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The national recruiting home of Fairway Home Mortgage

Speed. In every department. Now accelerated by AI. 

Fairway wrote Speed to Respond into its official core values — then built every department around it. Now the fastest platform in the industry is leading it in AI, too. Built to accelerate the originator. Never to replace you.

Nobody will know you're looking. That's the whole point.

Holly Mattson, President of Recruiting
Holly MattsonPresident of Recruiting

Holly leads Fairway’s national recruiting effort with three decades in the business. Her promise to every candidate: confidential conversations, zero pressure, and an honest look at whether Fairway is your fit.

Honestly? I'm producing fine. Why would I move anywhere?
Because 'fine' is the ceiling where you are. Here it's the floor. Let me show you the stack — confidentially.
Holly replies fast. And keeps it between you.
Start with Holly — confidentially →
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Employee-owned — Fairway is being sold back to the Fairway team

The thesis

Speed isn’t a feature here. It’s the operating system.

Most lenders talk about service. Fairway wrote Speed to Respond into its official core values — #5, authored by employees — and then built every department around it. AI didn’t create Fairway’s speed. It strapped a rocket to it.

01Pre-approval & sales

Fairway Advantage® pre-approvals are fully underwritten before your borrower shops — so offers move at cash speed, and listing agents call you back first.

02Underwriting & operations

An ops machine tuned for turn time — files move because the whole pipeline is built to keep them moving, not to queue them.

03Marketing & creative

Landing pages, campaigns, and branded reports in days — sometimes minutes — not quarters. Compliance pre-flight included, so speed never costs you risk.

04Leads & follow-up

FairwayLeads are engaged the moment they arrive — text, email, and phone — and Brianna, the AI assistant, moves conversations forward while you close.

05Your transition

Switching companies is where momentum goes to die — so Fairway engineered onboarding to protect your pipeline and get you back to funding fast.

06Even generosity

When Texas flooded, Fairway committed $1,000,000 within days — then publicly challenged the industry to keep up. Speed isn’t just how Fairway lends. It’s how Fairway shows up.

Speed in every departmentAI in every workflowThe fastest platform you can originate on.

AI makes fast faster

Speed built Fairway. AI is making it faster.

Fairway was fast before AI existed — Speed to Respond is core value #5, written by employees. Now Fairway builds on partnerships with both Anthropic and OpenAI, and the AI layer compounds that speed in every department. The promise still holds: AI won’t replace loan officers — loan officers with AI will replace loan officers without it. Your expertise, plus AI speed, equals more closings — same you.

Anthropic — ClaudeOpenAI — GPTNavigator — ours
Your expertiseAI leverageMore closings. Same you.
Fairway Technology & AI — see it in action

The Fairway Tech Stack

Five systems. One loan officer. An unfair speed advantage.

Personal web presence, an AI layer, CRM automation, branded reporting, and business intelligence — one integrated system with a single job: remove every hour between you and the next closing.

  • Personal Web Presence. Your own launch-ready site — brand, calculators, program pages, education hubs — built on a hardened house stack and shipped in days, not quarters.
  • Navigator — the AI Layer. Fairway’s proprietary AI layer, built on partnerships with Anthropic and OpenAI — designed to augment you, never replace you.
  • CRM & Automation. Enterprise CRM with automated journeys — birthdays, rate watches, annual reviews — that run while you originate.
  • Branded Reporting. Polished, Fairway-branded proposals, refi analyses, and market reports — generated in minutes, not evenings.
  • Business Intelligence. Know your market, your partners, and your pipeline — with dossiers and analytics most branches have never seen.

Tour the full stack →

The stack, in motion — made in-house by our Design team.

Ashley Caronna, National Business Development & Social Media Manager at Fairway

The stack is the engine. She teaches you to drive it.

Learn to scale from Ashley Caronna.

National Business Development & Social Media Manager

Ashley teaches the classes loan officers and Realtors actually use — personal branding, social media, video, and business development — turnkey curriculum you can take straight into your market. Her thesis: the top communicator wins, and personal brand is market share.

“It’s not just inspiration — it’s practical guidance designed to help you grow your brand, build meaningful relationships, and move your business forward in a way that feels authentic and effective.” — Ashley Caronna, Fairway press release, 2025
Personal brand & social strategy

Build a presence that reflects your market and your voice — clarity and consistency over follower counts.

