Company: BLND
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001855747-25-000024
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Company: Blend Labs, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: DEF 14A
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) matters that are of a type that are improper or irrelevant to the functioning of our board of directors or our business, for example, mass mailings, job inquiries and business solicitations. If appropriate, our Head of Legal and People or Legal Team will route such communications to the appropriate director(s) or, if none is specified, then to the chairperson of the board of directors or the lead independent director (if one is appointed). These policies and procedures do not apply to communications to non-management directors from our officers or directors who are stockholders or stockholder proposals submitted pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act.

Corporate Governance Guidelines and Code of Conduct

Our board of directors has adopted corporate governance guidelines. These guidelines address, among other items, the qualifications and responsibilities of our directors and director candidates, the structure and composition of our board of directors and corporate governance policies and standards applicable to us in general. In addition, our board of directors has adopted a code of conduct that applies to all of our employees, officers and directors, including our chief executive officer, chief financial officer and other executive and senior financial officers. The full text of our corporate governance guidelines and code of conduct are available on our website at investor.blend.com. We will post amendments to our code of conduct or any waivers of our code of conduct for directors and executive officers on the same website.

#### Director Compensation
In connection with our initial public offering, we adopted an outside director compensation policy for our non-employee directors and our board of directors approved an amended outside director compensation policy (the “Amended Policy”) on April 29, 2024, with such amendment effective on June 12, 2024 (the “Amendment Effective Date”).

Under the Amended Policy, each non-employee director is eligible to receive the compensation for board of directors services as described below. Under the Amended Policy, we also reimburse our non-employee directors for reasonable, customary and documented travel expenses to meetings of the board of directors.

#### Director Compensation for 2024
The following table sets forth information regarding the total compensation awarded to, earned by or paid to our non-employee directors for their service on our board of directors, for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 pursuant to the terms of the Amended Policy in effect as of the Amendment Effective Date and the terms of the outside director compensation policy for our non-employee directors in effect for the 2024 fiscal year prior to the Amendment Effective Date (the “Prior Policy