Demand Score
Should you build for this job? Every number below is a count of something we collected.
Not many people in this job buy software for it yet. Only 13 well used tools serve it, so there is room on the shelf.
Three components, each capped. How we compute this.
| Component | Score |
|---|---|
| People here already buy software | 22 / 35 |
| Room left on the shelf | 21 / 35 |
| How easy the buyer is to find | 24 / 30 |
Named from live job postings. They already pay a salary to do this work by hand, which makes them the most reachable first buyers.
Taken from 41 records: what employers hiring for this job ask for, ranked by how often they ask. This is the buyer describing the work in their own words, not us describing it.
| Employers ask for | Postings |
|---|---|
| Customer support for financial loans | 22 |
| Customer communication | 16 |
| MLO License | 13 |
| Marketing | 12 |
| Prospecting | 11 |
| Sales referrals | 10 |
| Referral-based lead generation | 10 |
| Promoting bank products | 10 |
| Credit report analysis | 10 |
| Financial sales | 10 |
| Real estate referral programs | 10 |
| Underwriting verification process | 9 |
| Initial Contact (sales skills) | 9 |
| Client referrals | 9 |
This category serves one job: Loan Officers, 290,530 of them in the US, earning a median of $74,180. Employment and wage figures are from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
From Capterra, filtered to products specific to this category rather than general business software.
| Tool | Rating | Reviews |
|---|---|---|
| The Mortgage Office | 4.8 | 288 |
| Creatio CRM | 4.7 | 150 |
| LendingPad | 4.4 | 134 |
| nCino’s Mortgage Suite | 4.8 | 126 |
| Mortgage Automator | 4.9 | 116 |
| Plaid | 4.4 | 105 |
| FileInvite | 4.7 | 99 |
| BNTouch Mortgage CRM | 4.5 | 98 |
| Floify | 4.8 | 74 |
| LoanPro | 4.8 | 74 |
| LendingWise | 4.6 | 72 |
| Allegro Lending Suite | 4.4 | 64 |
| IncomeXpert | 4.6 | 60 |
| Calyx Point | 3.5 | 53 |
These are estimates, from Google advertiser data, and they are not part of the score. Everything else on this page is a count of records we collected.
| People searching for loan origination software each month | 720 |
| What advertisers pay for a click | $36.9 |
| The priciest click we found: loan origination software for banks | $73.5 |
Whether the tools above are bad enough to displace. Star ratings cannot answer it: every category we measured averages between 4.25 and 4.71 stars, because vendors ask happy customers for reviews. We would rather say so plainly than guess at it. What we tried.
This one says not yet, and the honest read is that you would be creating the demand as well as the product. If you want to pursue it anyway, the bar is the same: talk to ten people who hold this job and get one to say yes to paying you. Prove us wrong with evidence rather than enthusiasm.