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CHICAGO (June 2, 2026) — Convr®, the leading AI underwriting workbench purpose-built for commercial P&C insurance, today released findings from its 2026 Convr Insurance Talent and Tech Trends Survey, revealing a striking gap between how quickly carriers are adopting AI in underwriting and how confident they are in the strategy guiding that adoption.

The survey of 211 commercial insurance professionals — including a majority at the leadership, vice president, and executive levels — found that AI adoption in underwriting is accelerating across the industry, yet strategic clarity is lagging.‍

The pace of adoption is undeniable:

• 89.5% of respondents expect more underwriting tasks to be automated in the coming years
• 70.6% delivered new AI underwriting tools to their teams in 2025
• 65.9% plan to deliver additional AI tools in 2026
• 53.6% have AI deployed in at least one production underwriting workflow

But strategic confidence has not kept pace:

• Only 20.4% of leaders are "highly confident" their organization has a clear, actionable AI strategy for underwriting
• More than 40% rate themselves in the bottom half of the confidence scale
• 56.9% describe their organizational culture toward AI as "cautiously open — interested but wanting proof before commitment"

"The industry has crossed a threshold," said John Stammen, Chief Executive Officer at Convr. "AI in commercial underwriting is no longer a question of whether, but a question of how. What our survey reveals is that while carriers are moving quickly to deploy AI tools, many are doing so without the strategic framework to ensure those investments deliver lasting business outcomes.”

That gap between adoption and strategy is the single biggest risk facing commercial P&C leaders today, and it's also the biggest opportunity. The carriers who close it first will define the next decade of underwriting, according to Stammen.

The survey also surfaced the operational realities driving urgency around AI adoption. Respondents pointed to manual data entry (35.1%), dated and legacy technology (27.5%), and too many submission data sources (24.6%) as the leading factors slowing underwriting at their companies today. Meanwhile, 63% of carriers operate on hybrid technology environments — a legacy core with cloud-based tools layered on top — underscoring why a unified, AI underwriting workbench has become a strategic imperative rather than a nice-to-have.

Stammen noted that beneath Convr’s underwriting workbench is a data-first architecture purpose-built for commercial underwriting, not an AI layer bolted onto legacy systems. At its core is Convr’s Risk Context Engine, a unified intelligence framework that connects structured and unstructured submission data, business logic, and AI models into a single source of truth, grounding AI decisions in real underwriting context rather than generic output. Powering the engine is Risk 360, Convr’s proprietary insurance data lake, with 10 years of historical underwriting data continuously enriched by more than 2,500 public and private sources and 785 million data points on 87 million companies. Together, they give carriers what point AI tools cannot — a strategic foundation that turns AI adoption into repeatable, measurable underwriting outcomes.

When asked what would most benefit their underwriting teams, respondents pointed to AI tool training (47.4%), pre-screened and enriched submissions (46.9%), and simplified access to data (45.5%) — all areas where Convr's modular workbench is actively helping carriers close the strategy-to-execution gap today.
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"Strategy without execution is theory. Execution without strategy is chaos," said Stammen. "Convr was built to give carriers both a clear path from where their underwriting operates today to where it needs to be tomorrow."‍

About the 2026 Convr Insurance Survey‍

The 2026 Convr Insurance Survey was conducted in April and reflects responses from 211 commercial insurance professionals working in property and casualty, with strong representation from leadership (35.1%), VP/Executive (37%), and management (42.2%) roles across carriers, MGAs, brokerages, and specialty markets.

For more information, visit convr.com.

CHICAGO (May 28, 2026) – Commercial underwriters using Convr® now have access to a significantly expanded partner ecosystem. Convr continues to add new third-party data, software and integration partners to support our customers’ unique workbench applications.

New to Convr’s  growing partner ecosystem are:

• Guidewire Technology Alliances Growth
• Coherent
• Swiss Re CatNet®
• Swiss Re Property Data Services (PDS)
• Exavalu
• Property Guardian
• And more
  

"Convr’s ability to plug in third-party data and software partners is incredibly beneficial for customers,” said John Stammen, Chief Executive Officer at Convr. “Our extensive partnerships and pre-plumbed connections enable both comprehensive capabilities and quick time to value."

The Convr AI Underwriting Workbench powered by a commercial P&C Risk Context Engine continues to lead innovation in the commercial insurance underwriting space. The expansion of our partner relationships showcases our dedication to unlocking even more performance improvements for customers now and into the future.

