SpreadSpace vs Aloan

Build a reusable spread for each lending segment, apply it to the next loan and carry the analysis into the lender’s memo. SpreadSpace combines detailed financial extraction, highlighted source lines, expandable calculations and analyst-controlled policy in one working canvas.

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Three reasons to choose SpreadSpace

Start with the lender’s template

Save an analysis layout as a reusable template for later loans. Reapply the selected visuals and arrangement to the new loan's data while keeping loan-specific comments and source links with the original review. Build custom graphs, ratios and aggregate statistics from searchable financial lines. Choose the operands and coefficients, compare results across periods and inspect the source rows behind the calculation.

Trace the financial argument

Click a source-backed figure to open the document at its highlighted region. Expand a derived figure into the contributing rows and follow those rows back to their sources. Reconcile return revenue and expenses to ordinary business income and then to income per books. Inspect M-1 or M-3 adjustments and supporting-statement detail, including any remaining difference, through the tax-to-book bridge.

Apply policy without rebuilding

Set institution-wide adjustment policies for tax-basis EBITDA, book-basis EBITDA, rental NOI and Schedule C. Apply full, partial or excluded treatment to supported expense concepts, reuse book-basis policy on company financials and make loan-specific exceptions. Select individual return lines or supporting-statement items and apply full or percentage adjustments to chosen years. Keep the reported amount visible and prevent a selected subtotal and its component item from being counted twice.

Why SpreadSpace is the stronger choice

SpreadSpace is the stronger choice for credit teams that want to build and defend the analysis themselves. Reusable spread templates give each loan a consistent starting point; source highlighting and derivation folds let the analyst inspect the reported lines and the calculations above them. Tax-to-book bridges, return-derived cash flow, configurable EBITDA and property-level NOI carry into the lender’s memo. Aloan also offers cited spreads and memo drafting. SpreadSpace’s case is the depth of the financial review, the team’s control over its methodology and the handoff of finalized values through the API.

Choose SpreadSpace when

  • Your team wants reusable spread templates for each lending segment, with custom graphs, ratios and the lender’s memo format.
  • Your analysts need highlighted document lines and expandable derivations behind the figures they use.
  • Your financial review needs tax-to-book reconciliation, return-derived cash flow and normalized company statements.
  • Your credit officers set institution-wide adjustment policy and analysts need documented loan-specific exceptions.
  • Your deals include multiple businesses, guarantors, K-1 interests and rental properties with their own financial context.
  • Your loan system needs finalized financial values and the completed credit memo through the API.

How the workflows compare

  • Aloan combines borrower collection, policy checks, and covenant monitoring around the underwriting file.
  • SpreadSpace focuses the analyst's work on source review, explicit adjustments, and the lender's memo.
  • The comparison is how the team works through the credit evidence and carries its judgment into committee review.

Compare SpreadSpace and Aloan

SpreadSpace and Aloan, feature by feature
FeatureSpreadSpaceAloan
Integration
Versioned API with three SDKs and an agent guide

Process documents and retrieve structured results with the public API and TypeScript, Python or C# SDKs. Receive signed lifecycle webhooks and fetch period-by-period financial attributes after the analyst finalizes the spread.

REST APIs and webhooks.Aloan commercial underwriting
Loan-inbox intake with automatic linking

Submit documents before borrower setup is complete. A shared application reference keeps subsequent submissions on the same borrower and loan, while status responses and signed webhooks track processing.

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Documents and extraction
Tax detail with boxed source review

Extract Forms 1040, 1065, 1120 and 1120-S with supporting schedules and statements. Work with return lines, Schedule K-1 detail, depreciation and loss carryovers in the same financial review. Click a source-backed figure to open the document at its highlighted region. Expand a derived figure into the contributing rows and follow those rows back to their sources.

Tax-return spreading with figures cited to source pages.Aloan commercial underwriting
Schedule K-1 pairing and owner linking

Keep K-1 issuers, recipients, income, distributions and capital detail linked to their supporting statements. Review outside interests with the guarantor's Form 1040 and follow the source behind the income or cash received.

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Asset registers with source jumps and total checks

Form 4562 is read in every part, and the preparer's per asset registers, the hundreds of pages behind the totals, are read row by row, with the printed asset fields retained and every printed register total checked against its rows. The register is its own tab on the return viewer with a source jump per asset row.

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Net operating loss history and carryovers

Net operating loss carryforward schedules come in as typed rows of loss sustained, previously applied, remaining and available this year, with Form 8990 interest limitation carryforwards, Form 8582 passive losses, Form 6198 at risk limits and Form 7203 basis limits read into their own objects.

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Align workbook periods across tabs and files

Organize company statements into consistent financial categories, with current and noncurrent assets, liabilities and equity kept distinct. Expand grouped totals into their underlying reported lines, with readable labels and the source detail retained. Compare annual and monthly financial results by entity and reporting period. Keep each series tied to its source documents when building trend charts, ratios and year-over-year tables.

