Partner playbook · Loan officers

The Loan Officer Partner Playbook

How to onboard, run your backend portal, and put RED to work — so every buyer arrives at the table already verified.

1

Create your ReadinessIQ account

  1. Go to readinessiq.ai/auth and click Sign up as a Loan Officer.
  2. Verify your email and enter your NMLS ID. We check it against NMLS Consumer Access before your account is activated — usually within minutes.
  3. Complete your partner profile: headshot, company, licensed states, direct dial, and your booking link (Calendly, HubSpot, etc.).
  4. Enable Google or Microsoft SSO for one-click sign-in and add a mobile number for two-factor auth.
  5. Invite your team and connect your CRM webhook if you want new passport events to flow into your pipeline automatically.
2

Your backend portal — what you get

Passport pipeline
Every buyer you invite, every scan, every activation — with real-time status and the verified buying-power total.
Analytics dashboard
Live counts of active passports, guarantee coverage, scans, agent shares, and a US heatmap of buyer activity.
Partner agent roster
Add the realtors you work with. They get co-branded verify pages and their own scan analytics under your brand.
Guarantee console
One-click Activate Guarantee on any eligible passport. Track pool exposure, claims, and payouts.
Templates & branding
Upload your logo, headshot, disclosure footer, and voice. RED writes in your tone, not ours.
Audit & compliance
Every consent, verification, and communication is logged immutably — TCPA, E-Sign, GLBA aligned.
3

Communication tools inside the portal

  • Borrower chat & SMS — two-way conversations, all archived, all searchable. RED can drive them when you're offline.
  • Weekly status updates — one click drafts personalized in-progress emails to every buyer in your pipeline. You review, you send.
  • Agent broadcasts — push a market update, rate lock alert, or program change to every partner agent at once.
  • Verify-page sharing — every passport has a shareable /verify link and QR code. Agents scan it at showings; you see the scan in real time.
  • Post-close retention — anniversary, refi-eligible, and tax-doc pings run automatically on every closed loan.
4

What RED accomplishes for your business

Cuts pre-approval turn-time from days to minutes — buyers self-serve, RED verifies, you approve.
Kills doc-chasing. RED asks the borrower in your voice and only pings you when they stall.
Translates underwriter conditions into plain English the borrower actually understands.
Runs scenarios instantly — new price, new program, new rate — and sends the result to the agent before they call again.
Positions you as the LO whose buyers arrive with a Verified Readiness Passport™ and a $2,500 close guarantee. Listing agents notice.
Compounds referrals: every scan of your passport is another agent seeing your brand.
5

How the system works — the 30-second summary

  1. You invite a buyer from your portal (or they land via your co-branded link).
  2. They complete the readiness intake — RED verifies income, employment, credit-pull consent, and program fit.
  3. A Verified Readiness Passport™ is issued with a signed PDF, a public /verify URL, and a QR code.
  4. Optionally, you click Activate Guarantee — the passport now carries the $2,500 ReadinessIQ Guarantee for the listing agent's brokerage.
  5. Agents scan, listing agents trust, offers get accepted, RED coordinates every milestone through close.
6

Best practices from top-performing LOs

  • Issue a passport on every conversation. Even lukewarm leads — the passport is your follow-up hook.
  • Activate the guarantee on any buyer with an accepted offer. It's the wedge that wins the deal against a competing bid.
  • Add your top 10 agents as partners in week one. Their scans and their buyer referrals show up in your analytics.
  • Let RED write the first draft. Always. You edit in seconds; a blank page costs you 20 minutes.
  • Check the heatmap weekly. Where your passports are being scanned tells you where to prospect next.
  • Share your /verify link in every email signature. Free trust signal on every outbound message.
Ready to activate your partner account?
Setup takes about 8 minutes end-to-end.