The expanded partner ecosystem reflects a broader shift in how commercial underwriting is done. As carriers, MGAs, and brokers face mounting pressure to write more business without growing teams, we help define a viable solution for processing a submission in minutes versus days – increasingly the winning characteristic for business. Convr's partner integrations combined with its AI-native workbench and underlying Risk Context Engine give underwriters the data and tools they need at the moment of decision, not after the submission has gone cold.

Insurance organizations interested in learning more can visit convr.com or contact their Convr representative.‍

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CHICAGO (April 28, 2026) – Convr®, the leading artificial intelligence (AI) company serving commercial insurance organizations with its modular underwriting workbench announces the hiring of Jason Allen as Vice President, Customer Experience.

In this role, Allen will lead Convr’s Customer Success Services and Customer Support teams, driving strong adoption, support and advocacy across Convr’s customer base. With a strong strategic focus, Allen will further strengthen the bridge between Convr’s cutting-edge AI technology and customer requirements for the Convr Underwriting Workbench. He will partner closely with Business Development, Product and Executive Leadership to align roadmap, go-to-market strategy and customer feedback.

Allen has extensive experience driving business value with AI-powered operating systems that improve efficiency, as well as a proven track record of client success driving accelerated time-to-value. Most recently, he served as Senior Vice President, Global Customer Experience, for Aprimo, the enterprise Marketing Technology organization serving regulated and non-regulated industries. For nearly 10years with increasingly responsible roles, Allen delivered an end-to-end customer lifecycle operating model spanning onboarding, adoption, renewals and expansion, focused on customer efficiency with executional discipline for improved customer outcomes and engagement.

Prior to his time at Aprimo, Allen served as Vice President of Professional Services and Solutions Sales at Teradata. Earlier in his career, he served as a managing consultant at Ernst and Young/James Martin and Company focused on operational excellence.

Jason’s expertise in enterprise AI SaaS systems, automation, and program implementation will help Convr’s clients more readily achieve and demonstrate industry-leading growth and efficiency.

Allen has an Master of Business Administration from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Bachelor of Science degree from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. He and his family live in Indiana.

Look for him soon at online and in-person events demonstrating his strong commitment to customer success at Convr. Learn more about Convr at convr.com.

CHICAGO (April 7, 2026) – Convr®, the leading artificial intelligence (AI) company serving commercial insurance organizations hit a critical milestone this month: 10-years of transforming the commercial property and casualty (P&C) insurance industry with AI and data.

“The Convr AI Underwriting Workbench powered by a commercial P&C Risk Context Engine and proprietary ontology continues to lead innovation in the commercial insurance underwriting space, unlocking insights and performance improvements that drive customer success,” said Harish Neelamana, Founder, President and CPO at Convr.

Founded by underwriters, for underwriters in 2016, Convr is commemorating a decade of advancements in the commercial insurance world, backed by a decade of trusted partnerships with many of the top commercial insurers such as Ohio Mutual Insurance Group, WCF Insurance, Western National Insurance among others who have realized measurable successes, including:

1. 130% increase in efficiency
2. 70% reduction in submission through quote times
3. 30% increase in win rate for new business underwriting
4. Quote turnaround times reduced to 1-2 days
5. 10x increase in productivity

In addition, Convr customers across the board have experienced reduced customer IT spend, quicker identification of material changes within renewals, and increased number of submissions processed daily.

“The Convr AI Underwriting Workbench is the most advanced and visionary platform available today,” said Gary Johnson, Vice President of Commercial Lines for Ohio Mutual Insurance Group. “Our underwriters are eagerly anticipating the workflow, accuracy, and service advantages that we’ll realize once we have this key tool at our disposal.”

Even more, over the course of the past decade, The Convr AI Underwriting Workbench surfaced some 120 billion risk exposures and added 17 billion data points to the Risk 360 data lake as well as released hundreds of enhancements to Convr users. As a leading AI-powered commercial insurance data-driven underwriting workbench, Convr is proud to mark these wins as a reflection of ingenuity, innovation and customer success.

Convr has an unparalleled passion for commercial insurance underwriting and we’re certain our customers will continue to see benefits well beyond our tenth anniversary. You can schedule a demo and explore how Convr’s AI Underwriting Workbench can transform your commercial underwriting performance, efficiency and profitability.

CHICAGO (March 17, 2026) – As the leader in artificial intelligence (AI) for commercial insurance, Convr® equips customers with a conversational AI assistant embedded directly into the underwriting workbench.

