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title: "UCC-1 Filing & UCC Analysis AI Agent | Kolena"
url: "/agent-library/ucc-analysis/"
description: "A pre-built AI agent from Kolena that extracts equipment collateral from a lease or loan bundle and preps a clean, cited UCC-1 filing in minutes."
updated: 2026-08-11T20:54:34+00:00
---

# UCC Analysis

Extract equipment collateral from a lease or loan bundle and prep a clean, cited UCC-1 filing in minutes, not hours.

## Impact

Manual UCC filing prep reduced from about 8.5 hours to roughly 30 minutes per file - about a 96% labor reduction - with funding turnaround moving from days to hours (per filing)

## What it extracts

- **Filing Summary** — A one-look roll-up of the filing - debtor, secured party, collateral type, jurisdiction, amount, filing type, and readiness - so a reviewer can orient before the detail.
- **Debtor Legal Name** — The debtor's exact legal name and its source under UCC 9-503; the highest-risk field, because any deviation can make the filing seriously misleading and the lien unperfected.
- **Secured Party** — The secured party of record - the lender or its assignee - as it must appear on the UCC-1.
- **Filing Jurisdiction** — The recommended filing office based on the debtor's location under UCC 9-301 and 9-307, not on where the equipment sits.
- **Equipment Collateral Schedule** — Every equipment item pledged as collateral, with make, model, serial or VIN, quantity, cost, and location - the basis for the collateral description and the invoice reconciliation.
- **Collateral Description for UCC-1** — A drafted indication of collateral sufficient under UCC 9-108, specific enough to reasonably identify the equipment without over-broad all-assets language.
- **Invoice Reconciliation** — The collateral schedule reconciled item by item against the supporting invoices and funding schedule, with variances and match status.
- **Collateral Exceptions** — The exceptions a reviewer must clear before filing - missing or duplicate serials, unfunded items, and amount mismatches most likely to weaken the filing.
- **Existing UCC Filing Details** — Details of any prior UCC-1 or UCC-3 in the bundle - file number, filing date, office, secured party, prior amendments, and collateral on record - needed to track continuation deadlines.
- **UCC Action Type** — Whether the bundle calls for an initial UCC-1 or a UCC-3 continuation, termination, assignment, collateral amendment, or party-information amendment.
- **Lapse and Continuation Window** — The computed UCC 9-515 lifecycle dates - lapse date (filing plus five years), the six-month continuation window, and whether action is due now.
- **Filing Readiness Review** — The expert pre-filing checklist - debtor name, collateral sufficiency, jurisdiction, secured party, invoice reconciliation, and continuation timing - each marked Pass, Needs review, or Fail.

## Where it fits

- **Process** — Loan operations / collateral perfection
- **This step** — UCC filing preparation and collateral analysis
- **Upstream** — Loan closing - executed master lease, equipment schedule, invoices, and funding request arriving as each equipment deal funds
- **Downstream** — UCC-1 filing with the state central filing office; Loan Boarding; Continuation and lien-portfolio monitoring

## What it needs

### Documents
- Master lease or loan agreement
- Equipment schedule (Schedule A or Exhibit A)
- Equipment invoices and funding schedule
- Prior UCC-1 financing statement or UCC-3 amendments
- Debtor formation document (certificate of organization or incorporation)

### Systems
- Email
- Loan origination system
- Google Drive
- SharePoint

### Prerequisites
- The complete collateral bundle including the equipment schedule and supporting invoices
- The debtor's exact legal name from its organic public record
- Any prior UCC filing on the same debtor and collateral

## What it produces

A UCC-1 filing prep sheet - exact debtor, secured party, collateral description, recommended filing jurisdiction, an invoice reconciliation, and a pre-filing review checklist, each value cited to its source document

### Destinations
- State central filing office (UCC-1 submission)
- Loan file
- Servicing / boarding system

## Review model

A loan-operations analyst reviews the debtor legal name, the collateral description, the recommended filing jurisdiction, and any collateral exceptions before the UCC-1 is filed; the debtor name is confirmed against the debtor's organic public record.

## Who uses it

- Loan Operations Analyst
- UCC Filing Specialist
- Loan Closer
- Commercial Lending Portfolio Manager

## Volume fit

- **Works best for** — equipment and commercial lenders preparing dozens or more UCC filings a month where filing speed gates funding turnaround
- **Too small for** — a one-off filing on a single simple loan where manual prep is faster than setup

## Grounded in

- UCC Article 9 (Uniform Commercial Code, Secured Transactions) _(verified 2026-07-22)_
- UCC 9-502 (contents of a financing statement) _(verified 2026-07-22)_
- UCC 9-503 / 9-506 (name of debtor; effect of errors) _(verified 2026-07-22)_
- UCC 9-108 (sufficiency of collateral description) _(verified 2026-07-22)_
- UCC 9-301 / 9-307 (law governing perfection; location of debtor) _(verified 2026-07-22)_
- UCC 9-515 (duration and effectiveness; continuation) _(verified 2026-07-22)_
- UCC 9-512 (amendment - UCC-3) _(verified 2026-07-22)_
- UCC 9-322 (first-to-file-or-perfect priority) _(verified 2026-07-22)_

## Provenance

based on a production deployment at a commercial equipment lender