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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.
Jean-Michael Diei Lost Ten Bidding Wars. Then He Taught AI to Read the Deal Room.
After cash buyers beat him to property after property, the machine-learning engineer stopped refreshing listings and started writing code. PropRise grew from that private advantage into an AI workflow for commercial real estate teams.
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.
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.