Athena starters for credit and lending are 7 ready-made prompts grouped into Agreements and Borrowers and portfolio. 2 run on a schedule: Athena runs them once, delivers a spreadsheet, PowerPoint deck and Word document, emails them to you, and repeats on the cadence you pick. None need a connected app.
Contents
01Agreements
Covenant compliance test
Each covenant, tested, with the calculation shown.
- Setup
- No setup needed
- Runs
- When you ask
- Outputs
- spreadsheet, Word document
Show the prompt
Test the financial covenants for [borrower]. Read the credit agreement and every amendment: [attach], in order. State each financial covenant in force, its threshold and step-downs, and the definitions it uses, with the clause. Using the borrower’s financials and compliance certificate [attach], run each test and show the calculation, including every add-back and cap. Report headroom and trend. Flag anything within [tolerance] and any figure that does not tie to the certificate. An analyst must approve before anything is escalated. Use my company's brand. If I have Word, PowerPoint, or Excel templates in Athena, ask once which to use and build every file from them, keeping their layouts, styles, and formulas. For the brand, use my company's design system if one exists. Otherwise find my company's website (search the web if you are not sure of the domain), run design_system_retriever on it to get the real logo, colors, and fonts, and save the result with create_design_system so every run matches. Use the real logo image; never redraw it or type the company name in its place.
Opens a new Athena chat with this prompt ready to send. If you're not signed in, you'll sign in first and land in the same chat.
Credit agreement abstract
Pricing, maturity, covenants and defaults, cited.
- Setup
- No setup needed
- Runs
- When you ask
- Outputs
- spreadsheet
Show the prompt
Abstract this credit agreement and its amendments: [attach]. Extract parties, facility and tranche amounts, pricing, maturity, amortization, financial covenants, baskets, events of default, and notice requirements. Cite the page for every value and state what is in force after all amendments. Use my abstract template if I attach one. Use my company's brand. If I have Word, PowerPoint, or Excel templates in Athena, ask once which to use and build every file from them, keeping their layouts, styles, and formulas. For the brand, use my company's design system if one exists. Otherwise find my company's website (search the web if you are not sure of the domain), run design_system_retriever on it to get the real logo, colors, and fonts, and save the result with create_design_system so every run matches. Use the real logo image; never redraw it or type the company name in its place.
Opens a new Athena chat with this prompt ready to send. If you're not signed in, you'll sign in first and land in the same chat.
Amendment comparison
What changed, clause by clause.
- Setup
- No setup needed
- Runs
- When you ask
- Outputs
- Word document
Show the prompt
Compare these two versions of an agreement: [attach original] and [attach amended]. List every change clause by clause, with both texts, and group them as economic, covenant, definition, or administrative. Put the economic and covenant changes in a one-page summary on top. Use my company's brand. If I have Word, PowerPoint, or Excel templates in Athena, ask once which to use and build every file from them, keeping their layouts, styles, and formulas. For the brand, use my company's design system if one exists. Otherwise find my company's website (search the web if you are not sure of the domain), run design_system_retriever on it to get the real logo, colors, and fonts, and save the result with create_design_system so every run matches. Use the real logo image; never redraw it or type the company name in its place.
Opens a new Athena chat with this prompt ready to send. If you're not signed in, you'll sign in first and land in the same chat.
Compliance certificate check
Recalculate every reported ratio.
- Setup
- No setup needed
- Runs
- When you ask
- Outputs
- spreadsheet
Show the prompt
Check this compliance certificate [attach] against the credit agreement [attach] and the borrower’s financial statements [attach]. Confirm each reported ratio by recalculating it, list differences, and note any covenant the certificate omits. Use my company's brand. If I have Word, PowerPoint, or Excel templates in Athena, ask once which to use and build every file from them, keeping their layouts, styles, and formulas. For the brand, use my company's design system if one exists. Otherwise find my company's website (search the web if you are not sure of the domain), run design_system_retriever on it to get the real logo, colors, and fonts, and save the result with create_design_system so every run matches. Use the real logo image; never redraw it or type the company name in its place.
Opens a new Athena chat with this prompt ready to send. If you're not signed in, you'll sign in first and land in the same chat.
02Borrowers and portfolio
Borrower package spread
Financials from a borrower’s package, in your template.
- Setup
- No setup needed
- Runs
- When you ask
- Outputs
- spreadsheet
Show the prompt
Spread the financials from this borrower package: [attach]. Map them into my spreading template [attach, or ask me for the lines]. Normalize EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA using the definitions in the credit agreement if I attach it. Flag figures that do not tie across statements and pages you could not read with confidence. Cite the page for every figure. Use my company's brand. If I have Word, PowerPoint, or Excel templates in Athena, ask once which to use and build every file from them, keeping their layouts, styles, and formulas. For the brand, use my company's design system if one exists. Otherwise find my company's website (search the web if you are not sure of the domain), run design_system_retriever on it to get the real logo, colors, and fonts, and save the result with create_design_system so every run matches. Use the real logo image; never redraw it or type the company name in its place.
Opens a new Athena chat with this prompt ready to send. If you're not signed in, you'll sign in first and land in the same chat.
