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Long-horizon agentic AI carries every submission.

The Layerup underwriting agent compresses the complete case from intake through quote — and reasons on the complex cases, not just the clean ones. It ingests the submission, extracts data, summarizes risk, screens appetite, prepares quote inputs, and assembles referral packages — one agent per line of business, running uninterrupted for hours or days until the underwriter can decide.

ScopeSubmission to bind
CoveragePersonal, commercial, specialty
AdoptionWorkflow by workflow
01Lifecycle

The complete case, compressed from intake through quote.

Every stage below is one agent's single continuous run — no handoffs between an intake tool, a summarizer, and a rules engine. Underwriters approve, refine appetite, and own the decision.

Underwriting lifecycle
7 stages
  1. 01
    Submission intake
  2. 02
    Document ingestion
  3. 03
    Data extraction
  4. 04
    Risk summarization
  5. 05
    Appetite & eligibility
  6. 06
    Quote preparation
  7. 07
    Referral & STP
02Complex cases

The cases that defeated your rules engine.

Rules engines clear the clean risk and refer everything else. Long-horizon agents replicate senior-underwriter judgment on the referred pile — reasoning through ambiguity, weighing contradictory evidence, and writing down the rationale.

Conflicting evidence

01

The SOV, the application, and the loss runs disagree.

TIV that doesn't reconcile, occupancy that contradicts the broker narrative, a loss run mentioning a location the schedule omits. The agent cross-examines every document against every other, resolves what the evidence supports, and flags what it can't — with citations for each call.

Multi-entity insureds

02

Named insureds spanning operations with mixed appetite.

A holding company with in-appetite manufacturing and out-of-appetite trucking. A rules engine sees one class code and misfires. The agent maps the corporate structure, allocates exposure by entity, and reasons about the account the way a senior underwriter would.

Loss runs from five carriers

03

Different formats, valuation dates, and coverage gaps.

The agent normalizes each carrier's format, aligns valuation dates, detects the uninsured gap year, and explains what the loss history actually says about the risk — trend, severity drivers, and open-reserve exposure — not just what the documents contain.

Layered & shared programs

04

Excess placements, quota share, non-concurrent terms.

Attachment points, underlying limits, and follow-form ambiguities that a field extractor can't even represent. The agent reconstructs the program structure, checks it against your line guides, and reasons about where your capacity actually sits.

Thin-history & new ventures

05

No loss runs, no priors, nothing for rules to match on.

The agent underwrites from evidence and analogy — comparable operations, financials, management experience, permitted third-party data — assembled into a reasoned recommendation with stated assumptions, instead of an automatic referral or decline.

Endorsement-heavy renewals

06

Mid-term changes that make prior-year comparison misleading.

The agent reads the endorsement trail, reconstructs what the expiring policy covers today, compares true exposure year over year, and carries prior decisions and their rationale into the renewal file so nothing is re-litigated from scratch.

03Positioning

Not an intake tool. Not a summarizer.

Point solutions each carry a submission one step and stop. The Layerup agent reasons across the entire case — intake, evidence, appetite, terms — and carries it to a quote-ready decision package.

Intake & extraction tools
Stops at
Structured fields

Turn documents into data, then stop. Every judgment call — appetite, eligibility, terms, pricing posture — still lands on an underwriter's desk untouched.

Document summarizers
Stops at
A risk brief

Compress the reading, not the work. The underwriter still runs the checks, chases the gaps, applies the guidelines, and builds the quote package by hand.

Rules engines
Stops at
Clean risk only

Fast on submissions that fit the template; everything ambiguous becomes a referral. The hard cases — the ones that decide the book — go back to humans.

The Layerup agent
Carries the case to
A decision

One agent runs the complete case — ingesting, extracting, reasoning on the evidence, applying your guidelines — and delivers a quote-ready decision package with rationale and source citations.

04Deployment

Modernize the brain, or replace the workbench.

It's a choice, not a forced migration. Run Layerup's reasoning behind the workbench your underwriters already use — or make the agent and its interface the new underwriting desktop. Most teams start with the first and move to the second when ready.

Option A

Modernize the brain. Keep the body.

Layerup agents run behind the workbench you already have — Guidewire, Duck Creek, or homegrown. They read from and write back to your systems of record; underwriters keep their screens, queues, and habits while the reasoning underneath changes.

  • 01Reads and writes your existing core and workbench
  • 02No UI change or retraining for underwriters
  • 03Agent output lands in existing queues and referral paths
  • 04Adopt workflow by workflow, line by line
  • 05Every action audit-logged in your systems of record
Option B

Replace the workbench.

The Layerup agent plus the Layerup review interface become the underwriting desktop. Underwriters work agent-prepared cases in an evidence-linked review surface built for approving decisions, not re-keying data.

