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Transforming Mortgage Post-Closing with Agentic AI: A Pathway to Operational Excellence
| International Journal of Computer Applications |
| Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
| Volume 187 - Number 33 |
| Year of Publication: 2025 |
| Authors: Shrikanth Mahale |
10.5120/ijca2025925624
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Shrikanth Mahale . Transforming Mortgage Post-Closing with Agentic AI: A Pathway to Operational Excellence. International Journal of Computer Applications. 187, 33 ( Aug 2025), 67-72. DOI=10.5120/ijca2025925624
Abstract
The mortgage business is transforming as it strives to streamline operations, increase efficiency, and enhance customer satisfaction. The post-closing phase of mortgage operations is vital as it controls the movement of loan documents, authenticates documents, and monitors for irregularities. This processing phase is time-consuming, complicated, and prone to errors since it is performed according to human principles. Unlocking AI (Artificial Intelligence) potential, Agentic AI is the answer that enables operational excellence. It automates, enhances, and transforms post-close activities. Agentic AI refers to a type of AI that can do things on its own and consider and adjust to new circumstances without being continuously supervised by humans. Using agentic AI to facilitate the post-closing mortgage transaction process could revolutionize documentation analysis, spot compliance issues, and conduct quicker and more accurate processing of loan documentation. This significantly saves on expenses, speeds up the post-closing timeline, and minimizes the risk of mistakes being made. Decisions like these after the fact can be better with Agentic AI’s machine learning-driven algorithm, natural language processing, and predictive analytics. These AI solutions can offer eyes-on readings you can trust in a fraction of the time and the speed you could get from human beings scanning through mountains of unstructured data posed by these contracts, to raise red flags and offer valuable insights to human agents. This enables human workers to concentrate elsewhere — on other high-value tasks such as solving difficult problems and making sure customers are pleased — and raises the manual review bar as high as possible. By automatically fulfilling all the regulatory obligations on time, Agentic AI improves the efficiency and compliance in post-closing activities. It also adds another layer of transparency and accountability by becoming the oversight framework for the entire post-closing process by rippling the information as it’s being received. It's a testament to just how heavily regulated our business is that audit trails and compliance need to be so stringent that we'd invest in this kind of thing. We look at how Agentic AI might change the mortgage post-closing landscape and offer a blueprint for how AI-enabled automation can be introduced into today's processes.
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