ancep

Small risks that never get placed, because rekeying them costs more hours than the premium justifies, are where ancep starts. The company builds software agents for commercial insurance brokers and aims them first at business a team was turning away. A broker's staff would otherwise read an email, key a schedule of assets into each insurer's portal and chase claims histories, and ancep's agents do that legwork and hand the file back for approval.

Stages from first email to bound risk

The product pages walk through the life of a placement. Submissions arriving as emails, portal uploads, PDFs and spreadsheets land in one queue already read, and each risk is checked against the broker's appetite so the best ones come first. Proposal forms, ACORD forms and schedules are structured and pushed into the broker's systems. The agents then take the submission to the markets the broker would choose in the format each asks for, lay quotes out like for like with the source of every figure, chase missing loss runs and unsigned forms, and begin renewals early with last year's file already read. A market view shows which insurers quote, decline and win.

Working on top of what a broker already uses

ancep does not ask a brokerage to switch systems. It names Acturis, Applied Epic, AMS360, Salesforce and Dynamics, along with the inbox and insurer portals, and says its agents operate them as a team member would. It builds a single record of each client and risk across lines of business, countries and acquired firms, and it learns from the corrections brokers make. Customer stories on the site include placing small marine and high value property risks and obtaining cyber quotes from insurer portals.

Data handling and sign-off

Client data is hosted in the EU and kept single tenant by default, never used to improve another broker's agents. The company cites SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR, keeps immutable logs of every action by users and agents, and requires broker approval before anything reaches an insurer or client.

Key facts

Founders and leaders: Gagan Khurana (chief executive) and Jake Turner (chief technology officer), both previously at Scope AI Customer type: commercial insurance brokers Contact: ask@ancep.com Funding stated by the company: $8.5 million raised from Creandum, Kleiner Perkins and Vicus Ventures (announced 10 November 2026)