SpreadSpace vs Casca

SpreadSpace gives SBA and small commercial lenders detailed source review and controllable analysis for the credit memo. Casca combines borrower intake, document collection, and credit analysis; SpreadSpace brings the analyst's selected figures, adjustments, and guarantor context into one working spread.

An extracted figure opens its supporting document with the printed line boxed.

Pay only for extraction. No implementation fees.

SpreadSpace charges only for extraction usage, with volume discounts. We never charge implementation or procurement fees.

The API, embedded workspace, financial spreading, source review and memo builder are included in extraction pricing.

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Three reasons to choose SpreadSpace

Control the basis and add-backs

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. 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.

Build the spread around the borrower

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. 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.

Carry the analysis into the memo

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. 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.

Why SpreadSpace is the stronger choice

SpreadSpace is the stronger choice for the detailed underwriting work on an SBA or small commercial loan. Analysts can reconcile the business return to book income, review each guarantor’s K-1 distributions, and compare rental income and expenses by property across years. Every source-backed figure opens the document line, and the lender’s memo carries the same reviewed visuals. Casca connects application and credit workflows, while SpreadSpace gives the analyst a dedicated canvas for examining the evidence and preparing the lender's memo.

Choose SpreadSpace when

  • Lenders reviewing business and personal returns need supporting schedules, K-1 ownership, and the source line behind each figure available in the spread.
  • Credit teams compare every borrower and guarantor on one canvas while keeping each entity’s income basis, adjustments, and DSCR under analyst control.
  • Rental-property lenders need Form 8825 and Schedule E Part I income, itemized expenses, and depreciation with years side by side.
  • Analysts reviewing bank activity need counterparty relationships and return-based affiliate evidence before treating a payment as an operating expense.
  • Committees require the lender’s own memo format, with reviewed charts and tables that retain their source links.
  • Lenders can embed the financial-review workspace and connect document intake to their existing loan workflow.

How the workflows compare

  • Casca connects the application, borrower portal, and loan-officer workflow with credit analysis.
  • SpreadSpace concentrates the review on financial source lines, chosen adjustments, and the lender's credit memo.
  • For a complex loan, analysts can keep the borrower and guarantor analysis visible together while explaining the individual calculations.

Compare SpreadSpace and Casca

SpreadSpace and Casca, feature by feature
FeatureSpreadSpaceCasca
Integration
Versioned API and typed integration guides

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 and 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 lines and supporting schedules

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.

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K-1 statements paired to owners

Each Schedule K-1 is paired with its own supporting statements and attached to the owner it names. Later K-1s, personal returns, and personal financial statements for that person join the same entity, and distributions remain available for analysis.

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Statement periods rebuilt across workbooks

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, balances, and relationships

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.

Automated analysis of up to two years of enriched transaction cash flow.Casca credit analysis
Boxed sources through canvas and memo

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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Analysis
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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Return-derived cash flow tied to Schedule L

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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EBITDA add-backs that follow basis

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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Return-derived affiliates and bank reclassification

The affiliate schedule includes every affiliated and intercompany entity named in the business and personal returns, including K-1 issuers, corporate return affiliations, supporting statements, and related-party receivable and payable lines, whether or not an ownership link or K-1 exists. It feeds the entity roster and reclassifies matching bank counterparties as intercompany, with a link to the source line even when the return arrives later.

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Rental income and expenses 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.

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Source-line DSCR by entity and year

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.

DSCR calculations in the loan-officer dashboard.Casca credit analysis
Working the spread
Freeform multi-entity spreading 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 layout without loan-specific notes

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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Borrowers and guarantors on one canvas

Named businesses reconcile to entities holding their returns and statements, and people collect their K-1s, personal returns, and personal financial statements. Every entity appears in one selector and can be spread side by side on the same canvas.

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Company memo with source-linked exhibits

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.

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Control and audit
Analyst-controlled analysis settings

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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Persistent classification and value overrides

Analyst classifications survive later automation and remain reversible under audit. With the opt-in permission scope, an extracted value can be edited and reset, and derived figures above that value reflect the change.

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Archived actions with targeted undo

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.

Audit records for AI and human actions.Casca commercial lending

Setup

SpreadSpace and Casca, setup comparison
DetailSpreadSpaceCasca
Product shapeSpreadSpace is an unbranded spreading and analysis workspace embedded as a tab in the lender’s loan origination system.
Origination platform with borrower intake, document collection, and credit analysis.Casca commercial lending
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.
Application, borrower portal and credit analysis within the origination platform.Casca commercial lending

Casca 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 Casca?

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 Casca for the financial analysis and memo work, and scope any integration to the lender’s environment.

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

Implementation depends on the lender’s authentication, document routing and data handoff. The embedded workspace and the upload webhook are the two pieces. A developer follows the versioned API guide, or a coding agent follows the integration skill file, and extracted lines return through the API.

How does SpreadSpace preserve the detail in a tax return?

The spread includes the credit-bearing lines and supporting statements on business and personal returns, including depreciation, amortization, net operating loss history, and affiliations. A large return can produce more than 500 usable lines. Tax and book views retain their own derivations, and every source-backed line can open its boxed position on the document.

What happens to K-1s and guarantor documents?

Each K-1 stays paired with its own supporting statements and attaches to the owner it names. Later personal returns, personal financial statements, and K-1s for that person join the same entity. The analyst can compare those guarantors with the borrower on one canvas while keeping each calculation’s entity and basis clear.

Can SpreadSpace analyze rental income property by property?

Form 8825 and Schedule E Part I become schedules of rental income, itemized operating expenses, and depreciation with years side by side. Form 8825 properties continue across continuation sheets, and each Schedule E Part I property retains its expense detail. The expense fold shows the printed depreciation line, with asset detail available in the return viewer’s depreciation register.

How can a reviewer check a figure in the spread or memo?

A source-backed figure opens the document with the line boxed. A derived total opens the contributing rows so the reviewer can follow the calculation and its source lines. Imported memo visuals retain those links, and the lender’s company-wide template keeps the committee’s format.

Can analysts control adjustments and preserve their review?

The analyst chooses EBITDA add-backs on the selected book or tax basis and configures DSCR per entity and year as a named recipe on the loan. Classification overrides survive later automation, and an opt-in permission allows extracted values to be edited and reset under audit. Shared comments, action history, and board revisions preserve the review around those choices.

How is SpreadSpace priced against Casca?

SpreadSpace charges only for extraction usage, with volume discounts. We never charge implementation or procurement fees. The API, embedded workspace, financial spreading, source review and memo builder are included in extraction pricing. Contact sales for pricing based on your document volume.