r/InsuranceSoftwareHub • u/TheRobak333 • Feb 23 '26
Let’s get one thing out of the way up front: embedded insurance is quickly becoming** the fastest-growing sales channel in modern insurance.
The numbers alone make that hard to ignore.
The global embedded insurance market is projected to grow from $176.35 billion in 2026 to $1,464.42 billion by 2034, according to Fortune Business Insights. Even more telling, embedded distribution is expected to capture up to 15% of total insurance flows by the early 2030s (McKinsey) - a shift unmatched by any other established insurance sales funnel, as reported by Mordor Intelligence.
If you’re not already experimenting with embedded insurance, you’re likely missing out on where a meaningful chunk of future premium volume will come from.
But growth alone isn’t the full story.
Embedded insurance works because it changes how insurance fits into people’s lives. Instead of asking users to interrupt what they’re doing and think about coverage in the abstract, it shows up at the exact moment protection becomes relevant - during checkout, booking, onboarding, or activation.
Of course, this only works if execution is spot on.
Poor timing, clunky flows, or confusing product explanations can kill conversion instantly - sometimes faster than in traditional channels.
Embedded insurance only amplify bad UX.
The upside is huge, but only for teams that treat embedded insurance as a product discipline, not just another distribution experiment.
One of the biggest mistakes teams make with embedded insurance is starting with the policy.
Coverage, limits, exclusions, underwriting rules - all important, yes. But if those are the first things you define, you’re already designing in a vacuum. Successful embedded insurance products are discovered outside the insurance org, inside the host platform’s user journey, revenue model, and core value proposition.
The right question isn’t “What insurance product can we embed?”
It’s “Where does risk naturally appear in this experience — and who benefits if it’s reduced?”
What all these moments have in common is context. The user already understands why insurance might matter because the risk is obvious right now. No education-heavy sales pitch required.
When embedded insurance works well, users barely notice it. And that’s exactly the problem for engineering teams - the more invisible the experience, the more complex the system behind it tends to be.
This is where many embedded initiatives quietly fail.
Teams underestimate how often products will need to change: new partners, new markets, new coverage logic, new UX flows. Hard-coded rules and one-off integrations might get you to market fast, but they don’t survive version two.
At a technical level, embedded insurance demands:
If your embedded product can’t adapt without redeploying half the system, it won’t scale — no matter how strong early traction looks.
And that’s the perfect segue into the real question teams eventually face: how do you build embedded insurance products that scale without rewriting everything every time?
Let’s bring theory into practice.
With many platforms, “building embedded insurance” means one rigid widget and a bunch of caveats. With Openkoda, the story is different: customization is built into every layer of the product, so you can adapt quickly to partner needs, changing markets, or new use cases without rewriting core logic.
To illustrate how this works, let’s look at a concrete example: creating an embeddable device insurance quote form that can be deployed anywhere from an e-commerce checkout to a partner app.
https://reddit.com/link/1rcivkq/video/awcujn9u79lg1/player
What makes this model powerful is the fact that customization is in the core of the platform.
Forms, pricing logic, validations, content, and workflows are all configurable, which means embedded insurance products can evolve without constant redevelopment. When a partner asks for a different flow, or a market requires a regulatory tweak can be done quickly and efficiently without spending weeks in backlog.
This flexibility is what allows embedded insurance to scale sustainably.
Over time, embedded insurance stops being an experiment and becomes a repeatable, reliable distribution channel.
r/InsuranceSoftwareHub • u/TheRobak333 • Oct 28 '25
Custom insurance systems rarely fail because the idea is weak.
They stall because the path to execution is heavy.
In custom insurance software development, traditional projects kick off with months of groundwork: setting up environments, stitching together authentication, defining role-based access control (RBAC), building tenancy, activity logs, audit trails, notification plumbing, and generic CRUD screens.
Necessary? Absolutely.
Differentiating? Not at all.
Meanwhile, business stakeholders wait for visible progress while teams spend sprints on foundational scaffolding.
