DebtStak is founded and led by an industry operator with 11 years across the Canadian commercial real estate lending market — a Big 6 bank, an Alt-A lender, and two private lenders.

That path — from bank credit culture to Alt-A flexibility to private-lender speed — is the lens on every tool we build. The screener exists because the bottleneck at every shop was the same: one underwriter reading 30-to-80-page offering memos and deciding, in an afternoon, whether a deal was worth a second look. The underwriting tool and the portfolio manager on the roadmap exist because the next two bottlenecks after screening are the full underwrite and the book that piles up after closing.

And knowing the lender box cold is exactly what the other side of the deal needs — so that same lens now powers tools for brokers too: matching a deal to the lenders who'll actually do it, and turning raw files into lender-ready packages. We build for the whole Canadian CRE debt market, not one seat at the table.

The team will grow as the work demands it. For now, it's the founder's hands on every build — so the person writing the code is the person who's underwritten the deals.