Blend

Blend Bringing simplicity and transparency to financial services. At Blend, we’re dedicated to improving customer experience across consumer banking and lending.

Customers include some of the largest banks and credit unions in the U.S., as well as leading mortgage servicers and home builders. We partner with banks and lenders to power frictionless, compliant, and more accessible lending— starting with mortgages. We’re motivated by the fact that our product won’t just affect the lives of a few people in the Bay Area— it affects people all over America. Foun

ded in 2012 by a group of former Palantir engineers, Blend is publicly traded as BLND. Reach out at [email protected].

The vision behind Blend has always been a fully self-driving mortgage. Agentic AI is finally making that possible.Nima G...
06/22/2026

The vision behind Blend has always been a fully self-driving mortgage. Agentic AI is finally making that possible.

Nima Ghamsari joined Joe Lonsdale on American Optimist to talk about Blend Autopilot, what an infinitely scalable AI workforce actually means for lenders, and why he thinks the 2030s will be the most transformative decade in 100 years.

🎙️ Listen here: https://hubs.ly/Q04m8X2Q0

06/18/2026

You can optimize every step of the mortgage process, but borrowers remember the closing most.

That's the standard CrossCountry Mortgage set for themselves, and why they transformed their entire closing operation with Blend Close. Faster transactions, zero post-closing errors, and an experience borrowers can actually walk away feeling good about.

"It has to be smooth. It has to be fast. And it also has to be a great experience." — Simone LaBorde, EVP of Closing and Strategic Initiatives, CrossCountry Mortgage, LLC

➡️ Case study: https://hubs.ly/Q04lGW4Z0

Good underwriting isn't just about the flags you raise. It's about the ones you don't. 🚩Asking a borrower to explain som...
06/17/2026

Good underwriting isn't just about the flags you raise. It's about the ones you don't. 🚩

Asking a borrower to explain something that doesn't need explaining wastes their time and signals that the system isn't paying close attention.

That's why this week's Autopilot update focused on precision. Sharper reasoning on AUS findings, smarter address and name matching, stricter checks on incomplete document uploads, and a fuller picture of Rapid loans for both borrowers and loan officers.

See everything that shipped 👉 https://hubs.ly/Q04lKcSV0

We're proud to announce our expanded integration with MeridianLink!That means lenders using MeridianLink Mortgage, Merid...
06/16/2026

We're proud to announce our expanded integration with MeridianLink!

That means lenders using MeridianLink Mortgage, MeridianLink Consumer, and DecisionLender can now connect Blend's digital application experience directly to their LOS, with clean, verified data flowing through from the start.

The integration now spans mortgage, home equity, personal loans, credit cards, auto, and specialty vehicle lending. One consistent application experience across your full product lineup, without the back-and-forth.

📣 Read the full announcement: https://hubs.ly/Q04lB-_W0

When volume picks up, most IMBs respond the same way: add processors, add support staff, grow the team until the operati...
06/15/2026

When volume picks up, most IMBs respond the same way: add processors, add support staff, grow the team until the operation can absorb the load. It's a reasonable instinct. It's also one of the more expensive ways to solve what is fundamentally an efficiency problem.

The IMBs holding margin in this market are not running harder. They are running differently. Their operations teams are focused on exceptions because the repeatable, rules-based work is handled automatically before it ever reaches a human. That shift changes the economics of the entire operation, not just the cost per file, and it holds regardless of what volume does next.

Our latest piece breaks down how that operating model works and why it compounds in your favor in ways that headcount-driven growth does not.

➡️ Read more: https://hubs.ly/Q04lpRMH0

Hard-to-reach employers don't have to mean slow loans.Blend customers can access Smart Outreach through our Truework int...
06/11/2026

Hard-to-reach employers don't have to mean slow loans.

Blend customers can access Smart Outreach through our Truework integration, a managed verification method that draws on a database of 1M+ verified business entities and 12+ third-party providers to reach employers your standard methods miss. Results come back as structured VOI and VOE reports inside Blend.

No side processes. No ad hoc inbox management. Just consistent outcomes.

Read how lenders are rethinking the VOI model: https://hubs.ly/Q04l57Dv0

06/10/2026

Autopilot already works on Rapid loans. This week it starts talking to those borrowers too. 💬

Large-deposit explanation requests now only trigger when a deposit actually needs sourcing. Rental income and employer details write back into the loan file automatically, and lenders can now brand the borrower chat window to match their own experience.

Full breakdown here 👉 https://hubs.ly/Q04kXR7C0

06/09/2026

A borrower chooses a 10.5% rate over 7.5%.

They paid $2,300 in origination fees when their bank was offering zero. They went with a fintech they had never heard of over a bank they had trusted for 15 years. Not because they wanted to, but because their bank couldn't move fast enough.

This isn't just a hypothetical. It's what we’re seeing play out across home equity origination right now, and depositories have already lost 1 in 5 borrowers to it.

▶️ Watch the full session to see what it takes to compete on speed. https://hubs.ly/Q04kDM710

Providing a native-language experience for your borrowers is no longer just a "nice to have", it's a critical growth lev...
06/08/2026

Providing a native-language experience for your borrowers is no longer just a "nice to have", it's a critical growth lever and a compliance mandate.

Tomorrow, June 9th, we're sitting down with Firstline Compliance, Talk'uments, and Elevations Credit Union to break down how to capture new market segments securely and efficiently, through language.

🔗 https://hubs.ly/Q04kvY6F0

06/05/2026

53% of borrower interactions happen outside of business hours. Which means by the time your team picks up the file in the morning, the moment has already passed, or worse, they've moved on.

In this clip from our webinar with Consumer Bankers Association, Christopher Straub-Wallace walks through how Blend Autopilot supports borrowers in real time, flagging issues, creating follow-ups, and keeping the application moving. Even after hours.

Watch the full webinar 👇
https://blend.com/webinar/using-ai-fix-breakpoints-in-borrower-application/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_content=video_apply_after_hours&utm_campaign=2604-WBN-CBA_Using_AI

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