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SpreadSpace connects borrower and guarantor analysis to the source documents and the lender's memo. Baker Hill combines loan origination with financial spreading, global cash flow, property analysis and credit memo preparation.

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Three reasons to choose SpreadSpace

Review beyond the return totals

SpreadSpace extracts the supporting statements, loss carryovers and asset registers behind the tax return totals. Each figure opens its boxed source line, and arithmetic checks expose differences for review. Analysts can examine the details that change repayment capacity without reconstructing the packet by hand.

Compare rental income by property

SpreadSpace turns Form 8825 and Schedule E Part I into a property schedule with years side by side. Each property keeps its income, itemized operating expenses and printed depreciation line, with the supporting figures available for review. Analysts can isolate a building and see what changed before relying on the total.

Keep the spread on the loan

Implementation depends on the lender’s authentication, document routing and data handoff. New loan documents enter the analysis through the webhook, and finalized spread data returns through the API. The lender keeps the loan record, pipeline and booking in its existing system.

Why SpreadSpace is the stronger choice

Choose SpreadSpace when the working spread needs to keep source evidence, borrower and guarantor context, and analyst adjustments together through committee review. Analysts can examine supporting schedules, compare rental properties across years and unfold the calculations behind reviewed figures. Those figures carry their source links into the lender's memo.

Choose SpreadSpace when

  • Your analysts want to open the source line behind any figure inside the tab in your loan origination system, boxed on the page, with the math behind a derived figure beneath it.
  • You want the whole return on the spread, including the per asset depreciation registers, the net operating loss history and every affiliated entity the return names.
  • You underwrite rental property and want a schedule of rental real estate income built from Form 8825 and Schedule E Part I, each property as one row across years with its gross rents, its itemized operating expenses, its depreciation as printed and its income or loss.
  • You spread multi-entity deals with several guarantors and want every Schedule K-1 paired with its own statements and attached to the right person without hand linking.
  • You underwrite on bank statements and want every transaction classified by counterparty, with daily balances, NSFs, overdrafts and every financing relationship surfaced, and your overrides kept and logged.
  • Lenders can embed the financial-review workspace and connect document intake to their existing loan workflow.

How the workflows compare

  • Baker Hill combines financial spreading, global cash flow and credit memo preparation with its lending workflow.
  • Its CRE analysis supports property groupings, and its spreads include industry comparisons and covenant templates.
  • SpreadSpace centers the analyst's work on source-linked figures, entity-specific assumptions and reviewed exhibits in the lender's memo.

Compare SpreadSpace and Baker Hill

SpreadSpace and Baker Hill, feature by feature
FeatureSpreadSpaceBaker Hill
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.

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Loan-inbox webhook 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.

Automated tax return and financial statement processing feeds its spreads.Baker Hill financial-analysis resource guide
Schedule K-1 pairing and owner linking

Each K-1 is bound to its own supporting statements by the printed partner name, the partner number stamp, page order and the capital account, the recipient is matched to a person on the loan by identifier, name and address with no fuzzy matching, and that person gathers every later personal return, personal financial statement and K-1 without hand linking.

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Depreciation registers and loss history

Hundreds of pages of preparer depreciation and amortization registers are read asset by asset with every printed register total checked against its rows, the net operating loss carryforward schedule is typed year by year with a box on every cell, and the preparer's comparison worksheet extends the income statement a year or two before the oldest return.

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Source-backed statements and aligned workbook periods

Profit and loss statements, balance sheets, cash flow statements, receivable and payable agings, debt schedules and personal financial statements read from PDF and from Excel to one standard, with a workbook whose periods are scattered across tabs or files triaged, fanned out per year and stitched back into one statement that keeps every detail.

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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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Boxed source lines inside the spread

Every extracted figure opens its full source document with the line boxed on the page, inside the tab in your loan origination system, a figure summed from several lines boxes every line it was summed from, and the box follows the figure through the spread and into the memo.

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Analysis
Tax basis and book basis with the proof

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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Cash flow statement 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.

Global cash flow analysis and covenant templates support credit review.Baker Hill financial-analysis resource guide
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 to the issuer behind every K-1, affiliates named in return statements and the related-party receivable and payable lines, and a named affiliate re-tags its matching bank counterparties to intercompany with the naming line boxed.

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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. Follow source lines and calculate NOI and adjusted NOI for the selected properties. Build NOI and adjusted NOI from each property's rental income, expenses, interest, depreciation and amortization. Save property- and year-specific adjustment selections and write-ins with the underlying return values still visible.

