Nobody in this category posts a price: Candor Loan Engineering System, SOLO by Tidalwave, Prudent AI Upfront Suite, Gateless Smart Underwrite and Indecomm DecisionGenius are all quote-based, with Tidalwave describing volume-based pricing. SOLO by Tidalwave and Prudent AI reach broker shops directly, Prudent AI through a self-serve broker portal and Tidalwave with NEXA Mortgage as a named customer; Candor, Gateless and Indecomm sell to lenders, credit unions and MI companies.
The AI does the first underwriting pass before a person sees the file: it classifies and stacks documents, calculates qualifying income from pay stubs, tax forms and bank statements, checks eligibility against GSE and investor rules, writes conditions into the file and clears the ones that pass, with Candor Assistant and Indecomm's Glass Box showing which guideline and document each condition came from. Zero of five tools post a price and five are quote-based, and every figure was read on the vendor's own site on October 31, 2026. Three vendors post a security standard: SOLO by Tidalwave (SOC 2 Type II, encrypted borrower data), Prudent AI (SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001:2022, AES-256) and Gateless (SOC 2 badge); Candor and Indecomm post none, and no vendor here posts a TCPA statement. Encompass is named by Candor, SOLO by Tidalwave and Indecomm, with MeridianLink by Candor and Indecomm, Byte by Candor and Calyx Path by Tidalwave; none names Arive, Total Expert, BNTouch, Jungo or Follow Up Boss.