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Bank transactions with counterparties and sources

Inspect bank transactions with dates, descriptions, signed amounts and account context. Analyze monthly inflows and outflows, daily balances, transfers, overdrafts and returned-item signals, then open the underlying statement evidence. Build an implied debt schedule from observed bank advances and repayments. Inspect the underlying transactions and use payment cadence where the history supports it, while keeping inferred payments distinct from contractual terms.

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Analysis
Derivations behind every figure

Click a source-backed figure to open the document at its highlighted region. Expand a derived figure into the contributing rows and follow those rows back to their sources.

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Tax basis and book basis

Reconcile return revenue and expenses to ordinary business income and then to income per books. Inspect M-1 or M-3 adjustments and supporting-statement detail, including any remaining difference, through the tax-to-book bridge.

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Statement of cash flows from the return

Derive operating, investing and financing cash flows from the return's income, Schedule L changes and supporting detail. Compare the calculated change in cash with the return's reported change and inspect the contributing rows.

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Basis-aware EBITDA with line-level add-backs

Select individual return lines or supporting-statement items and apply full or percentage adjustments to chosen years. Keep the reported amount visible and prevent a selected subtotal and its component item from being counted twice. Set institution-wide adjustment policies for tax-basis EBITDA, book-basis EBITDA, rental NOI and Schedule C. Apply full, partial or excluded treatment to supported expense concepts, reuse book-basis policy on company financials and make loan-specific exceptions.

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Per-entity DSCR from selected document lines

Save named DSCR configurations for each entity using adjusted EBITDA from tax returns or company financial statements. Select debt-service lines, optional interest and analyst write-ins, then compare historical and pro forma coverage.

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Rental real estate by property

Build property-level schedules from Form 8825 and Schedule E with income, itemized expenses and depreciation across years. Calculate NOI and adjusted NOI for selected properties using credit policy, property- and year-specific adjustments and write-ins. Keep the underlying return values and source lines available for review.

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Entities and counterparties
Return-detected affiliates and bank reclassification

Every affiliated and intercompany entity named anywhere on the business and personal returns lands on one schedule, ownership link or not, K-1 or not, from the ownership tables on Form 1120 and Form 1120-S, the issuer behind every K-1, affiliates named in return statements, the personal return's pass through and qualified business income rosters, and related party receivable and payable lines. The schedule feeds the entity roster and re-tags matching bank counterparties to intercompany with the naming line boxed.

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Every entity on one canvas

Every business and person on the loan is reconciled from the documents' printed names, with spelling drift folded and the EIN last four splitting or uniting names, and appears in the entity selector, so cards from several filers sit on one canvas with no fixed cap on how many. A K-1, a personal return and a personal financial statement gather on the same person without hand linking.

Multi-entity support for borrowers, guarantors, and related entities.Aloan pricing
Counterparty rollup and overrides

Group transactions by counterparty with money in, money out, net activity, classification and relationship. Filter the underlying payments and inspect financing advances, repayments and payment cadence. Correct a transaction or counterparty classification and retain the analyst's choice in the saved review. Inspect the correction history with actor and change details, and use the review controls to reverse a correction.

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Undisclosed accounts and financing

Accounts the transactions reference with no statement uploaded are listed by bank and last four with the transactions that revealed them, and an implied debt schedule states every financing relationship with advances, repayments, net, cost of capital and the payment cadence the remittances imply.

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Working the spread
Free placement and resizing on a canvas

The spread is a canvas rather than a form. Every chart, table, KPI card, text box, line and comment pin lands where the pointer releases, drags anywhere, resizes from any edge and magnifies on its own axis, and the canvas grows sideways and downward as the work needs it.

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Source-linked visual catalog and custom builder

Arrange borrower and guarantor charts, tables, ratios and notes on a shared financial-analysis canvas. Select entities and periods for the exhibits and save the layout with the loan. Build custom graphs, ratios and aggregate statistics from searchable financial lines. Choose the operands and coefficients, compare results across periods and inspect the source rows behind the calculation.

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The builder and line-level search

Build custom graphs, ratios and aggregate statistics from searchable financial lines. Choose the operands and coefficients, compare results across periods and inspect the source rows behind the calculation.

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Reusable canvas layouts without loan comments

Save an analysis layout as a reusable template for later loans. Reapply the selected visuals and arrangement to the new loan's data while keeping loan-specific comments and source links with the original review.

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Shared canvas with comments pinned to visuals

Work together with live canvas presence and comment threads pinned to a visual or location. Link financial figures in the discussion to their source documents and retain saved revisions of the analysis.

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Memo, control and audit
Company memo template with source-linked figures

Build the lender's memo from reusable templates, analyst narrative and selected spread exhibits. Keep source-linked figures available in the memo workspace, then export the completed credit write-up.

