Industry Briefs, April 3, 2026
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Moder, Palantir Partner on AI Platform, Welcome Pilot Customer Freedom Mortgage
Moder, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Palantir, Miami, have partnered on an AI-powered mortgage operations platform. The first pilot customer is Freedom Mortgage Corp., West Palm Beach, Fla.
The new co-built platform leverages Plantir’s Ontology to provide an agentic AI framework to integrate with existing systems of record.
It can translate guidelines and operational policies into configurable, testable and auditable rules, helping teams execute processes with more precision and scale. In early deployment for Freedom Mortgage, it is already transformed and is live with several key processes.
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Dark Matter Announces Integration, AI Assistant
Dark Matter Technologies, Jacksonville, Fla., has announced a new integration between its Empower loan origination system and Snapdocs, San Francisco.
Through the integration, closing teams will be able to generate orders, track transaction progress with real-time status updates and automate key closing and funding workflows without leaving their system of record.
It is available to Empower LOS clients regardless of document provider.
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Additionally, Dark Matter has launched Ask Aiva, an AI assistant natively embedded within the Empower LOS. It allows lenders to query their origination environment in plain language and receive instant answers.
Ask Aiva is currently available to Empower clients.
The tool is built on a retrieval-augmented generation architecture to search connected data sources in real time. And, users can click directly into results to view the source data and underlying logic between each answer.
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Friday Harbor, Calyx Path Platform Integrate
Friday Harbor, Seattle, and the Calyx Path Platform, San Jose, Calif., announced an integration that brings AI-powered pre-underwriting into the flow of the loan.
It will help lenders review borrower documents, surfacing potential problems and resolving them earlier.
The Calyx Path Platform is a data-centric mortgage platform designed to coordinate the lifecycle of a loan from application through closing.
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Argyle Integrates With Vesta
Argyle, New York, announced an integration with Vesta, San Francisco. It will allow lenders to order, view and refresh Argyle’s verification of income, employment and assets directly within the Vesta LOS.
Embedding direct-source verifications inside the core origination workflow will help reduce manual processes, eliminate system toggling and streamline file management.
The integration became available March 30. Argyle and Vesta are launching with their first mutual customers and will expand access.
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MCT Deploys New Freddie Mac Integration Updates
Mortgage Capital Trading, San Diego, has deployed three new Freddie Mac integration updates within MCTlive!
The MCT updates provide support for Freddie Mac’s enhanced Cash Pricing and Cash Committing APIs, updated for loan-level CIX AIF pricing and committing requests.
The news support includes Cash Committing API Version 2, required for CTOS/CIX AIF execution, including the optional fields necessary for accurate pricing and SRP inclusion. The updated response delivers the Contract SRP alongside the Contract Asset Price, giving lenders a complete, loan-level view of their all-in execution. For lenders on standard CIX contracts, Version 1 remains fully supported.
It also includes support for two new Freddie Mac Cash Window attribute-driven specific pool pay-up categories: LTV and Manufactured Housing.
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STRATMOR Releases Insights on Mortgage Servicing
STRATMOR, Denver, Colo., has released its March InFocus publication, featuring an article: “Manage Servicing as a Strategic Asset – Add It to the Executive Agenda,” by Senior Partner Garth Graham.
It draws on data from STRATMOR’s MortgageCX program and notes that fewer than one in five borrowers return to their original lender for the next loan.
And, Director of Customer Experience Mike Seminari authored “Teddy Bear Trust: Making the Servicing Relationship Irreplaceable.”
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