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The newest tools built for P&C agencies, and what's happening in insurtech, with our take on what it means for your agency.
Travis Upload & Go reads ACORD apps, dec pages and handwritten notes to prefill Travelers WC quotes. It is WC-only for now.
ReadApplied launches Epic Conductor, an AI layer built into Applied EpicEpic Conductor adds document extraction, policy checking, accounting automation and submission tracking inside Epic. Pricing and timing are not public.
ReadCooper becomes an Applied Certified Partner, with Epic connectivity includedCooper's AI tool now connects to Applied Epic through Applied's vendor certification program. No separate Applied API purchase is needed.
ReadOutmarket AI raises $34.5M Series B four months after its Series ASignalFire led the round for Outmarket, which sells AI policy checking and proposal tools that connect to agency management systems.
ReadVertafore rolls out four Velocity AI agents for AMS360, Sagitta and ImageRight usersVertafore's Agentic Agency plan adds policy intake, policy check, coach and document agents, with submission agents in early adopter programs this winter.
ReadIvans survey: submission friction now outweighs price in where agents place businessOf 702 agents in Ivans' 2026 survey, 90% cut business with a carrier over submission friction; 74% call rekeying their top pain point.
ReadApplied and Travelers pilot "submissionless" commercial renewal quotes in EpicCytora pulls renewal risk data from Applied Epic and sends it to carriers, which return quotes before remarketing starts. Travelers is the first carrier.
ReadEZLynx adds real-time BOP, GL and WC carrier quotes inside its commercial submissionInstant Commercial Quoting, powered by Ivans, shows carrier quotes while agents complete the commercial app in the EZLynx AMS. Carrier names aren't published.
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