Absence Index, release 2026-09

Does AI name your loan origination and lending software?

92 of 150 observed answers named nCino, captured 22 September 2026 (UTC): 61.3%, with a 95% Wilson interval of 53.3% to 68.8%.

Loan origination and lending software, observed 22 September 2026 (UTC)

92 of 150observed answers named nCino

25vendors checked in this category

4 of 25checked vendors named in none of the 150 observed answers

0 of 10buyer questions with no checked vendor named in any observed answer

Observed answers on stated dates, not a ranking. Every checked vendor on the Index

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Who the engines named

nCino was named in 92 of 150 observed answers across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode, more often than any of the other 24 vendors the Index checked in this category. nCino on the Index.

4 of the 25 checked vendors were named in none of the 150 observed answers:

0 of the 10 buyer questions returned no checked vendor in any observed answer. This counts checked vendors only; an engine may still have named a vendor outside the checked set.

Also named often: MeridianLink and ICE Mortgage Technology. Every checked vendor's count and base is on the Index category page.

Answers were observed on 22 September 2026 (UTC) and released on 23 September 2026. These are observed answers on stated dates, not a ranking.

On the Index

What buyers ask

The ten buyer questions, adapted here into team voice. The original wording and captured answers remain in the published Index release.

Shortlist

What is the best loan origination software for a community bank?
What is the best loan origination software for a credit union?
What is the best mortgage LOS for a small broker shop?

Alternatives

What are the best alternatives to Encompass?
What are the best alternatives to MeridianLink?
What are the best alternatives to nCino?

Buyer evaluation

MeridianLink vs nCino: which is better for a community bank?
Encompass vs Blend: which should a mortgage lender choose?
What should we look for when choosing a loan origination system?

Specific workflow

Which loan origination platform fits a lender that funds commercial and specialty loans in house?

Where the five engines disagree

The engines split. Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode named nCino most often; ChatGPT named MeridianLink most often. The per-engine counts are on the Index category page.

The vendor each engine named most often in its own observed answers
Engine	Named most often
ChatGPT	MeridianLink
Claude	nCino
Perplexity	nCino
Google AI Overviews	nCino
Google AI Mode	nCino

The sources the engines cited

The domains the engines cited most often in this category's observed answers, in the order the Index records them. Each domain's count and base is on the Index category page.

loanpro.io
aloan.ai
ncino.com
hesfintech.com
capterra.com
abrigo.com
meridianlink.com
g2.com
openbankingtracker.com
sourceforge.net

Renames and ownership changes in loan origination

When a loan origination vendor is acquired, taken private or rebranded, directories, review sites and trade press often keep the old string for months. ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode, which most buyers call Gemini, retrieve that stale material. A retired product brand without a former-name bridge can still appear in answers, while the living brand is missing from the same shortlist.

Renames and ownership changes with a public source
Old name	New name	Date	Owner or sponsor	Product brand	Source
MeridianLink, Inc. (NYSE: MLNK)	MeridianLink (private; name retained)	2025-10	Centerbridge Partners (Silversmith minority)	kept	Source, MeridianLink, Inc. (NYSE: MLNK) Read 2026-09-22
Ventures Lending Technologies	Lenders Cooperative (merged entity)	2025-02	Lenders Cooperative	combined under Lenders Cooperative	Source, Ventures Lending Technologies Read 2026-09-22
Integrated Financial Solutions (IFSLeaseWorks)	Abrigo (IFS acquired)	2025-01	Abrigo	IFS capabilities into Abrigo	Source, Integrated Financial Solutions (IFSLeaseWorks) Read 2026-09-22

What changes the answer

Entity and structured data

Publish Organization and SoftwareApplication markup that states the current legal name, product name, former names and sameAs links to the profiles engines already cite. When a rename or acquisition happened, add a formerly-known-as bridge so the engines can connect the old string to the living brand.

Answer pages

Write pages that answer the buyer questions above in buyer language, with no brand name planted in the question wording itself. Publish them on the vendor domain the engines already try to cite.

Source placement

Place accurate product and ownership facts on the directories, review sites, trade press and forums the engines cite in this category, listed above.

Crawler access and review presence

Confirm robots rules, rendering and any bot filter still let AI crawlers reach the answer and entity pages, and keep listings current on the review sites for this category so the engines retrieve one consistent name, domain and category label.

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Integrity monitoring for up to 150 already-approved existing pages and two human hours a month. No new pages.

Includes ChatGPT Business Hub readiness parts 1 to 6, with the claim on the first day OpenAI opens the tool to you. What readiness covers

Each month we work the outside pages the five engines cite for your category: corrections, listings, profile claims and quotes offered to editors, each reported with its receipt.

The five engines are ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode.

An explicit purchase is required. There is no automatic enrollment.

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Program

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Twelve pages or rewrites and 8 channel posts a month across Substack, WordPress, Medium, LinkedIn, YouTube and directories. A quarterly research study is written by our researchers. Up to 150 pages under management.

Includes ChatGPT Business Hub readiness parts 1 to 6, with the claim on the first day OpenAI opens the tool to you. What readiness covers

Each month we work the outside pages the five engines cite for your category: corrections, listings, profile claims and quotes offered to editors, each reported with its receipt.

The five engines are ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode.

You own the domain, content and exports. Day 7 brings the first approved page batch; day 30 includes the source-change log, buyer-path checks and separate measurement report.

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150-page build

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Starts only after a 5-page paid trial. Each page must answer a distinct buyer need with real evidence.

If the facts support fewer useful pages, we build fewer. We agree the trial and batch scope before payment.

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Questions

Which loan origination and lending software vendors did AI engines name most often in the September 2026 Absence Index?

nCino was named in 92 of 150 observed answers across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode. The next most named were MeridianLink and ICE Mortgage Technology. These are observed answers on stated dates, not a ranking; every checked vendor's count and base is on the Index category page.

Why does a rename change what AI engines say?

Engines retrieve public material that still carries retired product names, old legal entities and pre-acquisition domains. When those strings are not bridged to the current brand, the answer can name a name the company no longer uses, or skip the living brand entirely.

What should a loan origination and lending software vendor measure first?

Start with the ten buyer questions on this page. Record, for each question and each of the five engines, whether the brand was named and whether the brand domain was cited. Keep the wording frozen between runs so the comparison stays valid.

How is Broadcastwell related to the vendors in this category?

Broadcastwell measures and fixes whether AI search engines name B2B software companies. It also publishes the Absence Index. It does not sell loan origination and lending software, and no vendor commissioned this category's measurement.

Industries in the Absence Index

Cite as: Broadcastwell, The Absence Index, release 2026-09, 23 September 2026, method v1.1. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22907695. This category in release 2026-09 on the Index. Data license CC BY 4.0. Every Audit figure comes from the published method, v1.1.

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