LIVE From AI Summit: AI That Only Gets Paid When It Works (Inside Tinman AI)

Jan 7, 2026

Leah Price, Vice President of Tinman AI at Better, dives into the future of mortgage technology. She discusses how outcome-based AI pricing revolutionizes traditional models, only charging when results are achieved. Leah reveals the power of embedded AI and avatars in providing seamless, personalized borrower interactions. She explores the importance of Gen-AI in modernizing mortgage workflows and highlights the shift toward borrower-centric designs, ensuring accuracy and trust in financial transactions. Prepare for an innovative approach to homeownership!

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ADVICE

Price AI By Outcomes

Price AI by outcomes instead of subscriptions to align incentives with value delivery.
Only charge customers when they realize a revenue event to force vendor accountability.

INSIGHT

Lender Becomes Industry Infrastructure

Better pivoted from being a lender to offering its end-to-end platform as mortgage infrastructure.
That shift creates an 'AWS moment' for mortgage tech by replacing 1990s stacks with modern integrated software.

INSIGHT

Single Bot With Full Loan Context

Layering GenAI across a single end-to-end mortgage stack creates a unified bot with full loan context.
A single agent can access loan files, pricing, and borrower interactions rather than fragmented point solutions.

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Leah Price, Vice President of Tinman AI Platform at better.com, breaks down why traditional subscription-based pricing no longer works and how outcome-driven AI can unlock real value for enterprises. She also shares how embedded AI, avatars, and automation are transforming the mortgage experience for both lenders and borrowers, and what the future of AI-powered financial infrastructure could look like.

Key Takeaways:

How Tinman AI embeds generative AI across an entire mortgage tech stack
The limitations of traditional ROI models in enterprise AI adoption, and Tinman's vision for outcome-based pricing
How AI avatars and bots reduce borrower friction and improve trust
What the future of mortgage lending could look like with AI as infrastructure

Guest Bio: Leah Price serves as Vice President leading the Tinman® AI Platform at Better, the AI-powered homeownership company. Under her leadership, the Tinman AI Platform will be offered to lenders and brokers across the country as an API-accessible platform.

Previously, Leah led the Office of Fintech and the Office of the Chief AI Officer at Federal Housing Finance Agency, leading initiatives in emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and blockchain. Earlier in her career, Leah held leadership roles at Figure Technologies and at Fannie Mae, where she was on the launch team of Day 1 Certainty® and other product innovations. She served as co-chair of MISMO's Emerging Technology Community of Practice, and was a Senior Advisor to MISMO.

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