Operating in a not-common. arena for SBIR involved firm, Salus Financial Technology Ince id described as a dveloper of a "digital underwriting platform designed to expand access to credit for underserved communitie". The company's platform offers frictionless integration, using alternative data to look beyond credit scores to approve more applicants, help existing and new members boost their credit to keep them moving toward their financial goals, and also improving financial outcomes by enabling clients to have a platform that "removes unnecessary costs and barriers and improve their financial well-being". Only inNSF!!! might. such a project have been funded.