Video, without the cringe

Scripts, hooks, and compliant frameworks that make showing up on camera straightforward.

Agent education you can host

Turnkey classes you offer your real estate partners — you show up as the expert, the curriculum is done for you.

Business development playbooks

Turning content into conversations, and conversations into a referral network that compounds.

Explore her classes — FairwaySocialSales.com

Hear it straight

The story — and why originators keep making the move

The Story of Fairway — with Steve Jacobson
Why Fairway Makes Sense for Originators — Bill Murphy

Marketing at speed

Your brand, shipped in days — not quarters

Most originators are their own unpaid marketing department, moving at nights-and-weekends pace. At Fairway, marketing is infrastructure — creative, compliant, always on, and fast.

A real marketing department

In-house creative — design, social, events, campaign calendars — that keeps your brand alive without you lifting a finger.

Your personal brand, productized

Sites, landing pages, listing launches, co-branded pieces — compliance-checked before anything ships.

Content that compounds

Video, social, and education content built around you — so borrowers and agents already know you before the first call.

Compliance as a feature

Marketing pre-flight checks catch disclosure issues before they ship — you get speed without the risk.

Inside the marketing engine →

The operating system

Ten core values. Written by employees, not consultants.

Fairway's values were crafted with employee input — what the team itself said mattered. They decide internal awards, they shape hiring, #3 is official policy — and #5 is the reason this entire site is about speed.

1Humility first
2Foster growth and knowledge
3Have funSee below ↓
4Create an amazing experience
5Speed to RespondThe thesis of this site
6Seek wise counsel
7Respect, listen and stay balanced
8Committed to serve
9Consistent, honest communication
10Family focused

The story behind the values →

Core value #3

Have fun. We're serious about it.

Fairway's ten core values were written with employee input — and the third one, in a multi-billion-dollar mortgage company's official value system, is have fun. So we built an arcade game into our recruiting site. Naturally.

Who you'd really be joining

Loans are what we do. Not who we are.

Speed here isn't just an operations metric. Fairway runs two nonprofits and moves first when disaster strikes — $1M committed within days, twice — then publicly challenges the rest of the industry to match its pace.

$2M+Disaster relief, 2024–25
450+AWI service dogs placed
15,000+Fairway Cares packages
Est. 2015 · Founded by Fairway

American Warrior Initiative

Bridging the military–civilian divide through service dogs, ambassador programs, and community education — with every expense underwritten by Fairway, so donated dollars go to the mission.

  • Service dogs placed450+
  • Expenses covered byFairway
  • Milestone400th dog, 2025
Est. 2016 · Funded by employees

Fairway Cares

Hope, encouragement, and relief for those facing critical illness, trauma, or loss — care packages with handwritten notes, and financial grants when they're needed most.

  • Care packages sent15,000+
  • Every one includesA handwritten note
  • Financial grants2,000+

See the full impact — AWI, Fairway Cares, Jake's Place →

Your two people

Meet Holly and Julie

One conversation each. Zero pressure from either.

Holly Mattson, President of Recruiting

Holly Mattson

President of Recruiting

Holly leads Fairway’s national recruiting effort with three decades in the business. Her promise to every candidate: confidential conversations, zero pressure, and an honest look at whether Fairway is your fit.

Julie Fry, Chief People & Engagement Officer

Julie Fry

Chief People & Engagement Officer

Julie owns the people side of Fairway — the culture behind six consecutive USA TODAY Top Workplaces awards, judged entirely on confidential employee feedback.

“To be named a Top Workplace for six consecutive years speaks to Fairway’s leadership, our mindset, and the empowerment of our staff.” — PR Newswire, April 2026
Fairway — USA TODAY Top Workplace 2026

100% confidential — always

Ready for an honest conversation?

No pressure. No spam list. Nobody finds out you asked. Talk to Holly confidentially, or slip quietly into a Virtual Fairway Day and just watch.

There’s a whole other side of Fairway

Reverse mortgages aren’t a footnote here — they’re a division with a president, its own processing centers, and a referral program that pays forward LOs. Flip the site over and see it.

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