by Scott Lacourse | Jul 14, 2026 | Blog
How Book Roll turns portfolio review from an account-by-account grind into a single, appetite-aligned decision pass. Every underwriting leader knows the moment. A book of business lands on your desk — from an agent or BDM inquiry, an acquisition, a program takeover,...
by Scott Lacourse | Jul 5, 2026 | Blog
The integration barrier that kept AI underwriting at the top of the market is gone. Here’s what we’ve done about it. For two years, the story of AI in commercial insurance belonged to the largest carriers — the ones who could hire the engineers, build the...
by Scott Lacourse | Apr 15, 2026 | Blog
Commercial underwriting sits at the center of insurance profitability—yet the process remains fragmented, manual, and heavily dependent on incomplete or inconsistent data. Underwriters are expected to make fast, accurate decisions, but much of their time is spent...
by Scott Lacourse | Jan 29, 2026 | Blog
Why Now Over the past few years, we’ve all watched artificial intelligence move from novelty to necessity. For large carriers, that transition came with dedicated data science teams, big budgets, and the freedom to experiment. But for many regional and mid-sized...
by Scott Lacourse | Nov 14, 2025 | Blog
Morning light filters through the blinds as an underwriter opens a new email — a small business submission with just a name and an address. In most organizations, this would mark the beginning of a familiar process: research, cross-checking, multiple systems, and more...
by Scott Lacourse | Sep 4, 2025 | Blog
The rise of agentic AI is happening now. Artificial intelligence has entered a new era. The early wave of reactive AI — in which intelligent systems required explicit prompts to fulfill specific and limited tasks — delivered efficiency, but also raised questions of...
