What Is an MCP — and Why Is It the Most Important Term in Insurance AI Right Now? Learn how Model Context Protocol (MCP) is transforming insurance AI by securely connecting systems, data, and tools for brokers, carriers, and agencies.
From Single Agent to Agent Teams: The Next Evolution of Agentic AI in Insurance The first wave of AI in insurance gave professionals a single tool that could handle a single task: draft an […]
What the 2026 Broker Services Survey Tells Us About Renewal Timing By Justin Regenwether, Chief Customer Officer, Zywave Renewal season has always been the moment of truth in the broker-client relationship: […]
How Insurance Brokers Can Thrive in a Soft Market: Strategies for Sustainable Growth Discover how the insurance brokerage industry is evolving with declining premiums and changing market dynamics. Learn strategies for sustainable growth in this new environment.
How AI Tools Actually Work — And What That Means for How You Use Them There’s a fluid, intuitive, almost version of AI that exists in vendor decks and conference keynotes. You ask it something, […]
Why Insurance Agencies Need MCP Now: The New Standard for AI Connectivity Discover how an insurance MCP server can enhance the value of your AI systems and enable growth.
Forrester Wave – Insurance Agency Management Systems See how Zywave earned the highest score in the strategy category and the highest possible scores in the criteria of vision and innovation.
Beyond the Buzzwords – Key Takeaways from the Zywave Horizon: Digital Distribution Conference New York’s insurance world doesn’t usually gather to talk. It gathers to trade — flow for capacity, capacity for flow. […]
The Broker of the Future: What New Zywave Research Reveals About AI and Insurance Distribution Every carrier and broker executive has fielded some version of the same question this year, from a board member, a […]
From Prospecting to Renewal: How MCP Turns Insurance Workflows Into Conversations Discover how Model Context Protocol (MCP) is ushering in a new era of AI in insurance for faster prospecting, research, and renewals.
How to Evaluate an AI Tool Before You Buy It AI tools are showing up in nearly every corner of the insurance market, from prospecting, underwriting support, and service, to […]
What the 2026 Broker Services Survey Tells Us About Renewal Timing By Justin Regenwether, Chief Customer Officer, Zywave Renewal season has always been the moment of truth in the broker-client relationship: […]
Data Privacy in the Age of AI: What Insurance Agencies Need to Know Explore how AI is reshaping data privacy risk for insurance agencies and what brokers must ask to avoid coverage gaps in 2026.
Beyond the Buzzwords – Key Takeaways from the Zywave Horizon: Digital Distribution Conference New York’s insurance world doesn’t usually gather to talk. It gathers to trade — flow for capacity, capacity for flow. […]
The People Strategy Behind Sustainable Growth By Christy Dinges, Chief People Officer, Zywave I’ve spent most of my career walking into companies at exactly this moment: […]
Why Agencies That Equip Producers With AI Will Win the Talent War Discover how AI-powered tools like Zywave Apex help insurance agencies attract and retain top producers by reducing admin work and boosting growth.
What’s Working, What’s Already Obsolete, and What’s Next: Anthropic’s Take at Zywave’s AI Exchange No stadium staging or massive screens, just authentic conversation amongst insurance industry leaders and technologists shaping the next chapter of […]
The People Strategy Behind Sustainable Growth By Christy Dinges, Chief People Officer, Zywave I’ve spent most of my career walking into companies at exactly this moment: […]
Data Privacy in the Age of AI: What Insurance Agencies Need to Know Explore how AI is reshaping data privacy risk for insurance agencies and what brokers must ask to avoid coverage gaps in 2026.
Carriers, MGAs, and Brokers: How Agentic AI Is Rewriting the Distribution Chain Most conversations about AI in insurance tend to focus on a single role within the organization, whether that is the […]
How to Evaluate an AI Tool Before You Buy It AI tools are showing up in nearly every corner of the insurance market, from prospecting, underwriting support, and service, to […]
Connectivity as a Competitive Advantage: How Modern APIs Strengthen Broker–Carrier Relationships Modern insurance runs on connectivity. As markets shift and competition intensifies, brokers and carriers can’t afford to operate in isolated […]
The Productivity Gap in Insurance Is Real. Agentic AI Is How the Best Agencies Are Closing It. Discover how agentic AI is transforming insurance agencies and turning operational efficiency into measurable revenue growth.
