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Challenge

Build Multi-Agent Loan Risk Assessment Crew using CrewAI

Prudential's target $3 billion home improvement portfolio requires diverse financial expertise: property valuation analysts, credit risk evaluators, contractor quote auditors, and portfolio stress testers. Managing this requires a collaborative multi-agent workforce. In this challenge, developers use CrewAI to orchestrate a specialized crew of AI agents (Underwriting Lead, Property Appraiser, Contractor Verification Specialist, Compliance Auditor). The crew collaborates dynamically to evaluate complex home improvement loan applications, detecting potential contractor fraud and verifying post-renovation loan collateral security.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

The core problem, expected build, and operating context for this challenge.

Orchestrate a multi-agent workforce with CrewAI to audit home improvement loan portfolios and verify renovation estimates.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Evaluates multi-agent agreement, detection of inflated contractor estimates, and accuracy of final portfolio risk assignment.

Datasets

Challenge datasets

Public datasets, plus the private datasets you have access to.

Evaluation rubric

How submissions are scored

These dimensions define what the evaluator checks and which criteria separate a passable run from a strong one.

Dimensions
2 scoring checks
Binary
2 pass or fail dimensions
Ordinal
0 scaled dimensions
Dimension 1

Contractor Overquote Detection

Verifies crew successfully identifies inflated kitchen remodeling quote

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Dimension 2

Risk Flag Recall

Accuracy of detected risk indicators during multi-agent audit • target: 0.92 • range: 0-1

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Learning goals

What you should walk away with

  • Define specialized agent roles, goals, and backstories using CrewAI

  • Implement CrewAI tasks and sequential execution flows for multi-agent collaboration

  • Build custom contractor quote verification tools to detect inflated renovation estimates

  • Consolidate agent assessments into an institutional loan investment memo

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Dataset of 50 home improvement loan packages with line-item contractor bids and property appraisals.

Challenge setup

Evaluates multi-agent agreement, detection of inflated contractor estimates, and accuracy of final portfolio risk assignment.

Challenge input

JSON with applicant_credit_score, property_address, contractor_quote, scope_of_work

CrewAI

Required framework for multi-agent role play.

Evaluated output

JSON with final_recommendation ('APPROVE', 'DENY', 'ADJUST_AMOUNT'), approved_loan_amount, detected_risk_flags

Evaluation checks
  • Verifies crew successfully identifies inflated kitchen remodeling quote
  • Accuracy of detected risk indicators during multi-agent audit • target: 0.92 • range: 0-1
Configured evaluation evidence
  • Benchmark: MultiAgentUnderwriteBench
  • Risk Flag Recall target: 0.92
  • 1 public reference case
Configured runtime
  • Python execution harness
  • Python sandbox (unavailable on Versalist)

Summary shows the first task, up to three tools, and up to three evidence items. Open the technical recipe to view all configured items.

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Configured tools

Action Space
  • CrewAI · Required
  • crewAI · Optional
  • Zed · Optional

Evaluation contract

  • Contractor Overquote Detection · Weight 1
  • Risk Flag Recall · Weight 1

Metrics

  • Risk Flag Recall · Target 0.92

Benchmarks

  • MultiAgentUnderwriteBench
  • general

Reference cases

  • 1 public reference case

Workflow tasks

  1. Task 1

    Input: JSON with applicant_credit_score, property_address, contractor_quote, scope_of_work

    Output: JSON with final_recommendation ('APPROVE', 'DENY', 'ADJUST_AMOUNT'), approved_loan_amount, detected_risk_flags

    Execution harness: Python

Evaluation tools

  • CrewAI · Agent Framework

Recipe freeze marker

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