BriteCore
BriteCore sells a cloud native core platform for property and casualty insurance to mid size carriers and fast growing managing general agents in North America. It covers policy administration, product definition and rating, billing, claims, documents, reporting and agent and policyholder portals, and runs on Amazon Web Services. More than 100 insurers use it, including Allied Trust Insurance, Loudoun Mutual and the Great Bay Insurance Group, and a headless option lets an insurer keep its own front end on top of the core.
AI arrived in May 2026 with eight copilots and a Model Context Protocol service layer, through which BriteCore's copilots, carrier built agents and third party agents reach the platform under the same authentication, access controls and audit. A provider layer reaches frontier models, including Anthropic's Claude Sonnet. The September 2026 release added a first notice of loss copilot that takes claims in conversation, a Submission & Quote Copilot that turns applications into quotable policies, an Underwriting Workbench, and the Open Agentic Core, with a Claude Cowork plugin as its first example. BriteCore was founded in 2009 and is based in San Mateo, California.
Capability Axes
Capability grades
15 of 15 axes rated · 6 graded A or B
Strip out the copilots and policy administration, billing and claims keep running, because that is what a carrier migrates onto and pays for. Eight copilots arrived only in May 2026, after the platform ran more than a decade without them.
Claims and Policy Copilots recommend next steps and let employees approve and execute them, and agents connecting through the Open Agentic Core act within each user's role based permissions, with writes limited to approved core operations. Which copilots act without approval, and the thresholds behind multi step work, are not published. The first notice of loss copilot takes claimant details in conversation, validates coverage and creates the claim record in real time.
Observability and audit trails show what the copilots and agents did, and the Submission & Quote Copilot flags missing or inconsistent information before a quote. Accuracy, validation method, drift monitoring and retesting after a model change are not published for any copilot. The provider layer is model flexible by design and is set to add open source and specialized small language models.
Loudoun Mutual moved its agents to the BriteQuote portal and cut underwriting turnaround from 8 business days to 4, after converting more than 68,000 policies with 95 percent data retention and going live on January 1, 2020. Both figures measure the core platform and its quoting portal, not BriteCore's AI copilots, which carry no accuracy or cycle time figure yet.
More than 100 insurers across North America use the platform, with Allied Trust Insurance, Vouch and Lilypad Insurance among recent selections. Gartner placed BriteCore as a Challenger for SaaS property and casualty core platforms in North America in 2026.
BriteCore states that customer data is never used to train AI models and that zero data retention, encryption and least privilege access apply. Every AI interaction passes through the managed protocol layer with authentication, access control and audit, and carrier built and third party agents go through it on the same terms as BriteCore's copilots. Retention and lifecycle terms beyond that statement sit in a white paper rather than in published terms.
The privacy policy covers visitors to BriteCore's sites rather than the insurance data the platform holds, and a data processing agreement or subprocessor list is not public. BriteCore states that customer data is never used to train AI models and that zero data retention applies, which bears on what its frontier model provider keeps, with the detail in a downloadable white paper.
A later report, a Type 2 examination of how controls operate over time, or a trust portal is not published. BriteCore completed a SOC 2 Type 1 examination with no exceptions in October 2021, a point in time review of control design, which leaves currency as the open question.
BriteCore states no regulatory position of its own. It publishes guidance on the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Model AI Bulletin, which puts governance duties on carriers and asks them to build audit rights and compliance terms into vendor contracts, and it positions its audit trails and configurable governance as support for that work.
Fairness, accountability and transparency are framed through the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Model AI Bulletin, and BriteCore says carriers can manage their models with transparency. Bias testing, disparate impact analysis or a model card is not published for any copilot. Copilots work in underwriting and claims, where a proxy variable can produce an unfair outcome, and the Submission & Quote Copilot checks appetite and applies rating before underwriting begins.
Who bears the loss when a copilot misreads a document or an agent completes a task wrongly is not stated among the model provider, BriteCore and the carrier, and policyholders have no published route to contest a coverage, claim or premium decision. Claims and Policy Copilot recommendations wait for an employee to approve them, and audit trails give the carrier visibility into decisions and models, a record to review when an outcome is contested.
A separate provider layer reaches frontier models, including Anthropic's Claude Sonnet, and is built to add open source and specialized small language models. The production model version, any carrier tuning on the base model and a subprocessor list are not published. Amazon Web Services hosts the platform, and BriteCore states that zero data retention applies to customer data.
Policy administration, rating, billing, claims and portals run on one platform, and the Open Agentic Core widens application programming interface coverage and documentation and adds a Model Context Protocol server that honors each user's role based permissions.
A Solution Partner Marketplace adds risk, claims and flood integrations, a headless deployment option lets an insurer keep its own applications on top of the core, and a Claude Cowork plugin connects Anthropic's Claude to the platform.
Regions, residency and tenancy are not published, which leaves a carrier with a state or provincial data requirement without terms to check. The platform runs as a cloud service on Amazon Web Services, and a headless option lets an insurer run its own front end against the core.
A self serve return on investment calculator models benefit without contacting sales, which helps estimate value but not spend. Whether the copilots and the protocol layer come with the platform or are licensed separately is unstated, as are the charging unit and term.
The stated buyers are mid size property and casualty carriers and fast growing managing general agents in North America, with separate pages for carriers, for managing general agents and for each role from underwriting to finance.
Product updates
Material product, regulatory, evidence and commercial changes at BriteCore, each verified against a live source and tagged to the capability axis it bears on. Funding rounds and awards are not product changes and are not logged.
BriteCore released an FNOL Copilot that takes first notice of loss through conversation, validates policy coverage and creates the claim record in real time. It expanded its Submission Intake Copilot into a multi agent Submission and Quote Copilot that ingests applications, schedules of values and loss runs, flags missing data, applies rating and checks carrier appetite to produce a quotable policy. The same release adds an Underwriting Workbench inside the policy administration platform, where underwriting rules and system events create, prioritize and route work.
BriteCore announced support for headless core deployments for property and casualty insurers. In this model BriteCore runs as the transactional backbone for policy, billing and claims while an insurer's own underwriting workbench, agent and customer experiences, rating engine and distribution systems interact with it through governed interfaces, so a carrier can modernize the core without giving up the front end applications it has built.
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Pricing
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Not published. BriteCore quotes the platform, the copilots and the protocol layer privately
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The charging unit is not published, whether premium under management, policies in force, modules or a platform subscription. The platform covers policy administration, rating, billing, claims, documents, portals and reporting, with eight copilots and the protocol layer added in May 2026. | A data processing agreement or subprocessor list is not public. BriteCore states that customer data is never used to train AI models and that zero data retention applies, and it completed a SOC 2 Type 1 examination in 2021. | Implementation and professional services fees are not published, though BriteCore runs a professional services team. Loudoun Mutual converted more than 68,000 policies onto the platform, and BriteCore says its AI assisted implementation delivers forms, products and integrations up to 13 times faster than the industry standard. | Vendor Published |
A self serve return on investment calculator models benefit before any sales contact. Whether the copilots and the protocol layer are included for existing customers or licensed separately is not stated, nor how carrier built agents connecting through the layer are charged.