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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Ally

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AAlly Financial headquartered in Detroit offers online banking, via full service auto finance operations, and boasts a complementary auto-focused insurance business, a growing wealth management and brokerage platform, and a trusted corporate finance business offering capital for equity sponsors and middle-market companies.N/A

    Blend

    Score4 out of 10
    N/ABlend is a digital lending platform that simplifies applications for mortgages, consumer loans, and deposit accounts. The company enables customers to process more than $4 billion in mortgages and consumer loans per day. Erin Collard, Eugene Marinelli, Nima Ghamsari, and Rosco Hill headquartered the company in San Francisco, California in 2012.N/A
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    AllyBlend
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    AllyBlend
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    AllyBlend
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    User Testimonials
    AllyBlend
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    Ally Financial, Inc
    Ally perfectly meets our needs for OKR management. My team uses it to ensure that we are making progress on our quarterly objectives and regularly check in—at minimum, once a week but often more frequently. The only misuses at my company are due to user error, notably when people incorrectly use it for task management rather than measurable goals.
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    Blend Labs Inc.
    I have not experienced any other system that can do what Blend does as easily as Blend. It's very well suited for the mortgage industry and its ability to communicate with Encompass. I don't think it would be a great CRM tool for a company that doesn't need multiple touch points to a client, for instance, if you simply need a name, phone number, and email address Blend would be overkill. Blend is designed specifically to capture a lot of specific details about a client's financial position.
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    Pros
    Ally Financial, Inc
    • Visualizing the hierarchy and relationship between objectives and key results. The nesting and double alignment functionality are especially helpful, as they can't easily be expressed on, say, a simple worksheet or Confluence page.
    • Reminding the team to make regular check-ins. What gets measured gets done. This prevents the common pitfall of setting goals and not revisiting them until the end of a project (when it is too late).
    • Integration with external sources for automated check-ins. Why do this manually when it can happen behind the scenes?
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    Blend Labs Inc.
    • Easy to use
    • Transfers between Blend to Encompass easily
    • Runs employment verification
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    Cons
    Ally Financial, Inc
    • It would be great to have a direct integration to Sigma.
    • Sometimes the UI is a little buggy/weird (e.g. re-ordering and adding objectives is not the easiest).
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    Blend Labs Inc.
    • Adding non occupant co-borrowers can be challenging
    • I wish we could mirror the client's screen in real-time so we can see where they are in the application
    • The user side can be a little challenging, some fields are required to be filled out even though they are not important to the application
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    Ally Financial, Inc
    Ally and Sigma are very different tools. However, they are both integral to my team's daily work and success. One of their common strengths is the responsiveness of their support team. I always feel that my questions are being answered in a clear and informed way. Another shared strength is the knowledge bases that these tools have built out, which is very helpful for onboarding and answering questions self-serve.
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    Blend Labs Inc.
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    Return on Investment
    Ally Financial, Inc
    • It definitely helps the product team stay focused on the quarterly objective and not get distracted by other "noise."
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    Blend Labs Inc.
    • Blend allows me to manage my pipeline easily without having to resort to Excel
    • Captures things like birthdays allowing me to have a reason to call clients
    • Clients love that it's a secure portal, no more replying to emails with sensitive documents
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