SpreadSpace vs Suntell

SpreadSpace gives lenders a detailed credit review built around source evidence, book and tax derivations, and rental income by property. Suntell's Square 1 Credit Suite is a lending and credit analysis platform for community institutions.

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

Three reasons to choose SpreadSpace

Explain the book and tax difference

SpreadSpace records every return on both a tax basis and a book basis, with the calculation folded beneath each derived figure, and the analyst can use either one or both. Its statement of cash flows separates operating, investing and financing activity and reconciles to Schedule L. The analyst can explain the basis of the credit decision from the return itself.

Compare rental income by property

SpreadSpace turns Form 8825 and Schedule E Part I into a property schedule with years side by side. Each property keeps its income, itemized operating expenses and printed depreciation line, with the supporting figures available for review. Analysts can isolate a building and see what changed before relying on the total.

Keep assumptions with the analyst

SpreadSpace lets the analyst choose the EBITDA basis and add-backs for each entity and year. DSCR uses selected document lines and a named recipe saved on the loan, with historical or proposed debt service. The resulting figures retain their supporting calculations for review.

Why SpreadSpace is the stronger choice

SpreadSpace is the stronger choice for lenders that want to examine the evidence and assumptions behind the spread. Analysts can unfold book and tax calculations, compare rental property expenses across years and choose coverage inputs for each entity. The same source links remain available as reviewed figures enter the memo. Suntell places spreading inside Square 1; SpreadSpace replaces that analysis workflow with a dedicated workspace inside the lender's loan origination system, connected in a day.

Choose SpreadSpace when

  • Your analysts want to click any figure and see its source line boxed on the page, inside the app, on the spread and in the memo.
  • You want the whole return on the spread, including hundreds of pages of depreciation and amortization schedules, the net operating loss history, and the affiliated businesses, with every derived figure unfolding into the lines that make it.
  • You spread multi-entity deals with several guarantors and want every Schedule K-1 paired with its statements and attached to the right person automatically.
  • You want bank statements worked to the transaction, with every lender detected, every counterparty classed, and an affiliate reclassified the moment a return proves the relationship.
  • You want to keep the loan origination system you have, and add spreading depth as a tab, with a one-day embed and files that flow from the loan's inbox.
  • Lenders reviewing rental real estate need Form 8825 and Schedule E Part I income, itemized expenses and depreciation compared by property across years.

Where Suntell falls short

  • Spreading runs within Square 1 Credit Suite, tying the analysis workflow to that platform.
  • SpreadIQ imports AI-generated tax figures, which remain subject to the institution's review and judgment.
  • The suite combines lending and credit administration, so selecting its spread also involves a broader platform decision.

Compare SpreadSpace and Suntell

SpreadSpace and Suntell, feature by feature
FeatureSpreadSpaceSuntell
Integration
Loan-inbox intake with automatic linking

A webhook forwards each file the moment it lands in the loan's inbox, AI screening and splitting sort a mixed upload into its documents before extraction, and the loan links itself when the first document arrives.

IncludedNot demonstrated
Versioned API with three SDKs and an agent guide

A versioned public API with three hand-typed SDKs, HMAC-signed webhooks, an end-to-end integration guide for developers, and an agent skill file for everyone else.

IncludedNot demonstrated
Documents and extraction
Tax detail with boxed source review

Every line of Form 1065, Form 1120-S, Form 1120 and Form 1040 with their schedules, every Schedule K-1 in the packet, the supporting statement behind every overflow line and the per asset depreciation registers, so a large return yields several hundred lines with a box on every figure. Every parent return checks its own arithmetic, and a failing check ships as an underwriting signal beside the data.

IncludedNot demonstrated
Schedule K-1 statement pairing and owner linking

Each K-1 is bound to its own supporting statements by a cascade of printed name, partner number, page order and capital account, and its recipient is matched to a person on the loan by identifier, name and address, so a K-1 that lands days later still reaches the right guarantor. No fuzzy person matching exists anywhere, so an unmatched name stays unmatched rather than guessed.

