About Areal
Areal launched in 2020 as an AI native company. Our mission today is to bring the two halves together in one platform — AI as the engine that reads and understands the file, and workflow software as the machine that runs the work around it — so lenders can finally solve the problems that have defined mortgage operations for decades.
Trusted by Top-Tier Mortgage & Title Companies
Our history
We introduced Areal in March 2020 to address the limitations of OCR in mortgages, which struggled to surpass 50% accuracy, and because transformer-based advancements in language understanding hadn't yet impacted lending. Six years on, the platform processes over 1,500 document types with 99% accuracy on key fields and powers automated workflows for leading lenders.
2020
Launched in March 2020, two weeks before lockdown, and signed our first customer that summer.
2021
Old Republic Title, the largest builder lender, and other enterprise customers put the platform into real production volume.
2023
More than ten live customers, and automated CD balancing launched in Q4 — now the industry's #1 CD solution.
2024
Our second product, built for closers to take on the closing workflow.
2025
Announced at MBA Annual — the industry's first agentic AI platform built specifically for mortgage. Closer Agent and ten more agents followed, reshaping how the work gets done.
2026 H1
Executed 4 million agentic tasks and completed 98.8% of them automatically, setting a record against industry benchmarks.
By the numbers
2020
Launched in San Francisco
1,500+
Document types supported
99%
Accuracy on critical fields
4M+
Agent tasks completed
Join us
We're a small team of researchers and engineers in San Francisco building AI that lenders close real loans on. If that sounds like your kind of problem, these are the four things we hire and work by.
We move before being asked. The work that matters is rarely assigned.
Lenders close loans on our output. It has to hold every time, not on average.
We show the work behind every number and never oversell what the platform does.
Clear, direct, and fast — with each other and with the teams who run on us.
Out in the industry
We'll show you which workflows to automate first — and the exact ROI for your volume.
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