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Max Bruner Found Insurance’s AI Opportunity Hiding in the Inbox
After foreign policy, farm drones and pay-per-mile auto coverage, Bruner arrived at a stubborn conclusion: the most useful AI may be the kind that quietly finishes an insurance broker’s work.
Cornelius Schramm Is Teaching Insurance to Answer the Phone
The Avallon co-founder moved from machine-learning research and fleet operations into one of business software's least glamorous rooms: the insurance claims back office. His company's agents handle calls, emails, documents and data entry so adjusters can spend more time resolving cases.
Joseph D'Souza waited 97 minutes. Then he built a search engine for insurance.
One long hold call sent a serial entrepreneur into an industry he barely knew. Nine years, two product eras, and one Guidewire deal later, his real product looks less like AI than institutional memory.
Amrish Singh Is Teaching AI to Pick Up the Phone - and Finish the Job
After years inside enterprise software and insurance operations, Singh made a narrow bet: AI earns its place when it can resolve the routine work, respect the rules, and know when a person should take over.
Aman Gour Bet on the Boring Work
He entered insurance with no industry résumé, a box of doughnuts and a habit of choosing discomfort. Now Aman Gour is turning the paperwork between an email and an underwriting decision into software.
Anthony Habayeb
He spent a career refusing to specialize, then a bike ride with doctors handed him the one hard problem worth building a company around: making the AI behind real decisions something a human can actually answer for.
Dan Schuleman
Dan Schuleman is the co-founder and CEO of Qumis, a Chicago-based AI platform that reads and interprets complex insurance policies the way a seasoned coverage attorney would. A former insurance coverage litigator and in-house counsel at Kin Insurance, he started Qumis in 2023 after years of marking up dense policy PDFs by hand. The company has raised roughly $6.75M and counts five of the 15 largest U.S. insurance brokers among its users.
Alex Schmelkin
Alex Schmelkin is the founder and CEO of Sixfold, a New York company building generative AI for insurance underwriting. After two decades founding and running digital design and software firms - Alexander Interactive, Cake & Arrow, and a founding role at no-code pioneer Unqork - he launched Sixfold in 2023 to give underwriters a virtual team of AI researchers that reads submissions, scores risk, and shows its sources. Sixfold has processed more than a million submissions across 40-plus lines of business, raised a $30M Series B in 2026, and counts Zurich North America, Guardian, and Generali among its clients.