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Workflow 03 — Decision Governance

Credit & lending.

Governed credit decisions — exceptions, concentrations, and workouts — with named owner, rationale, and outcome tracking.

Tier
High
Primary role
Chief Credit Officer
Available in
Starter+

What goes wrong without it

Exceptions accumulate

Policy exceptions get approved one-at-a-time without anyone tracking the running portfolio drift.

Concentration drift

CRE, NAICS, or borrower concentrations move past appetite before anyone surfaces the trend.

Watchlist goes stale

Once a credit lands on the watchlist, review cadence and ownership often blur.

The shared decision anatomy

Every workflow follows the same five steps. Here’s how credit & lending uses them, with the artifact captured at each step.

01 Signal
Policy exception request, concentration breach, covenant violation, or watchlist escalation. CRE concentration approaches 300% of risk-based capital threshold.
→ Credit event record
02 Owner
Chief Credit Officer or Credit Committee, depending on authority limits. Authority matrix drives routing, not ad-hoc handoffs.
→ Owner + committee
03 Decision
Approve / decline / condition, with rationale tied to policy, financials, and risk appetite.
→ Credit decision memo
04 Action
Conditions tracked to completion, exception logged, monitoring cadence set.
→ Condition tracker
05 Outcome
Portfolio outcomes tied back to original decisions. Vintage performance is visible, not reconstructed at year-end.
→ Outcome record

What you’ll see

A live view of every item, its owner, its deadline, and the evidence behind its current status.

Credit exceptions & watchlist — Q2 2026 Sample

Open exceptions

9

Concentration alerts

2

Watchlist credits

18

Avg. review

21d

ID Item Owner Review Status
EXC-218 LTV exception, owner-occupied CRE B. Larsen May 28 Pending committee
CON-007 NAICS 722 (food service) concentration B. Larsen Jun 10 Monitoring
WL-1042 Borrower covenant breach, DSCR T. Reyes May 20 Workout planning
EXC-211 Debt-to-income exception, consumer T. Reyes Apr 30 Approved

Evidence captured

Credit memo + financials
Authority + committee record
Decision rationale
Conditions tracked to completion
Watchlist review history
Vintage outcome tracking

Built for the Chief Credit Officer

Replaces the exception log, watchlist memo, and concentration report that live in three different places. Gives the CCO one credit-decision record with rationale and outcome on the same page.

Apex linkage

Strategic & Board Decisions inherit operational evidence from this workflow. Decisions made here flow upward to the apex layer automatically — a board-level capital, risk-appetite, or strategic-plan decision ties back to the operational record beneath it.

Feeds the apex workflow →

How to start

Per-workflow subscription is the entry point. Subscribe to the credit & lending workflow at listed price and onboard in days, not weeks. For multi-workflow scope or apex linkage, talk to us about the Risk Bundle or Enterprise tier.