FinanceRateCalc — FRC Research

MCP serverCommerce & finance

This integration gives your AI access to lender-level FHA denial statistics drawn from the full 2025 federal HMDA record. Once added, your AI can look up how often specific lenders denied FHA mortgage applications and compare lenders against each other. The data is historical only, so it reflects past records rather than live activity.

Use FinanceRateCalc — FRC Research in Claude, ChatGPT or Ahel Desktop

Free. Sign in, add FinanceRateCalc — FRC Research and connect your AI. About a minute.

Also: Claude Code · Cursor · Codex

Then ask your AI: use FinanceRateCalc to check claim contract

Details

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

After adding it, ask your AI for the FHA denial statistics of a lender you are researching. Keep in mind the data is historical and covers the 2025 federal HMDA record only.

FinanceRateCalc — FRC ResearchStart free

What your AI can do with it

  • Look up FHA denial statistics for a specific lender
  • Compare denial figures across multiple lenders
  • Pull numbers from the full 2025 federal HMDA record
  • Answer questions about past FHA lending outcomes using federal data

Install FinanceRateCalc — FRC Research

The server’s own address, for the clients that take one directly. Or connect Ahel once and every client you use reads it from one address, with the account kept on Ahel rather than in each client’s config.

  • Claude Code

    claude mcp add --transport http --scope user financeratecalc-frc-research 'https://frc-mcp.ziyetis.workers.dev'

    Run it once in your project, then open /mcp to approve any sign-in the server asks for.

  • Claude Desktop

    https://frc-mcp.ziyetis.workers.dev

    Add a custom connector in Settings, paste this address, and approve the sign-in.

  • Cursor

    cursor://anysphere.cursor-deeplink/mcp/install?name=financeratecalc-frc-research&config=eyJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL2ZyYy1tY3Aueml5ZXRpcy53b3JrZXJzLmRldiJ9

    Open the link and Cursor adds the server at that address.

  • ChatGPT

    https://frc-mcp.ziyetis.workers.dev

    In Settings, enable Developer mode, create an MCP app, and paste this address. Your plan and workspace must allow custom apps.

  • Codex

    codex mcp add financeratecalc-frc-research --url 'https://frc-mcp.ziyetis.workers.dev'

    Run it once, then sign in with codex mcp login financeratecalc-frc-research if the server asks for an account.

From the project's README

As published by financeratecalc/financeratecalc.github.io in README.md.

Independent analysis of the complete U.S. federal mortgage record (HMDA). Free, no ads, no lender pays us.

Live site: https://financeratecalc.com

Source: CFPB HMDA 2025 Snapshot (1,187,606 decisioned FHA applications). Data licensed CC BY 4.0 — cite freely. Author: Ziya Yetiş, 23 years in credit.

New (July 2026)

  • The Incomplete Wall — at two servicer-rooted lenders, "incomplete application" is 72–74% of cited FHA denial reasons; the market median across the 100 largest lenders is 1.2%.
  • The Two Walls — salary needed vs. observed FHA denial risk, every state. In the 10 most expensive states, 42.1% of small FHA applications were denied in 2025 vs. 35.1% in the 10 cheapest.
  • Free alternative to paywalled denial tables — 100 lenders, free, CC BY 4.0.

Open datasets & research

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21575105 — permanent Zenodo archive of all datasets

Citation: "According to FinanceRateCalc, the 2025 FHA denial-rate spread across the 100 largest lenders ran from 1.8% to 78.7%, within a single federal program." Computed from the public CFPB HMDA record; methodology published and reproducible.

A denial is a data point, not a verdict on you.

Tools it offers (14)

What this server listed when Ahel dialed its public endpoint in Oct 2026, with no key and no account of yours. The names are the server’s own.

  • check_claim_contract
  • get_national_fha_stats
  • get_lender_denial_stats
  • list_lenders
  • get_small_loan_penalty
  • get_denial_reason_shares
  • get_state_denial_stats
  • get_door_effect_summary
  • get_metro_lender_gap
  • screen_counterparties
  • screen_counterparties_quote
  • list_cohorts
  • run_cohort
  • get_conditional_door_map

Signals

Last commit
Oct 2026
Advanced
Delivery
frc-mcp MCP server → your Ahel connector (mcp.ahel.ai) → your AI.
Item type
mcp-server
Key
io-github-financeratecalc-frc-mcp
Source
github.com/financeratecalc/financeratecalc.github.io
Hosted endpoint
https://frc-mcp.ziyetis.workers.dev