SpreadSpace vs Lama AI

SpreadSpace gives community and regional banks detailed borrower and guarantor analysis on one shared canvas. Lama AI offers modular source-linked spreading and editable memos; SpreadSpace keeps source review, explicit adjustments, and the lender's credit narrative together in the working spread.

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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

Keep each guarantor’s evidence together

Each K-1 remains paired with its statements and linked to its owner in SpreadSpace. Later personal returns and financial statements join that person’s entity, so the analyst can review distributions and financial position together. Borrowers and guarantors spread side by side on the same canvas.

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 banks that want direct control over commercial credit analysis. Each K-1 stays attached to its statements and owner, each entity retains its own income basis and DSCR, and rental properties carry their own expense detail across years. The analyst can arrange those views together and move reviewed exhibits into a company-wide memo template. Lama AI offers its capabilities in modules or as a suite; SpreadSpace's case is the dedicated workflow for inspecting the borrower's figures, choosing adjustments, and explaining the decision.

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

  • Lama AI offers spreading and memo capabilities within a modular lending platform.
  • SpreadSpace gives the analyst a shared canvas for examining each entity and choosing the supporting figures.
  • The lender's memo carries the reviewed analysis and the context behind the adjustments.

Compare SpreadSpace and Lama AI

SpreadSpace and Lama AI, feature by feature
FeatureSpreadSpaceLama AI
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.

REST API architecture and integrations with existing lending systems.Lama AI spreading
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
Review tax and statement figures

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.

Values link to originating documents and the steps that produced them.Lama AI spreading
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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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.

Values link to originating documents and the steps that produced them.Lama AI spreading
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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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.

Flags potential add-backs, reconciliation gaps, and year-over-year anomalies.Lama AI spreading
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.

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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.

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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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Working the spread and memo
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.

Memo structures and templates configured to the lender's policies and committee format.Lama AI memo generation
Source-linked figures in analyst-written memo prose

The analyst writes the narrative. SpreadSpace supplies the visuals and the figures with their source lines.

Reviewed deal data populates an editable narrative draft.Lama AI memo generation
Vector exhibits on the memo canvas

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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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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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.

Spreading templates and chart of accounts configured to lender requirements.Lama AI spreading
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.

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Shared canvas with pinned review threads

Up to 25 analysts work on one board with live cursors, selections, drags, typing, and shared derivation folds. Comment threads pin to a visual or any canvas location, and linked prose opens the document line it discusses.

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Setup

SpreadSpace and Lama AI, setup comparison
DetailSpreadSpaceLama AI
Product shapeSpreadSpace is an unbranded spreading and analysis workspace embedded as a tab in the lender’s loan origination system.
Modular or end-to-end lending platform.Lama AI memo generation
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.
Spreading and memo modules can be adopted individually or as a suite.Lama AI memo generation

Lama AI 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 Lama AI?

SpreadSpace covers the spreading, analysis, and credit memo work with source review, explicit adjustments, and a shared borrower-and-guarantor canvas. Lama AI can be adopted in modules or as a suite. Compare the financial review workflow the team will use to test the figures and explain the recommendation.

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 Lama AI?

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.