CRE analysis groups properties by ownership and underwriting criteria.Baker Hill financial-analysis resource guide
Working the spread
Free placement and resizing on a canvas

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.

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Source-linked visual catalog and custom builder

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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Every entity on one canvas

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.

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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
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.

A dynamic credit memo draws on financial spreads and core data.Baker Hill financial-analysis resource guide
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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Memo prose linked to the source

Any sentence in the memo can link to a document line through the four-door picker, tax returns, bank statements, financials and guarantor, and print preview is the print, so a block that straddles a page break continues on the next sheet exactly as shown.

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Control and audit
Audited figure corrections and persistent reclassification

An analyst edits a figure or caption in place and the edit is a document scoped override that every derived figure above it follows, recorded with the printed label, the column, the previous value and the new one, reversible with a reset that logs its own row, and restating a figure is its own permission that no other permission implies.

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Targeted undo after later corrections

The counterparty audit log lists every correction with who made it, an Undo on any row reverses a mistake from last week after later actions have piled on, and the undo is itself recorded rather than erasing the record of the edit.

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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 spreads to your system

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.

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Setup and pricing

SpreadSpace and Baker Hill, setup comparison
DetailSpreadSpaceBaker Hill
Where the spread livesSpreadSpace opens as a tab on the loan record inside your loan origination system, unbranded, with no separate login and no data sync, and the active loan links itself the moment the first document arrives.
Financial spreading and credit analysis within the Baker Hill UN/FY lending platform.Baker Hill financial-analysis resource guide
Integration scopeEmbed loan-bound document review and financial analysis, including the memo builder. Receive signed webhook events and retrieve structured results, finalized financial values and memo PDFs.
Integration scope depends on the selected modules and systems.Baker Hill UN/FY
Pricing modelSpreadSpace pricing is tailored to your organization and document volume. Volume discounts are available for extraction. The unbranded workspace, counterparty dashboard and compliance bundle with seven-year retention are included on every plan. Contact sales for pricing based on your document volume.
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Baker Hill 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.

Running SpreadSpace with Baker Hill

SpreadSpace can add an embedded analysis workspace to a lender's existing workflow. The integration connects document intake and reviewed data through APIs, with the host-system work scoped for the lender's deployment. The credit team uses SpreadSpace for source review, borrower and guarantor analysis, and the memo while retaining its existing loan system.

Questions lenders ask

Does SpreadSpace replace Baker Hill?

No. SpreadSpace is not a loan origination system. It provides financial spreading, source review, analyst adjustments and credit memos within the lender’s existing workflow. Origination, pipeline management and booking stay in the lender’s existing systems. Compare SpreadSpace with Baker Hill for the financial analysis and memo work, and scope any integration to the lender’s environment.

How does SpreadSpace fit the existing lending workflow?

SpreadSpace provides an embedded analysis workspace, document intake and APIs for returning reviewed data. The integration scope depends on the host system, authentication and document workflow. Analysts use the workspace to review sources, adjust assumptions and prepare the credit memo.

Is Baker Hill NextGen the same as UN/FY?

Baker Hill UN/FY builds on NextGen as a product-development approach. Its lending platform includes financial spreading and credit analysis. Integration with SpreadSpace should be scoped around the lender’s application and document workflow.

What does SpreadSpace do with Schedule K-1s?

Each K-1 in a packet is read on its own and bound to its own supporting statements by the printed partner name, the partner number stamp, page order and the capital account, and a statement that cannot be placed is left unresolved rather than guessed. The recipient is matched to a person on the loan by identifier, name and address, and that person's later personal returns, personal financial statements and K-1s gather in the same pool. Distributions and guaranteed payments come off the K-1 itself, and a long K-1 packet is never cut short by a context window.

How do I check a figure against the source document?

Click it. The full source document opens with a box around that line, inside the SpreadSpace tab in your loan origination system, so you never leave the loan record. A derived figure folds open to the lines that add up to it, and a figure placed in the memo keeps the same link.

How does SpreadSpace keep the analysis reviewable?

Source-backed figures open the supporting document, and derived figures expose their contributing rows. Analysts can review the reported values, choose adjustments and carry the reviewed analysis into the lender’s memo.

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 Baker Hill?

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, counterparty dashboard and compliance bundle with seven-year retention are included on every plan. Baker Hill has no public pricing.