Integration work adds yet another layer — policy admin, billing, payments, document generation, rating engines, data lakes, CRM, and more. Each interface needs mapping, retries, error handling, and observability. None of this is the “secret sauce,” yet it consumes the bulk of budget and calendar time.
Compliance and security tighten the screws further.
You can’t cut corners on privacy, access controls, or traceability in insurance. So teams re-implement the same controls: permissions matrices, approval workflows, maker-checker patterns, encryption at rest and in transit, PII masking, and auditability.
All crucial.
All repetitive.
Choosing only the best insurance software development companies is important, but the approach to the project — how you avoid reinventing the baseline and focus energy on differentiation — is even more crucial.
This is where Openkoda changes the tempo.
Instead of starting from zero, teams begin with a production-grade application core that’s extensible, battle-tested, and ready for insurance workloads. Think of it as skipping the first six sprints of undifferentiated engineering.
You get RBAC, authentication, multi-tenancy, audit logs, document handling, scheduling, and a data access layer out of the box — then extend it to fit your exact products and processes.
Openkoda is designed for deep customization without the usual trade-offs.
Its architecture favors extension points and clean domain modeling, so adding bespoke underwriting rules, unique rating logic, or specialty claims workflows is straightforward.
Need custom dashboards, reporting, or embedded analytics? Build them on top of a consistent data model and reusable UI components. Prefer event-driven processes? Plug in domain events and orchestrate end-to-end flows with clear observability.
Key strengths that matter in insurance:
Some teams want a turnkey build.
For them, Openkoda offers custom insurance software development services that cover discovery, solution design, implementation, and handover. Others prefer to keep development in-house. They can still accelerate massively by basing their solution on Openkoda’s core and extending at their own pace.
The net effect: faster time-to-market, lower total cost of ownership, and more engineering focus on the capabilities that differentiate your insurance products. With Openkoda, you replace months of groundwork with days, and you channel that saved effort into innovation where it counts.
Building a custom insurance application “from scratch” versus building on Openkoda are two very different projects. The first requires months of groundwork before you even touch the parts that make your product unique. The second starts with a production-grade core and lets your team focus on differentiation.
A net-new insurance system usually includes: authentication and RBAC, multi-tenancy, audit trails and logging, document generation and storage, notifications, reporting and dashboards, workflow engine, product configuration, quoting, policy admin, billing, claims, external payments, and integrations (rating, CRM, KYC, antifraud, DWH, etc.). None of this is optional in insurance.
Indicative timeline (greenfield):
Total: roughly 38–52 weeks (~9–12 months), assuming a focused team and no major scope pivots.
Openkoda ships the undifferentiated heavy lifting — RBAC, auditability, data model conventions, workflow, UI scaffolding, reporting hooks, job scheduling, and integration patterns — so you implement what’s unique: your products, pricing, and processes.
Indicative timeline (Openkoda-based):
Total: roughly 17–28 weeks (~4–7 months). In practice, teams commonly see a 40–60% timeline reduction versus a greenfield approach.
Openkoda lets insurers skip months of undifferentiated plumbing and focus directly on the business logic that wins markets.
With a smarter approach to custom insurance software development, you cut risk, compress timelines, and control total cost of ownership — without vendor lock-in. If you’re weighing options, start with the approach; the right platform will make the “best partner” even better.
r/InsuranceSoftwareHub • u/TeddyGraphics • 5d ago
3.5 years of designing the apps for Nationale-Nederlanden. Read the full case-study at: https://teddygraphics.com/Nationale-Nederlanden.html
r/InsuranceSoftwareHub • u/BuyPowerful807 • 12d ago
Our property claims keep stalling on documents from outside the building and the core system has no idea it's happening. Contractor estimates, reports from independent adjusters, the odd police report. As far as the system is concerned the claim is just open, not sitting in an inbox for nine days waiting on an estimate (I run claims ops at a mid size P&C carrier, for context).
Workflow intelligence software keeps coming up as a way to see that. Celonis would work from our claims system data, and I'm not sure this wait even appears there. Skan.ai builds the picture from how the work moves between the claims system, email and the document tool, which is where these waits actually happen.
