Orion
The AI-powered commercial finance operating system. Live, processing real deal flow across a 165-lender panel.
Rigel Financial Technologies - Powering Orion
The infrastructure
commercial finance
runs on.
Rigel Financial Technologies builds the AI infrastructure layer for the £50 billion UK commercial finance market. Matching intelligence, lender integration rails, compounding deal data. Live and operational today.
165+ LENDERS
£500M PIPELINE
77 BROKERS
11.5 YRS
What We Build
Not a broker. Not a lender. The infrastructure layer between both.
The UK commercial finance market processes more than £50 billion in broker-introduced SME lending a year, on infrastructure that has barely changed in two decades. Deal flow still moves through email, telephone, and institutional memory. The gap is not marginal. It is structural.
Rigel Financial Technologies was incorporated to close it. The company owns the AI systems, lender integration architecture, and data infrastructure the market requires, the technology layer that sits between broker and lender, and that neither can build alone.
That layer is live today, deployed through an operating platform and a founding broker network already generating measurable pipeline volume. The architecture is proven. What remains is scale.
Broker Launch
The founding broker network operating on Rigel infrastructure. 77 active brokers. £500m+ in pipeline volume.
Compounding Intelligence
Every outcome across the network trains the matching model. The data advantage compounds with scale, and cannot be replicated from zero.
The Technology
Intelligence that compounds with every deal.
One system manages the complete lifecycle of a commercial finance deal. Enquiry, match, submission, completion. Every stage generates the data that sharpens the next.
Matching Intelligence
Every deal is scored against the live criteria of 165 lenders in real time. The model retrains on every outcome across the network.
Lender Integration Rails
Structured, lender-formatted submissions travel directly to named decision-makers. Decisions and terms return automatically.
Autonomous Agent Layer
Agents pre-qualify enquiries, manage chase sequences, and flag compliance issues without human intervention.
The Market
A £50 billion market. A structural infrastructure gap.
The shift from direct bank lending to broker-introduced commercial finance has been sustained since 2010. The technology beneath it has not kept pace. Published NACFB data describes the scale:
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UK broker-introduced SME lending annually (NACFB 2025)
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Business loans arranged by NACFB member brokers in 2025
£0bn
Originated by NACFB member brokers in 2025, up 25% YoY
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Individual commercial finance brokers now operating in the UK
Partners
The brands that run on Rigel.
Rigel creates, owns, and operates the brands that carry its technology into the market, and licenses the same infrastructure to partners who build on it.
Orion
The AI-powered commercial finance operating system. Matching, submission, integration, and intelligence. The complete deal lifecycle on one system.
LIVEBroker Launch
The founding broker network operating on Orion. 77 active brokers and £500m+ in pipeline volume. The live proof of the platform at work.
LIVEYour Brand
Orion deployed under a partner's brand. AR networks, mortgage networks, and financial services firms gain full commercial finance capability without building infrastructure.
LICENSING OPENFor Lenders
Deal flow that arrives complete, matched, and ready to underwrite.
Orion connects lenders to a growing broker network through structured rails, and returns the data advantage to your credit and distribution teams.
Qualified Deal Flow
Submissions arrive AI-matched against your live criteria, formatted to your specification, addressed to your named BDMs. Complete packs, not raw enquiries.
Integration Rails
Direct system integration returns decisions, terms, and case status automatically. Lower cost per application. Faster completions.
Market Intelligence
Anonymised network-wide analytics: sector demand, pricing position, appetite benchmarking. Visibility no single lender's book can provide.
Discuss Lender Partnership
Panel placement is structured and limited per category.
The Rigel Story
The brightest point in Orion. The foundation the hunter stands on.
Rigel is the brightest star in the Orion constellation and the seventh brightest in the entire night sky. A blue supergiant burning at over 11,600 degrees Celsius, 70 times larger than the Sun, 860 light-years from Earth. For thousands of years, it has been one of the primary stars used for celestial navigation. Selected by Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office for official use. Sailors in both hemispheres anchored their position to Rigel.
We named our company after it deliberately. Because in commercial finance, brokers need a fixed reference point. A platform that does not move. Infrastructure they can anchor to, and build their entire business on top of.
Rigel powers Orion. Orion navigates the deal. The broker closes it. Three layers. One coherent system. Built on 11.5 years of lender relationships and the most advanced AI matching platform in the UK commercial finance market.
The Trajectory
The standard infrastructure for commercial finance.
The medium-term objective is precise: to become the standard infrastructure for commercial finance deal submission in the United Kingdom, the system the market operates on as a matter of course. From that position, the international pathway follows: the same infrastructure, deployed market by market.
United Kingdom - live
United States
Australia
Ready to navigate by Orion?
For investment enquiries, platform licensing, or lender partnership, contact the Rigel team.