Submission to Quote in Minutes.
Bind to Insight in Seconds.

AI underwriting platform for MGAs, Lloyd’s syndicates, and specialty insurers.

Vates Risk automates the full policy lifecycle — from broker submission processing through to live exposure tracking — turning every document into a queryable data asset.

Built by people from

  • J.P. Morgan
  • British Army
  • Winton

Underwriters spend over 50% of their time on low value-add activities that don’t require their expertise.

Chasing documents. Rekeying data. Waiting on broker responses. Meanwhile, submissions pile up, quotes get delayed, and portfolio exposure remains a mystery until renewal season.

Underwriting Lifecycle

From Submission to Quote

See Every Submission

On One Workbench

Every submission and its status across your team. Monitor deadlines, prioritise what matters. Clarity for underwriters, visibility for management.

One view of everything in motion.

Process Submissions

In Minutes

Drop submissions into Vates Risk and get structured risk data back in minutes. No manual data entry. Start every quote from clean data.

Respond to brokers faster.

Auto-Populate

Forms and Quotes

Create and populate documents automatically from extracted submission data. Review, verify, edit, and action directly.

Cut document preparation from hours to seconds.

Assess Appetite

Instantly

Assess submissions against your defined business criteria the moment they arrive, so your underwriters don't spend time on risks that will never bind.

Stop wasting hours on submissions that will never bind.

Benchmark

New Submissions

Compare new submissions to similar quoted risks to gauge precedent quickly.

Instantly see rate variance without manual comparison.

Calculate Premiums

Using Your Rating Logic

Configure your factors, loadings, and adjustments to run your rating pricing calculations in Vates Risk.

Run your rating methodology in Vates Risk.
Data Foundation

Always On. Always Working.

Every document processed builds your queryable risk dataset. These capabilities run continuously across your entire book.

Track Exposures

In Real Time

Monitor aggregated exposure across vendor, geography, industry, or peril. Watch concentration build as policies bind.

Early warning on accumulation risks with instant reporting.

Find Documents

In Seconds

Automatically organise and archive every submission, uploaded document, worksheet, and quote.

Query your complete submission history whenever you need to.

Complete Audit Trail

For Every Decision

Every action logged, every change tracked. From initial submission through quote, bind, and beyond — full traceability for reporting, compliance, and capacity-provider requirements.

Complete defensibility for every underwriting decision.
INTUITIVE DESIGN

Built by Underwriters for Underwriters

Vates Risk is purpose-built for the complexity of specialty underwriting, where every submission is different and every decision carries weight.

Data-First Architecture

Every document becomes part of a normalised, queryable risk dataset, unlocking portfolio analytics, exposure aggregations and management reporting.

Designed by Underwriters

Configurable submission processing, business rules and pricing. Vates Risk handles the grunt work so underwriters can maximise performance.

Make Better, Faster Decisions

Process submissions and generate quotes in minutes with increased accuracy and control.

Book a Demo

See how Vates Risk accelerates your quote turnaround, improves portfolio visibility, and lets underwriters focus on what matters.