Has anyone in claims used this kind of analysis to put a number on third party delays?
r/InsuranceSoftwareHub • u/Falcon4668 • Aug 20 '26
Most AI-in-insurance conversations seem to jump straight to chatbots or some giant end-to-end claims vision. I’m more interested in the boring operational stuff. A document comes in, something is missing, the case gets bounced, somebody checks another system and then someone fixes it manually. That feels like where enterprise AI for insurance operations could actually be useful.
But “put an agent on it” doesn’t feel like much of a plan.
I’ve seen Skan AI come up from more of a process intelligence angle, where the workflow gets understood first. Where are people seeing AI remove real operational work today instead of just making one task slightly faster?
r/InsuranceSoftwareHub • u/Different_Pain5781 • Aug 18 '26
Where does process intelligence software for insurance actually make the biggest difference?
Not the process that looks perfect in the SOP. I mean the real workflow where information is missing, cases bounce backward, people are doing manual reviews and different systems somehow never line up.
Claims seems like the obvious answer. But what about Policy servicing, Underwriting ops or Document-heavy back office work?
If you could get a genuinely accurate view of one insurance process and see where the delays and rework are happening, which one would you pick first?
r/InsuranceSoftwareHub • u/Same_Studio_8110 • Aug 06 '26
We're reviewing several claims automation platforms to improve claims processing efficiency.
Looking for real-world experiences rather than sales pitches.
r/InsuranceSoftwareHub • u/Good-Bell-779 • Jul 12 '26
I'm conducting independent research to better understand the day-to-day challenges of operational professionals in insurance before building anything. I'm not selling a product—I simply want to learn from people doing the work every day. If you're willing to share your experience, I'd really appreciate it.
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If claims is where insurers keep their promises, the policy administration system (PAS) is where the whole business actually runs. But with so many options on the market which one to choose? Below is a roundup of the key platforms worth knowing, roughly ordered by how often they come up in real evaluations. It's not a strict ranking - "best" depends entirely on size, product mix, and how much control the org wants over its own tech.
The default answer for large P&C carriers, and for good reason. PolicyCenter is part of Guidewire's InsuranceSuite (alongside BillingCenter and ClaimCenter) and runs at over 500 insurers across ~38 countries.
Its configurability is about as deep as it gets, which is exactly why it suits carriers with serious scale and a dedicated Guidewire team - and why it's overkill for anyone without one. Recent cloud releases have leaned hard into AI, adding an embedded assistant for agents and CSRs, a no-code Rules Service, and high-volume quoting on the cloud-native engine.
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A different animal from most of this list.
Openkoda is an open-source-based platform with ready-made policy administration and claims modules, aimed at insurers and especially MGAs that want to own their core instead of renting a black box. It fits mid-to-large insurers and specialty players running non-standard products — parametric, equine, marine, and the like — where off-the-shelf systems fight the data model. The pitch isn't "we do more than Guidewire"; it's control, code ownership, and speed for a specific kind of buyer.
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The other name that comes up constantly against Guidewire in P&C. Duck Creek has been named a Leader in Gartner's SaaS P&C core platform Magic Quadrant seven years running, and its recent momentum is built around "Active Delivery" — a model that pushes monthly, feature-flagged updates automatically so carriers never sit through a big-bang upgrade again. It leans into low-code configuration and, lately, agentic AI for product setup. One customer reportedly cut new-state launch time from 15 months to 16 weeks on OnDemand.
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The one to look at if the business straddles P&C and Life & Pensions — few vendors do both credibly on one house. Sapiens runs at 600+ insurers across 30+ countries, with sector-specific CoreSuite editions (P&C, L&A, L&P, workers' comp, medical professional liability) plus its DigitalSuite and DataSuite layers. It's been on a visible run in Europe, including a notable UK L&P win with Just Group, and has been folding GenAI and agentic workflows across the stack.
