Every borrower dispute and complaint answered from the account record, before its deadline.
Bluegrass builds dispute and complaint systems for lenders and servicers. Each credit reporting dispute, notice of error, chargeback and complaint reaches your team for approval with the records gathered, the response drafted and the deadline tracked.
They arrive through different channels, each with its own clock, and a late or careless answer becomes a regulatory finding, a harmful credit report or a chargeback lost by default.
What disputes and complaints involve today
Most credit reporting disputes, from a bureau or the borrower, must be investigated and the reporting corrected or confirmed, usually within 30 days. Regulation X sets a timetable for mortgage notices of error, card networks set chargeback deadlines and complaints arrive from the CFPB, state regulators and borrowers.
Teams fall behind when volumes jump, after a servicing transfer for instance, and one mistake can recur in hundreds of cases before anyone connects them. A system that reads every case the same way and sees them together suits this work.
How automated dispute and complaint handling works
- 01
Take in the case
Each case, whether a bureau dispute, a chargeback or a notice, request or complaint by mail, phone or portal, is classified, matched to the account and given its deadlines.
- 02
Gather the record
The system collects the payment history, account notes, contract, credit reporting history, call recordings and earlier correspondence, and reads anything the borrower sent.
- 03
Investigate and draft
The claim is compared with the record and your procedures, and a finding, a response and any correction to the account or bureau reporting are drafted, each citing its evidence.
- 04
Approve and respond
A person on your team approves or edits the finding, correction and response, which then goes back through the channel the case came from.
- 05
Find the patterns
Cases are also read together, so a wrong fee, a misapplied payment or a reporting error affecting other borrowers is found and put right on every account it touches.
Where people stay in the loop
Every finding, correction and response is approved by a person on your team. Drafts are first tested against your past cases, and the share accepted without change is tracked from then on.
The systems it works with
The system works with your servicing system, the bureaus' e-OSCAR dispute system, your processor's chargeback portal, your complaint management system and your mail and email channels. Every outcome is written back to the account.
When to build it, and when to buy it
Complaint management and credit reporting dispute tools are established, and if your cases mostly arrive through one channel in a standard workflow, one of them or your servicing platform's tools may be enough.
A custom build makes sense when each case type lives in a different system, when answers depend on records spread across several systems, or when you want one view of the patterns, so each root cause is found once.
We hold no reseller agreements, partner quotas or revenue share with any vendor, so a recommendation to buy is made on its merits.
What this work costs you today
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Questions about borrower disputes and complaints
- Can it correct what we report to the credit bureaus?
- It drafts the correction with its evidence, and a person approves it before anything is changed or sent. Where one case points to an error affecting other borrowers, it lists the affected accounts for correction.
- What happens when a deadline is close?
- Each case's deadline is tracked from arrival, and a case at risk goes to a supervisor while there is still time to act. Deadlines come from your procedures, so a rule change is made once for every case.
- Can it find complaints that were never logged as complaints?
- Together with servicing compliance review, it can find complaints in calls and messages that were never logged and bring them into the same process, since regulators expect lenders to capture complaints wherever borrowers make them.
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A senior team that has done this before
We are a small, entirely senior team with fifty years of combined AI engineering, multiple granted patents and Y Combinator founders, from Yale, MIT, McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft and Vista Equity Partners. The people who scope your work are the people who write the code.
Selected work
We built the AI transformation roadmap for a top-50 P&C brokerage, and it is saving the firm millions of dollars in vendor fees it did not need to pay.
Clients include some of the largest banks, RIAs, fintechs and AI labs, as well as a top-3 P&C carrier, a top-10 P&C brokerage, a top-5 trucking brokerage, a leading specialty MGA and a leading trucking MGA.
We run only 3 to 5 engagements at a time, so that every client works directly with the senior team.
About the team- Dozens
- of insurance companies, RIAs, banks and fintechs we have worked with
- 50 yrs
- combined AI engineering experience
- 10+ Patents
- granted to members of the team
- 100%
- of the IP we build is assigned to you
Find out whether this is worth building for your business.
A 30-minute call with an engineer usually shows whether this is worth building. Within a week you will have a free written point of view, including whether a packaged product would serve you better.