Portfolio borrower watch
News, filings, and ratings actions on every borrower. See how it runs →
- Setup
- No setup needed
- Runs
- Every weekday at 7am, weekly on Mondays at 7am, or monthly on the 1st
- Outputs
- spreadsheet, PowerPoint deck, Word document; emailed to you after every run
Show the prompt
For each borrower on my list [attach or pick from Athena], report news, filings, ratings actions, leadership changes, and litigation from the last 30 days. Score each item for credit relevance, cite the source, and draft a note for the relationship team, held for my approval. Report only what is new since last run. Deliver three files in my company's brand. If I have Word, PowerPoint, or Excel templates in Athena, ask once which to use and build every file from them, keeping their layouts, styles, and formulas. For the brand, use my company's design system if one exists. Otherwise find my company's website (search the web if you are not sure of the domain), run design_system_retriever on it to get the real logo, colors, and fonts, and save the result with create_design_system so every run matches. Use the real logo image; never redraw it or type the company name in its place. The files: (1) a spreadsheet with one row per item (date, borrower, category, what happened, credit relevance, source link); (2) a PowerPoint deck with the logo on the title slide, a one-slide summary, a slide per section with a chart wherever there are numbers, and a so-what slide; (3) a Word document with the logo in the header, the full brief, and every source cited. Brand colors and fonts throughout, one idea per slide, no walls of text. Finish with a short summary in chat that links all three. When each run finishes, this one included, email me the three files from Athena: send them to my own email address with the chat summary in the body. If Athena cannot send email in this workspace, say so instead. When you are done, ask me how often I want this: every weekday at 7am, weekly on Mondays at 7am, monthly on the 1st, or not now. Also ask which sections to keep and confirm my IANA time zone (for example America/New_York), and pass it explicitly when creating the schedule. If I choose a schedule, set up a scheduled agent that runs this same brief on it, keeps the spreadsheet asset ID and any template IDs in its instructions, reads the latest dated tab before each run, and reports only what changed since the last run. It says plainly when nothing material changed, and says comparison is unavailable if the prior tab cannot be read. Each run adds a dated tab to the same spreadsheet and makes a new dated deck and document. Whenever I give feedback on a run, in this chat or a later one, update the scheduled agent's instructions (and the template or design system when the feedback is about how the files look) so every later run follows it, then tell me exactly what you changed.
Opens a new Athena chat with this prompt ready to send. If you're not signed in, you'll sign in first and land in the same chat.
Loan tape cleaner
A servicer’s tape, mapped, with data exceptions listed. See how it runs →
- Setup
- No setup needed
- Runs
- Monthly on the 1st, or every weekday or weekly instead
- Outputs
- spreadsheet, PowerPoint deck, Word document; emailed to you after every run
Show the prompt
Map this month’s loan tape [attach] into my schema [attach, or ask me for the fields]. List data quality exceptions (missing fields, out-of-range values, duplicates, balance changes without a payment) with the loan ID and the source. Do not silently fix anything. Show what changed since last month’s tape. Deliver three files in my company's brand. If I have Word, PowerPoint, or Excel templates in Athena, ask once which to use and build every file from them, keeping their layouts, styles, and formulas. For the brand, use my company's design system if one exists. Otherwise find my company's website (search the web if you are not sure of the domain), run design_system_retriever on it to get the real logo, colors, and fonts, and save the result with create_design_system so every run matches. Use the real logo image; never redraw it or type the company name in its place. The files: (1) a spreadsheet with one row per exception (loan ID, field, issue, tape value, expected value, source); (2) a PowerPoint deck with the logo on the title slide, a one-slide summary, a slide per section with a chart wherever there are numbers, and a so-what slide; (3) a Word document with the logo in the header, the full brief, and every source cited. Brand colors and fonts throughout, one idea per slide, no walls of text. Finish with a short summary in chat that links all three. When each run finishes, this one included, email me the three files from Athena: send them to my own email address with the chat summary in the body. If Athena cannot send email in this workspace, say so instead. When you are done, ask me if I want this monthly on the 1st (or every weekday, or weekly instead). Also ask which sections to keep and confirm my IANA time zone (for example America/New_York), and pass it explicitly when creating the schedule. If I choose a schedule, set up a scheduled agent that runs this same brief on it, keeps the spreadsheet asset ID and any template IDs in its instructions, reads the latest dated tab before each run, and reports only what changed since the last run. It says plainly when nothing material changed, and says comparison is unavailable if the prior tab cannot be read. Each run adds a dated tab to the same spreadsheet and makes a new dated deck and document. Whenever I give feedback on a run, in this chat or a later one, update the scheduled agent's instructions (and the template or design system when the feedback is about how the files look) so every later run follows it, then tell me exactly what you changed.
Opens a new Athena chat with this prompt ready to send. If you're not signed in, you'll sign in first and land in the same chat.
03Why run it in Athena
| A chat assistant | Athena | |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | Text in a chat | Real Excel, Word, and PowerPoint files in your templates |
| Working together | One person, one chat | Your team and the agent in the same file, live |
| Mistakes | Regenerate and start over | Every edit attributed; undo or roll back any change |
| Next run | Starts from scratch | Builds on the last run and on your feedback |
| Your data | Copy and paste | Documents, email, and warehouse, under each person's access |
| Where it runs | Their cloud | Yours, if you need it |
04For your team
- Finance, PE, credit & ventureHow Athena works in this industry.
- Finance & FP&AHow Athena works for this team.
- Covenant testingCovenants tested with the calculation shown.
- LPA and side letter analysisTerms extracted and compared to precedent.
- DDQ completionAnswer questionnaires from your own documents.
- Portfolio monitoringEvery board pack read the week it arrives.
05Questions teams ask
How do I use a starter?
Open a new chat in Athena, paste the prompt, and replace anything in square brackets with your details before sending. Athena asks for anything else it needs.
Which starters run on a schedule?
These run on a schedule: Portfolio borrower watch, Loan tape cleaner.
Which starters need connected apps?
None of them. All seven need no setup.
Does it send anything on its own?
No. Anything that drafts a message holds it for approval. An analyst approves before any covenant result is escalated.
Can I use my own templates?
Yes. The scheduled starters ask once which of your Word, PowerPoint or Excel templates in Athena to use and build every file from them. With no template, they use your company's logo, colors and fonts.