A record-breaking Q1 that funnelled 95% of capital into AI insurers, a $108 million raise for a startup-only carrier, an autonomous broker platform going live in the UK, and reinsurers stepping into identity fraud. As of this week, InsurTech has stopped experimenting and started shipping infrastructure. The AI takeover is no longer a forecast For years, insurance conferences opened with the same slide: "AI will transform underwriting". As of this week, the slide has been reti

An interview with Will Ross by Sean Murphy Will Ross did not set out to work in insurance. He was at Stanford, between an MS in climate and atmospheric modelling and an MBA, collaborating on a wildfire modelling project in a corner of northern California, when insurers started knocking. A better model, they told him, would help them solve some real problems. He took the meetings and what he found there redirected his career. "There's a lot of good people trying really hard,"

Sixfold is routing its AI underwriting engine directly into insurers' existing Salesforce environments through a new partnership with PS Advisory, a move that lets carriers adopt agentic underwriting without ripping out the systems their teams already run on. The tie-up, announced on 27 August 2026, centres on a custom MuleSoft connector that passes submissions, enrichment data and underwriting decisions between the two platforms automatically, removing the manual rekeying an

Xitus Re Ltd, the Bermuda-based property and casualty run-off reinsurer, has widened its use of a single enterprise platform to run acquired portfolios, marking the second public expansion of its relationship with software vendor INTX Insurance Software in six months. The move offers a working test of whether one operating system can carry a legacy consolidator through rising transactional and jurisdictional complexity rather than forcing it to bolt on new systems with each d