aid: braid-lending
name: Pylon (formerly Braid Lending)
description: >-
  Pylon (formerly Braid Lending) is an AI-native mortgage infrastructure company
  founded in 2022 and headquartered in New York, New York, backed by investors
  including 500 Global and Citi. Pylon operates as "America's mortgage rails," an
  API-first, MCP-native platform that lets brokers, fintechs, lenders, and banks
  build and automate mortgage origination end to end — from application through
  underwriting, decisioning, compliance, and capital markets settlement. Every
  aspect of mortgage fulfillment is powered by APIs, complemented by a white-label
  "Elements" UI component library for embedding fully digital, autonomous mortgage
  experiences. The public developer surface (API reference, integration guides, and
  a live playground) is gated behind a developer-access request form, so no public
  OpenAPI, SDKs, or hosted docs were discoverable during enrichment.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/braid-lending/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-rebrand: Braid Lending is now Pylon (pylonlending.com)
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://pylonwp.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Pylon-featured-image.png
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Mortgage
- Lending
- Fintech
- Mortgage Origination
- Capital Markets
- Compliance
- API-First
- MCP-Native
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.pylonlending.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://www.pylonlending.com/developers/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.pylonlending.com/resources/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.pylonlending.com/contact/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.pylonlending.com/terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.pylonlending.com/privacy/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pylon-lending
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/pylonlending
- type: Crunchbase
  url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/braid-75b6
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/braid-lending-domain-security.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/braid-lending-well-known.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence