Twenty-five rooms.
People in all of them.
That is the asset.
Fifty-five years and twenty-five locations is not a thing you automate your way out of. This is a concept for the gap before someone sits down with one of your people — so that conversation starts at minute five instead of minute one, and so the board can see it is happening the same way everywhere.
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Someone is coming in at eleven. They have already typed some of it online, told part of it to whoever answered the phone, and will tell the rest of it again across the desk. The first ten minutes of that appointment get spent on ground the customer has already covered twice — and it is the ten minutes where the person opposite them is at their most useful.
You publish a same-day response and money within 24 hours of approval, and you are rated 4.8 by your own customers. The constraint on that is not the decision, it is how much of each conversation is spent recovering information the person already gave you somewhere else.
What happens now
The conversation restarts from the beginning, because nothing carries between the phone, the form and the desk.
What it costs
The scarcest thing you own is a trained person’s attention in a room, and a third of it goes on re-collection.
What the concept does
Assembles what is already known into a one-page brief for the person taking the appointment, and stops there.
One appointment. Four briefs.
The same eleven o’clock, four situations. Every one of these is written for your own person to read before the customer walks in — none of it is sent to the customer as a decision, because none of it is one.
A template sends the same thing to everyone and changes the name. What matters here is the case that should get something different — or nothing at all.
The rules beside each draft are placeholders. A pilot replaces them with your actual policies. We have not seen those, and this concept does not guess at them.
The checks that run before a brief reaches a desk
This concept writes for your own people rather than your customers, which changes what the risks are. These are the ones that matter.
Drafts are held against the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act 2003 and the Responsible Lending Code, the Privacy Act 2020, and the Fair Trading Act 1986.
Press run to see what it catches — and what it refuses to produce at all.
One room. Your people, your agents, every action on the record.
Every concept on this page would run inside a private room like this: your team and the agents in the same space, drafts appearing with receipts, a named person saying yes. It runs on infrastructure you approve — and what is said in the room stays in it.
receipt sources: your rate card · rules: yours · held for approval
Client information stays in your room. Six months later, “where did this come from?” is one line, not a search.
Yours
Runs where you approve — your own room, your own record. Nothing in it leaves it.
On the record
Every agent action lands as a line a person can read — not a log only a vendor can open.
People decide
Drafts wait for a named person. The room shows who said yes, and when.
This panel is a concept picture, not a live room — a pilot stands up the real one, on infrastructure you approve.
This morning, across the network
Illustrative and fictional. No production access is requested by this concept.
| Appointment | Volume | Prepared | Waiting on | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Returning customer, complete | — | Brief ready, nothing outstanding | The appointment | Ready for 11:00 |
| First-time borrower | — | Brief ready, longer slot flagged | The appointment | Ready for 11:00 |
| Partner attending as well | — | Room booked, both IDs noted | The appointment | Ready for 11:00 |
| Reads as hardship | — | No brief prepared | Branch manager, before arrival | Held — no brief |
| Documents not yet supplied | — | Brief held, what-to-bring sent | Customer | Parked |
| Walk-in, no prior contact | — | Nothing to assemble | Nobody — as expected | Not applicable |
Volumes are deliberately blank. This concept has no Instant Finance data of any kind and does not estimate how many appointments anything affects.
Every draft carries its own working.
Not a log somebody has to go and find. The provenance travels with the work — what it read, which rules it held, who must approve it, and what it refused to do.
This matters most on the day someone asks why it said what it said.
- Artefact
- Branch brief — 11:00 Manukau, returning customer
- Read
- Published product, fee and branch facts from instantfinance.co.nz · appointment fields: prior contact notes, stated purpose and amount, attendee count, documents supplied, hardship-language flag. No credit file. No bank transactions. Nothing from Nectar.
- Rules held
- Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act 2003 · Responsible Lending Code · Privacy Act 2020 · Fair Trading Act 1986
- Refused
- No credit decision or assessment was made. Nothing accrued in cash or points. No brief was prepared where the prior contact read as hardship. Nothing was shared with or taken from Nectar. No customer is identifiable in the board view.
- Approver
- A named person. Unsent until then.
- Prepared
- —
- Reference
- —
What this will never do
It does not send. It prepares, and a named person sends. It does not publish to any channel, commit spend, move money, or make a decision that belongs to a person. It does not pretend to be a person — every draft says it was prepared by a machine and approved by a human.
No production access is requested by this concept.
Scope
One branch, six weeks: the brief that reaches the desk before a booked appointment. Not the credit model, not pricing, not affordability, not the branch systems, and not the conversation itself.
Access
Your published product and branch facts, plus the field names for prior contact notes, stated purpose and amount, attendee count, documents supplied and a hardship flag. No credit files. No customer records leave your systems.
Scorecard
Minutes of each appointment not spent re-collecting. Second trips avoided because the what-to-bring was right. Held appointments a branch manager agreed should have been held. And the honest one: whether the person behind the desk wants the brief on the mornings we do not send one.
Fail any line of the scorecard and we change the design or stop.
Pick a verb.
Not “book a demo”. Any of these is a real next step, and the third is a perfectly good answer.
What is the one constraint we have got wrong?
Every concept is built from the outside. There is always something about how Instant Finance actually runs that we could not see. One line is enough.
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