Insellerate
Founded 2012 · 39 employees on LinkedIn · 3 known investors
Insellerate is an enterprise CRM, customer experience, and AI platform for financial institutions, unifying customer, household, product, account, and conversation data into one configurable system. It combines lead management, intelligent automation, embedded AI, and multi-channel engagement to help lenders—particularly in the mortgage market—coordinate outreach and grow customer relationships.
Also known as Insellerate
Founders & leadership
Insellerate was founded in 2012 by Josh Friend.

Investors · 3
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Insellerate is a software and technology company providing a customer relationship management, customer experience and AI platform for financial institutions. Its platform is designed around multiple financial products (mortgage, auto, personal, consumer and commercial) and multiple distribution channels, including retail, consumer direct, wholesale, branch, broker, dealer, contact center and digital. Beyond mortgage, the CRM has also been offered to the debt settlement, insurance and tax industries, with lead management and sales tracking delivered as software-as-a-service.
A central concept is the Insellerate Golden Record, a continuously updated customer profile that links customer, household, product, account, application, conversation, interaction and opportunity data so that marketing, sales, service and operations teams work from a shared view. Layered on this is Aithena, the company's AI system, which provides predictive scoring of opportunities, next-best-action recommendations, automated multi-channel follow-up, cross-sell and retention signals, and conversation analysis for coaching. Aithena components include Aithena Score (predictive lead scoring updated in real time), Aithena Agent (an assistant that handles inbound calls and texts, qualifies borrowers and routes opportunities with summaries to loan officers) and Aithena Train (call analysis, coaching playbooks and mock call simulations with AI borrowers). Aithena can be run standalone alongside other CRMs such as Salesforce or Velocify, or combined with the Insellerate platform for end-to-end automation.
The platform emphasizes integration with incumbent lender systems — loan origination systems, CRM, point-of-sale, servicing, dialer, marketing, data and core platforms — via more than 1,300 APIs, positioning itself as an overlay that avoids replacing legacy infrastructure.
Founding story
Insellerate was founded in 2012 by Josh Friend, who previously worked in and ran mortgage companies and trained loan officers over a 21-year career before focusing on technology for lender-borrower engagement.
Business model
Insellerate sells its CRM, engagement and AI platform to financial institutions as a software-as-a-service offering, delivered as a configurable enterprise platform that connects to clients' existing lending and operating systems.
Software-as-a-service platform sold to lending institutions; specific pricing terms are not disclosed publicly.
Traction
The company reports platform activity over a trailing 36-month period of 1.1 billion API calls, 543.7 million webhooks processed, 34.8 million applications managed, 94.2 million new leads captured and 347.8 million consumer engagements supported. Marketing materials cite 89.4% accuracy in predicting closable deals from a first call with Aithena.
Latest developments
In September 2025 Insellerate appointed Christopher Meerschaert as director of customer success, overseeing customer success operations and supporting financial institutions using the Aithena AI platform. The company's current positioning centers on Aithena as an AI command center that can run standalone with other CRMs or in combination with the Insellerate platform.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Established mortgage-technology vendor covered by trade publication HousingWire, whose leadership has been recognized in HousingWire's 2020 Vanguard (Josh Friend) and 2020 Tech Trendsetter (Jack Friend) lists.
Positions itself as purpose-built for the multi-product, multi-channel structure of financial institutions rather than a general-purpose CRM, with AI embedded across the customer lifecycle rather than added as a separate chatbot, and with broad API connectivity intended to avoid rip-and-replace system migrations.
Technology
Cloud CRM and marketing automation platform built around the Insellerate Golden Record, a unified customer/household/product/account/application/conversation data model. The Aithena AI layer performs predictive scoring, prioritization, next-best-action recommendation, automated personalized outreach and full-coverage call analysis, including AI-simulated borrower calls for agent training. More than 1,300 APIs and webhook infrastructure support integration with legacy LOS, POS, servicing, dialer, marketing and core systems.
Go-to-market
Direct enterprise sales supported by product demonstrations and demo bookings on the company website, industry media presence and demo-day features in mortgage trade press, and integrations and partnerships with other mortgage technology providers such as Finastra's MortgagebotLOS and Mortgage Coach.
Financial institutions and lenders, principally residential mortgage lenders, along with users in auto, personal, consumer and commercial lending, and previously the debt settlement, insurance and tax industries. Buyers include retail, consumer-direct and wholesale lending operations, contact centers, branches, brokers and dealer networks.
Geography
Headquartered in Newport Beach, California, serving lending institutions in the United States.
History
Founded in 2012 and based in Newport Beach, California, Insellerate built a CRM and lead management SaaS platform for the residential mortgage market and adjacent industries. It added an integration with Mortgage Coach in 2022, launched a third-party originations solution for wholesale lenders in February 2023, integrated its CRM with Finastra's MortgagebotLOS in October 2023, released a new user interface in February 2024, and has since centered its offering on the Aithena AI platform, appointing a director of customer success in September 2025 to support institutions using it.
Compiled by commissioned research from 5 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Competitors · 3
by search overlapCompanies competing with Insellerate for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
Timeline · 8
launches, deals, and filingsInsellerate named Christopher Meerschaert director of customer success, overseeing customer success operations and assisting financial institutions with its Aithena AI platform.
Insellerate released a redesigned user interface for its platform.
Insellerate integrated its CRM solution with Finastra's MortgagebotLOS loan origination system.
Insellerate launched a third-party originations solution aimed at wholesale lenders.
HousingWire named COO and co-founder Jack Friend a 2020 Tech Trendsetter.
HousingWire named CEO and founder Josh Friend a 2020 Vanguard.
Insellerate partnered with nonprofit Project Hope Alliance, donating for each demo booked and performed in September and distributing Chromebooks and Wi-Fi access to students in Orange County, California.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
In the news
▸Research sources · 5
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- Insellerateinsellerate.com · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Insellerate do?
- Insellerate is an enterprise CRM, engagement and AI platform for financial institutions, with a focus on mortgage lending.
- Who founded Insellerate?
- Insellerate was founded by Josh Friend in 2012.
- Who are Insellerate's investors?
- Insellerate's investors include First Analysis, The Argentum Group, Decathlon Capital Partners.