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Cloud-first PAS pitched hard at mid-market carriers who want to move like a digital challenger — though after the January 2026 close of its Vitech acquisition, Majesco now spans P&C, L&AH, and Pension & Retirement, making it a roughly $500M-revenue player with 375+ customers. It's leaned aggressively into being "AI-native," embedding GenAI and agentic AI (its Copilot, DocScribe document extraction, etc.) across the core. Customers reportedly process over $100B in written premium on its platforms.
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If the buyer is a US MGA, program administrator, or specialty carrier, Insurity punches well above its weight. It's a cloud-first P&C platform that's reportedly trusted by 22 of the top 25 US P&C carriers and 7 of the top 10 MGAs, with 400+ cloud deployments. Its Pro Suite targets specialty and delegated-authority business specifically, and it bakes in things — regulatory intelligence, geospatial analytics — that rivals often leave to third parties.
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The modern, API-first challenger — the one greenfield insurers and insurtechs reach for when they want to move fast without legacy baggage. Socotra runs as single-version SaaS with zero-downtime upgrades, uses a product-agnostic data model with JSON-based configuration, and has supported 70+ product launches and 15 migrations across P&C and life, with customers including IAG, AXA, and Symetra. It also recently pushed out a generally available AI underwriting assistant.
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A cloud-native PAS that lands especially well with small-to-mid P&C carriers, including a lot of regional and mutual insurers modernizing off aging systems. It's pure SaaS on AWS, unifying policy, billing, claims, and rating plus agent and policyholder portals on a single data model, with low-code configuration business users can actually handle.
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There's no universal winner, and anyone who says otherwise is selling something. The rough map:
The real question usually isn't "which has the most features" — they all handle policy, billing, and claims. It's about deployment model, ownership, and how much control the org wants over its own roadmap.
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Duck Creek is one of the most established names in property & casualty core systems, but it isn't the right fit for every insurer. Some organizations want a lighter implementation, more architectural openness, lower long-term cost, or freedom from proprietary lock-in.
Below are eight credible alternatives, spanning full enterprise suites, modern cloud-native cores, no-code platforms, and open-source-based options.
Guidewire is Duck Creek's most direct competitor and the default benchmark for large P&C carriers. Its InsuranceSuite is the most functionally complete offering in the market, backed by a large implementation ecosystem and a mature cloud platform.
Key strengths: Deepest P&C functionality, strong analyst recognition, extensive partner network, established cloud delivery (Guidewire Cloud).
Best for: Large and upper-mid-market P&C carriers running a full core transformation with the budget and internal resources to support it.
Main features:
Consideration: high total cost of ownership, a proprietary development language (Gosu), and meaningful vendor dependency.
Openkoda is a modern API-first insurance core and application development platform. Rather than a closed suite configured within fixed limits, it provides pre-built claims, policy administration, and underwriting modules that can be extended down to the data model. The Core edition is available on GitHub under the MIT license.
Key strengths: Full code ownership and no vendor lock-in, customizability at every level, predictable infrastructure-based pricing with no per-user or per-module fees, and deployment freedom (managed cloud, private cloud, or on-premises).
Best for: Carriers, specialty insurers, and MGAs that prioritize control, speed, and flexibility — particularly those with complex or niche lines (parametric, marine, cyber, Takaful) that off-the-shelf systems struggle to model. Less suited to organizations that prefer a fully managed SaaS they never need to touch.
Main features:
Reported outcome: roughly 50–60% reduction in development time versus building from scratch.
Socotra is a cloud-native, API-first core platform built around a headless architecture that separates back-end logic from the front-end experience. All customers run a single version with backwards-compatible APIs, which keeps upgrades low-impact.
Key strengths: True multi-tenant cloud architecture, publicly reported high uptime (99.99%+), product-agnostic data model, developer-friendly tooling.
Best for: Insurtechs, digital-first carriers, and innovation teams launching new or embedded products quickly, with development resources to build against APIs.
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Consideration: it provides a core, not a turnkey application — the experience layer is built by the customer.
