Insurance

Trust intelligence for insurance

From policyholder concierge to fraud, waste, and abuse detection. AI that works at scale - not just in demos.

Why insurance

Insurance AI is different

Insurance isn't just another regulated industry. Four characteristics make AI deployment uniquely challenging.

Fragmented regulatory landscape

No single regulator. In the US, 50 state insurance departments with different rules. In the EU, Solvency II plus national supervisors. In Asia-Pacific, MAS, APRA, IRDAI — each with distinct AI expectations. What's compliant in one jurisdiction may not be in another.

Adversarial environment

Fraud evolves. Fraudsters study your detection methods and adapt. Static models become obsolete. The system must evolve faster than the adversaries.

Litigation exposure

Every decision is discoverable. Bad faith claims. Class actions. Regulatory enforcement. Your AI's reasoning chain may end up in court - it better be defensible.

Volume economics

Millions of claims. Pennies of margin per claim. At scale, a 1% cost difference is millions of dollars. AI must be efficient, not just accurate.

The POC trap

The POC-to-Production gap

You proved the concept. The demo impressed leadership. Then you tried to scale it — and hit a wall.

Costs exploded

POC: $500/month for demos.
Production: $30,000-50,000/month for real volume.
Finance is asking questions you can't answer.

Latency killed UX

POC: "Wow, it thinks!"
Production: "Why is this so slow?"
Agents reasoning for 3-5 seconds per request. SLAs missed.

Reliability wasn't enterprise-grade

POC: "It works 90% of the time."
Production: "90% isn't good enough."
Hallucinations. Edge cases everywhere.

Ops couldn't manage it

No observability. No governance. No audit trail.
When it breaks, nobody knows why.

Architecture

Why pure agentic AI breaks insurance math

Three architectural principles that separate production-grade insurance AI from expensive experiments.

01

Deterministic consistency

Insurance requires identical inputs to produce identical outputs. Same claim, same decision, every time. LLMs are probabilistic by design. Production insurance AI needs deterministic layers for consistency-critical decisions, with AI reserved for judgment calls.

02

Statistical precision

Actuarial models require precise probability estimates. "Probably fraudulent" isn't actionable. AI confidence must be calibrated and quantified. False positive rates and false negative rates must be measurable and manageable.

03

Focused agent attention

Give an agent everything and it will use nothing well. Insurance AI agents need narrow, well-defined tasks with specific data access. The "throw everything at a frontier model" approach produces inconsistent, expensive, slow results.

04

Adversarial robustness

Fraudsters will probe your AI for weaknesses. Every public-facing AI interface is an attack surface. Production AI must be hardened against adversarial inputs, prompt injection, and manipulation attempts.

FWA Detection

Fraud, Waste & Abuse Detection — Done Right

Not "use less AI" — use AI where it matters. The Trust Intelligence Platform routes each claim to the cheapest processing layer that can handle it.

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Intelligent Trust Cascade
Route decisions to the cheapest sufficient layer — only escalate when necessary
L1 Rules Engine +
<50ms Latency
$0.0001 Per claim
~70% Of claims

Deterministic rules catch known fraud patterns instantly. No AI needed for obvious cases.

Catches:
  • Duplicate claim submissions
  • Claims exceeding policy limits
  • Velocity checks (too many claims too fast)
  • Known bad actor lists
  • Invalid provider/procedure combinations
Escalates when: No rule matches or confidence below threshold
L2 Statistical ML +
<500ms Latency
$0.001 Per claim
~20% Of claims

Traditional ML models detect statistical anomalies and patterns that rules can't express.

Catches:
  • Unusual billing patterns for provider type
  • Geographic anomalies
  • Procedure frequency outliers
  • Network analysis (provider rings)
  • Temporal pattern anomalies
Escalates when: Anomaly detected but context needed for decision
L3 Single Agent +
2-3s Latency
$0.01 Per claim
~7% Of claims

LLM agent reasons about complex cases, pulling context from multiple sources to make a decision.

Catches:
  • Medical necessity evaluation
  • Complex documentation review
  • Multi-claim pattern analysis
  • Provider behavior reasoning
  • Policy interpretation edge cases
Escalates when: High stakes, low confidence, or adversarial signals detected
L4 Multi-Agent Tribunal +
3-5s Latency
$0.03-0.05 Per claim
~3% Of claims

Adversarial multi-agent debate for the highest-stakes decisions. Three agents argue it out.

The Tribunal:
  • Prosecutor: Argues for fraud designation, finds evidence
  • Defense: Argues for legitimacy, finds counter-evidence
  • Judge: Weighs arguments, makes final determination
Output: Decision + full reasoning chain for audit trail and appeals
Claim complexity increases → Only ~10% of claims need AI reasoning Cost per claim increases →
Pathway

Five Gates to Production

A structured framework for moving insurance AI from POC to production. Each gate has specific criteria that must be met before proceeding.

