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Quandri Put AI on Insurance's Most Ignored Desk - and Found a $22 Million Wedge
The Fregeau brothers stopped selling automation as a toolkit and started doing one ugly insurance job end to end. The result is a useful lesson in vertical AI: depth beats a dazzling demo when the workflow is narrow, repetitive and expensive.
Eleviant Built the Software Plumbing - Then Became Part of a Bigger Machine
For two decades, the Texas-born consultancy sold an unusually practical promise: connect the old systems, automate the dull work, and ship the application. Its 2022 sale to CTG made that hybrid of services and software the real story.
Automat
Automat is a San Francisco AI company building agents that operate computers the way people do. Founded in 2023 by CMU design alumni and ex-Google Creative Lab designers Lucas Ochoa and Gautam Bose, it pairs a transformer-based RPA engine with intelligent document processing so enterprises can automate manual back-office work - from KYC checks to mortgage disclosures to medical-claims processing - by simply showing the software a recording of the task. It positions itself as a modern, AI-native alternative to legacy RPA tools like UiPath, Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism.
Heron Data
Heron Data builds AI software that automates document-heavy workflows in financial services - reading, extracting, enriching and routing the messy bank statements, tax forms, applications and claims that pile up in lending, equipment finance and insurance. Founded in 2020 and operating as Open Credit Technologies, Inc., the company turns unstructured paperwork into structured data and syncs it directly into customers' CRMs. It serves 150+ fintechs, financiers and insurers, processes hundreds of thousands of documents weekly, and raised a $16M Series A led by Insight Partners in July 2025.