Image caption: Informative Research SVP of Marketing Craig Leabig named a 2026 HousingWire Marketing Leader.

Over the past year, Leabig led Informative Research’s marketing transformation, building a scalable, data-driven ecosystem that strengthens the company’s brand positioning and deepens its connection with lenders. Under his leadership, his team completed a full redesign of the company’s website, driving a notable increase in traffic. He also spearheaded significant social media growth, increasing both audience and impressions.

“This recognition reflects the work of an incredible team that has rallied around a shared vision for what marketing can do for our organization and our clients,” said Leabig. “We’ve focused on building systems and strategies that create lasting value, and I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished together.”

Beyond digital performance, Leabig developed a structured marketing nurture ecosystem designed to educate lenders throughout the buyer journey, ensuring that messaging is clear, relevant and actionable. He introduced standardized content frameworks for client communications, including product updates, launch announcements and educational materials. This has improved consistency across all customer touchpoints.

Leabig’s impact extends into operational and cross-functional improvements as well. He partnered with Compliance and Customer Success to streamline client onboarding and helped implement a HubSpot-based support ticketing system that gives the organization clear visibility into support requests, client trends and team performance.

“HousingWire’s Marketing Leaders represent the professionals shaping how housing companies connect, compete and grow in a constantly evolving market,” said HousingWire CEO Clayton Collins. “As market conditions, client expectations and business priorities continue to shift, this year’s honorees are helping their organizations adapt, innovate and grow. We’re proud to recognize the marketers driving meaningful impact across housing.”

Explore the full list of 2026 HousingWire Marketing Leaders: https://www.housingwire.com/articles/introducing-the-2026-marketing-leaders/.

About Informative Research

Informative Research, a Stewart company, is a premier technology provider delivering data-driven credit and verification solutions to the lending community. The solutions provider currently serves mortgage companies, banks and lenders throughout the United States. The company is recognized for streamlining the loan process with its straightforward service model, progressive solutions and cutting-edge technology. To learn more, visit https://www.informativeresearch.com.

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VANCOUVER, Wash., June 2, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Velinwood Publishing announced today that “Bunny, The Hidden Record: The First Empty Throne” (ISBN: 979-8950622007), the second novel by Her Majesty of Ink and Exit Wounds (Rebecca Maehlum), has received three five-star reviews from Readers’ Favorite — with each reviewer independently reaching the same conclusion: there is no comparable book currently in publication.

Image caption: Cover, ‘Bunny, The Hidden Record: The First Empty Throne,’ available now from Velinwood Publishing.

“Hand over heart, I have not come across a book like this ever,” wrote reviewer Jamie Michele. “And that’s a good thing.”

The convergence is unusual. Three reviewers, reading the novel separately, used three different vocabularies — technical craft, emotional architecture, and structural innovation — to arrive at the same verdict.

CRITICAL RECEPTION

Reviewer Jamie Michele identified the novel’s technical accomplishment:

“The writing is intelligent and witty, and the mastery of a second-person POV with a first-person narrator — a framed second-person narrative — is no easy feat. But it is done in Bunny, The Hidden Record, and it is done well… Readers who adore surreal literary fiction, haunted courts, and character-centric speculative fiction will enjoy this novel. Very highly recommended.”

Reviewer Makeda Cummings noted the novel’s emotional engineering:

“A fascinating story that flips other fantasy kingdom-building stories on their heads… The character depth is excellent, especially the way the author uses minor, seemingly trivial items to drop big hints about a character’s backstory. I loved how the narrative lets you piece together the emotional history of the family through discarded items, pulling you deeper into the world the characters occupy.”

Reviewer Olga Markova emphasized the novel’s atmospheric and structural achievement:

“This marvelous book is beyond praiseworthy. The irresistible cover featuring cute, defiant Bunny, intriguing chapter titles, and every scene kept me riveted until the very end. I thoroughly enjoyed the achingly bittersweet relics and memories of the Queen and hilarious humor.”

ABOUT THE BOOK

In the wake of the Queen’s withdrawal from the throne, Bunny — Chief Documentarian, Familiar of Vengeance, and the court’s reluctant guide — leads the reader through the locked chambers of Velinwood Court. What he reveals is not a kingdom in ruins but a kingdom in preservation: a war room of strategic records and remembered betrayals, an academy where ants are trained into an intelligence network, an untouched study filled with sealed letters the Queen refused to open. Each room is evidence. Each object is testimony. And Bunny — sarcastic, formal, structurally incapable of looking away — is the one who keeps the record straight.

