# AI Governance

Copperlane uses artificial intelligence to help mortgage lenders collect, organize, and review
borrower information. This policy explains the boundaries, oversight, and safeguards that apply to
those capabilities.

## Human Decision-Making

Copperlane supports licensed mortgage professionals. It does not replace their judgment or make
independent lending decisions.

Copperlane does not independently:

- approve or deny a loan application
- select a loan product
- set an interest rate or price
- issue a commitment to lend
- determine an underwriting outcome
- override a licensed professional

AI-assisted results are informational. Lender teams remain responsible for credit, pricing,
underwriting, and borrower decisions.

## How Copperlane Uses AI

Copperlane can help lender teams with borrower intake, document collection, information extraction,
application guidance, file summaries, follow-up, and preliminary loan-file review. These
capabilities are designed to reduce manual work and help teams prepare more complete files.

AI output can be incomplete or inaccurate. Staff can review and correct information before they use
it. Customers control how Copperlane fits into their workflows and which low-risk reminders may be
sent automatically.

## Data Use

Copperlane processes borrower information only to provide and support the services that customers
use. This information can include application data, documents, and communications.

Copperlane does not use borrower documents, communication content, or borrower-identifiable
information to train or fine-tune AI models. Copperlane can use aggregated, non-identifying
operational signals to evaluate quality, find errors, and improve the platform.

Customer data is protected through the controls described in
[Security And Data Protection](/policies/security-and-data-protection). Third-party providers must
meet Copperlane's security, privacy, and contractual requirements.

## Human Oversight And Reliability

Copperlane maintains controls that support reliable and accountable AI use. These controls include:

- human review for decisions and higher-impact actions
- clear limits on what AI can do
- testing before material changes reach customers
- monitoring for errors and unexpected behavior
- records that support review and investigation
- access controls for customer and borrower information

Copperlane reviews AI-assisted workflows as the platform changes. Material issues are investigated
and corrected through the same change and incident processes used for other platform controls.

## Fair Lending

Copperlane is not designed to make decisions based on protected characteristics. AI-assisted output
does not replace the lender's fair-lending, compliance, or underwriting responsibilities.

Lender teams must review Copperlane output in the context of their own policies and applicable law.

## Borrower Transparency And Choice

Borrowers are told when they interact with automated assistance and can ask for help from their
lender team. Communication preferences and opt-out requests are respected across supported
channels.

## Vendor Oversight

Copperlane reviews providers that can process customer data. Reviews consider security, privacy,
data use, retention, access, and contractual protections. See
[Subprocessors](/policies/sub-processors) for the current provider list; sign-in is required to read
that document.

## Governance And Review

Copperlane reviews this policy and its AI controls at least quarterly and after material changes.
Responsibility for AI governance is shared across company leadership, product, engineering,
security, and compliance functions.

Questions about this policy can be sent to
[support@copperlane.ai](mailto:support@copperlane.ai).