Case Study: Landbay achieves 1,000% growth and 81% faster audits with Looker

Landbay and Looker increase efficiency leading to massive results

Landbay is a UK fintech that operates a marketplace for institutions to fund residential buy-to-let mortgages. Founded in 2014 with a data-first approach, rapid growth exposed serious bottlenecks: only a few people could query databases, teams relied on error-prone spreadsheets, and auditors and lending partners faced slow, manual reporting—limiting scalability and timely decision-making.

By adopting Looker on their modern data stack (AWS Redshift plus SaaS integrations) Landbay created a single, modeled source of truth and self-service access for internal and external users. The change enabled real-time, lender-specific portfolio insights, cut audit time by about 81%, and empowered 90% of employees to use data—allowing the company to support massive growth (1,000% over recent periods) with a three-person data team while maintaining strong risk controls and zero loan defaults.

Landbay

Julian Cork

Chief Operating Officer