“Bunny, The Hidden Record” operates on two simultaneous registers: a darkly comic guided tour readable on its surface, and a layered psychological architecture rewarding readers who attend to its depth. The novel deploys a framed second-person narrative — a first-person narrator addressing the reader directly as participant — that reviewers have identified as a sophisticated structural choice rare in contemporary fantasy.

The book is the second standalone novel in the larger Velinwood Court universe: a 23-book interconnected mythology built on chaos theory, strange attractor dynamics, and recurring characters whose meanings deepen across the body of work. It can be read entirely on its own.

As reviewer Olga Markova noted, “It was my first meet-and-greet with the series, and it read perfectly as a standalone.”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rebecca Maehlum writes under the name Her Majesty of Ink and Exit Wounds. She is the sole architect of the Velinwood Court mythology, an interconnected literary universe spanning 23 published books with more in development, a parallel sequence of 50+ essays on cognitive architecture and AI ethics, and an ongoing visual archive. Her essays have appeared in Creative Loop, ADI Insights and Innovation Collective, Activated Thinker, and Toward AI.

Maehlum spent over a decade in executive operations at a global brand, plus additional years in chief-of-staff and advisory work within the federal regulatory sphere. That background — observing how large institutions hold, lose, and reconstruct information — informs the Velinwood universe’s recurring concern with archives, refusals, and how humans give form to things that resist language.

ABOUT VELINWOOD PUBLISHING

Velinwood Publishing is an independent press founded by Rebecca Maehlum to house the Velinwood Court mythology and related works. The press publishes literary fantasy, essay collections, and visual archive volumes, committed to work that operates at both accessible and architecturally complex registers. Velinwood titles are distributed through IngramSpark, Amazon KDP, Lulu, and direct retail at https://velinwoodcourt.com/.

BOOK DETAILS
Title: “Bunny, The Hidden Record: The First Empty Throne”
Author: Her Majesty of Ink and Exit Wounds (Rebecca Maehlum)
Publisher: Velinwood Publishing
ASIN: B0H1K3SHR2
ISBN: 9798950622007
Format: Paperback, Ebook
Pages: 200
Price: $16.99
Publication Date: May 13, 2026
Available at: Amazon, IngramSpark catalog, and velinwoodcourt.com

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BOULDER, Colo., June 2, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Floify, the mortgage industry’s leading point-of-sale (POS) solution, today announced that Courtney Dodd, head of marketing, has been named a 2026 HW Marketing Leader by HousingWire. The HW Marketing Leaders award recognizes the people behind the strategies, campaigns and brand decisions shaping housing finance. Dodd is one of 70 honorees named to the 2026 class.

Image caption: Courtney Dodd of Floify.

Dodd has fundamentally reshaped marketing’s role at Floify over the past 12 months, evolving it from a support function into a primary driver of revenue. By aligning marketing and business development representative teams under a unified strategy, she built a scalable pipeline engine that generated 68% of the company’s total pipeline in 2025, a milestone that reflects both strategic vision and disciplined execution.

She led go-to-market strategy for two major product launches: Dynamic AI, which transforms how lenders capture borrower data through intelligent automation, and Dynamic Apps 2.0, which expands workflow customization for mortgage professionals. Each launch was tightly connected to pipeline generation and revenue outcomes, with messaging, demand generation, outbound strategy and sales enablement fully aligned from the start.

Dodd’s ability to integrate cross-functional teams around measurable revenue impact has strengthened collaboration across sales, product and marketing and improved overall go-to-market efficiency. Her approach is grounded in data-driven decision-making, clear accountability and a consistent focus on execution that moves the business forward.

“Courtney has redefined what marketing means at Floify,” said Joshua Steffan, SVP and group general manager at Porch Group and interim president and general manager of Floify. “She built a function that doesn’t just support revenue, it drives it. The results speak for themselves, and the discipline and clarity she has brought to our go-to-market approach has made us a stronger, more competitive company. This recognition reflects the real and measurable impact she has had on our business.”

“The 2026 Marketing Leaders are raising the bar for what effective marketing looks like in housing,” said Sarah Wheeler, HousingWire’s editor-in-chief.

