US Patent 10529017 Automated business plan underwriting for financial institutions

A method for underwriting a business loan. The method includes obtaining a collection of business records of existing business entities, where a business record includes a business entity profile, recorded incomes, and recorded expenses, generating, based on the business records, a model that correlates the business entity profile, the recorded incomes, and the recorded expenses, obtaining a business plan of a proposed business entity, where the business plan includes a proposed business entity profile, projected incomes, and projected expenses, and generating, by using at least the proposed business entity profile as an input to the model, a statistical measure of deviation of the projected incomes and the projected expenses with respect to the existing business entities.