How to Evaluate an AI Tool Before You Buy It AI tools are showing up in nearly every corner of the insurance market, from prospecting, underwriting support, and service, to […]
Halfway Through 2026: The AI Moves That Are Separating Winners From the Rest How has AI in insurance changed so far in 2026? Here’s where things stand and what’s coming next.
Beyond the Buzzwords – Key Takeaways from the Zywave Horizon: Digital Distribution Conference New York’s insurance world doesn’t usually gather to talk. It gathers to trade — flow for capacity, capacity for flow. […]
What the 2026 Broker Services Survey Tells Us About Renewal Timing By Justin Regenwether, Chief Customer Officer, Zywave Renewal season has always been the moment of truth in the broker-client relationship: […]
How Insurance Brokers Can Thrive in a Soft Market: Strategies for Sustainable Growth Discover how the insurance brokerage industry is evolving with declining premiums and changing market dynamics. Learn strategies for sustainable growth in this new environment.
The Producer Productivity Problem: Why Insurance’s Biggest Growth Challenge Is an AI Opportunity Discover how agentic AI reduces administrative overload, boosts producer productivity, and unlocks sustainable organic growth in insurance agencies.
Why Insurance Agencies Need MCP Now: The New Standard for AI Connectivity Discover how an insurance MCP server can enhance the value of your AI systems and enable growth.
Turning Producers Into Specialists: How AI Is Closing the Insurance Industry Talent Gap Discover how AI is helping insurance agencies close the talent gap, speed up producer ramp time.
Why Agencies That Equip Producers With AI Will Win the Talent War Discover how AI-powered tools like Zywave Apex help insurance agencies attract and retain top producers by reducing admin work and boosting growth.
Why Insurance Organic Growth Needs Agentic AI, Not Just More Hiring For decades, the insurance growth playbook was straightforward: acquire a book, hire more producers, train them up, repeat. This process has worked well for a long time, but the market it was built for doesn’t really exist anymore. Books of business are growing faster than ever, client expectations keep climbing, and the agencies figuring out how to grow with them are the ones pulling ahead. For agency leaders, carriers, and MGAs just starting to explore AI in insurance, understanding just…
AI in Insurance Blog: The Forces Reshaping Insurance Distribution in 2026 — And the Technology Built for This Moment Explore the market forces transforming insurance distribution in 2026 and how Agentic AI helps carriers and brokers scale, compete, and grow.
From Prospecting to Renewal: How MCP Turns Insurance Workflows Into Conversations Discover how Model Context Protocol (MCP) is ushering in a new era of AI in insurance for faster prospecting, research, and renewals.
What Zywave Apex Is Already Teaching Us By Martin Simoncic, CEO, Zywave Two weeks ago, we introduced Zywave Apex™ to the world. I’ve been in this industry long enough to know that launch days are easy to get excited about. What happens after is what matters. With that said, I want to take a moment to reflect on what the past days have meant for our team, for our customers, and for an industry that I believe is at a genuine turning point. What Zywave Set Out to…
The 2025 Forrester Wave™: What It Tells Us About Where Insurance Technology Is Headed Insurance agencies are navigating one of the most challenging market cycles in recent memory. A prolonged hard market, rising premiums, and increased customer churn have created new urgency around operational efficiency. Customer expectations have also shifted dramatically. People now expect seamless digital experiences, real time answers, and personalized service, regardless of whether they’re buying shoes or renewing a commercial policy. An agency management system (AMS) is a significant, long-term technology commitment that must accommodate an agency’s current size and anticipated…
AI and the Hard-Soft Market Transition: How Smart Agencies Are Staying Ahead For the better part of the last three years, the hard market has done a lot of the heavy lifting for agency revenue. Premiums climbed. Commissions followed. Growth was there for insurance agencies that could simply keep pace with the market. However, new data indicates that window is closing. According to Marsh’s Global Insurance Market Index, global commercial insurance rates declined 5% in Q1 2026, marking the seventh consecutive quarter of rate decreases following seven years of increases. For many…
Beyond the Buzzwords – Key Takeaways from the Zywave Horizon: Digital Distribution Conference New York’s insurance world doesn’t usually gather to talk. It gathers to trade — flow for capacity, capacity for flow. So when Zywave opened its Horizon: Digital Distribution Conference by promising something different — a room built for conversation instead of what Zywave’s own Jeff Cohen called “speed dating” — it read less like a welcome and more like a quiet challenge. What followed was six hours of senior brokers, carrier CEOs, and MGA leaders digging into the real issues…
How AI Tools Actually Work — And What That Means for How You Use Them There’s a fluid, intuitive, almost version of AI that exists in vendor decks and conference keynotes. You ask it something, it delivers exactly what you need, and everything runs more smoothly from there. Then there’s the version that actually shows up in your workflow. Useful, often impressive, but also occasionally wrong, inconsistent, or frustratingly limited in ways that aren’t always easy to predict. The gap between those two versions isn’t a marketing problem. It’s a knowledge problem. For insurance professionals…
The Risks Hiding Inside Your AI Strategy, And How to Manage Them Discover why responsible AI in insurance reduces compliance, legal and E&O risk compared to generic AI tools, based on 2026 industry data.
