Every brokerage owner has bought a CRM. Most of them are staring at a pipeline where half the deals are stale, stages are wrong, and the weekly report is fiction. Then they blame the LOs.
The eight stages that map to reality
- New Loan Seeker, Contact Attempted, Qualified Consult Set, Application Started (1003), Pre-Approved, Under Contract, In Underwriting, Clear To Close / Funded.
- Anything more granular becomes admin. Anything less loses the diagnostic value.
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Book a strategy callMake each stage pay the LO back
- Consult Set fires the calendar invite, the reminder sequence and the prep sheet automatically.
- Application Started triggers the doc-request checklist so the LO never chases manually.
- Pre-Approved auto-generates the pre-approval letter, branded, in under a minute.
- Funded fires the review request and enrolls the borrower in the annual review track.
Kill manual data entry
Call logging, text logging, email logging and disposition tagging should all be automatic. If your LOs are typing notes to satisfy a report, adoption will decay within six weeks.
The one report that matters
Stage-to-stage conversion by LO, trailing 30 days. It tells you instantly whether your problem is contact rate, consult set rate, application rate or fallout in underwriting — and it makes coaching specific instead of motivational.
If a stage change does not trigger something useful for the LO, they will not make it. Design the pipeline around what the LO gets, not what the owner wants to report on.
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