Private, self-hosted and on-premise AI for Australian firms — the regulatory drivers, the honest trade-offs, and how to decide what keeps your client data in-house.
AI for Mortgage Brokers - AI agents built for the way mortgage brokers actually work
Claude-powered agents that read loan applications, extract income and liabilities from bank statements, run compliance checks, and draft lender comparisons — so brokers spend their day advising clients, not moving data between PDFs and spreadsheets.
- Production mortgage products live
- 4+
- Faster document review
- 95%
- Applications processed per broker
- 5x
- Price engagements
- Fixed
Where mortgage brokers lose time today
- Reading and summarising loan applications — income, liabilities, living expenses, employment — from 20+ pages of bank statements and payslips.
- Chasing missing documents from clients and keeping lender requirement checklists current.
- Running responsible lending checks and documenting the reasoning for every file.
- Comparing 20+ lenders manually for each client — rates, LVR, serviceability, niche policies.
- Follow-up sequences for clients mid-application and settlement coordination across solicitors, valuers, and lenders.
- Writing and maintaining file notes, compliance records, and post-settlement reviews.
AI workflows for mortgage brokers - What we build for mortgage brokers
Every engagement is fixed price and founder-led. We scope, ship, and support — typically 2–8 weeks from kickoff to production.
- Loan application assessment. Multi-agent systems that read full application bundles, extract structured data, flag risks, and produce a first-pass assessment a broker can review in minutes instead of hours.
- Bank statement & payslip extraction. Intelligent document processing pipelines that classify income, identify recurring expenses, detect red flags (gambling, BNPL, missed repayments), and export straight into your CRM.
- Responsible lending compliance. Claude agents that run serviceability and responsible lending checks against your lender panel rules, document the reasoning, and produce audit-ready file notes.
- Lender recommendation engine. Agents that match a borrower profile against your aggregator panel, surface the top 3 lenders with rate, LVR, and policy notes, and draft the broker’s recommendation memo.
- Client follow-up & nurture. Email triage, mid-application status updates, and settlement coordination — Claude drafts the message, a human approves, and nothing falls through the cracks.
- Aggregator & CRM integration. Connect Claude into Mercury, Connective, Flex, AFG, Salesforce, HubSpot, or your own CRM via MCP servers — no rebuild of your tech stack.
Why Sandlabs - We build mortgage AI, not generic chatbots
Sandlabs has shipped 4+ production AI systems to Australian mortgage and fintech businesses — including a multi-agent credit assessment pipeline and document extraction tools processing real applications every day.
- Production experience. We have working multi-agent credit assessment deployed in Australia, not slide decks.
- Regulator-aware. We design for APRA, AFCA, Privacy Act and aggregator compliance from day one, not as an afterthought.
- Claude specialists. We build on Claude for accuracy on long documents and nuanced reasoning — where GPT-wrapper tools miss.
- Australian timezone. Melbourne-based, working Australian business hours. No overnight handovers to offshore teams.
- Fixed price. One senior partner on every engagement. No account managers, no rotating juniors, no change orders.
- Ships in weeks. Most mortgage workflows go live in 2–8 weeks. We scope for ROI, not 12-month transformation programs.
- What does AI actually do for a mortgage broker?
- AI reads loan applications and supporting documents, extracts the income, liabilities, and living expenses data a broker needs, runs first-pass serviceability and responsible lending checks, matches borrowers against lender panel rules, drafts recommendation memos, and automates client follow-up. The broker stays in the decision seat — AI removes the manual reading, data entry, and chasing.
- Is AI for mortgage broking compliant with Australian regulations?
- It can be, if architected correctly. We design every mortgage AI engagement for APRA, Privacy Act, and aggregator compliance from the start: Australian data residency, audit trails on every agent decision, human-in-the-loop for responsible lending sign-off, and documented reasoning attached to each file. A generic off-the-shelf chatbot is not compliant; a purpose-built agent with the right controls is.
- How much does AI for a mortgage brokerage cost?
- A focused workflow (for example, bank statement extraction into your CRM) runs $15K–$40K and ships in 2–4 weeks. A multi-agent loan assessment system runs $40K–$120K and ships in 4–8 weeks. Enterprise aggregator-level builds run $80K–$200K+. Most brokerages start with a Discovery Sprint ($5K–$15K) that produces a fixed-price quote before commitment.
- Can AI integrate with my aggregator software and CRM?
- Yes. We build MCP (Model Context Protocol) connectors that let Claude read and act on Mercury, Connective, Flex, AFG, Salesforce, HubSpot, or your own CRM. No rip-and-replace of your existing tech stack — the AI sits alongside what you already use.
- Do you work with solo brokers or only aggregators?
- Both. Solo brokers and small brokerages usually start with one high-leverage workflow (bank statement extraction or client follow-up). Aggregators and larger brokerages build broader systems — loan assessment, compliance, lender matching. We scope to the size of the business and the ROI available, not to a fixed template.
Further reading - Before you scope your AI project
The cost, scoping, and architecture questions we get most often — answered.
How IDP extracts data from invoices, contracts, and PDFs at 95%+ accuracy — architecture, AUD pricing, build-or-buy.
How AI consulting engagements are scoped, priced, and delivered — and the questions to ask before signing.
The architecture patterns behind production multi-agent systems — with real examples.
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