For a complete list of winners, visit the HousingWire website.

ABOUT FLOIFY:

Floify is a fully configurable point of sale (POS) platform that streamlines the loan process with a secure application, communication and document portal between lenders, borrowers, referral partners and other mortgage stakeholders. Its Dynamic AI feature reimagines the mortgage application process by moving document collection and AI-driven data extraction to the very beginning of the process, allowing borrowers to upload key documents and have applications prepopulated with verified information, accelerating pre-approvals and simplifying the borrower experience. Floify is a subsidiary of Porch Group, Inc. (“Porch Group”) (NASDAQ: PRCH). For more, visit https://floify.com/ or find us on social media at Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter / X.

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NEW YORK CITY, N.Y., June 2, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Argyle, the leading consent-based verification (CBV) platform, today announced significant enhancements to its government verification solution that bring new capabilities to state agencies responsible for determining applicant eligibility for Medicaid, SNAP, TANF and related benefits programs.

Image caption: Argyle, the leading consent-based verification (CBV) platform.

The update arrives as states face mounting pressure from H.R. 1 — the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed into law on July 4, 2025 — which requires states to implement Medicaid work requirements, also referred to as community engagement requirements, by January 1, 2027. The bill also mandates more frequent, payroll-data-driven verification across Medicaid and SNAP. With roughly seven of 18 months remaining to build compliant infrastructure, agencies need a partner with proven coverage, reliable data and the operational depth to deploy at scale.

“States are past the point of asking whether to modernize verification. They’re asking who to trust to do it,” said Brian Geary, president at Argyle. “These enhancements reflect what we’ve learned working alongside state programs, and they’re designed to close the gaps that matter most: meeting mandated eligibility requirements, creating a frictionless verification experience for applicants and giving caseworkers the clean, current data they need to make fast, accurate determinations.”

Proven Infrastructure

Argyle’s government solution is adapted from the same verification platform it built for the U.S. mortgage industry, where it has emerged as the leading CBV provider. A recent Stifel Research survey found that 43% of mortgage companies are shifting volume away from Equifax/The Work Number, with Argyle as a top alternative winning on coverage, cost savings and support quality. That same infrastructure — including direct connectivity, consent management, data quality controls and audit-ready records — now powers Argyle’s government verification solutions. Agencies working with Argyle are building on technology that has already processed millions of verifications under demanding compliance conditions.

Argyle is currently active in more than 10 states, supporting benefits programs across Medicaid, SNAP, TANF, SSA, and across leading providers including Nava, Steady, Gainwell and Digital Public Works.

Purpose-Built for Benefit Eligibility

Argyle’s verification platform enables applicants to securely connect their payroll, employer, and bank in a single, intuitive experience. Upon connection and certification, the platform handles the complexity of how people actually earn, from gig income and multiple employers to part-time work and variable pay schedules.

Key features of Argyle’s government verification solution include:

• Flexible Data Sources: Agencies can verify applicant income and assets across payroll, banking and document sources within a single, unified experience. When one data source is unavailable or insufficient, applicants can seamlessly fall back to another — reducing drop-offs, expanding coverage and ensuring more applicants reach a verified outcome without caseworker intervention or manual follow-up.
• Verified Upon Receipt: Argyle pulls income and employment data directly from the payroll provider, employer or other primary source, which the applicant then reviews and certifies. This means Argyle’s reports are verified before they are delivered to the agency and require no additional paperwork, no follow-up requests and no delays between application and determination.
• Agency-Ready Reporting: Argyle’s verification reports for state agencies are purpose-built for Medicaid, SNAP and related program workflows, eliminating the need for caseworkers to interpret raw payroll records or perform manual calculations. Reports feature configurable lookback periods matched to each program’s eligibility window, monthly income summaries alongside paystub-level detail and comprehensive handling of variable earnings, irregular schedules and multiple employers consolidated into combined totals.
• One-Click Reauthentication: For programs that enable optional data refresh, returning applicants can reauthenticate with a single click without re-entering credentials or starting over. Income data stays current, caseworkers stay unblocked and the administrative overhead of keeping eligibility data fresh doesn’t fall on the applicants who can least afford it.
• Enhanced Employer Search: Upgraded matching algorithms and smart filtering make it significantly easier for applicants to locate the correct employer. Franchise locations, similarly named businesses and companies with multiple operating entities — historically a common source of friction — are now handled with meaningfully higher accuracy, resulting in broader payroll coverage, fewer drop-offs, fewer cases falling back to manual review and more applicants successfully verified.

