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Research and engineering notes from the Levmetrics team.

LifecycleObservabilityModel risk

5 articles

Lifecycle
Lifecycle
Observability

A SpaceX rocket crashed into the Moon. Deployment is not the end of the lifecycle.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage crashed into the Moon on August 5 after 18 months derelict. What the lunar impact says about systems you stopped maintaining.

10 min read
Credit scoring
Credit scoring
Model risk

Credit scoring you can defend

AI underwriting is easy to demo and hard to defend. This is the scorecard methodology we hold ourselves to: weight-of-evidence features, validation with confidence intervals, drift monitoring, and a decision that survives a model-risk review.

7 min read
Fraud
Fraud
Lending

How to spot a fake or tampered bank statement

Altered and fabricated bank statements are one of the most common fraud vectors in lending. Here is what to look for, why manual review misses so much of it, and how to catch tampering at scale.

4 min read
Bank statements
Bank statements
Underwriting

What is bank statement analysis, and why do lenders use it?

Bank statement analysis turns raw transaction data into the income, expense, and affordability signals lenders need to make a decision. Here is what it is, what it extracts, and why it has become central to modern underwriting.

3 min read
Underwriting
Underwriting
Cash flow

Cash-flow underwriting for thin-file borrowers

When a borrower has little or no credit-bureau history, the bank statement is the strongest evidence you have. Here is what cash-flow underwriting is, the signals it uses, and how to do it fairly.

3 min read