AI tools for retail lender branches

Guide · Updated Oct 31, 2026 · Prices checked against each vendor's own site.

If you run a retail lender branch, 56 of the 69 tools in this directory are sold to you: they name retail lender branches among their buyers or are sold to all mortgage pros. That is the largest list in the directory, because the operations stack sits here: document AI, underwriting engines, LOS platforms and QC. Most of those are quote-based; the branch-level tools for leads, phones, presentations and past clients post prices. This guide walks the branch from the lead to the compliance line. Every price was read on the vendor's own site on October 31, 2026.

The lead

Five follow-up tools name lender branches. Verse.ai texts every new lead within 15 seconds with a human concierge behind the AI, quote-based, with a Total Expert integration and posted TCPA, state TCPA and A2P 10DLC statements. Callingly posts $100/mo ($80/mo annual) with a $100 usage credit and AI calls from $0.50/call, with unlimited users on every plan. Empower LO posts $297/mo + $300 setup for the Scale plan and Teams from $497/mo. BankingBridge AI SMS Chat texts live rate quotes from the branch's pricing engine at $349/mo + $950 setup with an AI Add-on at $299/mo, and names Optimal Blue, Polly, Mortech, Lender Price and Loanpass. Meera is written for lenders handling 1,000 or more leads a month, with warm transfer and 90+ languages, priced by quote; no TCPA or data statement is posted, so ask before you buy.

The phone

Six receptionist platforms list lender branches. Thoughtly is written for lending operations teams, routes by loan type and LO territory, names Encompass, Total Expert and Surefire, and posts SOC 2 Type II plus recorded TCPA consent; it is quote-based. Pitchit posts a free plan, Starter $149/mo (400 conversations), Growth $349/mo (1,000) and Pro $599/mo (2,000), names Total Expert and Jungo, and posts SOC 2 Type II and a TCPA statement. ElevenAgents runs from a free plan to Business $990/mo (12,375 min) with support for SOC 2 stated. Synthflow is quote-based on an annual agreement sized to call volume, with SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 posted. Bland posts $0 platform fee + $0.14/minute or Build at $299/mo + $0.12/minute, with loan application intake by voice and LOS connections through its REST API. Ringlyn posts $49/mo plus a $7/mo phone number with consent tracking described on its lending page.

The CRM

The lender CRMs are quote-based and name the branch as the buyer. Total Expert prices by suite, users and contacts monitored, runs an AI Sales Assistant for voice and SMS, an AI Scenario Assistant and an AI SMS Assistant on its Customer IQ layer, names Salesforce, Optimal Blue, Polly and MBS Highway, and posts SOC 2 and ISO 27001. Aidium adds AI Agents, propensity scores for purchase and refinance and AI Personas, with SOC 2 badges posted and SimpleNexus named. Insellerate brings the Aithena layer for lead scoring, call and text assistance and real-time coaching, and its practice-call module Aithena Train lets LOs rehearse against an AI borrower that raises objections; neither posts a TCPA or data statement, so ask before you buy. Shape is priced per user by quote with a SOC 2 Type I audit and 10DLC texting compliance posted. Usherpa now sits inside Optimal Blue and states compliance with RESPA, CFPB, Gramm-Leach-Bliley and TCPA.

Posted-price CRMs on this list: BNTouch at $165/mo single user and $95/user/mo for 2–10 users with Encompass sync named; Bonzo at $150/seat/mo (Solo); LeadMailbox at $50/seat/mo and $75/seat/mo.

The pricing

Optimal Blue puts its Originator Assistant, which spots pricing breakpoints and proposes alternate loan structures, in the enterprise PPE, sold on a quote, with 150+ investors connected. Lender Price sells its Enterprise Pricing Engine with AILA, which answers guideline and eligibility questions and lets a lock desk write pricing rules in natural language, by quote, with Encompass and MeridianLink named and SOC 2 Type II posted. LoanPASS adds LoanPASS.AI, a borrower-facing chatbot that returns deterministic pricing from the lender's own rules, by quote, with Encompass, MeridianLink and Vesta named and a SOC 2 Type 2 report posted. At the LO desk, MortgageCoach posts $150/user/mo on the Individual plan with Enterprise custom for 5+ users adding branch support and the Encompass connection, and Zeitro posts a free account with its Strata guideline assistant. Mortgage Guidelines AI posts Team pricing at $33/user/mo for 3-250 users.

The file

This is where the branch's spend is largest and almost entirely quote-based. Point of sale: Maxwell Point of Sale checks every upload for legibility, password locks, document type and missing pages, names Encompass, MeridianLink, Byte and Finastra, and posts SOC 2 Type II. LiteSpeed is Encompass-native with Sidekick file analysis and keeps borrower data inside the customer's Encompass environment. Floify posts $99/user/mo and a $299/mo Team plan, with a Lender Edition priced per closed loan by quote.

Document AI: Ocrolus calculates income across W-2, 1099, self-employed and rental cases with outputs eligible for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac rep-and-warrant relief, and posts SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GLBA. Infrrd for Mortgage is pre-trained on 500+ mortgage document types and runs TRID tolerance and CD/LE checks.