IncludedNot demonstrated
Align workbook periods across tabs and files

A workbook is triaged sheet by sheet across twelve sheet kinds, a comparative statement is fanned out per year, and periods scattered across tabs or across files are stitched into one standard statement with the rows aligned by label and nothing double billed.

IncludedNot demonstrated
Boxed source lines inside the spread

A click opens the full source document with the exact line boxed. A figure placed in the memo keeps the source link, and a derived figure unfolds into its supporting rows.

IncludedNot demonstrated
Tax and statement figures without language models

No figure on a tax return or a financial statement comes from a language model. Extraction is proprietary, and AI handles document screening and splitting.

IncludedNot demonstrated
Bank statements
Statement transactions with page boxes

Every transaction in statement order with its date, printed description, signed amount, and type, wire and ACH descriptions split into who sent it, who received it, and what it was for, a balance for every single day, and overdrafts, NSFs, chargebacks, and returned items counted. Statements group into accounts automatically, so you spread one account, several, or all of them.

IncludedNot demonstrated
Classified bank cash flow with retained transactions

Where the money came from, where it went, and what was left, day by day, with transfers between the borrower's own accounts kept out of the operating numbers and owner draws and personal spending set apart. Liquidity bands the lowest, average, and highest balances, any day opens the transactions behind it, and every figure links back to its statement page.

IncludedNot demonstrated
Financing cadence with supporting transactions

Every lender the statements reveal, advances and repayments relationship by relationship, merchant cash advances, and financing spotted from payment cadence and transaction text such as a loan payoff note.

IncludedNot demonstrated
Counterparty classes with analyst overrides

Transactions roll up by named counterparty into income and expense classes with 24 operating outflow subclasses. Uncertain classifications remain in an under review section, an analyst confirmation groups matching transactions, and overrides persist through reprocessing with an audit record.

IncludedNot demonstrated
Cross-document reclassification

When a later return names a counterparty as an affiliate, the rollup reclassifies it, even days after the statements landed. In an illustrative example, $9,000,000 moved from repairs to intercompany, 12% of operating outflows, and the row's document link opens the boxed source line.

IncludedNot demonstrated
Undisclosed accounts and concentration

Accounts the transactions mention with no statements uploaded are named by bank and last four digits, each with the transactions that revealed it, and the flag clears itself as statements arrive. Top customers and vendors rank by share, and an implied debt schedule builds from bank activity alone.

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Analysis
Tax basis and book basis

Every return is recorded on both a tax basis and a book basis, and the analyst can use either one or both. The math sits under each derived figure as a folded derivation whose lines sum to it, from the book gain on assets disposed to book depreciation and capex, so the analyst checks the preparer's math instead of reading a line item.

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Cash flow from the return

An itemized statement of cash flows derived from the tax return alone, in three blocks for operating, investing, and financing, footing to the net change in cash on Schedule L, with a bridge visual and the formal three-block table, plus a fully itemized book-basis P&L bridge for every return year.

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Basis-aware EBITDA with line-level add-backs

Start from the company's statements or spreadsheets, from the return on a book basis or from the tax basis that begins at ordinary business income. Add back any line from any document, from one scrolling list or by search, for all years or one, and the add-backs follow the basis the analyst chose.

IncludedNot demonstrated
Per-entity DSCR from selected document lines

Coverage is configured per entity and per year from the documents' own lines, with debt service assembled from the Schedule L liability balances, the business debt schedule and the implied debt schedule from the bank statements, pro forma with proposed debt and historical, and saved as a named recipe on the loan that renders as its own card.

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Return-detected affiliates and bank reclassification

Every affiliated and intercompany entity named anywhere on the business and personal returns lands on one schedule, ownership link or not, K-1 or not, from the ownership tables on Form 1120 and Form 1120-S, the issuer behind every K-1, affiliates named in return statements, the personal return's pass through and qualified business income rosters, and related party receivable and payable lines. The schedule feeds the entity roster and re-tags matching bank counterparties to intercompany with the naming line boxed.

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Rental real estate by property

Every property on Form 8825, across continuation sheets, and each property on Schedule E Part I becomes a row with income, itemized operating expenses and printed depreciation, with years side by side. Each property keeps its source lines, while Form 4562 and the depreciation registers provide the supporting depreciation detail in the return viewer.

