipeline, so a deal in flight never shifts
app.thebridgingplatform.co.uk/settings/pipelines
Pipeline builder showing a branched pipeline from Submission through parallel Processing and Valuation to Drawdown
Sales

Several quotes, one lead

Requested terms, security and exit are captured on the lead itself. Quotes are fully costed, with fees, rate, term and retained interest, and sit alongside each other until one is accepted.

  • AI suggestions extract applicants, securities and loan details from typed-up notes
  • Nothing writes to the record automatically: every suggestion is reviewed and applied
  • An accepted quote converts straight into a live application
app.thebridgingplatform.co.uk/leads/1000043
Lead with four quotes on different terms, quote #02 accepted and active
Valuations

Valuations tracked from instruction to report

Instruct the valuer, then follow each valuation from quote request to report on a board of its own. Each one is linked to the property and the deal it secures.

  • One board for every valuation in flight, whichever deal it belongs to
  • Valuations sit against each security on the application
  • A mix of full, desktop, drive-by, AVM and re-valuations, each with its own status
app.thebridgingplatform.co.uk/valuations
Valuations board with a mix of valuation types from Not Started to Awaiting Report
Servicing

A live book, not a spreadsheet

Every live loan carries its balance, interest held and term, month by month. The payment schedule is generated on the loan and kept in step as it moves.

  • Retained and serviced interest schedules, with each payment's status
  • Costs and charges, capital repayments and redemption statements on the loan
  • Saved views, filters and exports across the whole book
app.thebridgingplatform.co.uk/loans/1000028
Loan payments tab with serviced interest payments marked made, missed and overdue
Risk & compliance

Risk scoring where the risk lives

Risk scoring lives on the account and contact record itself. Anything that needs a second opinion goes into a shared referral queue, not an email thread.

  • MLRO risk scorecards attached directly to accounts and contacts
  • A red flag such as an adverse media match forces the rating, whatever the weighted score says
  • Refer to the MLRO in one click; they resolve it from the Risk app's Referrals queue
app.thebridgingplatform.co.uk/referrals
Risk app referrals list with three open referrals, each showing its rating, score and status
Finance & funding

Funding lines, modelled properly

Fund loans through warehouse lines, forward flow, participation or table-funding facilities. Track drawdowns against them, and move a loan's funding to another funder if the arrangement changes.

  • Several facility structures on one platform, not just one
  • Utilisation requests track drawdowns against a facility, from draft to approved to funded
  • A check against the deal's funding value before anything is over-drawn
app.thebridgingplatform.co.uk/utilisation-requests
Utilisation requests list with funders, SPVs, amounts and statuses
Security calls

Recorded calls, transcribed for you

Log a phone call on the deal and attach the recording. The platform transcribes it, so ID checks, confirmations and the borrower's own words sit on the timeline next to every note and email.

  • Recordings and transcripts filed on the call itself
  • Notes, tasks, calls, emails and meetings in one timeline per deal
  • Anyone covering the deal can see exactly what was said and agreed
app.thebridgingplatform.co.uk/applications/1000056
Application timeline with a security call, its audio recording and a transcript PDF
Base rate & settings

Base rate changes, handled your way

The Bank of England base rate is picked up every day. When it moves, variable-rate loans and variable funders' cost of funds are repriced by the rules you set, and every fee, product and pipeline is configured by your own admins.

  • Apply a change automatically, or hold it for review: Finance is notified, sees the loans it moves, and can export them and apply it with their own rates
  • Choose which variable-rate loans a change moves, with a filter or a bulk spreadsheet
  • Pass the change on, or reprice to base rate plus a margin
  • A notice period, a floor at the drawdown rate and a cap on any single rise
  • Each loan's payments and schedule updated automatically, the borrower emailed their rate change letter and new schedule, and it's logged on the timeline
  • Products, rate cards, fees and legal cost scales set in the Admin app
app.thebridgingplatform.co.uk/settings/base-rate
Base rate settings page showing the Bank of England base rate card and the variable-rate loan rules
AI credit papers

A first draft of the credit paper, written for you

Choose the Credit Paper template on an application and the AI writes it from everything on the record: the figures, securities, valuations, exit and timeline. Your credit team reads it, changes what they want and takes it to committee.

  • Executive summary, property, borrower, valuation, loan and exit, risks and recommendation
  • Laid out in your own Word template, saved as Word or PDF to the deal's files
  • Written for people to review, not to replace their judgement
AI email drafting

Chasers that draft themselves

On any open task, Draft email writes the chaser from the deal, its documents and recent correspondence, and leaves it on the timeline as a draft with a note on what it chased and why.

  • Internal notes and finance-only detail are left out automatically
  • Always a draft: a person reads, edits and sends it
  • Signed off with your own email signature
app.thebridgingplatform.co.uk/applications/1000008
Timeline showing an AI-drafted outgoing email marked Draft
Document automation

Paperwork generated from the record

Offer letters, facility agreements and other paperwork are generated from templates, filled in from the application, valuation and security records.

  • Per-category templates for leads, applications and live loans
  • Merge fields stay in sync with the underlying data, so nothing goes stale
  • Consistent, on-brand documents for every lender relationship
And the rest

The details that save hours every week

Custom modules

Workflow unique to how you lend can be built as a module in your account, working just like the standard ones.

Temporary cover

Hand a colleague's whole caseload to a teammate for a date range. It reverts automatically when cover ends.

Role-based access

Fine-grained permissions, so each person sees exactly what their role needs and nothing more.

Built for teams

Underwriters, valuers, servicing and management each get the views, queues and permissions their role needs.

File & folder structure

Folders created automatically on every application, loan and account, with view and edit access set by role.

Automation

Rules and triggers that act on a record automatically. Your own team switches them on and tunes them, with no scripting.

See it for yourself

The fastest way to understand the platform is to use it.