Our story

Why we built Crestwell.

Every week, hours are lost by talented mortgage professionals retyping data from PDFs into portals. I built Crestwell because I believe software should handle the paperwork, so brokers can focus on their clients.

“Crestwell exists to remove the clerical burden from financial advice - and give brokers back the human part of the job.”

Read, don't retype

Crestwell reads passports, payslips and bank statements the way a person would - and pulls the exact figures a case needs, so nobody types them twice.

passport_smith_j.pdf
Read → Personal details
payslip_oct_2025.pdf
Read → Income

Nothing typed twice.

Keep the adviser in control

Automation shouldn't mean a black box. Every extracted value is shown with its source, and nothing commits to the file until a broker accepts it.

£84,500

From payslip_oct_2025.pdf · “basic salary £84,500 per annum”

The broker decides - always.

Compliance-ready by default

File notes, Consumer Duty prompts and audit logging are built into the foundation - the compliant version of the file is the only version.

File note

Draft - awaiting sign-off
Six sections drafted from the meeting
Consumer Duty prompts flagged for review
Our principles

Trust is the product.

We handle sensitive financial data. Security, privacy and accuracy aren't features here; they're the foundation everything else is built on.

Automation with oversight.

AI is a tool to augment the broker, not replace them. Crestwell proposes answers but always defers to professional judgment.

Built with brokers.

Nothing ships from a vacuum. Every feature is tested and refined with working mortgage professionals who use it on real cases.

Give your evenings back.

Start turning client paperwork into finished fact finds today.