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Your Policy Admin System is Costing You Renewals Every Single Day

If you're an insurance CTO watching agents abandon your portal for spreadsheets, you're not alone -- and you're losing 23% of quotes to faster competitors.

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90+
Lighthouse score
Mobile, production builds
6-12 weeks
Typical timeline
MVP to full platform
$40K-$200K
Project range
Portal to enterprise suite
5,000+
Sites shipped
Since 2012
What Insurance Software Actually Does -- And Why Legacy Systems Break Your Bind Rate

Your agent opens the quoting screen. They enter risk data once -- property address, coverage limits, loss history -- and your system fires back multi-carrier quotes in under a second. The prospect picks a carrier, the bind workflow triggers DocuSign for application signatures, and the policy goes live before they leave the call. That's insurance software built on Next.js, Supabase, and real API integrations -- not the seven-figure legacy platforms that take eighteen months to configure and still force your underwriters to toggle between three screens to issue a certificate. Your quoting engine runs on Next.js API routes and Vercel edge caching, so rate-filing season traffic spikes don't crash the system. Your policy admin lives in Supabase Postgres with row-level security, so agents see only their book and carriers see only their paper. Your policyholders get a self-service portal where they pull certificates, request endorsements, and file claims at 2 a.m. without calling your service center. We've shipped platforms handling 50,000+ active policies and claims portals processing 2,000 submissions per week. Your current vendor quoted fourteen months and $1.2M. You'll be live in ten weeks -- or your competitors bind the business first.

Your Current Site May Be a Liability

Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.

Your legacy policy admin system takes 6+ clicks to generate a single quote.
Risk: Agents abandon your platform for competitors with faster quoting, and you lose binding volume.
Claims intake still relies on emailed PDFs and manual data entry.
Risk: Processing costs stay north of $40 per claim, and error rates drive up E&O exposure.
Policyholders can't self-service endorsements, certificates, or payments online.
Risk: Your service center handles 10,000+ calls per month that should be zero-touch digital transactions.
DocuSign or e-signature is a bolted-on afterthought, not part of the bind workflow.
Risk: Policy issuance takes 3-5 days instead of minutes, and prospects ghost before signing.
Your current vendor quoted $1.2M and 14 months for a platform rebuild.
Risk: By the time you launch, your competitors have already captured the market segment you're targeting.
Rate tables and product configurations require a developer deploy to change.
Risk: Every state filing update costs $5K-$15K in dev time and delays go-to-market by weeks.

What Your Website Could Look Like

Custom-designed for your industry. No templates. No stock photos.

Insurance quote-and-bind platform with agent portal
Quote-and-bind portal, agent dashboard, claims automation, and policy admin

What We Build

Purpose-built features for your industry.

Quote workflow takes six clicks and three page reloads to reach bind

Agents enter risk data once and get sub-second multi-carrier quotes in a single session

Claims intake relies on emailed PDFs and manual adjuster data entry

Claims triage runs on structured FNOL forms with file uploads, geocoding, and real-time Supabase subscriptions for adjusters

Policyholders call your service center for certificates and endorsements that should be self-serve

Policyholders pull certificates, request endorsements, and make Stripe payments at 2 a.m. without phoning your team

DocuSign sits outside your bind process, adding 3–5 day lag between quote and policy issuance

DocuSign triggers at quote acceptance and auto-attaches signed applications to the policy record in one workflow

Rate table updates require developer deploys and $5K–$15K per state filing change

Product managers upload rate tables and class codes through an admin UI with zero code deploys

Legacy vendor quoted $1.2M and fourteen months while your market window closes

Your quoting engine and policy admin ship in 6–12 weeks on Next.js and Supabase at a fraction of legacy platform cost

Our Development Process

From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.

01

Insurance Domain Mapping

Week 1

We audit your current systems, data models, and carrier integrations to define the policy lifecycle and user roles your platform needs.

02

Data Architecture & Auth

Week 2-3

We design the Supabase schema -- policies, claims, producers, rate tables -- with row-level security policies mapped to your agency hierarchy.

03

Core Workflow Build

Week 4-7

We ship the quoting engine, policy CRUD, and DocuSign integration as working features on Next.js with API routes deployed to Vercel.

04

Portal & Admin Interfaces

Week 8-10

Agent portal, policyholder self-service, and internal admin dashboards go through two rounds of UAT with your underwriting and operations teams.

05

Launch & Compliance Review

Week 11-12

We deploy to production, run load testing at 3x expected traffic, verify SOC 2 controls, and hand off runbooks to your team.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Most projects land between $40K and $200K. A policyholder self-service portal with payments and certs runs $40K-$70K. A full policy admin system with quoting, binding, DocuSign, and claims intake is $120K-$200K. The cost difference vs. legacy platforms like Guidewire or Majesco is 5-10x lower because we're building on Supabase and Next.js instead of configuring a monolithic suite. We'll give you a fixed-scope estimate after the domain mapping session in week one.
A focused MVP — say, agent quoting portal plus DocuSign bind — ships in 6-8 weeks. A full policy administration platform with claims, self-service portals, and rate table management takes 10-12 weeks. We deploy to Vercel preview environments from week two, so your team sees working software early and often. We don't do 6-month waterfall builds.
Guidewire and Duck Creek are built for Tier 1 carriers with $5M+ IT budgets and 18-month implementation cycles. If you're an MGA, program administrator, or mid-market carrier, you don't need that. Next.js on Vercel gives you sub-second page loads and edge caching for agent portals that serve 50 states. Supabase gives you Postgres with real-time subscriptions, row-level security, and built-in auth — no separate identity provider. You get a modern, performant platform at a fraction of the cost, and your team can actually maintain it.
Yes. We've built integrations with IVANS, ISO, AAIS, and direct carrier APIs for comparative rating. Next.js API routes handle the middleware layer — transforming ACORD XML into JSON, managing rate calls, and caching responses. If you're working with a specific carrier's REST or SOAP API, we'll wire it in during the core workflow build phase.
Supabase runs on AWS with SOC 2 Type II certification. We enforce row-level security at the database layer so agents only see their book, adjusters only see assigned claims, and policyholders only see their own data. All traffic is TLS 1.3. We support audit logging on every policy transaction. If you need a NAIC data security model law compliance review, we'll map controls to the framework during the launch phase.
Typically 2-3 engineers, one designer, and a project lead who's shipped insurance software before. We don't staff projects with eight junior devs. A senior Next.js engineer handles the frontend and API layer, a Supabase/database engineer handles schema design and RLS policies, and a third engineer focuses on DocuSign and third-party integrations. You'll have a direct Slack channel with the build team.
We offer monthly retainers starting at $3K/month for ongoing support — bug fixes, rate table updates, new state filings, feature additions. Most insurance clients stay on retainer because the regulatory landscape changes quarterly. You'll also get full source code ownership, deployment runbooks, and documentation so your internal team can take over if you prefer.
We've migrated policy books from legacy systems including Applied Epic, AMS360, and custom-built Access databases. We build a migration pipeline that maps your existing data model to the new Supabase schema, run validation checks on every policy record, and do a parallel-run period where both systems operate simultaneously. You'll end up with a clean Postgres database, full policy history, and zero data loss.
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