With procurement and implementation timelines compressing ahead of the January 2027 deadline, agencies are encouraged to engage early. State agencies, systems integrators and policy organizations working on benefits eligibility modernization can learn more at argyle.com/government.

About Argyle

Argyle is a consent-based verification (CBV) platform that helps government agencies verify income, employment and assets more accurately, efficiently and at scale. Drawing on nearly a decade of experience serving mortgage, tenant screening and other high-volume regulated industries, Argyle brings proven consent management, data quality controls and audit-ready verification workflows to public-sector programs. With an applicant’s permission, Argyle retrieves verified payroll and financial data directly from source payroll providers and financial institutions, enabling agencies to reduce improper payments, streamline renewals and redeterminations and lower verification costs by up to 90% compared to The Work Number. Available as a standalone solution within state eligibility and renewal workflows, or leveraged as a part of CMS’ Emmy product and through government service providers like DiCIT and SteadyIQ.

For more information, visit https://www.argyle.com/government

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ATLANTA, Ga., June 1, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Down Payment Resource (DPR),the housing industry’s leading technology for connecting homebuyers with homeownership programs, today announced that Melinda Harris, vice president of marketing and communications, has been named a 2026 HW Marketing Leader by HousingWire. Each year, HousingWire’s HW Marketing Leaders program recognizes the executives shaping how housing finance companies communicate, compete and grow. Harris is among 70 honorees selected.

Image caption: Melinda Harris of Down Payment Resource.

Harris has spent nearly two decades helping shape how lenders, multiple listing services and housing professionals understand and use down payment programs. In that time, she built DPR’s marketing function from a one-person operation into a structured, scalable engine that today drives industry education, lead generation and platform adoption across a national network of lenders, MLSs and technology partners.

Over the past year, Harris led campaigns designed to correct persistent misconceptions around down payment assistance, including persona-based outreach and myth-busting initiatives that repositioned DPA as a viable strategy for a broader range of homebuyers, not just low-income or first-time buyers. Her data-driven campaigns, built around DPR’s proprietary Homeownership Program Index (HPI) and Declined Loan Analysis, have become a reliable source of market intelligence for journalists, policymakers and housing professionals alike.

Harris also implemented HubSpot to better align marketing and sales functions, improving lead visibility and conversion across the organization. Her work supporting events, partnerships and integrations with major industry platforms has helped DPR expand its reach and deepen its presence across the housing finance ecosystem.

Her contributions have coincided with a period of significant company growth. Down Payment Resource earned a spot on the 2025 Inc. 5000 list of the nation’s fastest-growing privately owned companies after achieving 130% revenue growth from 2021 to 2024, and has been named to the HousingWire Tech 100 for three consecutive years.

“Melinda has been instrumental in evolving how the industry thinks about down payment programs,” said Rob Chrane, chief executive officer of Down Payment Resource. “Her ability to translate complex data into clear, compelling narratives has helped us shift the conversation from niche to mainstream, and her commitment to accuracy and education reflects everything DPR stands for. This recognition is well deserved.”

“[The 2026 Marketing Leaders] are raising the bar for what effective marketing looks like in housing,” said Sarah Wheeler, editor-in-chief at HousingWire. “They are combining creativity, strategy and data-driven execution to build stronger brands and deeper customer connections.”

For a complete list of the 2026 winners, visit the HousingWire website.

ABOUT DOWN PAYMENT RESOURCE:

Down Payment Resource (DPR) is the housing industry authority on homebuyer assistance program data and solutions. With a database that tracks more than 2,600 programs and toolsets for mortgage lenders, multiple listing services (MLSs) and API users, DPR helps housing professionals connect homebuyers with the assistance they need. DPR frequently lends its expertise to nonprofits, housing finance agencies, policymakers, government-sponsored enterprises and trade organizations seeking to improve housing affordability. Its technology is used by seven of the top 25 mortgage lenders, two of the largest real estate listing websites and 600,000 real estate agents. For more information, visit https://www.downpaymentresource.com/.

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