Generated memo figures link to source documents.Aloan commercial underwriting
Vector memo visuals retaining source links

Build the lender's memo from reusable templates, analyst narrative and selected spread exhibits. Keep source-linked figures available in the memo workspace, then export the completed credit write-up. Request a PDF render of a saved credit memo through the API and retrieve the finished file for the loan record. Finalized memos retain a fixed PDF, with webhook events signaling when that document is ready.

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Audited figure corrections and persistent reclassification

An analyst edits a figure or caption in place, the override applies before every derivation above it, each edit records the label, the column and the previous and new state on the spreading log, and a revert restores the extracted figure with its own log row. Restating a figure is its own permission and its own opt-in API grant.

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Recorded corrections and review history

Keep recorded correction events in an append-only audit history with the actor, time and change details. Inspect old and new values for financial figure edits, use Undo controls for counterparty corrections and restore saved analysis revisions.

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Finalized snapshot with a machine comparison

Finalize the spread to save versioned financial attributes and ratios with separate tax-return, book-basis and company-reported figures. Retrieve configured DSCR, custom ratio results and analyst adjustments through the API, alongside a documents-only comparison and source document IDs.

Not verified

Setup and pricing

SpreadSpace and Aloan, setup comparison
DetailSpreadSpaceAloan
Relationship to the loan origination systemSpreadSpace runs as a tab on each loan inside your loan origination system, with no separate login, no data sync and no redirect, and the loan links itself the moment the first document arrives. The unbranded workspace is bundled with the cost of extraction.
Runs alongside an existing LOS without writeback or sync.Aloan commercial underwriting
Integration scopeEmbed the review workspace and connect document intake through the public API.
LOS-adjacent underwriting with policy configuration; no LOS writeback or sync.Aloan commercial underwriting
Pricing modelSpreadSpace pricing is tailored to your organization and document volume. Volume discounts are available for extraction. A test mode key runs the whole integration against an isolated sandbox at no charge. Contact sales for pricing based on your document volume.
Monthly minimum, document overages, and implementation fee; no per-seat licensing.Aloan pricing

Aloan information is drawn from the linked public material, reviewed September 2026. Not verified means this comparison does not establish that capability; it does not mean the product lacks it.

Questions lenders ask

Does SpreadSpace replace Aloan?

SpreadSpace covers the spreading, analysis, and credit memo workflow. Analysts review source documents, choose adjustments, compare borrowers and guarantors, and prepare the lender's memo while keeping the existing loan origination system. Scope the replacement around those tasks and the surrounding intake and monitoring requirements.

How long does it take to add SpreadSpace to my loan origination system?

SpreadSpace connects the embedded workspace and upload webhook to the lender's loan workflow. Confirm the rollout against the lender's authentication, document routing, and integration requirements.

How do I check a figure against the source document?

Click a source-backed figure to open the document at its highlighted region. Expand a derived figure into the contributing rows and follow those rows back to their sources. Build the lender's memo from reusable templates, analyst narrative and selected spread exhibits. Keep source-linked figures available in the memo workspace, then export the completed credit write-up.

What does SpreadSpace do with Schedule K-1s?

Keep K-1 issuers, recipients, income, distributions and capital detail linked to their supporting statements. Review outside interests with the guarantor's Form 1040 and follow the source behind the income or cash received. Break out a guarantor's wages, interest, dividends, business income and pass-through interests. Compare reported income with K-1 distributions and rental activity while retaining the person, year and source document.

What does SpreadSpace do with bank statements?

Inspect bank transactions with dates, descriptions, signed amounts and account context. Analyze monthly inflows and outflows, daily balances, transfers, overdrafts and returned-item signals, then open the underlying statement evidence. Build an implied debt schedule from observed bank advances and repayments. Inspect the underlying transactions and use payment cadence where the history supports it, while keeping inferred payments distinct from contractual terms. Correct a transaction or counterparty classification and retain the analyst's choice in the saved review. Inspect the correction history with actor and change details, and use the review controls to reverse a correction.

Does SpreadSpace use AI to spread financials?

SpreadSpace gives analysts a document-backed workflow for checking printed values, opening derivations, and applying adjustments before completing the memo. Aloan uses AI for spreading and memo preparation and retains underwriter review. Compare the review experience and the evidence carried into the final credit file.

Is there an audit trail?

Keep recorded correction events in an append-only audit history with the actor, time and change details. Inspect old and new values for financial figure edits, use Undo controls for counterparty corrections and restore saved analysis revisions.

How is SpreadSpace priced against Aloan?

SpreadSpace pricing is tailored to your organization and document volume. Volume discounts are available for extraction. Contact sales for pricing based on your document volume. The canvas and counterparty board are included. Aloan bills a monthly minimum with per document overage above it and a one-time implementation fee invoiced at signing.