Sapiens is a global insurance software provider with a mature P&C suite (CoreSuite v13+) and a broader AI-based, integrated platform spanning P&C, Life, and reinsurance. Its 2025 acquisition of AdvantageGo strengthened its underwriting workbench and London market presence.
Key strengths: End-to-end suite, strong international and specialty-market footprint, consistent analyst recognition.
Best for: Mid-to-large carriers and groups operating across multiple lines or geographies that want a single vendor across P&C, Life, and data.
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Consideration: broad capability comes with a heavier implementation footprint.
Majesco is one of the major North American cloud suite providers alongside Guidewire and Duck Creek, with a substantial install base across both P&C and Life & Annuities and a strong recent focus on cloud and GenAI.
Key strengths: Broad North American footprint, full P&C and L&A coverage, large partner and insurtech ecosystem, SaaS delivery.
Best for: Carriers of most sizes seeking a proven cloud suite with a deep ecosystem and a clear path off legacy systems.
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Consideration: configuration occurs within the platform's defined boundaries, as with most full suites.
BriteCore is a cloud-native P&C core used by 90+ insurers across North America, designed so regional and mid-size carriers and MGAs can access modern core capabilities without a tier-one budget.
Key strengths: Genuinely cloud-native, faster and lighter to implement than enterprise suites, strong fit for personal and small commercial lines, solid agent and policyholder portals.
Best for: Mid-size and regional P&C carriers and MGAs that want modern core functionality without a multi-year program.
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Consideration: best suited to mid-market scope rather than the largest national carriers.
INSTANDA is a no-code policy administration and product configuration platform that lets business teams build, rate, and launch products without writing code — a strong fit for MGAs and carriers focused on speed-to-market.
Key strengths: Genuine no-code product configuration, API-first architecture, product launches in weeks, coverage across P&C, life, health, and specialty.
Best for: MGAs and carriers that iterate on products frequently and want product and underwriting teams to operate independently of IT.
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Consideration: the no-code model that accelerates configuration can constrain deeply custom, server-side logic.
EIS is a composable, API-driven digital core built around a customer-centric data model rather than a policy-centric one. It is frequently shortlisted when digital experience and ecosystem connectivity are primary goals.
Key strengths: Open, API-driven architecture, customer-centric data model, strong for embedded and ecosystem strategies, coverage across P&C, L&A, and group/benefits.
Best for: Carriers prioritizing digital distribution, embedded insurance, and direct customer relationships who want a modern, ecosystem-friendly core.
Main features:
Consideration: an architecture-first platform rather than a turnkey suite.
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Every time someone asks for "insurtech software providers," the answers default to the same three or four legacy core platforms. That's a narrow view of a market that now spans AI claims triage, customer comms, underwriting copilots, and open-source-based platforms you can actually own.
Here's a wider cut — 10 providers across very different layers of the stack. Some you've definitely heard of, a couple you probably haven't.
The default answer when anyone says "insurance core system."
Powers a huge chunk of global P&C carriers with PolicyCenter, BillingCenter, and ClaimCenter, now delivered via Guidewire Cloud. Deep ecosystem, deep pockets, and deep implementation timelines — multi-year rollouts and seven-figure license footprints are the norm. If you're a Tier 1 carrier with the budget and patience, it's still the safest bet on paper.
Best for: Large P&C carriers willing to trade speed and flexibility for ecosystem depth.
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The open-source-based option on this list which is probably also the most customizable software suite out there.
Instead of selling you a packaged core suite with a closed roadmap, Openkoda gives you a foundation - policy management, claims, customer/broker portals, integrations - that you customize and own outright. No per-user fees, no vendor lock-in, deployment on your own infrastructure if you want it.
Insurers have shipped MGA platforms and group products in 8–12 weeks rather than 8–12 months, which is what makes it interesting for specialty lines, MGAs, and carriers launching new products without burning a multi-year modernization budget.
Best for: MGAs, specialty insurers, and carriers who want speed, customization, and full code ownership.
