Featured Tools: MLOs

By Christian Hill 6 min read

In today's competitive mortgage industry, leveraging AI-driven tools can significantly boost efficiency for mortgage loan officers (MLOs). This guide features a range of AI-powered solutions that streamline various aspects of the lending workflow – from customer engagement to loan underwriting – helping mortgage professionals save time, improve accuracy, and improve the borrower experience.


ServisBOT

Virtual Assistant

ServisBOT (official site) specializes in delivering AI-driven solutions tailored for the mortgage industry to enhance efficiency, customer experience, and compliance. Its suite of AI assistants leverages conversational and generative AI to transform many parts of the mortgage process. By transcribing customer calls in real time, automating routine service tasks, and even monitoring for compliance issues, ServisBOT frees up staff to focus on more complex client needs.


Capacity

Chatbot

Capacity (official site) offers a customizable AI chatbot designed to elevate customer support by automating responses to common inquiries. It can instantly handle up to 90% of frequently asked questions, which frees human agents to focus on complex cases. Beyond just Q&A, Capacity’s chatbot integrates with various business applications and can even kick off workflows for routine tasks – streamlining interactions and improving overall operational efficiency.


Intercom

Customer Service

Intercom (official site) is an AI-first customer service platform that enhances support experiences through advanced automation. Its AI chatbot, Fin, can resolve up to 50% of customer inquiries instantly, dramatically speeding up response times and reducing workload for support teams. Intercom also consolidates conversations from email, phone, chat, and more into a unified inbox, so agents can manage all channels seamlessly and deliver consistent, high-quality service.


Salesloft

Sales Engagement

Salesloft is a leading sales engagement platform that leverages artificial intelligence to enhance sales processes and drive revenue growth. Its Conductor AI feature analyzes buyer and seller behaviors to help sales teams prioritize the most important outreach tasks at the right times. The platform also uses generative AI to assist in crafting effective emails and provides AI-driven deal insights, enabling mortgage sales professionals to engage leads more intelligently and close deals faster.


Lenderd

CRM

Lenderd (official site) offers an all-in-one mortgage Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform designed to streamline client management and communication. It centralizes outreach by integrating call, text, and email channels into a single interface, ensuring every client interaction is tracked and accessible. Lenderd also provides pre-built automated workflows for timely follow-ups and robust reporting tools to track leads, conversions, and campaigns – helping mortgage professionals stay organized and responsive with less manual effort.


Ocrolus

Loan Origination

Ocrolus is an AI-powered mortgage automation platform that streamlines the loan origination process for lenders. Its technology automates the review and analysis of borrower-provided documents, reducing tedious manual data entry. For example, Ocrolus uses computer vision to extract and organize data from financial documents (like bank statements and pay stubs) with a high degree of accuracy. It can even auto-calculate borrower income using pre-populated worksheets, which speeds up the underwriting process and helps lenders make decisions faster with confidence in the data.


Blend

Loan Origination

Blend is a comprehensive digital lending platform that streamlines the end-to-end loan origination process for financial institutions. It offers a seamless experience from application to closing, featuring real-time identity and income verification, automated workflows, and flexible closing options. Blend also integrates AI into its toolkit – for instance, its DocAI component automates document validation and data extraction, accelerating application processing. The company is even developing an AI assistant called Copilot to execute precise tasks and answer borrower questions, further boosting efficiency for loan teams.


Candor

Underwriting

Candor Technology provides AI-driven solutions to enhance loan underwriting and processing. Its flagship CogniTech™ engine (part of Candor’s Loan Engineering System) emulates the critical thinking of seasoned underwriters, automatically handling complex underwriting decisions without human bias or fatigue. This allows loans to be processed faster and with consistent accuracy. Candor’s tools also improve loan quality – for example, its Loan Quality Service analyzes files to mitigate errors and reduce the risk of repurchase, giving lenders greater confidence in the loans they originate.


Oscilar

Underwriting

Oscilar (official site) is an AI-driven risk decisioning platform that empowers lenders to enhance their credit underwriting processes. It consolidates diverse data sources into a 360° view of each applicant, allowing underwriters to assess risk with more complete information. The platform can even translate written credit policies into AI-generated decision workflows – meaning a lender can describe their lending criteria in plain language and Oscilar will build an automated workflow to apply those rules. By enabling this level of automation and offering tools for back-testing and monitoring key metrics, Oscilar helps institutions make faster, more consistent credit decisions while adapting quickly to new risk insights.