Zywave Apex: Changing What’s Possible for Insurance Distribution By Eric Rentsch, Chief Product Officer and Head of Emerging Markets, Zywave I’ve spent most of my career building insurance technology — first as a founder, now having the privilege to lead product at Zywave. That vantage point has made me shy away from the breathless product announcement that also quietly dies the moment it touches a real customer’s book of business. Our industry has sat through plenty of those. So, I want to be deliberate about the words I…
Forrester Wave – Insurance Agency Management Systems See how Zywave earned the highest score in the strategy category and the highest possible scores in the criteria of vision and innovation.
From Prospecting to Renewal: How MCP Turns Insurance Workflows Into Conversations Discover how Model Context Protocol (MCP) is ushering in a new era of AI in insurance for faster prospecting, research, and renewals.
Why Agencies That Equip Producers With AI Will Win the Talent War Discover how AI-powered tools like Zywave Apex help insurance agencies attract and retain top producers by reducing admin work and boosting growth.
AI in Insurance Blog: The Forces Reshaping Insurance Distribution in 2026 — And the Technology Built for This Moment Explore the market forces transforming insurance distribution in 2026 and how Agentic AI helps carriers and brokers scale, compete, and grow.
The ROI of AI: How to Measure What Matters in Insurance Measure AI ROI in insurance with a four-part framework covering productivity, revenue, retention, and talent leverage.
Carriers, MGAs, and Brokers: How Agentic AI Is Rewriting the Distribution Chain Most conversations about AI in insurance tend to focus on a single role within the organization, whether that is the producer drafting an email, the underwriter reviewing a submission, or the account manager prepping for renewal. Those individual gains matter, but they can sometimes miss the bigger picture. Agentic AI isn’t just making individual agencies faster. It’s starting to rewire how carriers, MGAs, and brokers interact with each other across the entire distribution chain. The Distribution Chain’s Oldest Problems: Submission…
How AI Tools Actually Work — And What That Means for How You Use Them There’s a fluid, intuitive, almost version of AI that exists in vendor decks and conference keynotes. You ask it something, it delivers exactly what you need, and everything runs more smoothly from there. Then there’s the version that actually shows up in your workflow. Useful, often impressive, but also occasionally wrong, inconsistent, or frustratingly limited in ways that aren’t always easy to predict. The gap between those two versions isn’t a marketing problem. It’s a knowledge problem. For insurance professionals…
Why Agencies That Equip Producers With AI Will Win the Talent War Discover how AI-powered tools like Zywave Apex help insurance agencies attract and retain top producers by reducing admin work and boosting growth.
The People Strategy Behind Sustainable Growth By Christy Dinges, Chief People Officer, Zywave I’ve spent most of my career walking into companies at exactly this moment: the org chart is expanding, the ambition is real, and there’s an obvious opportunity sitting just underneath the surface. In our world, that’s an agency that just closed an acquisition and inherited a second book of business overnight, or a carrier standing up a new underwriting team to keep pace with growth. Leaders usually reach for the obvious levers first:…
How AI Tools Actually Work — And What That Means for How You Use Them There’s a fluid, intuitive, almost version of AI that exists in vendor decks and conference keynotes. You ask it something, it delivers exactly what you need, and everything runs more smoothly from there. Then there’s the version that actually shows up in your workflow. Useful, often impressive, but also occasionally wrong, inconsistent, or frustratingly limited in ways that aren’t always easy to predict. The gap between those two versions isn’t a marketing problem. It’s a knowledge problem. For insurance professionals…
Insurance Content Done Right: Why Expertise Can’t Be Automated Discover how expert-driven, compliance-ready insurance content protects agencies and builds client trust.
Why Agencies That Equip Producers With AI Will Win the Talent War Discover how AI-powered tools like Zywave Apex help insurance agencies attract and retain top producers by reducing admin work and boosting growth.
