From policy-centric insurer to intelligent, AI-native insurer.
Loss costs and catastrophe exposure climb, distribution spreads across agents, partners and embedded journeys,
customers judge you on the claim, and regulators ask how every complaint, reserve and AI decision was handled.
The answer runs across the whole insurer — from how a risk is priced to how a claim is paid and the
ledger closes. SCIKIQ is the governed data and AI platform that helps insurers make that shift, one value-chain domain at a time.
Accelerators: four insurance, eleven cross-industry
Customer event → decisionIllustrative
The story in six chapters
How an insurer becomes AI-native — and where each part of this site fits
Chapter 1 · The pressure
Seven forces reshaping the insurer
Insurers organised around lines and systems — a policy platform, a claims platform, a billing system, a
finance ledger — now compete on decisions made across all of them. The insurers pulling ahead treat data as a
product and AI as an operating capability, not a set of pilots. These are the pressures they are responding to.
Profitability
Loss costs outrun pricing
Claims inflation, repair and medical costs and catastrophe losses rise faster than annual rate cycles can follow. Combined ratios are won on pricing precision and expense discipline.
Data & AI: loss-cost models on governed data, faster rate evidence and agents that take cost out of operations.
Distribution
Channels multiply, loyalty thins
Agents, brokers, bank partners, retailers and embedded journeys each own a slice of the customer. Price comparison makes switching easy at every renewal.
Data & AI: channel and partner analytics, retention signals and next-best-action for producers.
Claims
The claim is the moment of truth
Customers judge the insurer on how fast an approved claim is paid. Documents, estimates and hand-offs slow settlement, and fraud hides in the volume.
Data & AI: FNOL triage, document AI, fraud scoring and agents that assemble the claim file.
Customer voice
Insight buried in every interaction
Calls, surveys and complaints arrive by the million, in many languages. Keyword tools miss nuance, sampling misses the complaint that matters, and regulators expect fast identification.
Data & AI: GenAI that classifies intent, sentiment and complaint severity on every interaction.
IFRS 17 and Solvency II reporting — and in India, IRDAI returns, the move to Ind AS 117 and risk-based solvency — plus complaint-handling and fair-treatment rules and privacy law (DPDP Act, GDPR, CCPA, GLBA) all ask for granular, traceable data, delivered faster.
Data & AI: lineage from policy and claim to the return, PII protection built in, and AI-assisted reporting.
Technology
Legacy admin systems and documents
Several policy and claims platforms from past acquisitions, and critical information locked in PDFs, emails and transcripts. Every new report, model or agent starts with another extract.
Data & AI: one governed data fabric, with GenAI turning documents and conversations into structured data.
Governance
AI that has to be fair and explained
Pricing, underwriting and claims decisions affect customers directly. Regulators expect AI to be inventoried, tested for bias, supervised and explained.
Data & AI: agent governance — autonomy levels, approvals, evaluations and a kill switch.
Every pressure lands somewhere on the value chain.
The response isn't one platform or one model — it is data and AI applied domain by domain, from pricing to claims to the ledger, on a shared, governed foundation.
Three domains that win and price the risk, two that serve the customer, two that handle the claim, and the group
functions underneath them. Select a domain to see the data it runs on, the AI opportunities, and what SCIKIQ does there.
Price & acquireServeClaimsGroup
Domain 1 of 8
Product, pricing & actuarial
Loss trends, inflation and catastrophe exposure move faster than annual rate reviews. Actuaries spend more time assembling data than modelling, and new products take quarters to file and launch.
Insurance is sold through agents, brokers, bank partners, retailers and embedded journeys at once. Each channel reports differently, partner programmes demand their own insight, and agent productivity is hard to see.
Submissions arrive as emails, PDFs and spreadsheets. Underwriters re-key data, chase missing information and check guidelines by hand, so good risks wait and the portfolio drifts from appetite.
Data it runs on
Submissions & broker emailsApplications & medical evidenceInspection & survey reportsUnderwriting guidelinesThird-party risk dataPortfolio & accumulation data
Data & AI opportunities
Submission intake: document AI extracts and validates the risk data
Appetite and guideline checks with the reasoning shown
Risk scoring and referral triage for the underwriter
Portfolio accumulation and appetite monitoring
What SCIKIQ does here
Submissions structured before an underwriter opens them
Every referral arrives with the evidence and a draft decision
Underwriters keep authority; agents remove the re-keying
Policies live on several admin systems from past acquisitions. Endorsements, renewals and cancellations run on hand-offs, and billing or document errors turn into calls and complaints.
Millions of calls, surveys and complaints hold the reasons customers stay or leave — but they are unstructured, multilingual and full of personal data. Regulators expect complaints to be found and resolved fast.