IncludedNot demonstrated
Working the spread
Free placement and resizing on a canvas

The spread is a canvas rather than a form. Every chart, table, KPI card, text box, line and comment pin lands where the pointer releases, drags anywhere, resizes from any edge and magnifies on its own axis, and the canvas grows sideways and downward as the work needs it.

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Source-linked charts and custom ratios

More than 100 charts, ratios, and KPIs curated by institutional credit analysts, a builder for custom graphs, tables, ratios, and KPIs with no practical limit, and every figure on any of them one click from its boxed source line.

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Per-entity documents on one shared canvas

Every business and person on the loan is reconciled from the documents' printed names, with spelling drift folded and the EIN last four splitting or uniting names, and appears in the entity selector, so cards from several filers sit on one canvas with no fixed cap on how many. A K-1, a personal return and a personal financial statement gather on the same person without hand linking.

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Searchable return lines with source-linked visuals

Any extracted line becomes a graph, a ratio with real operators and per term multipliers, an aggregate or a KPI card, picked from a searchable list of the return's lines under thirteen groups, the company statements, the personal return and the personal financial statement, and the built visual keeps the source jump on every line it reads.

IncludedNot demonstrated
Memo and audit
Company memo template with source-linked figures

The lender's memo is rebuilt as a company template shared across the team, and spread visuals render as vector graphics in the memo. Figures keep their source links so reviewers can open the boxed line from the memo.

IncludedNot demonstrated
Audited figure corrections with reset

Edits to extracted values run under an opt-in scope, change the extraction itself, stay traceable in the audit, and reverse with a reset.

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Immutable action history with before and after

Every action, including undo and redo, is retained for up to seven years in an immutable log, and a mistake from last week reverses from the log without disturbing the actions made since.

IncludedNot demonstrated

Setup

SpreadSpace and Suntell, setup comparison
DetailSpreadSpaceSuntell
DeploymentSpreadSpace runs as an unbranded tab inside the lender's loan origination system, bundled with the cost of extraction.Spreading within Square 1 Credit Suite.
Time to connectEmbedding the workspace and wiring the upload webhook takes a day, and a skill file lets a coding agent do the wiring from one pasted file.Not specified

Suntell column from its public material, reviewed September 2026. An x marks a feature that material does not demonstrate.

Questions lenders ask

Does SpreadSpace replace Suntell?

Yes. SpreadSpace provides the spreading canvas, source review and memo builder inside the lender's loan origination system. Shared templates preserve the lender's chosen layout and memo format.

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

A day. The embedded workspace and the upload webhook are the two pieces. Files from the loan's inbox enter the analysis through the webhook, and extracted data returns through the API.

How can a reviewer check a figure?

The source document opens with the exact line boxed. Derived figures unfold into the supporting rows that make the calculation. The source link remains available when a figure enters the memo.

What does SpreadSpace do with Schedule K-1s?

Each Schedule K-1 stays paired with its supporting statements and is matched to its recipient on the loan. That person's later returns and personal financial statements gather in the same place. An unresolved match stays unresolved for review rather than being guessed.

Can SpreadSpace compare rental properties across years?

Every property on Form 8825, across continuation sheets, and each property on Schedule E Part I becomes a row with income, itemized operating expenses and printed depreciation, with years side by side. Each property keeps its source lines, while Form 4562 and the depreciation registers provide the supporting depreciation detail in the return viewer.

Who controls EBITDA and DSCR assumptions?

The analyst chooses the EBITDA basis and add-backs per entity and year. DSCR draws from selected document lines and historical or proposed debt service, with the named recipe saved on the loan. Canvas templates carry the layout to later loans without carrying those loan-specific DSCR recipes.

Is there an audit trail?

Analyst actions record who changed what, when, and the before and after values in an immutable history retained for up to seven years. Counterparty corrections have an undo that preserves later independent edits, and the undo is recorded too. Saved boards and memos also retain restorable revisions.

How is SpreadSpace priced against Suntell?

The workspace is bundled with the cost of extraction, including the canvas, source review and memo builder. Contact sales for a quote sized to the lender's document volume.