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Marsh’s LenAI has gone from 3,000–5,000 prompts a month to one million a week. 27,000 employees have built 2,000 reusable capabilities.
Applied Systems is pushing the same shift directly into carrier workflows, turning broker emails into quotes, declines or referrals without forcing brokers into a new channel.
At the other end of distribution, 36% of US small-business owners now use AI to research insurance - more than the 31% who consult an agent.
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⏩ INSURANCE AI SIGNALS
MARSH REACHES ONE MILLION AI PROMPTS A WEEK
What changed: Marsh’s LenAI the firm's proprietary generative AI assistant, has grown from 3,000–5,000 prompts a month to 1 million a week. Built at Marsh McLennan’s Dublin Innovation Center, the privately hosted platform is available across more than 80 countries. LenWork reached 27,000 employees within weeks with 2,000 reusable capabilities created.
Why it matters: Marsh is using actual platform activity to identify where larger investments should go. The operating challenge is maintaining effective governance as employee-built capabilities spread and agents take responsibility for more transactions. (Insurance Business)
APPLIED TURNS THE CARRIER INBOX INTO A QUOTING ENGINE
What changed: Applied Systems launched an agentic email-to-quote channel for carriers, powered by Cytora. The system extracts and structures information from unstructured broker emails, classifies the submission, and prices it against the carrier’s underwriting rules. A quote, decline, or referral is then returned within the same email thread. The channel covers admitted small-commercial products, including BOP, general liability, workers’ compensation, commercial auto, cyber and professional liability, wherever straight-through-processing APIs are available.
Why it matters: Applied is targeting a high-volume submission channel that has historically been difficult to automate without changing broker behaviour. Carriers can increase intake capacity without adding headcount or BPO spending, making submission turnaround, referral rates and intake costs the numbers to watch. (Applied Systems)
SME BUYERS ASK AI BEFORE THEY ASK AN AGENT
What changed: ERGO NEXT surveyed 501 US small business owners and found that 36% had used an AI chatbot or search tool to research business insurance, compared with 31% who consulted a human agent. Among those using AI, 94% trusted the information they received and 31% trusted AI more than traditional sources. Despite that confidence, 73% of respondents remain uninsured or carry less insurance than they need.
Why it matters: The first insurance conversation is increasingly happening before an agent becomes involved. Prospects may arrive with product expectations already shaped by AI, but greater access to information is not yet closing the protection gap. Brokers and carriers now need to consider how AI-led research affects advice, conversion and product suitability. (Insurance Business)
GARTNER RANKS AI-FOUND VULNERABILITIES AS THE TOP EMERGING RISK
What changed: Gartner ranked AI-enabled cyber-vulnerability discovery as the leading global emerging risk for Q2 2026, based on a survey of 316 senior executives and risk managers. Gartner says AI is reducing the time between vulnerability discovery and exploitation. The report also flags agentic AI, information-integrity risks and workforce-readiness gaps.
Why it matters: Cyber pricing and risk selection rely partly on assumptions about vulnerability patching windows. If AI accelerates discovery and exploitation faster than remediation, insurers may need to reassess control effectiveness and expected loss frequency.(Reinsurance News)
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🎢 THE AI SCROLL STOP
Grok Voice is handling more than 15,000 inbound Starlink support calls a day and helping generate more than 3,000 weekly orders across voice and chat, according to Elon Musk. The agent can diagnose hardware faults and arrange replacement shipments autonomously. (Benzinga)
Skild AI released S1 a robotics foundation model designed to learn an extended robot task from one video. Its tests suggest less task data may be needed, though reliable completion remains uncertain. (Skild AI)
🌱 STARTUPS REWIRING INSURANCE
Munich Re agreed to acquire cyber insurtech At-Bay for approximately $575 million and place it under HSB. At-Bay wrote roughly $278 million in gross premiums during 2025, while its 2021 Series D valued the company at approximately $1.35 billion. (Insurance Business)
Fourteen AI insurtech startups have raised an estimated $613.1 million so far in 2026, already exceeding the $609.4 million raised by 25 companies across all of 2025. (Digital Insurance)
Orion180 has filed to go public as admitted-market contraction supports growth in E&S homeowners and flood coverage. The filing offers a rare public-market route for a technology-focused carrier while other insurtech exits are being priced below their 2021 private-market valuations. (Insurance Business)
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