The Zeevo Group and Lease Logic used the ISTAT Americas conference to present a preview of “Ask Roger”, a new artificial intelligence assistant integrated into the Fly Forward platform and designed specifically for the aviation finance sector.
Developed for professionals at aircraft lessors and asset managers, Ask Roger functions as a digital analyst within the Fly Forward environment. The assistant enables users to query live lease data, maintenance reserve balances, contract terms and payment schedules using plain English questions, delivering structured answers instantly without the need to run reports, write queries or consult internal analysts.
John McCartney, Chief Technology Officer at Lease Logic, said aviation finance teams often spend significant time navigating dashboards and reports to answer relatively straightforward questions about aircraft or lease structures. Ask Roger is intended to streamline that process by allowing users to simply ask a question and receive an immediate response.
Rather than adding a generic chatbot layer, Lease Logic built Ask Roger directly into the Fly Forward platform’s underlying data architecture. The assistant appears as a lightweight widget on the system’s landing page, allowing users to interact conversationally while retrieving insights directly from their portfolio data.
According to McCartney, Ask Roger draws responses from live Fly Forward data in real time rather than from a language model’s training memory or cached exports. This means answers reflect the current state of a client’s portfolio and are sourced exclusively from that client’s secure environment.
The assistant includes a curated set of pre-designed prompts covering common aviation finance queries, developed by industry domain experts. These allow users to quickly review lease expiries, analyse aircraft portfolio exposure, summarise lease terms or identify assets with the highest maintenance reserve exposure.
Ask Roger’s functionality spans four primary areas of aviation finance operations: lease structures and contractual terms, portfolio and fleet status, invoicing and payment schedules, and maintenance reserve balances. The query logic supporting maintenance reserve analysis was developed in collaboration with former senior maintenance reserve specialists from major aircraft lessors.
Omar Zuluaga, Senior Aviation Finance Advisor at Zeevo Group, said the tool significantly reduces the time required to locate and interpret maintenance reserve provisions within complex lease documentation, enabling advisors to retrieve key information in seconds.
