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Amazing start to Day 1 at InsurTech Insights USA! Huge shoutout to Katherine Minami (NFP, an Aon company), Damion Walker (Gallagher), and Max Kane (Novella) for joining Cyrus Karai on stage for an extremely engaging conversation on the future of commercial insurance distribution. If you're at the Javits today, come find the rest of the CoverForce team at booth 711.

Which part of your book do you think AI actually touches in the next three years? I'm going to discuss this on stage with Gallagher, NFP, and Novella at Insurtech Insights conference this week - catch me on the Red Stage at 1:55pm today. On February 9, broker stocks had their worst single-day drop since 2008. WTW fell 12%. Gallagher 9.9%. Aon 9.3%. The S&P Insurance Brokers index lost nearly 11% on the week. The trigger? OpenAI approved a homeowners insurance app on ChatGPT. 📊 A personal-lines quoting tool wiped out billions in commercial brokerage value. Those aren't the same business. 🔑 Investors priced in a future where AI replaces the broker. What they missed: a homeowners quote and a complex commercial placement are worlds apart. One is a form. The other is judgment, relationships, and ten markets that don't talk to each other. I talk to carriers every week - nobody is automating a $2M umbrella program through a chatbot. But CoverForce is also powering a number of AI brokers in the market - who are committed to using our API infrastructure to improve the CX in commercial lines. IMO, I don't think brokers will be replaced anytime soon, as they play a key role in the risk transfer that business owners crave. But I think AI will deliver the speed insureds and retail agents demand at critical pain points in the distribution lifecycle. #Insurance #AI #CommercialInsurance #InsurTech #CoverForce

The commercial insurance stack is in the middle of its biggest workflow shift in a decade. The brokerages and insurtechs that win the next five years will be the ones figuring out, right now, what to build, what to buy, and what to partner on. Next Wednesday at Insurtech Insights USA, I'm hosting a panel with three insurtech leaders shaping how commercial insurance distribution actually runs in 2026: Katherine Minami - SVP of Operations & Innovation at NFP, an Aon company Damion Walker - Managing Director, Technology Practice at Gallagher Max Kane - CEO at Novella June 3, 1:55 PM, Red Stage, Javits Center. Come find us. Or swing by booth 711.

InsurTech Insights is coming to our backyard in New York, and we'll be there! We'll be at InsurTech Insights USA, June 3–4 at the Javits Center. Cyrus Karai, Diego Nicolini, William (Wit) Geffs, Alex Talati, and Mackenzie D. will be at Booth 711 and would love to connect. If you're thinking about how to streamline carrier connectivity, eliminate rekeying, or get live bindable quotes through a single API, let's grab some time and talk through it. Let us know if you'll be attending as well!

The CoverForce team is heading to Scout InsurTech next week! Look for Diego Nicolini and William (Wit) Geffs in Columbus to learn more about the largest carrier API marketplace in commercial insurance and what's new on our roadmap for 2026. Let us know if we'll see you there!

The CoverForce team will be at AIS Symposium in Orlando next week! Excited to see what NCCI has lined up for the conference. If you're attending, drop a comment or DM, happy to grab coffee or a drink while we're down there. Alex Marr Mackenzie D.

Great week at the ISU Steadfast National Conference in Cedar Creek! Thank you to the agents who stopped by to chat, and to everyone who shared how they're thinking about their business. Conversations like these are the reason we go. And thank you to the ISU Steadfast Insurance Agency Network team for putting on such a great event. See you next year!

That's a wrap on BTV Mania! Massive shoutout to John Jackovin, Susan Hatten and Emily Schultz for pulling off an incredibly well-organized conference. We're heading home with new ideas, new connections, and plenty of reasons to be back next year. Already looking forward to next year. Thanks again BrokerTech Ventures!

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I've talked to 30+ brokers since the Insurify panic in February. One thing keeps coming up that nobody is posting about. 👇 They're not scared of ChatGPT quoting auto insurance inside a chatbot. They're scared of the broker down the street who figured out how to quote three carriers in the time it takes them to log into one portal. The Insurify story spooked Wall Street for about 48 hours - broker stocks dropped 9%, then bounced back within three weeks. The market moved on. But the conversations I'm having with agency owners haven't moved on at all. 📊 A Reagan Consulting, Inc. study found that producers under 35 using tech-enabled tools carry book sizes averaging $168K larger than peers without access to those tools. That's not an AI headline. That's a workflow story hiding in plain sight. The gap isn't between brokers and AI. It's between brokers with connected infrastructure and brokers still managing ten carrier portals, re-keying the same data into each one, and chasing underwriters by email for quotes that should take minutes. 🔑 The brokers who worry me aren't the ones ignoring AI - they're the ones buying AI tools and bolting them onto broken workflows. Same portals, same re-keying, same manual handoffs. AI on top of a disconnected process just gives you faster chaos. Everyone's debating whether AI will replace the broker. The real replacement is happening broker-to-broker, and it's infrastructure, not intelligence, that's making the difference. ⚡ The competitive threat in commercial insurance isn't a chatbot. It's the agency that quotes five markets before your team finishes one submission. What's the one workflow bottleneck you'd eliminate tomorrow if you could? 💬 Drop it below - curious what's universal versus what's specific to certain lines. #Insurance #AI #CommercialInsurance #InsurTech #BrokerLife #CoverForce