Case Studies
Financial Services

Collections Exception Intelligence

A mid-market NBFC eliminated 90 minutes of daily manual reconciliation and reduced exception discovery lag from 14 hours to under 2 minutes.

14h → 2min

Exception Detection

18 days

Time to Live

Zero

Engineering Dependency

The Situation

An NBFC managing 12,000 active loan accounts had its operational data split across three systems: loan disbursement and account metadata in a data warehouse, active collections cases in an operational database, and weekly mandate status files uploaded from their banking partner to S3. Nobody was watching all three simultaneously. Every morning, two analysts spent 90 minutes pulling exports, running VLOOKUPs, and building a reconciliation sheet to identify which accounts had missed mandates, which were approaching DPD thresholds, and which were already in breach. Exceptions were discovered an average of 14 hours after they occurred.

Current State — Before Autonmis
Broken

Data sources

Data Warehouse

Loan disbursement & account metadata

Operational DB

Active collections cases

Banking Partner File

Mandate status (S3 upload)

No unified view — sources never sync

Manual ops process

01Pull exports from each source
02Cross-reference manually
03Build exception report
04Find issues — usually too late

Failure events

14 hour discovery lag
90 min daily manual export
Exceptions found when clients call
The approach

The Approach

1

Connect your sources

Read-only connection to DWH, operational DB, and S3 — 30 minutes, no engineering required.

2

Configure rules in plain language

SLA definitions, DPD thresholds, mandate bounce logic — written by ops, not SQL engineers.

3

Autonmis watches continuously

Cross-source evaluation runs on schedule. Exceptions surface in Slack before anyone escalates.

After

Data Warehouse

Loan disbursement & account metadata

Operational DB

Active collections cases

Banking Partner File

Mandate status (S3 upload)

Autonmis

Governed Intelligence Layer

Knowledge Base

rules · thresholds · logic

6am Exception Brief
Live Exception Dashboard
Real-time Breach Alerts

Connected read-only to all three sources in a single session. The Knowledge Base was configured with SLA definitions, DPD threshold rules, and mandate bounce classification logic — in plain language, no SQL required. Autonmis then ran automated cross-source reasoning on a schedule, evaluating every account against its SLA tier, detecting mandate failures as they arrived, and delivering a structured exception brief to the ops lead's Slack at 6am every morning. Real-time threshold alerts fired during the day when a breach occurred — before anyone escalated.

The workflow went from draft to production in 18 days. No engineering involvement after initial data source connection.

Results

14 hours → under 2 minutes

Exception discovery lag

Previously discovered when a client escalated

90 minutes → zero

Daily analyst time on reconciliation

Two analysts freed from daily export + VLOOKUP

Eliminated entirely

Manual reconciliation process

Cross-source check now runs automatically

18 days

Time to first live workflow

From zero to production exception alerts

None

Engineering dependency for ongoing operation

Ops team runs it independently

Implementation

Time to live

3 weeks to first live exception alert

Sources connected

3 (DWH, operational DB, S3 file)

Engineering dependency

Zero

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