Optimal Blue’s Solution Center Expands Comergence Into a Platform-as-a-Service Marketplace, Further Streamlining Connectivity and Enhancing Performance in the Mortgage Ecosystem

New capability within Optimal Blue’s counterparty oversight solution simplifies vendor relationships, supports strategic partnerships, and streamlines TPO management and training 

PLANO, Texas – May 19, 2025 – Optimal Blue today announced Solution Center, a new capability that expands its Comergence Counterparty Oversight solution into a fully established platform as a service (PaaS). First introduced at the company’s user summit in February, Solution Center is now broadly available to lenders, investors and third-party partners. 

Solution Center consolidates vendor and partner solutions into a single interface, helping users streamline communications, reduce integration effort and expand revenue opportunities. Partners can offer products and services directly through the platform. Customers can browse by category – such as CRM or marketing automation – and manage relationships using single sign-on (SSO) with their Optimal Blue credentials. 

“Solution Center turns Comergence into a two-sided marketplace that brings together over 125 investors and more than 22,000 originating companies in a scalable and strategic way,” said Michael Stallings, vice president of Comergence at Optimal Blue. “By simplifying how these relationships are initiated, managed and trained, we’re enabling a higher level of performance and connectivity across the mortgage ecosystem.” 

In addition to partner discovery and connectivity, Solution Center includes the Comergence Academy, a resource for asynchronous training that supports investor-driven education initiatives for third-party originators. This enables investors to promote strategic relationships or ensure required trainings are completed, all within the same environment they use for ongoing oversight. 

Acquired by Optimal Blue in 2017, Comergence provides real-time risk management for third-party originators (TPO) and social media compliance. Solution Center builds on that foundation by giving clients more ways to engage partners, deliver services and optimize their relationships without the need for costly custom integrations. 

Solution Center joins a wave of no-cost product innovations delivered by Optimal Blue in 2025, including ​Ask Obi, Originator Assistant and ​​Rules Optimizer, reinforcing the company’s commitment to helping clients operate more efficiently and profitably in today’s capital markets landscape. 

About Optimal Blue 

Optimal Blue effectively bridges the primary and secondary mortgage markets to deliver the industry’s only end-to-end capital markets platform. The company helps lenders of all sizes and scopes maximize profitability and operate efficiently so they can help American borrowers achieve the dream of homeownership. Through innovative technology, a network of interconnectivity, rich data insights, and expertise gathered over more than 20 years, Optimal Blue is an experienced partner that, in any market environment, allows lenders to optimize their advantage from pricing accuracy to margin protection, and every step in between. To learn more, visit OptimalBlue.com.  

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