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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.

CHICAGO (December 16, 2025)– Agentic AI workflows areadvancing the world of underwriting at Convr AI®, the leading artificial intelligence (AI) company serving commercial P&C insurance organizations with its AI-powered underwriting workbench. The company has built referral, financial analyst, and underwriting authority workflow agents into the platform for customers. The pre-built templates enable more autonomous decisioning for underwriting team members.

“Agentic AI reduces friction across the underwriting process,” said John Stammen, Chief Executive Officer at Convr. “The agents make moves that work for you autonomously to drive a quicker submission through quote that enable you to write more business, faster.”

Convr’s template library with pre-built starter prompts enable underwriting team members to build a workflow without being a prompt engineer. They can tailor the starter prompts as well; they simply need some basic underwriting experience to be able to deploy them.

One example is Convr’s referral agent, which automatically generates a referral summary – looking at exposures, losses, and limits, etc. The Referral Agent informs the user whether the submission is within appetite, or if it requires a referral. Users can choose to give the agent more agency as well.

“You can actually give the agent more agency to make the referral,” said Harish Neelamana, Co-Founder and President at Convr. “You can drive the declination process without stepping into it and you can make corrections on your initial clearance and triage. Those are all templates that are built into the Convr platform.”

“Unlike traditional automation tools that wait for user commands . . . Agentic AI workflows proactively gather data, flag risks, fill forms and recommend actions – operating much like a digital team member within the workbench,” said Stammen.

This historical marker for Convr is a win for commercial insurance and is a pivotal moment as we advance commercial insurance, accelerating the industry’s shift from manual processes to intelligent, technology-driven underwriting.

CHICAGO (December 2, 2025) – Convr AI® is celebrating a decade in the commercial insurance data domain in the new year by recognizing the depth of its submission ontology. The leading artificial intelligence (AI) company serving commercial insurance organizations with its underwriting workbench has been surfacing data from its vast, continuously updated and expanded submission ontology for customers since 2016.

The Convr AI underwriting workbench is powered by a commercial P&C insurance ontology – a smart framework that centralizes all customers’ data, logic, and workflows into one connected system. It securely combines their customer data with enriched submission data and deeper risk insights, all feeding into downstream systems and supporting historical change analysis.

The submission 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.

Convr’s submission ontology is a vital differentiator because it:

• Connects disparate data into a single, structured model. This creates a dynamic map of the business, linking digital assets to underwriting decisions.
• Acts as a control layer to ground underwriting AI models with a set of defined data, logic, and actions. This ensures AI-driven decisions are reliable and actionable, reducing hallucinations.
• Enables real-time action and automation by connecting data, models, and operational systems in real-time – allowing for automated processes and the ability to act directly from the data.
• Supports agile development by creating a harmonized layer of business concepts; new applications can be built quickly on top of the existing ontology.

“It's not just another tech layer,” said John Stammen, Chief Executive Officer at Convr. “It’s the backbone for smarter, faster, and more consistent underwriting in the commercial P&C insurance domain.”

The Convr AI submission ontology has developed over the past decade informed by the data needs of 80% of the written premium in the commercial insurance domain and is readily available out-of-the-box, ensuring immediate integration and deployment without customer development for future-proofed standardization.

Our pre-built ontology supports diverse underwriting requirements across both standard and specialty lines, covering the full workflow from submission through rate, quote, and bind. It was purpose-built for commercial underwriting workflows, integrating essential enrichments directly into the submission through bind process.

“Our approach eliminates the need for Convr customers to incur costs or operational overhead for document analysis and ontology maintenance,” said Stammen.

All customers, from brokers to carriers and MGAs, benefit directly from ongoing updates and enhancements to the ontology that Convr implements on their behalf without additional effort.

This historical marker for Convr is a win for commercial insurance and is a pivotal moment as we advance the industry from manual underwriting to technological innovation.

CHICAGO (August 19, 2025) – Artificial intelligence (AI) has become the most transformative technology of our time, tackling some of humanity’s most challenging problems – including those for commercial insurance organizations. So much so that AI is primed to rule workplace skills in 2025 and is ready to aid in underwriting. But it is up to insurance leaders to insert AI into work processes now, if they want the new technology to drive results for their companies sooner rather than later.

In this year’s Convr Insurance Talent and Tech Trends survey, Convr surveyed 200 commercial property and casualty (P&C) insurance decision-makers across the U.S. to dig into the role talent and technology play in driving results.

And surprise, surprise – AI and the need for implementing technology into underwriting is on the rise! But only about half of leaders polled (47 percent) said they are using technology today to aid underwriting operations. Yet, the intent is there.

When these same insurance leaders were asked if they delivered any new underwriting tools in 2024, 74 percent said yes, while 83 percent polled said they plan to this year.

And what technology tools would be most impactful to underwriting teams? The following ranked as the highest priorities:

• Data/data management (44 percent)
• Underwriting compliance/guideline management tools (42 percent)
• Workflow management (41 percent)

Recognizing that AI is one of the fastest-growing skills that professionals need has not yet resulted in action, as only 19 percent said this is a skill their underwriting team is looking for in hiring.

But these are not just nice-to-have insights; they could lead to a fundamental shift in how commercial P&C insurance organizations think about their tech stack and hiring strategies. For organizations, navigating this tech and AI transformation means embracing skills-based hiring practices to build an underwriting workforce equipped for the future, not just the here and now.

If you're looking for ways to digitize, enhance and expedite your underwriting, our modular solutions can help! See what we have to offer at convr.com/workbench.

CHICAGO (August 5,2025) – Convr AI®, the leading modularized artificial intelligence (AI) underwriting, data, and intelligent document automation workbench serving commercial insurance organizations, is enabling Public Employer Risk Management Assocation, Inc. (PERMA) with its Intake AI module.

PERMA is the trusted source to more than 800 public entities across New York State for strategic workers’ compensation coverage plans as well as proactive and comprehensive workplace solutions. The group is now relying on Convr to digitize and standardize loss runs – a move that eliminates the need for manual entry, improving the quality of work and saving the association time while increasing efficiency and profitability.

“While it’s impressive that Convr is actively transforming PERMA’s underwriting operations, it is even more applause-worthy that our implementation was completed in just one month,” said John Stammen, Chief Executive Officer at Convr. “Not only are we saving the association time and money, but we executed their request in record time – increasing their trust in Convr’s ability to execute on their expanding needs.”

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