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Valon

Valon sells ValonOS, a system of record for mortgage servicing that brings the loan record, multi party accounting ledgers, money movement, workflows, reporting and compliance logic into one platform. Valon built it by running its own mortgage servicer for six years, then sold that servicing business and opened ValonOS to the industry. Newrez, Carrington Mortgage Services and ServiceMac have signed on, ValonOS is live at two of the ten largest United States servicers, and Valon says one in six US mortgages is contracted to run on it, with more than $200 billion in unpaid principal balance on the platform.

AI runs inside the system of record. Ditto, the agent native to ValonOS, handles homeowner communications, escrow analysis, complaint research and payment re allocations, and an agent building platform lets each servicer teach it processes built on its own workflows. The model decides which action to take while deterministic code does the arithmetic and validators decide what may commit, with discretionary actions and failed attempts escalated to staff, and every run keeps a complete, replayable record. Figure, which services partner loans on ValonOS, reports 40 percent better delinquency outcomes in an A/B test. Valon raised a $150 million Series D at a $2.3 billion valuation in October 2026.

Last VerifiedOctober 13, 2026
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Assessment

Capability Axes

Capability grades

15 of 15 axes rated · 7 graded A or B

AI Capability
AI Centrality
BB on AI CentralityThe models are the engine of a core capability, layered on a product that would still function without them as a rules or workflow system.
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Ditto does servicing work itself: it researches escrow and tax questions before drafting a reply to a homeowner, investigates credit reporting disputes and re allocates payments, and servicers can build new agent processes on their own workflows. The ledgers, workflows and money movement would still run without it, which keeps the AI an engine of core capabilities rather than the whole product.

Autonomy and Oversight Model
AA on Autonomy and Oversight ModelWhat the system runs alone, what constrains it, and how a person checks it are all published: modes, thresholds, sampling or audit controls, and the route a case takes to human review.
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The agent proposes and code decides: deterministic tools do the arithmetic, validators reject illegal actions, an output check rejects malformed results, and each action is either committed or routed through an operator who reviews it on the way out. Discretionary operations such as fee waivers and status changes are not in the agent's menu and go to a person, and after a bounded number of failed attempts the agent escalates with the gap named. The threshold that trades a wrong action against an unnecessary escalation is tuned by Valon rather than set out in figures.

Model Risk Management and Transparency
BB on Model Risk Management and TransparencyReal transparency mechanisms are published, such as per alert explainability, confidence scoring or split testing, without the validation package or supervisory mapping behind them.
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Changes are measured against a golden dataset built from production traces before they ship, and the agent is monitored in production for clusters where it gets stuck. Accuracy rates for Ditto are not published, and the validation work is not tied to a supervisory framework.

Every run keeps the context the model received, the code it wrote, the validation results and the outcome, rerunning a trace gives the same result, and Valon reports that its validator rejects about one proposal in five, most of which escalate.

Operational and Outcome Evidence
BB on Operational and Outcome EvidenceVendor aggregate claims with real figures, or audited scale disclosures from a publicly listed company.
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Figure ran an A/B test in which partner loans serviced on Valon's technology showed a 40 percent improvement in delinquency outcomes against the control group. That result measures servicing on the platform rather than the agents, and Valon gives no test period or loan count for it. Newrez, Carrington Mortgage Services and ServiceMac are named customers, with Rithm's chief executive quoted on ValonOS.

Valon says it signed more than $200 million in annual recurring revenue in its first six months on the market. Its operating figures, from 60 percent plus margins to more than 3,000 loans per employee against an industry average of 750, come from the servicer Valon ran itself.

AI Safety and Data Stewardship
CC on AI Safety and Data StewardshipGeneral assurances that do not answer the question this axis asks, which is whether one customer’s data trains models serving its competitors. Unbounded cross client learning stated with no boundary grades here too.
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Agents are described as working within each servicer's workflows, data and controls, an assurance that does not say whether one servicer's data or agent processes improve the models another servicer uses. Model hosting and retention of agent inputs go unstated.

Regulatory and Compliance
GLBA and Data Privacy Posture
CC on GLBA and Data Privacy PostureA standard privacy policy that covers the website rather than the service, or silence on a product that touches limited consumer data.
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Retention, sharing and subprocessor terms for the borrower data ValonOS holds are not set out in its product material, for a system carrying millions of homeowners' records. Data integrity is the theme instead: one ledger, reconciled records and a full audit history.

Security Certifications and Trust Center
BB on Security Certifications and Trust CenterA recognized certification named in the vendor’s own material without the artifact, or with a scope or renewal question the buyer has to raise.
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Neither the auditor nor a way to obtain the reports is given. SOC 2 Type 1 and Type 2 examinations are listed as completed beside the platform, in a badge row that also carries agency approvals and state licensing.

Regulatory Status and Licensure
CC on Regulatory Status and LicensureThe regulatory position is unstated. Most vendors in this index are technology suppliers and being unlicensed is the correct posture, so this grade records silence about the posture, not a missing license.
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ValonOS, as software sold to servicers, states no license or supervisory admission of its own. The Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae approvals and licensing in all 50 states shown beside the platform are standing earned by the servicer Valon ran and has since sold.

AI Governance and Bias Disclosure
CC on AI Governance and Bias DisclosureResponsible artificial intelligence committed to in policy language with no evaluation behind it, on a product whose bias surface is modest.
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Fairness or bias testing of agent work is not published, though agents draft homeowner communications and work disputes and payment questions. Governance is asserted rather than shown: a former Fannie Mae chief executive describes ValonOS as having governance built in so servicers can deploy AI safely.

AI Liability and Recourse
CC on AI Liability and RecourseMechanisms that enable challenge, such as audit trails and source traceability, with nothing standing behind the output and no route for the person affected.
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A guarantee, indemnity or correction commitment behind an agent's work is absent. What stands in its place is traceability: every material action keeps its actor, time, approval and record, so a servicer can reconstruct and contest what happened on a loan.

Integration and Deployment
Model Supply Chain Disclosure
CC on Model Supply Chain DisclosureThe architecture is described and no provider is named.
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The models behind Ditto and the agent building platform go unnamed, as do hosting providers and subprocessors. Valon describes the architecture instead: agents and people work from the same source of truth under the same guardrails inside ValonOS.

Core Systems and Integration Depth
BB on Core Systems and Integration DepthNamed systems or a documented public API, with the depth or the production evidence left open.
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ValonOS is itself the servicing core, replacing legacy mainframe platforms at named servicers including Newrez and Carrington, which adopted it as its core servicing platform. Connections to investors, custodians, vendors and partners are offered out of the box, though none is named.

Deployment Model and Data Residency
DD on Deployment Model and Data ResidencyNothing published about where the system runs or where the data rests.
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Where ValonOS runs, in which regions and under what residency terms is not described, an open question for servicers whose investors and regulators ask where borrower data sits.

Commercial
Commercial Transparency
CC on Commercial TransparencyNo price is published and engagement runs through a demo form, which is the norm in this index.
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Price, tiers and the unit of charge for ValonOS are unpublished, and the only buying route is a conversation with Valon. Its contracted revenue is public, which sizes the business rather than a servicer's bill.

Institution and Segment Coverage
BB on Institution and Segment CoverageNamed segments with dedicated material behind part of the coverage.
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Mortgage servicers are the buyers, from the largest United States servicers to government loan specialists such as Carrington, and the material is built around servicing work: payments, escrow, defaults, reporting and audits. A long list of other servicing businesses, from student loans to insurance claims, is named as where the platform is designed to extend, without material for any of them yet.

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