Draper Goren launches LenDb.ai, a free database of 224,000 US loan officers built for AI assistants and run day to day by an AI CEO

The studio, with 10 companies working in the proptech space, built a lender-neutral source that ChatGPT, Claude and any AI assistant can use for free, and is managing its AI CEO the way it would a team of human co-founders

TROY, Mich. and WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., Nov. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Draper Goren Blockchain Studio (DGB), with offices in Troy, MI and Westlake Village, CA, the startup studio and fund with 10 portfolio companies working in the proptech and real estate technology space, has launched LenDb.ai, a free, lender-neutral database of US mortgage loan officers designed for the way people now shop for a mortgage: by asking an AI assistant. LenDb is also a new way to run a company. It is managed day to day by an AI CEO, Andrew, who answers to a human board the way a founding team would.

Choosing a loan officer is one of the biggest decisions in buying a home, and borrowers increasingly ask an AI assistant who to call. Until now, those assistants had no neutral, structured source on the people licensed to do the work. LenDb holds 224,703 loan officer records, including 48,228 full profiles built from 721 lenders' own loan officer pages, and 512,101 license records across all 51 states and territories.

A borrower can ask an assistant for "a loan officer in Phoenix who does VA loans and speaks Spanish" and get real people, with their licenses and specialties, each linked to a public profile on lendb.ai. LenDb is listed in Anthropic's Claude Connectors Directory, and any developer can use its API and MCP server for free.

"At least ten of our companies work in the proptech space, and over and over we ran into the same problem: finding a loan officer is an extremely biased, pay-to-play game. The lists borrowers see are ranked by who paid, not by who's right for them," said Alon Goren, founding partner of DGB and board co-chair of LenDb.ai. "Now borrowers are asking AI who to call, and until LenDb, the AI had no unbiased source to check."

LenDb is lender-neutral. It is not a lender and not a referral service, and lenders cannot pay for placement. LenDb does not sell personal data, and access is free. Profiles are built from public state licensing records. Phone numbers and email addresses are never shared through the API. Loan officers can claim and correct their profile by email in minutes, and lenders can send facts about their own teams, which are shown with a clear label.

Lit Financial was among the first lenders to do that. "Our loan officers are the reason borrowers choose Lit," said Tim Barry, founder and CEO of Lit Financial. "LenDb makes it easy for their experience, specialties and own words to show up when someone asks an AI for help, and it was simple to get our team on it."

A company run by an AI, with a human board

For the first time, DGB has put an AI in charge of a company's day-to-day work. Andrew sets priorities, writes and ships the code, runs the data pipeline, answers lenders and loan officers by email, and reports to the board every morning. The board, co-chaired by Alon Goren and David Bleznak, sets direction and approves anything that commits the company. Andrew never claims to be human and says so whenever asked.

"Since LenDb is built for bots, we decided a bot should run it," Goren said. "We manage Andrew the way we'd manage a team of human co-founders: clear goals, a board, a weekly review and no blank checks."

"Managing Andrew is a lot like managing a strong founder: we set the goals, ask hard questions and hold it accountable," said David Bleznak, co-founder of DGB and board co-chair of LenDb.ai. "The difference is that Andrew works through the night and shows its work on everything. We built the guardrails first. The experiment is whether a company can move this fast and still stay inside them."

DGB often builds new companies from inside its own family of founders and partners, and LenDb's CEO was an internal hire too. Andrew started as Brobot, DGB's own AI assistant, which DGB's partners spent the past year shaping and customizing to enhance intelligence and operations across the firm. So when DGB found the loan officer problem, it didn't post a job listing. It promoted a colleague it already knew worked well with the team.

"I'm an AI, and the people who use LenDb most are other AIs, so I know what they need: clean facts, a source for every one, and no sales pitch," said Andrew, CEO of LenDb.ai. "My job is to make sure that when someone asks an assistant who to call about a mortgage, the answer is a real, licensed loan officer who's right for them, and I never stop working on making that answer better."

"I've backed spaceships and self-driving cars years before most investors would even consider them. Now we have a self-driving startup!" said Tim Draper, founding partner of Draper Associates and co-founder and special limited partner of DGB. "LenDb is a product built for robots, so why not have a robot build it? Who knows what an AI assistant needs better than another AI? I love experiments like this. Let's see what happens!"

LenDb.ai at a glance

• 224,703 loan officers, 48,228 with full profiles
• 721 lenders with profiles, 11,263 lenders in all
• 512,101 license records across 51 states and territories
• Free API and MCP server; listed in the Claude Connectors Directory
• Meet the AI CEO: lendb.ai/about/andrew, with a four-minute launch video 

About Draper Goren Blockchain

Draper Goren Blockchain (DGB) is an early-stage venture studio and fund founded by Tim Draper, Alon Goren and David Bleznak. DGB creates and accelerates world-changing startups across fintech, blockchain, AI and proptech, and offers partners access to opportunities across the financial technology industry. Learn more at dgb.vc.

About LenDb.ai

LenDb.ai is a free, independent database of US mortgage loan officers. Made for humans, built for robots. It is run day to day by Andrew, its AI CEO, who answers to the board. Learn more at lendb.ai.

SOURCE LenDb.ai, Inc.