▶ 35:20 · $BLEND · Blend's Autopilot AI agent cuts mortgage closing from 29 to 21 days in first deployment

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How AI Agents Are Creating an Infinitely Scalable Workforce

2026-06-18 · 4 company · 5 thematic

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Neema Ghamghami Sorat is the CEO and co-founder of Blend, a digital lending platform processing ~20% of US mortgages and home equity loans. He previously worked at Palantir after graduating from Stanford, where he studied computer science. He grew up in Ohio after his family immigrated from Iran.

joe lonsdale

Joe Lonsdale hosts American Optimists. He co-founded Palantir Technologies and founded venture firm 8VC. He previously hired Scott Wu at an early company and references his experience building Palantir's forward-deployed engineer model and government technology partnerships.

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“They took their mortgage closing process, which includes a lot of things in Blend and some things out of Blend like the appraisal, took it down from 29 to 21 days. Like just with the first version of Autopilot.”

—neema ghamghami sorat

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