September 2026 snapshot · 72 AI answers Leader emerging

Mortgage Lending & Origination: AI Visibility Ranking

Loan origination software for mortgage lenders and brokers covering applications, processing, and underwriting. Right now, Encompass is the brand AI assistants recommend most, with a Visibility Score of 64 and the #1 spot in 60% of answers. Head-to-head: Encompass vs Byte Software →

These rankings are measured from what the three models know from training, not a live web search. When the models DO search the web, see which sources they cite. Methodology.

Encompass dominates; everyone else is chasing distant second place.

Encompass sits 30 points clear of LendingPad and converts 60% of its mentions into a first-pick recommendation, a combination that signals genuine AI consensus rather than occasional courtesy mentions. LendingPad holds a distant second overall but almost entirely on Gemini's back, scoring just 1.2 with Claude. ARIVE and Calyx Point each lean hard on a single model too, which means their visibility is fragile and unlikely to compound the way Encompass's cross-model presence does.

AI-generated analysis of the September 2026 measurements.

#	Brand	Visibility Score	Mention rate	Avg. position	#1 pick rate	Models
1	Encompass	64 ±5.1	68%	1.6	60%	ChatGPT #1 Claude #1 Gemini #1
2	Byte Software	37 ±3.4	49%	3.5	0%	ChatGPT #2 Claude #2 Gemini #12
3	LendingPad	35 ±6	46%	3.5	1%	ChatGPT #3 Claude #14 Gemini #2
4	Calyx Point	30 ±5.1	46%	4.5	0%	ChatGPT #5 Claude #3 Gemini #4
5	ARIVE	21 ±5.7	24%	2.1	11%	ChatGPT #6 Claude Gemini #3
6	Floify	19 ±5	29%	4.6	3%	ChatGPT #9 Claude #5 Gemini #7
7	Blend	18 ±5	25%	3.9	0%	ChatGPT #7 Claude #4 Gemini #8
8	Empower	17 ±5.6	21%	2.9	0%	ChatGPT #4 Claude #13 Gemini #5
9	SimpleNexus	12 ±4.5	22%	5.4	0%	ChatGPT #10 Claude #6 Gemini #11
10	Jungo	11 ±3.3	17%	4.4	4%	ChatGPT #8 Claude #7 Gemini #13
11	Maxwell	9 ±4.4	17%	5.4	0%	ChatGPT Claude #9 Gemini #6
12	Optimal Blue	9 ±3.9	14%	4.9	0%	ChatGPT #13 Claude #8 Gemini #14
13	MeridianLink Mortgage	8 ±3.6	13%	4.4	0%	ChatGPT #11 Claude #12 Gemini #10
14	MeridianLink	8 ±3.8	15%	6.1	0%	ChatGPT #14 Claude #11 Gemini #9
15	Surefire CRM	7 ±1.2	10%	3.7	0%	ChatGPT #12 Claude #10 Gemini

The ± under each score is the reliability band: how much the number would move if we re-ran the identical measurement. It is tight because each prompt is sampled multiple times. It is not the same as how much the ranking depends on which prompts we ask — a separate, wider figure shown on hover.

Just below the cutoff: BNTouch (7.1), AWS (6.7), Black Knight Empower (6.3), Blue Sage (5.6), Calyx Path (5.4). 78 brands were scored in this category; the leaderboard shows the top 15.

Visibility Score: position-weighted presence across all measured answers, 0 to 100. A score of 100 means the brand was the first recommendation in every answer. Every point in a trend line is a live monthly measurement; there is no modeled or backfilled history. Full methodology.

Openness 36/100: the share of this category's recommendation weight not held by the leader.

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Do the models agree?

Per-model Visibility Scores for the top 10. A long gray bar means the three assistants disagree about the brand. Hover a row for exact values.

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Where they land in the answer

When a brand is mentioned, where does it appear? Box shows the middle 50% of positions, the thick line is the median, whiskers are the extremes. Hover a row for the detail.