PerformLine

Compliance

PerformLine offers an end-to-end compliance monitoring solution tailored for mortgage companies. Its platform proactively oversees marketing and communication channels to ensure all content meets regulatory standards – covering everything from websites and social media to call transcripts and emails. PerformLine automatically discovers potential compliance violations (for example, improper wording in an advertisement or unapproved language in a sales call) and alerts the team for remediation. It also maintains a complete audit trail of compliance activities, which helps lenders mitigate risk and stay regulator-ready with far less manual review.


Asurity

Compliance

Asurity is a leading provider of compliance-focused solutions and services for the mortgage and consumer lending industries. It offers advanced software tools as well as expert advisory services to help lenders navigate complex regulations. For example, Asurity’s Propel™ platform automates the creation of compliant mortgage documents, and its RegCheck® system conducts thorough loan-level audits against federal, state, and local rules. These technology solutions, combined with Asurity’s team of former regulators and compliance experts, enable lenders to ensure loans meet all requirements while reducing the time and effort spent on compliance checks.


ComplianceEase

Compliance

ComplianceEase is a web-based, automated compliance management system (now part of SitusAMC) designed to facilitate comprehensive loan-level reviews. It automatically checks each loan file against a vast array of federal, state, and local regulations, flagging any potential compliance violations before the loan moves forward. The platform generates detailed reports with regulatory analyses and exception tracking, helping compliance teams quickly identify and correct issues. ComplianceEase also integrates with major loan origination systems, making these critical compliance checks a seamless part of the lender’s existing workflow.


CoreLogic’s LoanSafe

Fraud

CoreLogic’s LoanSafe Suite is a comprehensive set of fraud mitigation tools that help mortgage professionals identify and manage fraud risk throughout the loan origination process. It uses a patented fraud detection model to analyze loan application data and spot red flags — such as income misrepresentation, identity theft, or undisclosed debtsearly in the process. The suite provides a holistic view of fraud risk on each loan and includes an intuitive web-based dashboard (LoanSafe Connect™) that offers real-time alerts and audit trails for any suspicious findings. By catching these issues upfront, LoanSafe helps lenders prevent fraudulent loans and protect their business.


Argyle

Risk Management

Argyle provides a real-time, consumer-permissioned platform that automates employment and income verification for the mortgage industry. By connecting directly to borrowers’ payroll accounts, Argyle pulls up-to-date employment data covering roughly 90% of the U.S. workforce. This approach eliminates the need for borrowers to fax pay stubs or for lenders to manually verify income, significantly speeding up the verification process. It also drives down verification costs (Argyle reports a 60–80% cost reduction compared to traditional methods) and helps loan officers move applications forward with confidence in the accuracy of borrower information.


Resistant AI

Fraud

Resistant AI offers advanced AI-powered fraud detection solutions tailored for the mortgage industry. Its system analyzes financial documentssuch as bank statements, pay stubs, and tax records—to identify anomalies or signs of tampering that could indicate fraudulent activity. It also monitors patterns in loan applications and borrower behavior to detect red flags (for example, inconsistencies in reported income or suspiciously similar application data across loans). By automating these complex checks, Resistant AI helps lenders catch fraud early and reduce the need for labor-intensive manual verifications, ultimately protecting the integrity of the underwriting process.


CoreLogic’s Market Intelligence

Market Analysis

CoreLogic’s Market Intelligence platform provides mortgage originators with data-driven insights to enhance market analysis and identify growth opportunities. It gives loan officers granular information on local market trends – such as home price changes, sales volumes, and borrower demographics – to help pinpoint where demand is rising. The platform also offers competitive intelligence (e.g. insight into other lenders’ performance in a region) and can highlight underserved areas or Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) opportunities. By leveraging these insights, mortgage professionals can stay ahead of market shifts, target their marketing efforts more effectively, and remain competitive in an evolving landscape.


Model Match

Borrower Data

Model Match’s Borrower Insights tool is a data-driven solution designed to help mortgage professionals reconnect with past clients and identify new lending opportunities. It aggregates comprehensive borrower information from public and proprietary sources, providing details like current loan terms, interest rates, equity, and contact info for a lender’s previous customers. With this insight, an MLO can quickly spot which past borrowers might be candidates for refinancing or new loans (for example, those with rising equity or higher interest rates than the current market). By surfacing these opportunities and providing up-to-date contact data, Model Match enables loan officers to proactively reach out and recapture business from their own client portfolio.