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Credit Rating Firm Accelerates Credit Analysis with Needl.ai’s Reporting Agent

A leading credit rating firm that evaluates the financial strength and creditworthiness of public and private companies. With over 500 professionals and 90+ analysts, the firm reviews more than 15,000 reports every year to support high-stakes financial decisions for investors, lenders, and regulators.

11 Nov 2025
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Challenge

Analysts were finding it difficult to keep pace with the growing volume and complexity of credit reports. Manual processing of lengthy, unstructured documents under tight deadlines slowed turnaround time, created inconsistency, and limited scalability

Slow Turnaround

Report preparation often took over a day, delaying evaluations during peak review periods.

Disclosure Oversight

Identifying contingent liabilities, audit flags, and key disclosures was time-consuming and error-prone.

Analyst Bandwidth

Analysts spent more time on formatting and data extraction instead of applying credit judgment.

Scaling Bottlenecks

Manual workflows struggled to handle 15,000+ reports a year across varied formats and sectors.

Solution

The firm adopted Needl.ai’s Reporting Agent to automate annual report summarization and streamline credit workflows. The solution was deployed in phases to cover both public and private company analysis, with secure integration into the firm’s private cloud.

AI-Driven Report Structuring: Automatically summarized annual reports into prioritized sections aligned with the firm’s credit review process.
Sector-Specific Templates: Created 15+ custom templates to extract and organize key financial insights using customer-defined logic.
Multi-Format Delivery: Enabled analysts to access structured reports in Word, PDF, or HTML format, as well as through API, dashboard, or email.
Private Cloud Deployment: Ran securely within the firm’s AWS environment with GPU provisioning and complete infrastructure control.

Outcome

The Reporting Agent enabled faster and more consistent credit evaluations, improved analyst productivity, and ensured higher confidence in credit decisions.

60–80% analyst time saved per report

Processing time for articles was significantly reduced by half (or more in some cases), freeing up analyst time.

Improved Article Communication:

Needl.ai generated articles were rated equal to or superior in quality to manual versions in 80% of cases. AI-generated articles adhered strictly to the customer’s style guide, reducing errors and inconsistencies.

Scalability for Growing Data Volumes:

The AI system demonstrated the ability to handle increasing bulletin volumes without a proportional increase in manual workload.

Working with Needl.ai has been incredibly insightful - we achieved 100% accuracy on simple cases and made significant progress on complex scenarios with an overall accuracy of 77%. The partnership demonstrated clear potential for automating our bulletin generation and communication processes to merchants. Looking forward to exploring more AI-driven solutions with the Needl.ai team!

–  AI Product Manager