Claims is where the promise is kept or broken. First notice of loss arrives through every channel, adjusters juggle documents and repair estimates, and payment delays turn approved claims into complaints.
Data it runs on
First notice of lossClaim files & documentsRepair & medical estimatesAdjuster notesPayments & reservesClaim calls & complaints
Organised rings, inflated claims and application fraud hide across policies, claims and third parties. Rules flag too much or too little, and investigators spend their time gathering evidence.
Data it runs on
Claims & paymentsPolicy & application dataThird parties: repairers, providers, attorneysDevice & digital signalsWatchlists & industry databasesSIU case history
Data & AI opportunities
Claim and application fraud scoring at FNOL and before payment
Network analysis linking claimants, providers and repairers
SIU case preparation with the evidence assembled
Recovery and subrogation opportunity detection
What SCIKIQ does here
Fraud signals joined across policy, claim and third-party data
IFRS 17, Solvency II and, in India, IRDAI returns and the move to Ind AS 117 demand granular, traceable data and faster closes. Reserving, reinsurance recoveries and premium and claims reconciliations still lean on spreadsheets and manual matching.
Data it runs on
General ledger & sub-ledgersPremium & claims transactionsReserving trianglesReinsurance treaties & bordereauxInvestment & capital dataRegulatory returns
Data & AI opportunities
Premium, claims and bank reconciliations with breaks explained
Reserving and IFRS 17 measurement data prepared with lineage
Reinsurance recovery and bordereaux checks
AI commentary for results, the board pack and regulatory returns
What SCIKIQ does here
Reconciliation, close, FP&A and commentary accelerators configured for insurance data
Agents draft entries and commentary; controllers and actuaries approve
Lineage from policy and claim to the regulatory return
Nine service lines that advise, build, transform and run — delivered on three pieces of SCIKIQ IP, so
insurers start from working components rather than a blank page.
Chapter 5 preview · Our supervised digital workforce
How agentic operations work
In our AI & Agentic Engineering and Managed Services work, agents do the routine work end to end — in every
domain above. Policy decides what goes straight through; people approve everything else. Nothing happens off the record.
A claims squad, step by stepIllustrative
INTAKE · FNOL & DOCUMENTS
CHECK · COVERAGE & FRAUD
DRAFT · SETTLEMENT & LETTER
APPROVE · ADJUSTER SIGNS OFF
People supervise the exceptions
Agents read the documents, check coverage and fraud signals and draft the settlement. Anything above the
authority limit, or with a fraud flag, waits for a named adjuster or SIU investigator.
Pre-built, configurable solutions on the SCIKIQ Data Fabric. Four are GenAI accelerators for insurance; the rest
are cross-industry accelerators our teams configure to insurance data, rules and controls.
Transform · Customer, claims & compliance
Distribution, Customer & Voice of the Customer
GenAI accelerators built on Azure OpenAI, Databricks and Delta Lake.
Frustration-intensity detection, in/out-of-scope classification and L0–L3 impact prioritisation, with same-day
escalation for critical complaints and a human-in-the-loop validation interface.
Priority levels
L0 CriticalL1 HighL2 MediumL3 Low
Multilingual Survey Intelligence
Accelerator · Regional-language customer feedback
Automatic language detection, regional prompt tuning for Spanish variants and Brazilian Portuguese, cultural context
in sentiment, theme and trend extraction, and PII masking with Microsoft Presidio.
Enter your own volumes. The estimate compares today's manual handling with agents working the cases and
people reviewing only the exceptions.
Estimated impact
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Hours saved per month
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FTE equivalent (150 h / month)
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Cost saved per month
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Cost saved per year
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Cases per month one supervisor can oversee
Estimate only, not a quote or a SCIKIQ result. Manual hours = cases × minutes ÷ 60.
Supervised hours = cases × (1 − STP share) × review minutes ÷ 60. Hours saved = manual − supervised.
FTE = hours saved ÷ 150. Cost saved = hours saved × cost per hour (× 12 for a year).
Supervisor capacity = 150 h × 60 ÷ ((1 − STP share) × review minutes). Excludes platform and run costs.
Advise · Data & AI maturity assessment
Where are you on the maturity curve?
Our assessment scores 12 capability layers — from the secure AI gateway and data fabric to ontology,
context engineering, agents and governance — against five stages, using evidence rather than opinion.
MIT CISR found enterprises at stages 3–4 perform well above their industry average financially, while those at stages 1–2 perform below it.
Source
Start with the outcome you need
Tell us the problem — a complaints backlog, slow claims payments, submissions that wait, an IFRS 17 close
that runs late, a platform to modernise. We'll propose an assessment or a 30-45 day pilot, delivered by SCIKIQ
teams on our framework and accelerators.