ABOUT US
AIRE Platforms is lending software made by a private lender who got tired of paying for software that left all the work to him. We use it to run our own book. We sell it because other lenders were stuck the same way.
THE SHORT VERSION
I run a private lending company. We paid for the platform with the biggest reputation in our market, the one the largest lenders in the country run on, waited most of a year to get onboarded, never got all the way there, and found out the product we were using was not the product we were sold. Origination, servicing, construction draws, the borrower portal and the applicant portal were each a separate charge we discovered after signing. No customization. No automation. Every step manual. We never really used it.
To save that $20,000 we built an internal tool for construction draws. It worked so well that we kept going, and somewhere along the way we realized we had built the thing we had been trying to buy: one platform where every part of the loan is connected, the routine steps are automated instead of re-keyed, and AI helps without taking the decision away from us.
When we did not renew and told them why, their leadership asked to sit down with us and learn how we had automated what their platform could not. We said no. That was when we knew we had something real.
AIRE runs our own lending today. That is our proof, and it is why access starts with a walkthrough on one of your real loans instead of a slideshow.
Request a walkthroughHOW AIRE HAPPENED
No investor deck, no market study. A working lender, a bad software experience, and the decision to fix it ourselves.
We bought the platform that calls itself the best in the market: the one that has been around for four decades and puts the biggest names in private lending on its homepage. Twenty thousand dollars for a single seat, with no customization. Onboarding took the better part of a year, and we never really finished it. The product we got was vastly different from the product we were pitched.
Origination was one charge. Servicing was another. Construction draws were an add-on. The borrower portal was an add-on. The applicant portal was an add-on. We only found out after signing the contract that we would need all of them to make the platform useful, and even with every add-on it never was. We never really used it. The $20,000 was wasted.
Nothing was automated. Every draw, every statement, every payoff still meant re-keying the same loan into another spreadsheet. We were paying a premium to keep doing the work ourselves.
To stop paying for software that did not help, we built an internal platform for the thing that hurt most: construction draws. Budgets, evidence, approvals and disbursements, connected to the loan they belonged to.
One piece at a time, the rest followed: origination, servicing, investors, documents, accounting. Connective tissue across every feature, so a fact entered once follows the loan everywhere. Automation for the routine steps and a person deciding where it matters. AI embedded where it helps. Constant improvement, because we were the ones using it every day.
When the contract came up we did not renew, and we told them exactly why. Their leadership asked to sit down with us so we could walk their technology and operations chiefs through how we had automated what their platform could not. It is a company that has been selling software since before the web existed, and in our experience every modern need was a customization or a workaround. We said no. That was the moment we knew we had something real.
AIRE services our own loan book today. That is the only reason the product exists: we solved the problem for ourselves first. Selling it to other lenders came after, once we realized we were not the only ones paying too much to do everything by hand.
WHAT THAT EXPERIENCE TAUGHT US
$499 or $999 per workspace per month. Origination, servicing, draws, the borrower portal, reporting, investors and accounting are all part of AIRE, never an add-on you discover after signing. Third-party services such as credit reports are disclosed on the pricing page.
A working session on one of your real loans, then a setup plan that says what moves, who does it and what has to reconcile before anything is billed.
The interactive tour is on the site with no form in front of it. Every number in it is checkable. We would rather show you than tell you.
Terms, receipts, draws and documents carry into every place that depends on them. Built so the routine steps run without re-keying; you make the calls that matter.
WHAT GUIDES THE WORK
The workspace brings the important work into focus, with enough context to make a considered decision without a manual.
The terms you approve, the receipts you record and the borrower you work with are all parts of the same loan, and the record never forgets.
Your business has its own lending approach. Every mechanic offers the standard options and you can change them; software should never force a policy on you.
THE WHOLE BUSINESS. ONE PLATFORM.
Bring one real loan. We’ll walk it through AIRE with you.