Vishal Garg is leading Better through a period of reported growth in loan volume and the company’s push to use artificial intelligence in mortgage processing. Better’s investor-relations materials identify Garg as the company’s CEO and founder.

Better Home & Finance said its first-quarter 2026 loan volume reached approximately $1.64 billion, an 89% increase from the same quarter a year earlier. The company reported total net revenue of about $48 million, up 52% year over year, and said platform loan volume reached $821 million, representing half of total loan volume.

The company’s quarterly-results page said the figures came from the quarter ended March 31, 2026. It also reported 5,018 total loans for the quarter, compared with 2,975 in the first quarter of 2025. Better said refinance volume made up $854 million, purchase volume $588 million and home-equity line of credit volume $203 million.

Better attributed the quarter’s performance partly to its technology platform. The company said Tinman AI platform volume represented 50% of total loan volume and that it expected that share to build. Garg was quoted in the results announcement describing the quarter as a strong period for Better and linking the reported growth to the company’s next stage.

In an April 23 Fortune interview, Garg argued that artificial intelligence could help serve smaller mortgages that traditional commission structures may make less attractive to loan officers. Fortune reported his view that lower processing costs could make smaller starter-home loans more viable. The comments were presented as Garg’s argument, not as an independent finding that AI had solved housing affordability.

The New York Stock Exchange also lists a video conversation featuring “Vishal Garg, CEO at Better.com.” Together, the company’s results and the public interview place Garg’s role at the centre of coverage about Better’s loan growth and AI strategy. The reported financial figures are company disclosures and should be read alongside the company’s stated losses and guidance.