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The Case for Bare Metal AI
Tela Gallagher Mathias makes the case for on-premises AI infrastructure to support mortgage innovation, value engineering, and Human Futures.
Inside PhoenixTeam’s Value Engineer Bootcamp: Putting Human Judgment to Work with AI
Our Value Engineer Bootcamp puts human judgment at the center of AI-enabled work: making expertise explicit and giving the people closest to a problem a more direct role in solving it.
Founder Roundtable: The First Summer of Human Futures
PhoenixTeam founders Tanya Brennan, Tela Mathias, and Tom Westerlind sit down to talk about the first summer of Human Futures: 23 interns, AI Builder Week, and what comes next.
Tela Mathias Named HousingWire Vanguard for Leadership in Mortgage and AI
Tela Mathias, CTO & Chief Nerd at PhoenixTeam has been named a 2026 HousingWire Vanguard, marking her third consecutive year receiving the recognition.
The Economics of AI: Part 1 (Continued) - The Cost of Innovation
In my first in this series, I walked through the ten dimensions of AI costs.
Nothing we make is real. Everything we make is real.
As ChatGPT-era automation scales, leaders are pushed to redesign value beyond faster workflows.
The Economics of AI: Part 1 - Cost
IÂ got a peek at our AI operations dashboard last week, care of Neal Iyer (thanks Neal).
PhoenixTeam Launches Human Futures, First Cohort Begins Hands-On AI and Career Readiness Work
PhoenixTeam announced the launch of Human Futures, a new initiative helping young people prepare for a world being reshaped by artificial intelligence.
Phoenix Burst Wins MortgagePoint Tech Excellence Award for Second Consecutive Year
Phoenix Burst, PhoenixTeam's AI-powered regulatory intelligence platform, has been recognized as a winner of the MortgagePoint Tech Excellence Award.
PhoenixTeam Earns Inc. Best Workplaces Recognition for People-First Culture
PhoenixTeam has been named to Inc. Magazine's 2026 Best Workplaces list, the publication's annual recognition of companies building cultures that keep and inspire their people.
The Infamous Footnote - Implications of GenAI on Fair Lending
A single footnote at the bottom of a recent Federal Reserve supervision and regulation letter raises hard questions about how generative AI intersects with fair lending.
The AI Futures Program: A 13-Week Program for High School Seniors and College Students
The thing that keeps me up at night is the future for our kids, and for the young adults trying to get jobs today.
PhoenixTeam Achieves SOC 2 Type II Compliance for Phoenix Burst
PhoenixTeam announced that both PhoenixTeam and Phoenix Burst have achieved SOC 2 Type II compliance, marking an important step in the company's continued focus on security, trust, and enterprise readiness.
A Continuous Mortgage Innovation Pipeline
What if we've been looking at technical debt all wrong?
Agentic AI in Financial Services
A panel of senior technology executives from RBC, Wells Fargo, and BNY talked through four key questions for financial services companies on agentic AI at scale.
From vision to value: How AI is taking shape in mortgage
For mortgage executives, the challenge with AI is no longer whether to invest, but how to scale responsibly and effectively.
Introducing Large Language Models to Traditional Machine Learning Operations
Machine learning (ML) operations (MLOps) is the set of practices, tools, and associated culture that bridges the gap between building ML models and running them reliably in production.
GTC Insights | Visual AI Agents for Real Time Video Understanding
Vision AI is a not-new-but-hotter-than-it-used-to-be capability. The thing that changed is the opportunity in physical AI, as physical AI gets increasingly real.
GTC Insights | Open Source and Agentic Development
An AI agent is an AI that can perceive, plan, reason, and act. Notes from GTC sessions on a family of open source models designed specifically for agentic development.
GTC Depression - Jensen's Keynote
AI is eating everything, absolutely everything. Reflections on Jensen's GTC keynote and finding a niche in the AI future.
Process and Technical Hurdles to Achieve the Mortgage AI Future
My take on 2026 is that it will be a race to achieve what I call the mortgage AI "FOMO" strategy as fast as possible.
The Homogenization of Everything
As we use genAI more and more, content converges to an average of whatever the major providers have decided it should be.
The Scary and Very Odd Thing That Happened Last Week
I'm not sure how mainstream OpenClaw and Moltbook are for the mortgage AI community, but in the AI community, it's absolutely bonkers.
PhoenixTeam Names Laura MacIntyre as Partner, Expanding Leadership for the Next Chapter of Growth
PhoenixTeam is proud to announce that Laura MacIntyre has joined as Partner and Growth Officer, expanding PhoenixTeam’s leadership bench and accelerating growth across the mortgage ecosystem.
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