Originations are climbing. MBA forecasts $2.2T in single-family volume for 2026. Credit union mortgage originations are up 13.6% year over year through Q1. For mortgage teams that spent two years cutting staff and stretching processors thin, this should be good news.

It isn’t. Not yet.

The rate drought exposed a staffing problem. The recovery is exposing an infrastructure problem. Most credit union mortgage teams are running production across seven or more disconnected systems. The LOS doesn’t talk to the core. The pipeline tool doesn’t know what the borrower portal knows. Conditions clear in one system and sit untracked in three others. Your team fills the gaps by hand, file by file, 40+ times per loan.

That worked when volume was down. It won’t work at $2.2T.

In this session, we’ll break down exactly where mortgage ops time goes on a typical loan file, which handoffs between systems are costing your team hours every week, and what a workflow orchestration layer looks like when it connects the systems you already have. No new tools for your team to adopt. No 18-month IT projects. Just the plumbing between your LOS and everything else, automated.

Whether you’re running a 5-person mortgage team or a 50-person operation, you’ll walk away with a practical framework for building ops infrastructure that scales with volume, not headcount.


Relai is the workflow layer between a lender’s loan origination system and everything else in the mortgage production stack. Closing a loan touches seven or more systems, and most of the work between those systems is still done by hand. Relai connects them, automates the handoffs, and turns a fragmented process into a mortgage assembly line that moves files from application to funding without the manual touches that slow your team down.

We’re built by TRAiNED, a team that has lived inside mortgage operations and builds tools for the people who run production.


Notes: 

  1. This session will be interactive so come with your questions.
  2. Open to anyone.
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Event Type

  • Webinar

Dates

June 16, 2026

Event Time

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

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Speakers

Mark Cunningham
Mark Cunningham

CEO,
Relai by TRAiNED