High-Gear Mode Activated: Sagent’s 6th HousingWire Tech100 Mortgage Award Win

At Team Sagent, we have worked to make unprecedented progress in revolutionizing the servicing industry, and we’re not losing speed. As Dara by Sagent continues to streamline operations and reduce costs for servicers and partners at-scale, the industry is taking notice. That’s why HousingWire has recognized Sagent as a 2026 Tech100 Mortgage Award winner – for the sixth year in a row. 

HousingWire Tech100 Mortgage Award “recognizes the companies and solutions that are revolutionizing the mortgage process.” We couldn’t think of a better way to describe Dara, the industry’s first end-to-end, cloud-native servicing platform.  

Pushing Boundaries to Advance the Industry 

Dara has incessantly evolved since its original inception, integrating core servicing, default management, and consumer engagement into a single platform, enabling real-time data flows, automated workflows, and seamless compliance management. Its real-time, borrower-centric approach not only streamlines operations and reduces costs but also elevates the homeowning experience and ensures compliance in an ever-changing regulatory environment. 

Dara’s technology is not just an upgrade—it’s a strategic shift that empowers mortgage servicers to innovate, adapt, and lead as they make homeownership more sustainable and enjoyable for consumers. 

Defining Servicing’s Future 

In 2025, Dara increased capabilities and broadened accessibility for servicers. Among Dara’s components include: 

• Dara Core streamlines investor management, escrow, cash transactions, and loan administration, executing complex operations in minutes rather than hours or days. 

• Dara Consumer empowers homeowners with a unified self-service portal for payments, assistance applications, and communications, driving down call center costs and boosting retention. 

• Dara Default modernizes collections, bankruptcy, foreclosure, loss mitigation, and claims, leveraging workflow automation, real-time data exchange, and attorney platform integrations to reduce costs and compliance risk.  

By unifying these capabilities and strengthening their performance, Dara positions servicers to thrive in an unpredictable industry landscape.   

Delivering Measurable Results 

Don’t just take our word for it – Dara’s impacts are overhauling servicer’s day-to-day operations at their core and displaying tangible differences. Here are a few highlights: 

• Dara enabled a 30-40% reduction in total cost of ownership and a 35-45% decrease in servicing losses for mortgage servicers.* 

• Audit trails reduce reconciliation needs and regulatory response times, driving a 10-15% reduction in compliance-related costs. 

• Dara’s impact extends across every major servicing function, as seen in: 

• 50-60% reduction in costs for loan barding and claims processing, 

• 40-50% reduction for QA/QC, 

• 30-40% reduction in cash processing, collateral management, escrows, call center operations, and investor accounting/reporting. 

Our wins at Sagent don’t just matter to us; they benefit our customers, partners, and the industry at large. As you wait to see what Sagent brings in 2026, read more here. 

*These savings are based on a benchmark model of aggregate ops cost-per-loan reductions across boarding, cash processing, escrows, statements, call center, IA/IR, collections, loss mitigation, foreclosure, bankruptcy, claims, QA/QC, collateral management. Excludes other corporate cost (e.g., finance, HR) and cost of servicing platform.