ForwardAI is a financial technology company that provides a single, unified API to access business financial data. The platform connects to major accounting systems (like QuickBooks, Xero), banking institutions, and other financial data sources, allowing lenders, fintechs, and other service providers to retrieve real-time, permissioned financial information. Their mission is to simplify access to this data, enabling clients to automate processes like loan underwriting, risk assessment, and financial monitoring, thereby accelerating and improving decision-making for small business financing.