Draper Goren Launches Free AI-Powered Loan Officer Database

Proptech studio Draper Goren has unveiled LenDb.ai, a free, lender-neutral database cataloging 224,000 US loan officers designed to be queried directly by AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Claude. The Troy, Michigan, and Westlake Village, California-based studio said the resource is open to any AI platform at no cost, aiming to standardize how automated tools surface mortgage lending professionals.

The launch marks an unusual operational experiment alongside the data product itself: Draper Goren says it is running LenDb.ai with an AI chief executive, managing that system the way the studio would oversee a team of human co-founders. The arrangement signals a broader industry test of whether AI agents can handle day-to-day business leadership functions rather than purely back-office tasks.

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Draper Goren operates a portfolio of 10 companies focused on the property technology sector. By positioning LenDb.ai as a neutral infrastructure layer, the studio is betting that AI assistants will increasingly serve as the front door through which consumers and professionals alike search for mortgage and lending expertise. A lender-neutral stance is intended to prevent any single institution from having preferential visibility within the index.

The move comes as AI assistants become more deeply embedded in real estate and financial services workflows, raising demand for reliable, structured data sources that large language models can draw upon without bias. LenDb.ai is framed as foundational infrastructure for that emerging ecosystem rather than a consumer-facing product in the traditional sense.

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