Mortgage & Finance Broking: Value Chain Map

Enquiry to settlement · Compliance evidence as a by-product · The book you keep after the deal
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MORTGAGE & FINANCE BROKING SECTOR INSIGHT
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Client & loan journey
Growth & referrals
Practice & people
Compliance & evidence
Commission & revenue
Shared / data
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Client
STAGE 1
Attract & Enquire
Referral partners, past clients, website and social enquiries, reviews, database marketing, first response
Enquiry: Capture & response
Referral: Source & attribution
STAGE 2
Qualify & Discover
Discovery call, needs, objectives and priorities, fact find, credit guide issued, privacy and credit consent
Client: Household & goals
Consent: Guide & privacy
STAGE 3
Research & Recommend
Serviceability across the panel, product and cost comparison, options presented, recommendation and reasons why
Options: Compare & shortlist
BID: Recommendation record
STAGE 4
Prepare & Lodge
Supporting documents, identity verification, income and living expenses evidence, application packaged and lodged to the lender
Documents: Collect & verify
Application: Package & lodge
STAGE 5
Assess to Approval
Lender assessment, further-information requests, valuation, pricing requests, conditional then formal approval
Deal: Conditions & chasing
Status: Client updates
STAGE 6
Settle
Loan documents, solicitor and conveyancer coordination, discharge authority, settlement booking and drawdown
Settlement: Dates & parties
Upfront: Commission event
STAGE 7
Retain & Review
Post-settlement care, fixed-rate expiry, annual review and repricing, next purchase, reviews and referrals asked for
Review: Annual & triggers
Trail: Retention & clawback
Practice
STAGE 1
Licence & Accreditation
Credit licence or credit representative status, aggregator agreement, lender accreditations, qualifications, CPD, association membership, professional indemnity
People: Brokers & support
Credentials: Expiry & CPD
STAGE 2
Referral & Partner Network
Agents, accountants, buyers agents, builders, past clients: agreements, lead flow both ways, feedback and conversion by source
Partners: Agreements & flow
Attribution: Source to settled
STAGE 3
Compliance & Assurance
Best interests evidence, file notes, preliminary assessment, complaints and internal dispute resolution, aggregator and licensee file audits
Evidence: File & notes
Audit: Findings & actions
STAGE 4
Commission & Revenue
Upfront and trail, splits with referrers and loan writers, clawback exposure, reconciliation against the aggregator statement
Commission, Expected vs paid
Clawback: Exposure & recovery
STAGE 5
Practice Governance
Pipeline and conversion, capacity per broker, marketing return, privacy and data security, book value and succession
Risk: Register & privacy
Analytics: Practice KPIs
Typical Brokerage Portfolio
Mix varies by broker · Lender-paid upfront and trail commission, occasionally a fee for service
Residential Lending
First home buyers: grants and guarantee schemes
Upgraders: buy, sell and bridging
Investors: portfolio and equity release
Construction: progressive drawdown
Guarantor & family pledge, structured deals
Refinance & Repricing
Rate reviews: retention before it is lost
Refinance, switching lender on cost
Debt consolidation: restructure
Fixed-rate roll-off: expiry campaigns
Cash-out: renovation and investment
Commercial & Asset Finance
Commercial property: owner-occupied, investment
