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Zack Farris is the founder and CEO of LendlyX, an AI fraud intelligence platform for private real estate lenders. He writes and speaks on photo, document, and draw fraud in private credit.
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Bio — 100 words
Zack Farris is the founder and CEO of LendlyX, an AI fraud intelligence platform for private real estate lenders. A four-time founder, he previously built and exited Fortriator Insurance and Blue Falco Marketing. His writing and commentary focus on how fraud enters private credit — through borrower-submitted photos, fabricated documents, and unverified draws — and on the verification controls that catch it before capital moves. He is based in Texas and is a graduate of Texas A&M University.
Bio — 200 words
Zack Farris is the founder and CEO of LendlyX, an AI fraud intelligence platform that helps private real estate lenders verify photos, videos, documents, and draw requests before funding. A four-time founder, he previously built and exited Fortriator Insurance, a multi-state underwriting operation, and Blue Falco Marketing, a performance marketing engine for the insurance vertical. Earlier in his career he built and sold books of business at Goosehead Insurance and Farmers Insurance. Zack writes and speaks on one beat: how fraud enters private real estate lending and what verification, audit trails, and AI-resistant evidence look like in practice. His commentary has appeared in Business Insider, Yahoo Finance, the Associated Press, and Benzinga. He is a graduate of Texas A&M University and lives in Texas with his family.
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- Full name
- Zachary Farris
- Preferred name
- Zack Farris
- Role
- Founder & CEO, LendlyX
- Company
- LendlyX, Inc.
- Founded
- 2026
- Headquarters
- Texas, USA
- Education
- Texas A&M University
- Prior exits
- Fortriator Insurance; Blue Falco Marketing
- Beat
- Fraud & verification in private real estate lending
Company press inquiries about LendlyX should go to press@lendlyx.com. This page is for Zack directly.
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- Why this matters now
“Private credit is not too small to be a fraud target. It is exactly the right size — large enough to be worth the work, small enough to lack the controls.”
— Zack Farris, founder & CEO, LendlyX - Photo verification
“A photo without metadata is a rumor. A photo with metadata, attestation, and a forensic verdict is collateral.”
— Zack Farris, founder & CEO, LendlyX - Draw fraud
“If your draw process cannot tell you whether a photo has been submitted before, you do not have a draw process. You have a filing cabinet.”
— Zack Farris, founder & CEO, LendlyX - AI-generated fraud
“You cannot out-classify a model release cycle. You can out-design it with provenance — capture, sign, store, and verdict at the moment of capture.”
— Zack Farris, founder & CEO, LendlyX - Document fraud
“If the photos pass and the documents do not reconcile, the deal does not pass. Verification has to be one decision, not five inboxes.”
— Zack Farris, founder & CEO, LendlyX - Operations
“Operational discipline does not show up on the marketing page. It shows up in the loss rate, the draw cycle time, and what the audit looks like under a workout.”
— Zack Farris, founder & CEO, LendlyX - On the founder beat
“Stop fraud before the money moves. That is the entire product thesis and it is the only sentence I need to defend.”
— Zack Farris, founder & CEO, LendlyX