Build the business you keep telling yourself you’ll build.
Bring your book. We bring a marketing engine.an ops backbone.a producer culture.an AI advantage.a national platform.
One Minnesota office. 6 Scotsman Guide Top Originators. 963 families and $348M closed in 2025 — and a leadership team that answers its own phone.
Three ways in
However you move, there’s a door with your name on it.
Everyone mentioned on this page is reachable directly. Pick the path that fits — or just start a conversation and we’ll figure it out together.
Join the group
Plug into the Eden Prairie branch: Kate’s operations pipeline, Fairway North Marketing, sales and client strategy under Olivia, and a room full of producers who make each other better.
Bring a branch over
Move your whole operation onto the platform — with local leadership from Oliver and Tom, national recruiting support from Holly Mattson’s team, and Fairway’s #2-in-the-nation infrastructure underneath.
Join a producer team
Ashland, Nick, Sam, and Shane are all growing teams right now. Join a book that’s already compounding, learn from a Scotsman-level producer, and skip years of trial and error.
Proof, not promises
Originators don’t just join this office. They multiply here.
Four real trajectories, told with real numbers. Every one of these producers is building a team and taking calls from LOs who want in.
The honest pitch
You already know how to originate. The question is what’s underneath you.
Top producers rarely leave because of comp. They leave because the platform under them can’t keep up — files stall, marketing is DIY, and every new tool is a fight. This branch was built to remove that ceiling: dedicated operations, an in-house creative studio, sales strategy, business development, and technology that’s two moves ahead.
And it’s all wrapped in a company that’s been a USA TODAY Top Workplace six years running, employee-owned since 2016, and ranked #2 in U.S. retail lending.
Technology & AI
AI won’t replace loan officers. Loan officers with AI will replace loan officers without it.
The thesis we operate on
Fairway partnered with OpenAI in 2025 and builds AI to augment the originator — never to automate them away. Locally, Tom builds the systems that put that leverage directly in your hands: personal web presence, AI-assisted workflows, branded reporting, and tooling most branches have never seen.
Where this all comes from
The Story of Fairway
Every mortgage company has a beginning. Founder & CEO Steve Jacobson tells Fairway’s — the upbringing, the core values, and why a company of 10,000+ still feels like a place where people know your name.
Watch it before you talk to us. If it doesn’t resonate, we’re probably not your fit — and we’d rather you know that early.
The people you’d actually work with
Local leadership. National backing. Real names, real doors.
Meet everyone — including Olivia, Mercedes, Kate & the marketing studio
In the news
Don’t take our word for it.
Top Workplaces USA — six years in a row
Fairway earns the people-first workplace award for the sixth consecutive year, judged entirely on confidential employee feedback.
Read the story →Fairway moves into home insurance at origination
Fairway Home Insurance Agency launches with The Baldwin Group — embedding coverage into the loan process and adding a revenue stream for originators.
Read the story →Fairway launches homeowner rewards credit card
The Made for Home card rewards on-time mortgage payments and home spending — keeping past clients connected to their loan officer between transactions.
Read the story →One office in Eden Prairie. One conversation to start.
Confidential, zero pressure, and the person answering is one of the people on this page.