Underwriting: Candor Loan Engineering System renders the decision and backs each condition with a $25,000-per-loan defect warranty, naming Encompass, MeridianLink and Byte. Gateless Smart Underwrite clears conditions as documents land against GSE and investor rules. Indecomm DecisionGenius traces each condition to the guideline and document with Glass Box decisioning and writes conditions back to Encompass and MeridianLink. SOLO by Tidalwave runs the first underwriting pass at the point of sale, and Prudent AI Upfront Suite calculates qualifying income traced to the document line.

The LOS itself: Encompass ships ICE Aurora for guideline lookups, chat agents and document extraction; Vesta runs Admin, Loan and Document Intelligence agents inside a cloud-native LOS; Blue Sage Digital Lending Platform embeds an AI Sales Agent, SageVision and AI Studio across LOS, POS and servicing, with annual SOC 1 and SOC 2 audits posted. All three are quote-based.

Past clients and partners

Homebot posts Starter $125/mo + $100 setup, Pro $225/mo and Unlimited $300/mo with co-sponsored agents at $25/mo each, names Total Expert and Salesforce, and posts SOC 2 Type II and a RESPA Section 8 statement. Fello posts $499/mo for 3,000 contacts ($415/mo annual). MMI and MonitorBase are quote-based with Individual & Team and enterprise plans. For the branch's marketing, MAXA Mortgage Platform posts $15,000/yr baseline ($1,250/mo) + $240/user/yr + $5,000 implementation on a one-year agreement, with brand-locked templates and a compliance-approval step. Sendible posts $169/mo (annual) with unlimited users, approval workflows and per-LO NMLS fields. BombBomb posts $42/user/mo ($36/user/mo annual), Evocalize a free account with a Total Expert integration, and LenderHomePage Team plans from $349/mo (annual) with retail-lender tiers quoted. Experience.com runs borrower surveys at loan milestones with Encompass named.

The compliance line

Branches have a QC shelf the other segments do not. Sei AI scores every LO call, email and chat against TILA, RESPA, UDAAP and Fair Housing and tracks TRID clocks, with SOC 2 Type II and PCI DSS Level 1 posted. ACES Quality Management adds ACES Intelligence for audit summaries, plain-English sampling queries and PII detection, with SOC 2 Type II posted. Snapdocs and Snapdocs Quality Control run AI reviews of critical-to-fund and post-close documents on upload, with SOC 2 Type II and the FTC Safeguards Rule on the trust center. LoanHD runs pre-fund, post-close, HMDA and TRID audits on data lifted by the IDEA engine. DocMagic One adds compliance checks and loan health scoring to document preparation, and DocMagic's release states existing customers receive it at no additional cost. All are quote-based. For the borrower-facing tools above, TCPA statements are posted by Verse.ai, Thoughtly, Pitchit, Ringlyn and Usherpa; Meera, Empower LO, BankingBridge, Insellerate, Bonzo, Candor, Indecomm, DocMagic One, MMI, MonitorBase, Sendible and MAXA post no TCPA or borrower-data statement, so ask before you buy.

What to do first

• Separate what corporate owns (LOS, PPE, QC) from what the branch can buy on its own card (lead response, receptionist, presentations, past-client digests).
• For the branch-level tools, match "Works with" to the stack you already have: Total Expert is named by Verse.ai, Thoughtly, Pitchit, MortgageCoach, Homebot, BombBomb and Evocalize; Encompass by Thoughtly, BNTouch, MortgageCoach, LiteSpeed, Maxwell, Ocrolus, Infrrd, Candor, Indecomm and SOLO.
• Try the free tiers before a demo: Pitchit, Zeitro, Evocalize and ElevenAgents post one.
• Bring your own files to the operations demos; Sei AI and others run the buyer's files through the system.
• Prices here were read on October 31, 2026. More tools that name retail lender branches are in the list below this guide.

Quick answers

Which AI tools for lender branches post a price?

Callingly $100/mo, Empower LO $297/mo + $300 setup, BankingBridge AI SMS Chat $349/mo + $950 setup, Pitchit $149/mo, BNTouch $95/user/mo for 2–10 users, MortgageCoach $150/user/mo, Homebot $125/mo + $100 setup and MAXA Mortgage Platform $15,000/yr baseline all post prices.

Does Encompass have AI?

Yes. Encompass ships ICE Aurora for guideline lookups, borrower and lender chat agents, document classification and data extraction, loan data validation and notes summarization; pricing is quote-based.

Which underwriting tools name Encompass?

Candor Loan Engineering System, Indecomm DecisionGenius and SOLO by Tidalwave name Encompass; Gateless Smart Underwrite and Prudent AI Upfront Suite connect by API. All five are quote-based.

Which lender CRMs post SOC 2?

Total Expert posts SOC 2 and ISO 27001, Aidium posts SOC 2 badges, and Shape posts a SOC 2 Type I audit; all three are quote-based. BNTouch ($165/mo) names 256-bit SSL and no SOC 2.

What does a QC tool with AI cost?

ACES Quality Management, Snapdocs Quality Control, LoanHD and Sei AI are all quote-based; DocMagic One is quote-based for new buyers and at no additional cost for existing DocMagic customers per the vendor's release.

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47 of these 56 tools name retail lender branches outright on their own site; the rest sell to mortgage professionals generally and are included because they work for retail lender branches too. 23 post a starting price.