# Sara Holtz on How Mortgage Leaders Can Use AI to Improve Decision-Making

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Podcast: [Optimal Insights - Mortgage Data & Capital Markets Insights](https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimal-insights-mortgage-data-capital-markets-insights-7025480)
Published: 2026-05-07T10:30:00+00:00
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## Resource

In this bonus episode of Optimal Insights, recorded at HousingWire’s The Gathering, Sara Holtz, CMO at Optimal Blue, shares a practical framework for how mortgage leaders can use AI to improve decision-making in a high-complexity market. Sara reframes AI as a “chief of staff” that helps leaders organize information, surface insights, and create capacity when decision demands keep growing. She also outlines five principles leaders can apply immediately, including prompting with clarity, solving real problems, focusing on small repeatable wins, strengthening relationships, and cultivating decision confidence. Sara also reflects on how these ideas connect to real innovation shifts over time, and why the opportunity with AI is often less about replacing expertise and more about supporting better thinking alongside it. Commentary included in the podcast shall not be construed as, nor is Optimal Blue providing, any legal, trading, hedging, or financial advice.

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