A bank can lose a customer before it ever lends a dollar. Blend sells a way through the paperwork - and its own costly detour explains why the smallest steps now matter so much.
Three founders embedded with a title firm before they had a working product. A decade later, their software is taking on the harder job: moving a 118-year-old underwriter from legacy systems to one shared, AI-ready closing platform.

He built OS National in the unglamorous machinery of title and escrow - then helped turn that machinery into part of a national digital home-buying platform.
OS National turned the least photogenic part of real estate - title, escrow and settlement - into a national operating system. Then a three-year customer paid $41 million to bring the machinery in-house.