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For underwriting leaders

Put your underwriters back on the risks worth their judgment.

Each risk lands structured and scored. Your underwriters spend the day pricing it, not assembling the file first.

What your team does differently when every submission arrives decision-ready

The work shifts from preparing risks to pricing them, across every line your team writes.

  • 70%

    Time to first quote

    Arch Insurance cut intake-to-decisioning from two or three days to two hours.

  • 113%

    Premium per underwriter

    Markel's underwriting teams lifted premium per full-time underwriter by 113% without growing the team.

  • 15 min

    Triage time per submission

    Zurich brought manual triage down from 75 minutes a submission to 15, across twenty-plus markets.

Where the work changes

Your team's time concentrates at a few points on the path from submission to bind, and each one can give some of it back.

Read every submission before an underwriter does

Documents, emails and spreadsheets arrive structured, so the file is complete when it reaches a desk.

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Price on figures you’ve already verified

Check the broker’s stated revenue and other figures against third-party sources before the file reaches you.

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Work the submissions worth your time first

Opportunity, size and appetite fit set the order, rather than whichever channel the risk came through.

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Get an indication back while it still counts

Cycle times fall from days to hours once your underwriters stop chasing information that should have arrived.

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What underwriting teams tell us

"Since we began working with Cytora, workflow is now in one user-friendly platform in a business prioritised order, giving underwriters more time to underwrite the right risks."

Gary Walker
Gary Walker Head of Broker Connect Markel UK

"We pick better risks and with the speed, save operating expenses. Cytora means we can come to better underwriting decisions … so we increase our margins."

Steve Blakey
Steve Blakey President Starr Insurance Holdings

Frequently asked about underwriting

The time comes out of preparation, not decision-making. Where submissions are digitized and screened on arrival, the hours an analyst spent extracting data and chasing missing fields stop being spent at all.

Arch Insurance cut intake-to-decisioning from two or three days to two hours this way, and moved quote turnaround to same day.

Not in the part of the job they were hired for. Extraction, screening and routing happen before a submission reaches a desk, and the work connects to the underwriting and rating systems your team already uses.

That last part decides adoption. A platform that disrupts the workflow your underwriters already know makes adoption a battle.

Publish appetite where agents actually work, and screen against it before anything reaches an underwriter. Out-of-appetite submissions usually trace back to appetite that is out of date, or unclear at the edges where the interesting risks sit.

The second half matters as much as the first — agents send what they believe fits.

No. Digitizing intake makes a submission readable and complete before a person sees it, and the underwriting decision stays with your underwriter.

That separation is deliberate rather than a limit. The principle Applied builds to is that the assembly work is automated and the risk selection stays human.