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How Better Loan Pipeline Visibility Reduces Compliance Risk, Turn Times, and Repurchase Exposure

How Better Loan Pipeline Visibility Reduces Compliance Risk, Turn Times, and Repurchase Exposure

Why shared pipeline visibility matters and how Loancrate helps teams reduce confusion, prevent delays, and stay aligned from open to close.

Aug 5, 2025

Hayden Colbert

The Adoption Gap in Mortgage Tech: Building a LOS Platform Lenders Can Trust

The Adoption Gap in Mortgage Tech: Building a LOS Platform Lenders Can Trust

Lenders aren’t resisting change; they’re responding to risk. Mortgage tech needs to understand the stakes before it can earn trust.

Jul 30, 2025

Hayden Colbert

10 Manual Tasks Killing Your Underwriting Productivity

10 Manual Tasks Killing Your Underwriting Productivity

From indexing to income review, small inefficiencies are quietly eroding underwriting productivity. Progressive lenders are solving them at the system level.

Jul 23, 2025

Hayden Colbert

The Story of Loancrate: Why We Built a New Loan Origination System from Scratch

The Story of Loancrate: Why We Built a New Loan Origination System from Scratch

The mortgage industry has outgrown its tech stack. Learn why Loancrate was built from the ground up to be the next-gen loan origination system.

Jul 9, 2025

Hayden Colbert

Mortgage Tech Debt: What It Is & How Lenders Can Fix It

Mortgage Tech Debt: What It Is & How Lenders Can Fix It

Learn how legacy systems and quick fixes slow down mortgage teams—and what lenders can do to overcome tech debt.

Jun 25, 2025

Hayden Colbert

Progressive Automation in Mortgage: A Smarter Approach to LOS Workflows

Progressive Automation in Mortgage: A Smarter Approach to LOS Workflows

Why rigid loan origination automation fails—and how progressive automation gives mortgage teams more control, flexibility, and speed.

Jun 11, 2025

Hayden Colbert

The Hidden ROI of Better Underwriting Tools

The Hidden ROI of Better Underwriting Tools

Explore how smarter underwriting automation helps mortgage lenders reduce risk, close loans faster, and improve ROI across the pipeline.

May 28, 2025

Hayden Colbert

From Chaos to Confidence: Auto-QC in Action

From Chaos to Confidence: Auto-QC in Action

Repurchase risk is still a threat, and outdated QC can't keep up. Lenders need scalable, automated checks to catch defects early and protect profitability. Loancrate’s Auto-QC flips the model.

May 14, 2025

Hayden Colbert