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LoanLogics vs TENA Companies

Compliance & QC head-to-head · axis by axis, same rubric for both

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LoanLogics
Sun Capital Partners affiliate (July 2021)
4.5
TENA Companies
Compliance & QC
3.5
AxisLoanLogicsTENA Companies
Production impact 4.5 3.3
Functionality & depth 4.9 4.0
Integrations & ecosystem 4.4 2.6
Adoption & support 4.1 3.5
Return on spend 4.0 3.7
Overall 4.5 3.5

LoanLogics wins 5 of 5 axes. Same rubric, same weights, no sponsorships.

What the rubric says

LoanLogics and TENA Companies are both scored in Compliance & QC. LoanLogics carries an overall of 4.5, TENA Companies an overall of 3.5. The widest gap between them is Integrations and ecosystem, at 1.8 of a point. That axis measures how well it reaches the rest of the stack. LoanLogics takes it, 4.4 to 2.6.

Where the five axes separate

On Integrations and ecosystem the record favours LoanLogics, 4.4 against 2.6. On Production impact the record favours LoanLogics, 4.5 against 3.3. On Functionality and depth the record favours LoanLogics, 4.9 against 4. On Adoption and support the record favours LoanLogics, 4.1 against 3.5. On Return on spend the record favours LoanLogics, 4 against 3.7.

Pricing posture

LoanLogics does not publish pricing. Its listed model is quote only. TENA Companies does not publish pricing. Its listed model is quote only, with audit services and secondlook software licensed separately.

Deployment and who each one targets

Deployment for LoanLogics: Cloud, with an API developer portal. Deployment for TENA Companies: SECONDLOOK audit software with the TENA Web Services cloud portal for remediation and reporting. Segment focus for LoanLogics: Originators, correspondents, and servicers automating document-driven loan quality review. Segment focus for TENA Companies: Small and mid-size lenders and servicers, plus in-house QC teams licensing the audit engine. The two entries name different buyers.

What each record credits

LoanLogics: IDEA and CARBN extraction feeds audit rules, so review starts from validated data. LoanLogics: LoanBeam handles self-employed and variable income, a top post-close defect source. LoanLogics: LoanHD runs pre-closing, post-closing, pre-funding, HMDA and TRID in one exception-driven system. TENA Companies: Thousands of prewritten test questions, maintained by TENA’s own legal team. TENA Companies: Content revisions publish monthly, a documented cadence rather than a vague promise. TENA Companies: Agency coverage spans Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FHA, VA and RHS.

What each record holds against them

LoanLogics: Ownership unverified past the 2021 Sun Capital deal; the site names no parent. LoanLogics: Four separately branded products make scoping and pricing harder, training too. LoanLogics: No named LOS connector list; the site points to an API portal instead. TENA Companies: No LOS, imaging or document integration is named, leaving file ingest undocumented. TENA Companies: Deployment model is unstated, so cloud versus installed stays unresolved before a demo. TENA Companies: Ownership and company scale go undisclosed, a gap for vendor management programs.

Which one fits which shop

Best fit for LoanLogics: A QC team drowning in document review rather than in audit questions. Best fit for TENA Companies: An in-house QC team that needs maintained federal, state and agency test content it does.

What each entry concludes

LoanLogics: LoanLogics attacks loan quality from the document layer, not the questionnaire layer, and that separates it from conventional. LoanLogics: IDEA classifies and extracts data from loan documents, and CARBN handles classification and data validation. TENA Companies: TENA has done mortgage quality control since 1982 and sells it two ways. TENA Companies: Outsource the audits, or run SECONDLOOK, the software your own auditors use.

The short answer

LoanLogics finishes ahead on the published rubric, 4.5 to 3.5. The margin comes mostly from Integrations and ecosystem. Same rubric, same weights, no sponsorships.

Who stands behind this review

MortgageTechReview

This score rests on evidence anyone can check. It also rests on the vendor's own documentation, pricing, integration pages, and ownership records. We do not claim to run every product ourselves. Nobody can. The rubric was published before this review existed. The vendor did not write this, and no vendor can buy a word of it. Every product in this category is weighted the same way.

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