Canadian real estate firm streamlines finance with AI copilots
A leading Canadian commercial real estate capital firm partnered with ALIANDO to overhaul its underwriting, compliance, and finance operations. Facing significant manual processing bottlenecks and siloed data, the firm worked with ALIANDO, a Microsoft partner, to develop a unified AI strategy centered on coordinated copilots. This project leveraged Microsoft Fabric, Azure AI, Power Platform, Azure OpenAI Service, and Copilot Studio to automate document summarization, risk scoring, regulatory validations, audit preparation, and provide real-time analytics. The solution integrated multiple departments’ workflows, increased collaboration, and positioned the company for scalable future innovation. The immediate outcomes were notable improvements in speed, throughput, and revenue, showcasing the value of AI-driven modernization in the finance industry.
- Organization
- Leading Canadian Real Estate Capital Firm
- Industry
- Finance
- Location
- Canada
- Published
- October 2025
Reported outcomes
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Use case focus
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- 1Automated Underwriting with AI Document Summarization
- 2AI-Powered Risk Scoring for Loan Origination
- 3Regulatory Compliance Copilot Automation
- Manual underwriting processes created operational bottlenecks.
- Compliance workflows were slow and fragmented, leading to inefficiency.
- Data existed in silos, preventing real-time collaboration and insight sharing across departments.
- Compliance teams spent too much time on routine checks and audit preparation.
- Leadership lacked real-time portfolio analytics to anticipate market shifts.
- Deployed a coordinated set of AI copilots for underwriting, compliance, and finance using Microsoft Fabric, Azure AI, Power Platform, Azure OpenAI Service, and Copilot Studio.
- Automated summarization of complex financial documents and AI-driven risk scoring for underwriters.
- Compliance Copilot automated regulatory validations and audit prep, shrinking review cycles from days to minutes.
- Finance Copilot provided live portfolio insights and forecasts, fully integrated with existing financial systems.
- Unified data strategy enabled automation, reporting, and cross-functional collaboration between departments.
- Reduced manual processing time by 30% within one quarter.
- Increased deal throughput by 20%.
- Compliance review cycles were shortened from multi-day to minutes.
- Improved speed and consistency of underwriting decisions supported by real-time AI insights.
- Expected to generate over $500,000 in additional annual contract revenue.
Architecture
Coordinated set of AI copilots, including underwriting (document summarization, AI risk scores), compliance (regulatory validations, audit preparation), and finance (real-time analytics, forecasting) copilots, all integrated across departments using Microsoft Fabric and Power Platform to unify data and automate workflows. Microsoft Fabric enables seamless data connectivity and reporting; Azure OpenAI Service powers document and insight generation; Copilot Studio provides live forecasting and planning tools; workflows interconnect to eliminate silos between business units.
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