Mortgage pros aren’t short on headlines; they’re short on new ideas that pay the bills.
In this industry, there's too much of the former and not enough of the latter. And the insights that do make it to us often aren't delivered fast enough, or they're not always easy to consume or get input on.
All of that led MortgageLogic.news to rethink how mortgage professionals consume, share, and sanity-check information.
In the process, our goals were threefold — to save members:
- Time (manual filtering)
- Cognitive load
- Second-guessing
The tech does that by distilling complex stories into clear, usable intelligence. Then it lets you easily bounce ideas off the community or a bot for validation.
More than a news site, MLN 3.0 is a tool for staying three moves ahead of fast-moving competitors, technology and borrower trends.
How to get on the beta
After months of hammering away in the background, the test version is finally live for everyone.
Here’s how to take it for a spin:
- Click here (don't use the regular sign-in until you complete the steps below)
- Log in with the same email you use on this site
- Choose a password (required since MLN 3.0 runs on new databases)
- Click the verification link in your email, and yes, check spam if it’s playing hard to get
- Answer the setup questions
- (Optional, but appreciated) Spot anything acting weird? Simply click "Send a Tip" to let us know
What’s actually new
We've been up to a lot. Here are some changes you'll spot right away:
- Much now revolves around "sparks." Sparks are streamlined news reports meant to spark ideas—ideals for strategies, client communications and business generation. (Members can also create their own sparks, complete with images, two-minute videos of themselves, and/or graphs, all of which appear on the Community Feed.)
- An entirely new, fully customizable Mortgage Command Centre to monitor mortgage rate trends and economics (dashboard sharing coming soon).
- News Lens™ lets you define what's important. It then slices through the headlines to pull out concrete ways you can turn any story into business fuel.
- Drop a spark, toss a comment, fire off a reply, or send in a tip—every move racks up karma, the local currency around here.
- There's a brand new text-to-speech engine with voices that no longer sound like a fancy GPS.
- A redesigned News-Stream for customizable mortgage news monitoring from thousands of sources, with AI filtering out the garbage.
- A more straightforward, easier-to-view Rate Survey with province filtering (finally!).
- Instant search of news, economic data, rates and member comments.
- A new community feed with member Q&A.
- Anonymous news tips with guaranteed confidentiality, so you can share anything newsworthy without collateral damage.
- Bond yield alerts that flag 1.5 standard deviation (i.e., meaningful) moves
- Downloadable receipts
- Saved news to read later
- Customizable notification settings to shut up everything you don't care about
What to expect next
- The beta will run in parallel with our existing site for a while.
- Because it is a beta, you're likely to come across glitches occasionally.
- The AI might be a little wonky for a few weeks while it learns.
- With any luck, our cheerful robot coder will make sure bugs have the lifespan of a fruit fly.
So give it a try and tell us what worked—and what tested your patience.
And we welcome your unsolicited brilliance if you have feature ideas, so please keep them coming!
