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title: Benefit Street uses Codex to turn credit follow-ups around faster
description: "OpenAI’s Oct. 16 story says portfolio manager Anant Kumar built a loan-valuation tracker and a credit-agreement analyzer at Benefit Street Partners, using Codex for code review and faster investment-committee follow-ups, with humans still deciding."
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# Benefit Street uses Codex to turn credit follow-ups around faster

> OpenAI’s Oct. 16 story says portfolio manager Anant Kumar built a loan-valuation tracker and a credit-agreement analyzer at Benefit Street Partners, using Codex for code review and faster investment-committee follow-ups, with humans still deciding.

OpenAI published a customer story on October 16, 2026, about Benefit Street Partners using Codex. The page names Codex as the product. It covers tools for comparing loan valuations and analyzing credit agreements, with people still reviewing the output.

Follow-up questions from the investment committee used to take days or weeks at the credit-focused manager. Portfolio manager Anant Kumar says analysts can now turn a round of comments in a day with Codex, and often answer during the meeting itself. OpenAI says the tools add review capacity and rigor to underwriting within the same timeframe, rather than letting the firm do more deals.

Kumar used to need someone with software expertise to build a shareable site and pull in the data. He now builds his own tools, using AI to draft code and review it for errors. “I’ve gone from being just an analyst and a portfolio manager to being a developer as well now. I can build things,” he says.

## A BDC mark tracker

The tracker uses public SEC filings from business development companies to compare how firms value the same loan. The team can see how its marks compare with other holders’ valuations. Kumar built it and used Codex for code review. The first version took about a day. After features and interface work over subsequent weeks, he estimates total development time at about 10–12 hours.

## Credit agreements, then a human pass

Kumar’s other tool analyzes credit agreements, which are often 300 pages or longer. Investors need to find clauses that could shift value away from lenders. That work used to mean asking outside counsel to work through the agreement page by page. Kumar brought together memos from leading law firms on clauses and risks to watch for. He calls the analyzer a “second brain within our organization.”

An uploaded agreement takes about 20 minutes to process into a first-pass analysis, followed by an hour or more of human review. Benefit Street has refactored the tool with GPT-6 Astra, and it is now live in a company-hosted portal.

“The AI is very helpful in collating data, ingesting it, synthesizing analysis, but the ultimate investment decision needs to be made by a human,” Kumar says. Rounds of underwriting still mean further diligence and a revised memo. Deal timelines still range from a few days to a few weeks. He says the team feels more confident because it has more information, and that “the quality of my analysis has become so much better and so much faster.”

Connecting information across deals is still in progress. Continuous underwriting — monitoring loans as news happens and examining effects across the portfolio, rather than re-underwriting only after an event — is a longer-term aspiration.

Read OpenAI’s Benefit Street Partners write-up for Kumar’s line that “Codex has unlocked my day.”

## Sources

- [Benefit Street Partners answers questions faster with Codex](https://openai.com/index/benefit-street-partners)