The Generative AI approach supports underwriting analysis by helping teams dig deeper into submission data and uncover actionable insights. Those insights can then be acted upon immediately — informing changes, updating the submission, creating tasks, or taking other necessary steps — so underwriters can move forward efficiently.

Purpose-built on the Convr Context Engine — comprised of a commercial insurance ontology, knowledge graph, and semantic layer that powers a multi-line schema — this unique foundation enables the Generative AI to deliver high-performing interactions out of the box with minimal model dependencies showing a holistic view of the risk with ease and confidence.

How Convr AI works

The Generative AI module lets underwriting teams discuss submissions interactively and complete action steps directly within the submission. The AI-powered assistant reviews both the data in a submission and relevant public data available to Convr. It then creates a summary with key observations for the underwriting team, and complete the remaining steps needed to finalize the submission.

The technology is designed to enhance underwriting efficiency and accuracy as the Generative AI streamlines day-to-day tasks by instantly retrieving submission details, summarizing risk data, and answering underwriting questions in real time.

“This is similar to ChatGPT where we can ask any observations or questions about a submission and the result is an accurate account or summary of the results,” said Harish Neelamana, Co-Founder and President at Convr. “Following a prompt, it can actually take an action and finalize the submission for the underwriter.”

Whether a customer is reviewing a complex commercial policy or triaging new submissions, the Generative AI module helps underwriters work smarter, not harder all within the Convr AI ecosystem. And conversations with the AI Assistant are memorialized in the underwriting file making it easy for an underwriter to analyze and improve its usage.

This workbench feature marks a pivotal moment in commercial insurance as Convr advances the industry from manual underwriting to technological innovation.

CHICAGO (February 24, 2026) – Convr®, the leading provider of artificial intelligence solutions for commercial insurance, announces a new partnership with Ohio Mutual Insurance Group (OMIG) to offer an advanced underwriting workbench solution that streamlines underwriting decisions. The partnership reflects a strong alignment in values and a shared approach to execution.

Ohio Mutual turned to Convr to move beyond legacy, siloed tools—embracing what they describe as the most advanced and visionary platform available today. One of the biggest appeals to OMIG was Convr’s centralized repository that could accommodate their unique underwriting needs and align with their vision for the future of underwriting. The specialty insurer is utilizing modules within Convr’s end-to-end underwriting workbench to automate their underwriting including the following:

Intake

Intake ingests, splits, classifies, and prioritizes precise data from structured and unstructured documents in PDF, Excel, Word, email, etc. formats to automate and enrich clearance, rating, and/or loss analysis workflows.

Risk 360

Risk 360 is a new and better way to capture business insights from thousands of public, private and/or customer preferred data sources and digital artifacts. Convr prioritizes the most relevant and accurate information in minutes.

Convr AI

Convr AI Generative and Deep Learning Models are assistive to users helping customers perform their workflow tasks with greater ease, improving productivity.

“Convr enables underwriting teams to efficiently and effectively do their work, empowering them to provide a truly tailored accurate offering to their customers,” said John Stammen, Chief Executive Officer at Convr. “By enabling Intake and Risk 360 within the Convr Underwriting Workbench along with Convr, Ohio Mutual will deliver an even greater experience to their customers.”

“The Convr Underwriting Workbench is the most advanced and visionary platform available today,” said Gary Johnson, Vice President of Commercial Lines for Ohio Mutual Insurance Group. “Our underwriters are eagerly anticipating the workflow, accuracy, and service advantages that we’ll realize once we have this key tool at our disposal.”

CHICAGO (February 10, 2026)– Convr®, the leading artificial intelligence (AI) company serving commercial insurance organizations with its underwriting workbench is pleased to announce the hiring of Eli O’Donohue as Head of Data and AI Underwriting Solutions.

In this role, O’Donohue will lead business solutions, employing technical resources to further strengthen the bridge between Convr’s cutting-edge AI technology and customer requirements for the Convr AI Underwriting Workbench.

With extensive experience in extracting business value from data deposits across commercial P&C enterprises, O’Donohue has a proven track record of customer success driving accelerated time-to-value for a broad array of customers. Most recently, he headed Data Strategy for PCMI in Chicago, Ill. There he supported product strategy, user experience refinement, and data ecosystem growth through strategic data partners.

Prior to his tenure with PCMI, O’Donohue was the Director of Data Solutions for Planck, the Israel-based Insuretech. There he focused on client onboarding, and industry engagement. Earlier in his career, O’Donohue served as the Senior Director of R&D for Carpe Data, driving commercial insurance solutions delivery, advanced risk scoring models, and client support.