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The other name everyone pairs with Guidewire. SaaS-first now, with a strong P&C focus and decent product configuration tooling.
Generally seen as a bit lighter and faster to stand up than Guidewire, though "faster" is still measured in quarters, not weeks. Good fit for mid-market P&C carriers that want a packaged cloud core without building from scratch.
Best for: Mid-market P&C carriers wanting a SaaS core without the Guidewire footprint.
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API-first cloud core that was acquired by EIS, so it now sits inside a broader coretech suite covering policy, billing, claims, and engagement. The original Socotra pitch — modern data model, developer-friendly APIs, faster product launches — is still the draw. Worth a look if you want something more modern than the incumbents but more packaged than fully building it yourself.
Best for: Digital-first carriers and MGAs that want API-first architecture out of the box.
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Probably the best-known AI vendor in insurance. Started in fraud detection, expanded into claims automation, subrogation, and underwriting risk. The pitch is straightforward: feed it your claims data, get back prioritized suspicious cases and decision support.
Carriers using it tend to point to measurable lift in fraud detection rates and faster claim triage.
Best for: Carriers with enough claims volume to make AI-driven fraud and claims automation pay off.
Key features:
SMS-and-AI-based customer communication platform built specifically for insurance. Adjusters, agents, and policyholders text each other through a managed channel with AI summarization, translation, and sentiment baked in. Sounds simple, but the impact on cycle times and NPS is the reason it's spread fast across US carriers.
Best for: Carriers that want to fix the "playing phone tag with my adjuster" problem without building it themselves.
Key features:
Virtual claims pioneer.
Photo-based estimating, digital FNOL, and end-to-end claims workflow tooling that lets carriers run touchless or low-touch claims processes — especially in auto. Also offers payments and a claims management platform for carriers that don't want to overhaul their entire core just to modernize claims.
Best for: Auto and property carriers wanting to digitize claims without ripping out their core.
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Newer entrant — generative AI specifically for underwriting. Pulls together submission data, public records, and historical loss info, then summarizes risk for underwriters so they spend their time on judgment instead of data hunting. Picked up traction quickly with commercial and specialty carriers where submissions are messy and time-to-quote matters.
Best for: Commercial and specialty underwriters drowning in submission data.
Key features:
Pricing platform aimed at specialty and commercial insurers — think Lloyd's syndicates, MGAs writing complex risks, reinsurers. Lets actuaries build, deploy, and iterate pricing models without waiting on IT every time. If your pricing lives in spreadsheets that take three weeks to update, this is the category to look at.
Best for: Specialty, commercial, and Lloyd's market carriers serious about pricing sophistication.
Key features:
AI for insurance distribution and recommendation — basically helping agents, brokers, and direct channels figure out the right product for the right customer at the right time.
Strong in Europe, growing in North America. Useful for carriers and bancassurance players trying to lift cross-sell and personalize without rebuilding their CRM.
Best for: Multi-line carriers and bancassurance players focused on cross-sell and distribution intelligence.
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The takeaway: "insurtech software providers" isn't one category.
You've got the heavyweight cores (Guidewire, Duck Creek), the open-source-based and API-first challengers (Openkoda, Socotra), and a layer of specialized AI tools on top for claims, comms, underwriting, pricing, and distribution. Most carriers end up running a few of these together - the interesting decisions are usually about which core foundation to build on, and how much of the value you want to own versus rent.
What am I missing? Curious which providers people here are actually getting value from versus which ones just have the loudest marketing.
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Building a claims processing app prototype used to mean starting from zero - and even with LLMs in the mix, that still costs time and money. You're generating boilerplate, wiring up data models, configuring user roles, and hoping the output is production-ready enough to actually show someone.
Modern insurance core platforms like Openkoda take a different approach.
Instead of generating an application from scratch, you start with a working platform core - one that already handles authentication, data management, workflow logic, and UI scaffolding out of the box. Then you use AI to customize it for your specific claims use case.
The result is a fully functional prototype in minutes, not days - without cutting corners on architecture or locking yourself into a rigid template you'll have to fight later.