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type: software
title: "NMTC Application Builder"
abstract: >
  An open-source intelligence platform for Community Development Entities (CDEs)
  preparing New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) allocation applications to the CDFI Fund.
  Scores applications against the CDFI Fund's published CY 2024-2025 Review Process
  criteria (Business Strategy, Community Outcomes, Priority Points), generates
  quantified recommendations with CDFI Fund citations, optimizes project subsets,
  and produces automated Word/Excel/PDF/Markdown application packages.
authors:
  - family-names: Patel
    given-names: Jay
    orcid: ""
    email: thejaypatel1511@gmail.com
repository-code: "https://github.com/Jaypatel1511/nmtc-application-builder"
url: "https://jaypatel1511.github.io/nmtc-application-builder/"
license: MIT
version: "1.5.7"
date-released: "2026-08-24"
keywords:
  - NMTC
  - CDFI
  - new-markets-tax-credit
  - community-development
  - pipeline-analysis
  - win-alignment
  - Python
