The Loan That Missed Payment One Was Clean When You Shipped It: Early Payment Default, Early Payoff, and the Feedback Loop Your QC Program Is Missing
A loan that defaults on its first payment, or pays off in month four, is a loan your pre-funding QC already passed. Both are post-funding signals that something upstream was wrong, and most QC programs never route them back to the decision that let the file through. A production view of how we turn early payment default and early payoff into a closed loop that corrects the agent, not just the file.