O’Donohue’s expertise in commercial Insurance underwriting, AI/ML data products, automation, and program implementation will help Convr’s customers more readily achieve and demonstrate industry-leading growth and efficiency success metrics.

CHICAGO (January 6, 2026) – Convr AI®, the industry-leading AI underwriting workbench for commercial insurance, is celebrating its achievements throughout 2025. The past year marked a period of significant momentum for Convr AI, as we delivered meaningful advancements that help our customers improve efficiency and profitability while expanding our modular AI underwriting workbench.

The Property and Casualty (P&C) insurance landscape is rapidly transforming as carriers respond to rising complexities, elevated customer expectations, and demand for faster, smarter underwriting. As the leading technology provider in the space, Convr added new features and enhancements last year, including the following:

Agentic AI
Convr built referral, declination, financial analyst, and underwriting authority workflow agents into the platform for customers to enable more autonomous decisioning for underwriting team members.

“We’re reducing friction in the underwriting process through Agentic AI,” said John Stammen, Chief Executive Officer at Convr. “The agents make moves autonomously to drive a quicker submission through quote that enable you to write more new business, faster.”

Convr’s template library with pre-built starter prompts enable underwriting team members to build and deploy workflows without needing prompt engineering skills. Underwriting expertise is all that’s required. For example, the referral agent generates a referral summary using Convr’s commercial P&C ontology then informs the user whether the submission is within appetite, or if it requires a referral. Users can also control how much authority the agent has, adjusting the level of autonomy as needed.

Enhanced Underwriting Workbench
Convr launched a new user interface last year to make navigation across the platform easier and more intuitive. The new submission hub, sidebar, and summary page deliver a stronger user experience for customers through more dynamic pages and views. The views are more accessible, and pages are easier to switch between. Users can also see greater color contrast between pages which presents a richer visual experience and clearer distinction of product elements.

Commercial Insurance Ontology Context Engine with Semantics
Convr AI is celebrating a decade in the commercial insurance data domain by recognizing the depth of its commercial P&C ontology. The company has been surfacing data from its vast, continuously updated and expanded P&C ontology for customers since 2016.

The ontology acts as a central, unified framework to connect disparate data, business logic and actions, creating a dynamic, centralized commercial insurance domain-specific schema with JSON output.

Together, these advancements within Convr's data-driven workbench mark a pivotal moment in commercial insurance as we advance the industry from manual underwriting to technological innovation.

CHICAGO (December 23, 2025) – Convr AI®, the leading modularized artificial intelligence (AI) underwriting, data, and intelligent document automation workbench company serving commercial insurance organizations, is enabling Zurich North America to better serve its customers through the power of Convr’s AI-powered underwriting workbench. Zurich is expanding its relationship with Convr for underwriting efficiency after first collaborating in 2017.

Zurich’s underwriting operations will continue leveraging machine learning and computer-vision technology with our Intake AI product to more efficiently and accurately process ACORD forms, loss runs and other documents. Through this integration and Convr’s data cleansing and enrichment capabilities, Zurich improves efficiency across several business units.

Now, Convr technology is empowering underwriting teams across North America to focus more on the human side of underwriting. By automatically extracting submission data from a wide range of document types—and enriching incomplete or invalid information with trusted, robust data sources—Convr is significantly automating routine tasks. The result? Underwriters have more time to build relationships, make informed decisions, and drive better outcomes for their organizations.

“By enabling all modules within the Convr AI Underwriting solution, Zurich will be able to deliver an even greater experience to their customers,” said John Stammen, Chief Executive Officer at Convr.

“Our recent focus on the automobile line of business and leveraging Convr technology, has laid the foundation for us to expand extraction, cleansing, and enrichment capabilities for additional lines of business. This goes far beyond data extraction; as we continue to select and refine trusted data sources to enrich our exposure data, our understanding of the true risk profile is greatly improved,” said Chris Healey, Vice President, Strategic Operations Leader for Zurich Large Casualty. “Convr enables us to do this efficiently and effectively, enabling our underwriting teams to provide a truly tailored accurate offering to our clients and brokers.”

About Zurich North America
Zurich North America is a leading provider of commercial property and casualty insurance solutions serving businesses of all sizes. As part of Zurich Insurance Group, the company leverages global strength and local expertise to help customers manage risk and achieve long-term resilience.