01

Reliability baseline

Does the AI work consistently? Accuracy metrics established. Edge cases documented. Failure modes understood. Hallucination rate measured. You can't improve what you can't measure. Eval provides systematic testing.

02

Economics validation

Does the math work at scale? Cost per decision modeled. Volume projections validated. ROI calculated with realistic assumptions. The cascade architecture that makes AI affordable, not just accurate.

03

Compliance certification

Can you defend this to regulators? Fair lending and fairness testing complete. Adverse action explanations generated. Audit trails sufficient. Jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction compliance review.

04

Operational readiness

Can ops run this? Monitoring dashboards deployed. Alert thresholds set. Escalation procedures documented. Team trained. Guardian provides production observability.

05

Continuous improvement

How does it get better over time? Feedback loops established. Model update procedures. A/B testing framework. The system improves itself through APLS pattern extraction.

Results

Production-grade operations

The cascade alone isn't enough. Production requires continuous monitoring, observability, and self-improvement. The numbers: 94% detection accuracy. $2,300/month for 1M claims. 86% cost reduction vs pure agentic. That's the difference between a science experiment and a business case.

Continuous Monitoring

Track detection accuracy over time. Detect model drift as fraud patterns evolve. Alert when reliability degrades. Know before customers do. Guardian monitors around the clock.

Full Observability

What the cascade decided and why. Which layer handled which claims. Cost attribution by claim type. Audit trail for compliance and litigation. AgentOps provides the visibility.

Self-Improvement (APLS)

When expensive layers catch fraud that cheap layers missed, the system extracts patterns and proposes new rules. Over time, detection migrates from $0.05 to $0.0001. The system gets cheaper and better simultaneously.

Adversarial Testing (Red Queen)

Genetic algorithm continuously probes the system. Strongest "attacks" train the cascade. The system evolves against emerging fraud patterns before they become incidents.

Use cases

Beyond fraud detection

The Trust Intelligence Platform enables reliable AI across the insurance value chain — from policyholder service to underwriting to claims.

AI Concierge for Policyholders

24/7 AI assistant that knows your policy, answers questions instantly, helps file claims. Guardian monitors for hallucination. Steer enforces compliance language. Full audit trail.
Products: Guardian, Steer, AgentOps, Context Engine

AI-Assisted Underwriting

Synthesize data from dozens of sources — medical records, financial data, third-party scores. Context Engine provides contextual integration. Guardian tracks model accuracy. Full reasoning capture for explainability.
Products: Context Engine, Guardian, AgentOps

Claims Automation

Trust Cascade for claims adjudication. Simple claims processed automatically. Complex claims routed to appropriate level. Full audit trail for every decision.
Products: Orchestrate, Guardian, Context Engine

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Compliance

Built for insurance regulation

Our solutions align with regulatory requirements from day one.

NAIC & Solvency II

Aligned with NAIC's Model Bulletin on AI in insurance and EU Solvency II requirements. Transparency, fairness, and governance requirements built into every deployment.

Multi-jurisdictional compliance

Compliant with regulatory requirements across jurisdictions — US state insurance departments, EU national supervisors, MAS, APRA, and others. Documentation ready for regulatory examination worldwide.

Fairness & Anti-Discrimination

Bias testing and fairness monitoring built in. Continuous monitoring ensures AI decisions don't inadvertently discriminate against protected groups — meeting requirements from fair lending laws to EU AI Act equity provisions.

Data Privacy & Security

SOC 2 compliant. GDPR, CCPA, PDPA, and regional data privacy requirements supported. Full audit trail for every AI decision.

Data foundation

Insurance Data Intelligence

Claims, policies, and customer data spread across dozens of systems. Our Data Intelligence capabilities unify it for AI consumption.

Insurance Data Engine

Deploy on Google Cloud, AWS, or Azure. Native connectors for Guidewire, Duck Creek, and major policy admin systems. SOC 2 compliant with full audit trail.

ETL-C for Insurance Data

Context-first processing for claims, policies, and customer data. Preserve relationships between entities that FWA detection and underwriting AI need to reason correctly.

SARP for Claim Volume

Agent-ready data platform built for high-volume claims processing. AI agents can query millions of claims without latency or hallucination issues.

Engagement

Start your insurance AI journey

FWA Assessment

$30K

2-3 weeks. Current detection audit. Cost and accuracy analysis. Cascade design recommendations. Business case modeling.

FWA Pilot

$75K

6-8 weeks. Implement cascade for one claim type. Demonstrate detection rate and cost savings. Prove the model before full investment.

FWA Production Platform

$300K+

4-6 months. Complete cascade implementation. Integration with claims systems. Observability and governance. Team training and enablement.

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AI you can defend in court

Every claim decision documented. Every detection explainable. Every dollar accounted for.