Business lending, working capital, cash flow
Asset & equipment: vehicles, plant
SMSF lending, limited recourse structures
Development: small residual stock
Adjacent & Referred Services
Conveyancing, referred, tracked to settlement
General insurance, building and landlord
Risk & life, referred to an adviser
Accounting & tax: reciprocal referral
Buyers agents: the deal before the loan
Intersection 1
Client & household: one household across many applications, securities and loans, over decades
Intersection 2
Application: the spine: fact find, options, documents, lodgement, conditions and approval hang off it
Intersection 3
Loan & security: balance, rate, fixed expiry and trail attached to the property behind it
Intersection 4
Document, collected once, verified, dated, reusable across deals and retained for the audit
Intersection 5
Referral partner: the source of the lead, owed a feedback loop, measured by what actually settles
Where This Work Typically Lives Today
The common small-brokerage current state: the aggregator CRM holds the deal, and everything around it is manual
Enquiries & first response
Missed calls, texts, social messages and a website form to an inbox · The broker
MANUAL
Fact find & file notes
Notes on paper or in the broker's head, retyped into the CRM later · The broker
MANUAL
Document collection
Email ping-pong and photos of payslips, chased one client at a time · Broker & support
MANUAL
Deal pipeline & conditions
A whiteboard or a CRM list, with the real status held from memory · The broker
MANUAL
Post-settlement & annual review
A calendar reminder that gets snoozed: usually nobody's job · Nobody
MANUAL
Referral partner reporting
Ad hoc updates, no shared view of what settled from whom · The broker
MANUAL
Commission & clawback
A monthly statement checked roughly, or taken on trust · Broker & bookkeeper
MANUAL
Compliance evidence
Assembled at audit time by reconstructing what happened · The broker
MANUAL
Compliance & Assurance
The questions a licensee, aggregator or regulator asks, and where the answer comes from
Why this loan, for this client?
The options considered, what was compared, the client's stated priorities and the reasons for the recommendation sit on the application record, captured as the conversation happens, not written up afterwards.
Where are the file notes for that conversation?
Notes, calls and client messages attach to the application with the author and timestamp, so the file tells the story without anyone having to remember it.
Can you produce this file in three years?
Documents, consents, disclosures and correspondence are retained against the client and the deal with a complete change history: retrieval is a search, not an archaeology project.
Did the client receive the disclosures and give consent?
Issue of the credit guide, privacy consent and credit-check authority are recorded events with dates against the client, not attachments in a sent-items folder.
What is our clawback exposure this quarter?
Settled loans carry their settlement date and commission terms, so the loans still inside a clawback period, and the ones about to leave it, are a live view rather than a guess.
Where does our AI send our clients' data?
AI runs inside your own tenant on your own data, with the audit trail and cost ledger attached, and a person approving the decisions.
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The BPA Platform: How It Helps
One platform · configured, not coded · delivered by Norbrik · ISO/IEC 27001 certified

