TransactIQ vs Perfios
Perfios is the Indian BSA market's senior incumbent. TransactIQ is an architected alternative for NBFCs that need deeper coverage on degraded inputs, deployment shapes beyond managed-only, and analytics depth that runs into MSME synthetic financials. This is an architectural comparison focused on fit, not a competitor attack.
Perfios runs real underwriting for real lenders and has done so at scale for years. If your portfolio is mostly standard retail BSA on major private banks and the incumbent is working, switching is probably not the first lever to pull. This comparison is for teams that are running into specific gaps — coverage on the degraded tail, a need for dedicated single-tenant infrastructure isolation on India-managed AWS Mumbai, depth of MSME signals, or an India data-residency posture met by architecture rather than by contract.
Side by side
Six dimensions where evaluation teams usually compare the two.
| Dimension | Perfios | TransactIQ |
|---|---|---|
| Category position | Indian BSA market incumbent. Strong standard-retail coverage on major private bank formats. Widely deployed across consumer-lending NBFCs and banks. | Newer entrant architected around the coverage, deployment, and analytics gaps that the incumbent generation optimised away from. Now in production with structured NBFC onboarding. |
| Coverage on degraded inputs | Generally strong on standard retail bank PDFs. Customer reports vary on the harder tail — dot-matrix PSU scans, Karnataka State Co-operative statements, multi-generation photocopies. | Engineered specifically for the degraded tail. Training and benchmarking weight toward PSU dot-matrix, district central co-ops, password-protected exports, and fax-origin photocopies — because that is where NBFC underwriting accuracy actually breaks. |
| Deployment shape | Primarily managed-service delivery, with hosted and integration options for larger customers. | Managed on Terra Insight's AWS Mumbai infrastructure — shared multi-tenant, or dedicated single-tenant private cloud where a regulator, board, or group-IT policy requires infrastructure isolation. India data residency by architecture; no BYOC or on-premise. |
| Analytics depth | Strong standard BSA outputs — bounce history, salary detection, EMI tracking — suitable for retail underwriting at volume. | 40+ engineered signals including the same retail-grade primitives plus a category-creating MSME layer: personal/business separation, synthetic P&L, synthetic balance sheet, and synthetic cash flow inferred from bank activity. |
| Data residency and isolation | India data residency supported. | India data residency by architecture — every tenant sits on Terra Insight-managed AWS Mumbai infrastructure (shared multi-tenant or dedicated single-tenant private cloud). No BYOC or on-premise. Documented regulator-engagement posture built into the product. |
| Audit posture | Standard enterprise audit trail and vendor due-diligence responses. | Tamper-evident audit record per processed statement — pipeline version, principal, signal outputs, result cache. Regulator-directed review workflow documented in the MSA. |
If you decide to migrate
A BSA cutover is an underwriting-pipeline change, not a website swap. Responsible migration shape, whichever way the evaluation lands.
Parallel benchmark on a labelled set
Pick a representative sample from your existing portfolio — ideally 500 to 2,000 statements covering the banks and statement types you actually see. Run both vendors in parallel. Compare extraction accuracy, signal fidelity, and throughput.
Gap-category drilldown
The banks where Perfios already works well are not the interesting comparison. The decision is made on the categories where it doesn't — PSU dot-matrix, cooperative, password-protected, multi-generation photocopy. Benchmark specifically there.
Deployment-fit scoping
If a regulator conversation, board mandate, or group-IT policy calls for infrastructure isolation beyond multi-tenant logical separation, the dedicated single-tenant private cloud tier on AWS Mumbai is the right shape. Otherwise the shared managed tier fits, with a shorter onboarding window. Decision made on operating-envelope fit — both tiers run on Terra Insight-managed AWS Mumbai infrastructure.
Staged production cutover
Parallel running on a subset of production volume — typically one product line or one origination channel — before full cutover. Documented rollback path and staged traffic shifts. No big-bang switches.
Benchmark TransactIQ on your portfolio
Send a representative sample from your pipeline. Receive a bank-category accuracy benchmark and a deployment-fit scoping — the evidence a switching decision should be made on.
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