  • 01Agent-native case view with full reasoning trace
  • 02Evidence-linked review — every fact cites its source
  • 03Approval queues ordered by confidence and severity
  • 04Appetite and guideline controls managed in one place
  • 05Legacy workbench retired on your timeline
Same agent, same reasoning, same audit trail — either way
05Capabilities

Nine steps. One agent's single run.

These are the stages of the underwriting agent's run — from submission intake through document ingestion, risk summarization, and referral. The same agent executes all of them, in order, without handoffs.

01 — Submission intake
5 steps

Submission intake from any channel.

Email, broker portal, agency uploads, ACORD packets, statements of values, and supplemental documents — the underwriting agent intakes everything submitted and clears it for handling.

  • 01Email and portal monitoring
  • 02Submission classification and routing
  • 03Duplicate and clearance checks
  • 04Account history reconciliation
  • 05Initial completeness assessment
02 — Document ingestion
5 steps

Every document, parsed and indexed.

ACORDs, SOVs, loss runs, financial statements, security questionnaires, broker memos, and supplemental documents — all ingested, parsed, and indexed for downstream reasoning.

  • 01ACORD form parsing
  • 02SOV and schedule ingestion
  • 03Loss run interpretation
  • 04Supplemental document classification
  • 05Source-of-truth indexing per submission
03 — Data extraction
5 steps

Structured data from unstructured submissions.

The agent extracts the structured data underwriters need — exposures, locations, history, named insureds, prior carriers, attachments — into a clean, reviewable record.

  • 01Account and exposure extraction
  • 02Location and schedule extraction
  • 03Loss history extraction
  • 04Coverage and limit extraction
  • 05Audit trail to source documents
04 — Risk summarization
5 steps

Risk briefs underwriters trust.

The agent produces concise, evidence-linked risk summaries underwriters can scan in minutes — not hours of document review.

  • 01Account narrative
  • 02Exposure overview
  • 03Loss experience summary
  • 04Risk highlights and concerns
  • 05Source citations to original documents
05 — Appetite & eligibility screening
5 steps

Consistent appetite at scale.

Layerup applies your appetite, eligibility, and underwriting guidelines uniformly — clearing in-appetite risks faster and reasoning through the borderline ones instead of reflexively referring them.

  • 01Appetite check against current guidelines
  • 02Eligibility screening per program
  • 03Knock-out and exclusion detection
  • 04Class and segment classification
  • 05Decline-with-reason support
06 — Quote preparation
5 steps

Quote-ready inputs, prepared by the agent.

The agent prepares the inputs the rating engine needs and stages the package for underwriter review — accelerating quote-to-bind and reducing aged submissions.

  • 01Rating input preparation
  • 02Coverage and form selection support
  • 03Term and condition staging
  • 04Pricing input prep
  • 05Quote document preparation
07 — Risk tier / class & exclusions
5 steps

Risk tier, class, and endorsement support.

The same agent supports tier and class assignment, endorsement and exclusion selection, and documents the rationale for each step.

  • 01Risk tier and class support
  • 02Endorsement selection support
  • 03Exclusion application support
  • 04Rationale documentation
  • 05Senior underwriter referral routing
08 — Referral package & renewal review
5 steps

Senior referral and renewal acceleration.

Layerup assembles complete referral packages for senior underwriters — with the agent's reasoning and evidence attached, not just the documents — and accelerates renewal review with full prior-year context.

  • 01Referral package creation
  • 02Prior decision and rationale context
  • 03Loss experience trend analysis
  • 04Renewal review workflow
  • 05Re-rate and re-quote preparation
09 — Straight-through processing & QA
5 steps

STP for clean risk, QA for everything.

Clean, in-appetite submissions resolve straight through to quote. Every output is sampled and QA-reviewed against your guidelines and compliance obligations.

  • 01Straight-through processing for clean risk
  • 02Confidence scoring and routing
  • 03Sample-based QA review
  • 04Compliance and guideline conformance
  • 05Continuous improvement feedback loop
06KPIs

The metrics underwriting executives manage.

Layerup is measured on submissions per underwriter, premium processed, quote-to-bind, STP rate, and referral package quality.

Submissions per underwriter

01

Throughput without sacrificing risk discipline.

Premium processed

02

Move more in-appetite premium through the pipeline.

Quote-to-bind speed

03

Reduce time from submission to bound policy.

Time to decision

04

Faster declines, faster quotes, fewer aged submissions.

Straight-through processing rate

05

Lift the share of clean risks resolved without referral.

Cost per submission

06

Lower handling cost across intake, triage, and clearance.

Referral package quality

07

Consistent, complete packages for senior underwriters.

Renewal review speed

08

Accelerate renewal review and re-rating cycles.

Appetite & eligibility consistency

09

Apply guidelines uniformly across the book.

Get started

Move underwriting work from doing to approving.

Deploy the underwriting agent in one line of business. Prove the throughput and STP improvement, then expand.