BPA (bpautomate.com) is the business process automation platform built and delivered by Norbrik. Registers, forms, approval workflows, portals, dashboards and AI agents are configured on one secure platform, so each opportunity below is a configuration exercise measured in weeks, not a software build measured in years. BPA does not replace your aggregator's CRM or the lodgement platform, and it does not lodge to lenders, the deal is prepared and submitted where it always was. BPA covers the parts those systems leave to you: the enquiry before the deal exists, document collection and client communication during it, the evidence trail underneath it, the referral partners who send the work, and the client relationship that has to be worked for years after settlement. One data model, so the story connects from the first enquiry to the annual review, and to what actually settled from each referrer.

Registers
Structured records for clients and households, applications, loans and securities, documents, referral partners and accreditations, with history, security and audit built in.
Websites, Forms & Portals
Mobile-friendly fact finds and secure client portals for uploading documents and tracking progress. The brokerage's public website runs on the same platform, so an enquiry on the site writes straight into the pipeline behind it.
Workflows & Approvals
Document chasing, condition follow-up, settlement countdowns, fixed-rate expiry and annual review triggers, accreditation and CPD expiry: they run themselves.
Dashboards & Reports
Live views over the same data: pipeline by stage, conversion by referral source, settlements by month, trail retained and clawback exposure, assembled from source.
AI Agents
Triage inbound enquiry email and open the record, draft the file note from the call summary, summarise a long client thread and flag deals that have gone quiet: humans stay in control of every recommendation.
Integrations
Connects to email and calendar, Microsoft 365, accounting, e-signature and external APIs: BPA orchestrates around the aggregator CRM, which stays in place.
Worked example: an enquiry through settlement to the review after it
Website form
Enquiry lands
A website, social or referral-partner enquiry creates the client record and the deal, stamped with its source, and the first response goes out in minutes, not the next evening.
AI Agent
Fact find and notes
The fact find is completed by the client on their phone; call notes are drafted into the file for the broker to correct and own, so the evidence is written while it is fresh.
Portal
Documents collected
The client uploads to a secure portal against a checklist; outstanding items chase themselves and the broker sees the gap without sending another email.
Workflow
Conditions to settlement
Conditions, valuation, approval and the settlement date are tracked with automatic client updates. The deal is lodged and progressed in the aggregator platform as always.
Dashboard
Kept, not forgotten
The settled loan carries its rate, fixed expiry and review date; the referrer sees what settled; retention work starts before the client goes looking.
BPA Automation Opportunities: Where the Platform Fits
Enquiry Capture, Website & AI Triage
PROVEN ON BPA
Public website and enquiry forms on the same platform, with AI email triage that opens the record, summarises the enquiry, links the contact and acknowledges the sender: the way Norbrik's own site and support inbox already work
Site Studio · public forms · AI email triage
Client, Household & Loan Registers
BUILT ON BPA
Clients and households, applications, settled loans and securities, documents and consents: one record of the relationship that outlives any individual deal, with row-level security and full history
Registers · row-level security · audit
Client Portal & Document Collection
BUILT ON BPA
A branded portal where clients complete the fact find, upload documents against a checklist, see what is still outstanding and track progress to settlement, scoped to their own file only
Portals · forms · automated chasing
Deal Pipeline & Condition Tracking
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Every deal by stage with its conditions, valuation, approval and settlement dates, automatic client status updates, and alerts on deals that have gone quiet: alongside the aggregator platform, not instead of it
Registers · workflow · dashboards
Compliance Evidence & File Notes
START HERE
Fact find, options considered and reasons for the recommendation, disclosure and consent events, timestamped file notes and retained correspondence, assembled as the work happens so an audit is a retrieval, not a reconstruction
Forms · registers · audit trail
Post-Settlement Care & Annual Review
START HERE
Fixed-rate expiry, annual reviews, rate-change and anniversary triggers driving a scheduled contact plan, with repricing and refinance opportunities raised before the client starts looking elsewhere
Scheduled workflow · campaigns · dashboards
Referral Partner Management
START HERE
Partner register and agreements, leads captured with their source, a shared view of what happened to each referral, and conversion and settled value by partner, so the relationship is managed on evidence
Registers · portals · attribution reporting
Commission, Trail & Clawback
BUILD ON
Expected upfront and trail against each settled loan, reconciliation to the aggregator statement, referrer and loan-writer splits, and clawback exposure by settlement date, alongside the accounting system
Registers · reconciliation · dashboards

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We use this map as the starting point for a working session with you: overlay your aggregator CRM and the tools around it, find the seams where admin and chasing are eating the week, and shortlist the two or three opportunities with the fastest payback. No obligation, and you keep the annotated map.

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© 2026 Norbrik Pty Ltd (ABN 70 600 064 631) (“Norbrik”). All rights reserved. BPA is a platform owned and delivered by Norbrik Pty Ltd; all engagements are contracted with Norbrik Pty Ltd. This document is a general discussion aid. It describes a typical mortgage and finance broking operating model, principally smaller brokerages operating as credit representatives under an aggregator or licensee, drawn from publicly available information; it does not represent the specific operations, systems or current state of any particular business, and the mix and weighting of activities will vary considerably by broker size, business line, aggregator and licensing arrangement. Norbrik is not a credit licensee, credit representative or credit adviser, and nothing in this document is legal, credit, financial or compliance advice. BPA is a business process automation platform: it does not lodge applications to lenders, does not assess serviceability or credit, does not recommend credit products, and does not determine what any broker must do to satisfy the National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009, the best interests obligations, or the requirements of a licensee, aggregator or regulator. Brokers remain responsible for their own regulatory, licensing, disclosure and record-keeping obligations and should confirm them with their licensee, aggregator, professional association and their own advisers. Automation opportunities shown are indicative only and are subject to discovery and agreed scope. Norbrik shall not be liable for any losses, damages, costs or expenses arising from reliance on the contents of this document. Products referred to in this document are trademarks of their respective owners or suppliers, and these trademarks are hereby acknowledged.