Better Home & Finance Holding Company (NASDAQ:BETR) ("Better.com"), the AI-powered digital homeownership company, announced it has hired Leah Price to lead the Tinman™ AI Platform as it offers its technology platform and software to lenders across the country.

Tinman® is an AI-driven automated rules-based decision engine and software platform that removes bottlenecks from the traditional home transaction process. The platform connects, automates, and optimizes mortgage origination and homeownership services to deliver an end-to-end solution for customers. This software platform and engine enables a range of loan and financial services, combining a point-of-sale system, CRM system, pricing engine, document engine, loan origination software, and underwriting calculation engine.

Price joins Better and the Tinman® team from the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) where she led the Office of Fintech and the Office of the Chief AI Officer. One of the driving forces behind the Agency's regulatory TechSprint on Generative AI, Leah established the FHFA as a forward-thinking leader on GenAI in the mortgage industry and among regulatory peers.

"Tinman's AI Platform is democratizing access to cutting-edge artificial intelligence. Lenders of all sizes can now harness the speed, efficiency, and automated risk management capabilities that previously were exclusive to the industry's largest, most tech-savvy lenders. We've reached a pivotal moment in the history of technology, and Tinman is leading the charge in the mortgage industry," said Price of Better's technology.

Tinman is the first fully AI-driven platform built to empower consumers, and now, the first to empower local mortgage brokers and banks with the technology to serve their customers at scale in the mortgage industry.

Vishal Garg, CEO and founder of Better.com added, "Through Tinman, Better Mortgage has automated time and labor-intensive components of the mortgage process — reducing our cost to originate by over 40% compared to the industry average. Our loan officers have compressed a staggering 80% of their back-office costs using our platform. Leah is a recognized leader, and we're excited to have her aboard the Better team as we bring our disruptive technology to market, allowing other lenders to realize those same benefits for themselves."

A large addressable market exists within the mortgage ecosystem for the holistic one-stop software solution powered by Tinman. Over 5 million mortgages were built on the Encompass platform in 2024.

Prior to the FHFA, Price worked at Figure Technologies as Vice President of Lending Ecosystem, and at Fannie Mae she led product development for Day 1 Certainty pilots, led a technology distribution team, and founded the Sales Engineer Center of Excellence.

Leah is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, appearing at Mortgage Bankers Association, MISMO, DC Fintech Week, Women in Housing Finance, Five Star and Digital Mortgage conferences, covering topics such as AI and blockchain, and has served MISMO as a Senior Advisor and as Co-Chair of the Emerging Technology Community of Practice.

Leah received her BA from Georgetown University and her MBA from New York University Stern School of Business.

About Better.com

Better Home & Finance Holding Company (NASDAQ:BETR, BETRW)) is the first AI-powered mortgage lender and first fintech to fund more than $100 billion in mortgage volume. Since 2016, Better has leveraged its industry-leading AI platform, Tinman™, to achieve a singular mission of making homeownership cheaper, faster, and easier for Americans. Tinman™ allows customers to see their rate options in seconds, get pre-approved in minutes, lock in rates, and close their loan in as little as three weeks. In addition, Betsy™, the first voice-based AI loan assistant built exclusively for the mortgage industry, revolutionizes the homebuying journey by delivering timely application status updates to consumers, answering questions, and moving their loan application along 24/7/365. Better's mortgage offerings include GSE-conforming mortgage loans, FHA and VA loans, and jumbo mortgage loans. In January 2023, Better launched "One Day Mortgage," allowing eligible customers to go from click to Commitment Letter within 24 hours. Better won the 2025 Fintech Breakthrough Awards for Digital Mortgage Innovation, and was named Best Online Mortgage Lender by Forbes and Best Mortgage Lender for Affordability by WSJ in 2023, ranked #1 on LinkedIn's Top Startups List for 2021 and 2020, #1 on Fortune's Best Small and Medium Workplaces in New York, #15 on CNBC's Disruptor 50 2020 list, and was listed on Forbes FinTech 50 for 2020. Better serves customers in all 50 US states and the United Kingdom.

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