About Maestro Tech
Built in Chicago, by people who spent time in mortgage
We saw origination teams drown in document review and built the tool we wished they had. Maestro Tech is an angel-backed AI startup founded in 2024.
Our story
The problem was always the same pile of documents
Mortgage origination has not changed the way it feels on the ground: loan files still arrive as mixed-quality PDFs, handwritten notes, phone photos of pay stubs, and multi-hundred-page bank statement exports. Someone has to read all of it before an underwriter can make a decision. That person is usually a loan officer or processor spending their entire day on document review instead of lending.
Maestro Tech was founded in 2024 to change that. We built an AI extraction engine specifically for the mortgage document stack: trained on the field formats and edge cases that matter to originators, not a generic document parser bolted onto a general-purpose LLM.
Our product is lender-facing tooling. Maestro does not originate loans, does not make credit decisions, and is not a broker or underwriting system. It reads documents and returns structured data, so your licensed team spends less time on prep and more time on the decision that actually requires them.
Founding
2024, Chicago IL
Funding
Angel-backed, $100K angel round, 2025
Mission
Reduce document-review prep time in mortgage origination
Headquarters
222 W Merchandise Mart Plaza, Suite 1300, Chicago IL 60654
Team
The people building Maestro
A small team with direct experience in mortgage origination technology and applied AI.
David Rogove
CEO and Co-founder
Product and go-to-market. Prior background in fintech operations with a focus on lending workflow automation and origination process design. Leads customer relationships and early-access partnerships.
Kirra Whitfield
CTO and Co-founder
AI infrastructure and extraction pipeline. Experience building document-understanding systems for financial services. Leads engineering and model development at Maestro.
Marcus Chen
Head of Lender Success
LOS integrations and API. Background in mortgage technology platform development and third-party connector architecture. Leads implementation work for customer onboarding and LOS connections.
Regulatory philosophy
We are tooling, not a decision-maker
Maestro is built with a deliberate scope boundary. Our product does one thing: it reads mortgage documents and returns structured data. That is all.
What Maestro does
- Extracts fields from mortgage documents
- Flags missing documents and low-confidence fields
- Returns structured pre-UW report for human review
- Integrates with lender LOS via API
What Maestro does not do
- Make credit decisions or recommendations
- Issue adverse-action notices
- Act as a lender, broker, or underwriter
- Replace licensed underwriting judgment
Chicago, IL
Find us at the Merchandise Mart
Address
222 West Merchandise Mart Plaza
Suite 1300, Chicago, IL 60654
Phone
Funding
Angel-backed. $100K angel round closed 2025. Founded 2024.
Work with us
Join the early-access program
We work closely with pilot lenders during the early-access phase. Contact us to discuss your workflow and what Maestro looks like for your team.