# EPISODE 225: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE GETS REAL IN SMALL BUSINESS LENDING--IN MINUTES

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Podcast: [Bankadelic: The colorful side of finance](https://stenobird.com/podcast/bankadelic-the-colorful-side-of-finance-974512)
Published: 2026-04-10T20:52:46+00:00
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Duration seconds: 1743

## Resource

The fact is that today, much of the small business lending world moves at horse and buggy speed. Old school applications? Check. Bank PDFs? Check. Four week decision times? Check. Time to cross off all those check marks and add a definitive game changer to the mix. On this episode, Casca CEO Lukas Haffer explains how he brought the financial pain points learned at Stanford into the real world, making lending -- for instituions of all sizes -- move at the speed of real life.

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