Strengthening  Alignment & Scale

How Partnering with Wolf’s Edge Integrators Helped LoanNEX Scale

LoanNEX is a fast-growing fintech platform serving the mortgage and capital markets sector. We looked back at how a Wolf’s Edge Integrators engagement helped its leadership team build the structure to match its growth.

Feb – Dec 2025

Engagement Length

2 Fractional Executive Integrators

Placement

Industry

Fintech — Mortgage
& Capital Markets

Company Size

40 Employees

Revenue

<$10M

Location

HQ St. Louis, Service Nationwide

Engagement Type

Executive Integrator

The Starting Point

Organizational challenges

What LoanNEX was facing

Wolf’s Edge helped us introduce a more structured, disciplined
approach to problem solving across the company. Their neutrality created an environment that allowed teams to collaborate more effectively around real issues.

— LoanNEX Leadership Team

Dominant Complexity

Founder bottleneck. Too many functions rolled up to the CEO, who was pulled into daily operations instead of higher-level priorities — leaving departments to plan reactively, on different priorities, with no consistent operating rhythm to align them

The Approach

HowWolf's Edge helped

A steady operating cadence

April Stercula and Corina Ludwig, LoanNEX's Fractional Executive Integrators, established weekly leadership meetings, quarterly planning sessions, and department-level alignment meetings — giving the team a consistent rhythm it hadn't had before.

A neutral, objective presence

As trusted partners rather than internal stakeholders, April and Corina helped shift conversations that once centered on immediate issues toward forward-looking, coordinated problem solving.

Clear ownership, consistently tracked

Leaders gained clearer expectations around roles and responsibilities, and initiatives were assigned owners whose priorities were tracked and discussed on a consistent basis.

The Starting Point

Before vs. After

Before

After

The Numbers

Results at a glance

Revenue Growth

35%

Team/Hires

+9

Engagement Highlight

From negative cashflow to positive

What did LoanNEX gain from the engagement?

We asked the leadership team — would you recommend Wolf’s Edge Integrators?

“Wolf’s Edge fractional leadership was integral to our small company’s evolution toward stronger business practices, helping us stay focused on key
tasks and sales objectives and meeting our software development deliverables.”

— LoanNEX Leadership Team

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