7 posts found
09/02/2021 · 5 min read
RiskGenius reads insurance policy language and surfaces the coverage differences that matter, doing in minutes what manual comparison takes hours to finish. Underwriters get scale, agents get fast coverage comparison at renewal, and personal-lines agents get a path into commercial work without years of specialist expertise.
07/01/2021 · 5 min read
Technology will eat the transactional parts of insurance distribution and amplify the relational parts. Agents who win clarify their human value, automate the transactional work, niche down deep, and position themselves inside embedded insurance instead of fighting it.
06/30/2021 · 6 min read
InsurTech wins on application friction, data-driven underwriting, and clean UX. It loses by confusing simplicity with coverage cuts and underestimating the human element at claim. Independent agents' moat is the complexity tech hasn't solved and the relationship it can't replicate.
08/03/2020 · 6 min read
Agencies plateau when they optimize a model with a fixed ceiling instead of questioning the model itself. Question your defaults, import ideas from outside insurance, run small experiments, and learn from failures faster than successes. In a market moving this quickly, staying with the same playbook is not neutral.
07/20/2020 · 7 min read
Insurance is not dead. Disruption is a filter, not a threat. Survivors double down on depth over breadth, get genuinely good at the human stuff, study change before they react, and refuse to participate in the doomsday loop. Mindset is the operating system underneath every system.
08/23/2019 · 6 min read
Todd Braeger reinvented insurance workflows by automating the decision (not just the action), starting at the biggest bottleneck (usually lead response), and running every automation parallel to the manual process for two weeks before cutover. Never automate the moments that need empathy.
05/27/2019 · 6 min read
InsurTech wins where the work is commoditized (personal auto, renters) and loses where it is complex. Independent agents survive by leaning into commercial lines, high-net-worth, and consultative coverage, then using back-end automation (raters, CRMs, remarketing) to one-person-leverage a book that used to need three.