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Overcoming the hidden bottleneck that’s plaguing the insurance industry

he Hidden Bottleneck of Every Insurance Workflow 

Everyone in insurance is chasing speed.  

But the real question isn’t how fast can you quote? — it’s how fast can you understand? 

Quote speed vs. intake speed vs. decision speed 

Carriers and MGAs have spent years investing in quoting engines, rating APIs, and automation to get proposals out faster. 

But if the information that feeds those systems still arrives as ACORDs, Excel spreadsheets, or loss runs that either an agent or underwriter has to manually rekey, you’re just pushing the bottleneck upstream. 

The first bottleneck every transformation hits 

Every “digital transformation” project eventually runs into the same wall. ACORD forms, Loss runs, spreadsheets, supplementals... each one full of valuable data that has to be manually typed or cleaned before it moves forward. 

That’s the hidden bottleneck, the quiet problem that slows even the most modern insurance stack. 

How AI is redefining “real-time underwriting” 

When AI can read and structure the data inside those unstructured documents, every downstream system built for rating, quoting, and analytics, can operate in real time. 
No rekeying. No waiting. No manual translation layer. 

It’s not just faster quoting. It’s faster understanding, and that’s what real-time really means. The future of insurance speed isn’t about shaving seconds off quotes. 

It’s about eliminating the hours lost to intake. 

If you’d like to see how AI is helping carriers, MGAs, and agents remove that bottleneck entirely, here’s a short demo: Watch the video 

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