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.
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Autopilot, launched March 2024, acts as an agentic workforce handling unstructured mortgage documents and rules in real time. First customer analysis shows closing process reduced from 29 to 21 days. 70 lenders have activated it, with 10-15% incremental revenue growth projected.
Blend runs hundreds of historical evals against new models; Gemini 2.5 Pro (2024) was 'quietly really good' for agentic tasks. Blend plans to publish an agentic banking index tracking model performance, cost, and latency over time.