> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.vence.one/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# What is Vence

> Vence is credit infrastructure for lenders and financial platforms. Underwrite, originate, service and monitor credit through one API and operating platform.

# What is Vence

> **Vence is credit infrastructure for lenders and financial platforms.** We help institutions underwrite, originate, service and monitor credit through one platform — Decision API, Trust Graph, Credit Network (private prototype) and Institution Console.

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Institutions and developers use Vence to answer who should receive credit, on what limits and conditions, and how facilities should be operated and monitored — with every verdict **explainable and auditable**.

## Why teams evaluate Vence

* **Credit infrastructure built for explainable underwriting**: reason codes, policy version, and model version on every verdict — not a black-box score.
* **Short sandbox path**: when API access is provisioned, create entities, underwrite, and verify webhooks before production enablement.
* **Platform pricing by conversation**: [Contact us](https://vence.one/contact); no public platform rate card.
* **One platform, four capabilities**: Decision API, Trust Graph, Credit Network and Institution Console on the same governed entity profile.
* **Built to integrate** with Plaid, bank rails, payroll, wallets and institution stacks (partner-enabled; not all live today).

## The Vence Credit Platform

| Capability              | What it does                                                               |
| ----------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Decision API**        | Explainable underwriting with limits, conditions and reason codes.         |
| **Trust Graph**         | Identity, cash flow, relationships and credit outcomes in one profile.     |
| **Credit Network**      | Facility origination, draws, repayments and servicing (private prototype). |
| **Institution Console** | Application review, facility monitoring, exceptions and audit history.     |

Production credit operations require licensed partners, live gates and program enablement where applicable. Sandbox and private beta paths are available by request.

## What makes Vence different

* **One decision contract across the credit lifecycle.** Underwriting, facility operations and monitoring share one Trust Graph — not a bolted-on score vendor and a separate servicing stack.
* **Explainable by default.** Every decision returns reasons, policy version, and model version.
* **Trust that updates.** Payroll, bank activity, wallets, facilities and repayments reshape the next verdict where connectors are enabled.
* **Sandbox first, then production when enabled.** Same API shapes and SDK patterns across environments.

## Where should I start?

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    Trust Graph → Decision API → facility operations in plain English.
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    Sandbox underwrite path when API access is provisioned.
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  <Card title="Underwrite guide" icon="scale-balanced" href="/guides/underwrite">
    Entities, policies and explainable verdicts.
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    Contact us for platform pricing.
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    Wordmark, Vence Sans, colors, SVGs, do not alter.
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## Who is Vence for?

* **Platforms, lenders, and institutions** that need explainable credit decisions and facility operations via API.
* **Developers** integrating Decision APIs in a short sandbox path, then production when enabled.
* **Marketplaces and vertical SaaS** embedding credit without building a lending stack from scratch.
* **Private credit funds** structuring and monitoring facilities with covenant context and audit history.