Optimal Blue named to HousingWire’s Mortgage Tech100 List for a 12th time

Firm recognized for AI enhancements to its market-leading capital markets platform

PLANO, Texas, Feb. 2, 2026 – Optimal Blue has been named to HousingWire’s coveted Mortgage Tech100 list for a 12th time, further cementing its place as a top innovator of secondary marketing software and automation. The 2026 recognition reflects Optimal Blue’s continued investment in AI-driven enhancements across its capital markets platform, including new generative AI assistants and automation tools designed to help lenders improve pricing accuracy, manage risk and make faster, more informed execution decisions at scale.

Launched in 2013, HousingWire’s Tech100 award spotlights the most innovative and impactful tech organizations in housing. The award is broken into two categories: the Tech100 Mortgage Award recognizes technology firms that are revolutionizing the mortgage process, while the Tech100 Real Estate Award recognizes tech companies that are changing the home sales process. Optimal Blue has been recognized for the distinction nearly every year since winners were first named in 2014.

“Optimal Blue continues to raise the technology baseline for mortgage capital markets by delivering AI-driven innovation at enterprise scale,” said Erin Wester, chief product officer at Optimal Blue. “By embedding advanced intelligence and automation directly into pricing, execution and risk management workflows, we help lenders make faster, more confident decisions and operate more efficiently across their organizations.”

In the past year alone, Optimal Blue has launched more than half a dozen AI-powered capabilities that extend automation and intelligence across pricing, hedging, trading, origination and counterparty oversight workflows. Many of these enhancements were delivered at no additional cost to lenders and have been rapidly adopted across the company’s client base.

These advancements include the launch of Ask Obi, a generative AI assistant that synthesizes data across Optimal Blue’s capital markets systems to give lending executives immediate visibility into profitability, pipeline risk and execution scenarios that previously required time-intensive analysis. The company expanded its suite of AI assistants with tools such as Originator Assistant, which helps loan officers identify better pricing alternatives in real time, and CompassEdge AI Assistants, which support secondary market teams with profitability analysis, pipeline risk modeling and trade confirmation. Optimal Blue also introduced Capture for Originators, an automated refinance and borrower-capture intelligence solution that continuously analyzes loan data to surface refinance opportunities, calculate break-even scenarios and generate borrower-ready presentations.

“Today, technology is the business strategy, “said Clayton Collins, CEO of HW Media. “The right tech stack now determines who can recruit top talent, gain market share and expand margins. The 2026 Tech100 honorees bring both innovation and impact. They’re growing, their teams are winning and they’re pulling ahead in the race for scale and consumer relevance.”

For a complete list of 2026 HousingWire Tech100 winners, visit https://www.housingwire.com/articles/announcing-the-2026-tech100-mortgage-winners/.

About Optimal Blue:

Optimal Blue powers profitability across the mortgage capital markets ecosystem. As the industry’s only end-to-end capital markets platform, our technology, data and integrations bridge the primary and secondary markets to help lenders of all sizes maximize performance – from pricing accuracy to margin protection and every step in between. Backed by over 20 years of proven expertise, our modern, cloud-native technology delivers the real-time automation, actionable data and seamless connectivity lenders need to navigate market volatility and scale for growth. To learn more about how Optimal Blue delivers measurable ROI, visit OptimalBlue.com.

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