What a credit journey engine is
A credit operation is not a single event — it is a journey that spans months or years and touches many teams. A credit journey engine manages that journey end to end:
- Product definition: Loan products with versioned terms, charges, and rate configurations, so every contract traces back to the exact product version it was originated under.
- Origination: Application intake, approval or rejection decisions, disbursement, schedule preview, and the regulatory disclosures the jurisdiction requires.
- Servicing: Active contract schedules, repayment recording, prepayment, rescheduling, and corrections — with reversals and replays that keep history consistent.
- Portfolio visibility: Dashboards over the active book, including delinquency views.
- Audit: An immutable of every lifecycle event, preserved for compliance.
The five domains that ship today
Under the hood, Lender is organized into five bounded domains. Every credit journey — whatever the product — flows through them:
Start with Core concepts for the vocabulary, then follow the guides for each domain.
Jurisdiction-aware, Brazil first
Credit rules differ by jurisdiction, so Lender is built jurisdiction-aware from the start: a generic baseline for any market, and a deep Brazilian profile layered on top. The three credit journeys map onto that model:
The deepest journey shipped today is consignado privado — payroll-deducted lending in Brazil, with active origination (contratação ativa), CCB generation and signing, and averbação lifecycle tracking. See Consignado privado.
For everything the Brazilian profile adds — CET disclosure, IOF preview, capitalization consent, PDD staging, and more — see the Brazil regulatory pack.
How Lender composes with the platform
Lender is a Lerian primitive: it runs on the platform rather than beside it.
- Ledger: Every financial event a credit journey produces — disbursement, repayment, accrual, reversal — books to the through configurable accounting profiles and posting rules. The ledger stays the source of truth for balances; Lender stays the source of truth for the credit journey.
- Multi-tenancy: Like every Lerian product, Lender is built for full tenant isolation from the ground up.
- Events: Lifecycle events are published on the platform’s streaming backbone, so downstream products and your own services can react to the credit journey as it unfolds.
- Observability: Structured logs, traces, and metrics on the same observability stack as the rest of the platform.
Next steps
Core concepts
Learn the vocabulary: loan products, accounting profiles, applications, loan accounts, accrual runs, and the Brazil terms.
Lender in the platform
See how Lender posts to the , emits events, and isolates tenants.
Originate a loan
Walk an application from intake through preview, approval, and disbursement.
Consignado privado
Explore the flagship Brazilian journey: contratação ativa, CCB, and averbação.

