The proof · Silver Lake on IBM i

One lender. One system of record. Agents at every door.

Silver Lake Financial Group is the lender we built to show what an agentic business looks like when the system of record is IBM i. People and agents come through the same door. The lender's own RPG rule decides. Every decision is written once, to a record anyone can check.

A demonstration company · the crossing runs on IBM i today
The live Silver Lake Financial Group home page
01 · Three doors, one rule

However the borrower arrives, IBM i decides.

Silver Lake lends three ways. A person can apply on the website, a home buyer works through a loan with a dozen parties, and a shopper's agent can reach Silver Lake at a store's checkout. All three reach the same decision rule on the same system of record, and all three write to the same record.

Silver Lake prequal on the home pageProven

Personal loans

Prequalify on the site, as a person or through a verified agent. The rule answers in seconds, with reasons.

Try the prequal ↗
Silver Lake marketplace pageProven

The marketplace

A shopper's agent fills a cart at Alder & Pine Home. The shopper picks Silver Lake financing on their own device, and the decision comes from IBM i.

Open the demo store ↗
Silver Lake home loans pageDesigned

Home loans

Agents chase documents and deadlines across a 20-day loan. Named people decide at each gate. Shown in our three-part video series.

Follow the loan ↗

All three → LoanIQ · SP_ELIGCHK on IBM i → one append-only record

02 · The system it runs on

Nothing was rewritten. A door was put in front of it.

The interesting part of Silver Lake isn't the agents. It's that the lending logic didn't move. The rule that decides credit is RPG on IBM i, the data is in Db2, and both stay exactly where they are. What we built is the governed way in.

  1. Db2
    Customers, accounts and history stay in the system of record. No copy for the agents, no data fork.
  2. The rule
    SP_ELIGCHK, the lender's RPG decision logic on utilization, tenure and delinquency. The same rule for every applicant, person or agent.
  3. The door
    Every agent carries its own key and is set to blocked, browse or transact. An agent never decides credit and never moves money.
  4. What crosses
    A participant id and the amount. No SSN. No date of birth.
  5. The record
    Request, decision and acceptance, each written once to a hash-chained record. Edit any entry and everything after it breaks.
840 msa live credit decision from LoanIQ on IBM i, at an agent's checkout
0SSNs or birth dates sent to the box
275 / 275automated probes pass, including the cheats that must fail
The agent is brought to the decision. The decision is never brought to the agent.
03 · The whole lender

One record, every function. People at the gates.

Silver Lake is modeled as a lender of about 200 people. Each function is an agent that reads from and writes to the same record on IBM i, so no work is handed from department to department. People hold the decisions that bind a borrower or move money. Three functions run today; the rest are designed, and we mark which is which.

FunctionStatusThe agent doesA person decides
Front doorProvenAdmits verified agents, takes applicationsWhich agent partners get in
DecisionProvenRuns the rule on IBM i, records the resultEvery referred application
CheckoutProvenOffers financing at a store's checkoutThe shopper accepts the terms
CompliancePartly builtWatches the record, builds decline noticesPolicy and every finding
Home loansDesignedDocuments, conditions, the timelineRate lock, underwriting, closing
ServicingDesignedStages funding, sends remindersReleasing every dollar
CareDesignedEarly outreach, hardship plansEvery loan modification
04 · Watch it, walk it

See Silver Lake from every seat.

The same door works in front of any system of record. IBM i is where we proved it first, because that's where decades of lending decisions already run. Pegasus Commerce ↗

Silver Lake Financial Group and Alder & Pine Home are fictitious demonstration companies built by Pegasus4i. Nothing is really sold or lent, and no real money moves. Functions marked designed are specified, not built.

Your system of record already makes the decisions.

Pick the one decision agents will need to reach first: a credit approval, a price, an order. We'll put a governed door in front of it on your own IBM i, the way we did for Silver Lake.