Haltere for MGAs and program administrators

Submission intake that clears itself,
and can show its work.

Submissions arrive as email, PDFs, ACORD forms, and loss runs. Someone reads them, checks them against what you already write, decides whether they fit appetite, and chases the broker for what’s missing. That person is usually an underwriter. Haltere builds the intake line that does the reading and the checking, leaves a decision receipt for every clearance, and puts a named human on every release. You own it when it ships.

The intake problem

The queue is where the program’s margin goes.

Clearance against in-force and prior submissions. Blocked classes. Appetite by state and line. The broker who sent the wrong loss runs. None of it is underwriting, and all of it lands on underwriters, because the alternative is a SaaS product you rent, can’t audit, and can’t change. The tier below the enterprise vendors’ AI factories has been told to wait. We built for it.

What the build does

Extract. Clear. Route. Respond.

Your rules, encoded and versioned. Your underwriters, deciding instead of triaging. Every step on the record.

01 · Extract

From the inbox to a structured record.

Email, PDF, ACORD, supplemental apps, loss runs. Every field carries its confidence and the page it came from. Low-confidence fields go to a person before anything else happens.

02 · Clear

The checks you already run, at the gate.

Duplicate and prior-submission clearance, blocked classes, appetite bands, missing documents. The rules are yours, versioned, and named on every decision. A submission outside appetite is flagged at the gate; no one has to notice it later.

03 · Route and respond

To the right desk, with the letter drafted.

Cleared submissions land on the right underwriter’s desk. Acknowledgements, declinations, and requests for what’s missing are drafted for a named person to release. Nothing leaves without a human on the record.

Underwriters underwrite. The line does the reading.

A governed clearance

One submission, cleared,
with the record the carrier can audit.

Every clearance decision is a receipt: what was received, what was checked and at which rule version, what was flagged, who approved. Fixture data, real shape.

haltere · decision receiptrecording
request
CLR-0931 · new-business submission · Meridian Casualty MGA · broker Harbor & Vale
retrieved
ACORD 125/126 · 3 yrs loss runs (2 of 3 present) · prior submissions: 1 match (declined 2024) · appetite rules v12
drafted
claude-opus · prompt clearance_v3 @7c21e0 · extraction confidence 0.93 · 2 fields human-confirmed
checked
✓ duplicate-clearance  ✓ blocked-class  ✓ appetite-band  ✓ stay-in-scope
the decision
cleared to desk B · contractors · class 5606 within appetite · flagged: 2023 loss runs missing, request drafted
approved
Dana Reyes · underwriting lead · released the request to the broker, with the why
sealed
one row per decision · rule versions named · exportable to the carrier on request
✓ sealed · the audit is a query

Fixture data. The 2024 declination surfaced at the gate, not in a renewal review. The missing loss runs were requested by a person, not a bot, and the record says so. The receipt format is public

Who will ask

The record your carrier’s audit
already entitles them to.

Delegated-authority audityour carrier or fronting partner
Every clearance decision with the rule version that ran and the person who approved it. Exportable, not reconstructed.
NAIC AI bulletinthird-party oversight, flowed down
How your AI is governed, shown to the carrier on request: what it saw, what it was allowed to do, who released the outcome. What the examiner will ask for next
Model Audit RuleIT general controls
The change record for the rules themselves: who changed appetite, who reviewed it, who approved it.
E&O defensibilitywhen a broker disputes a declination
What was received, when, and what was checked, in one row, with the letter that went out and who released it.

Generated by the line. Not assembled by the underwriter the night before.

Rent it, or own it

The SaaS quote is per submission.
The audit trail is theirs.

Intake SaaS

Someone else’s black box.

Accuracy claims you can’t verify. Your submissions on their servers. Rules you can’t read, priced per seat or per submission, and a record that belongs to the vendor when the carrier asks for it.

Your intake line, on Haltere

Yours, in your environment, receipted.

Built to your appetite and your carriers’ formats, in your boundary, with a decision receipt per clearance. Fixed fee, then governed operations. You walk at renewal with everything.

The offer

The governed first build.

One backlog item. Fully governed. Evidence included.

For MGAs & program administrators · mutuals & risk pools · claims TPAs
Scope
This workflow, end to end

Intake from the inbox to the underwriter’s desk: extraction, clearance, routing, and the outbound letters, for one program or line to start. Scoped together before anything starts.

Fee
Fixed. One number, up front.

Scoped to the project and quoted in the first conversation. Agreed before anything starts. No time-and-materials meter running.

Timeline
4–8 weeks

From scoping to production-acceptable delivery, live in your environment.

Two deliverables, always paired: the working software, and the evidence pack. Show the board AI progress; show the examiners the receipts.

The process guarantee: your team reviews and approves every change. Nothing merges ungoverned. Nothing leaves for a broker or a carrier without a named human release.

Two ways to run it afterward: we operate the line for teams with no engineering bench, or your team operates it and we train your operator. The software, the map, and the receipts are yours in either mode. You walk at renewal with everything. The first cohort of five is filling now

Questions

What you’ll want to know.

Does this replace our AMS or policy admin system?

No. It sits in front of them. Submissions arrive by email and PDF; the line extracts, clears, and routes them, and the cleared record lands in the system you already run. Nothing you own is replaced.

What about scanned or handwritten submissions?

Every extracted field carries a confidence score and a pointer to the page it came from. Fields below the threshold you set are routed to a person before anything is cleared. The record shows which fields a human confirmed.

Will it decline or acknowledge submissions on its own?

Not by default. Declinations, acknowledgements, and requests for missing loss runs are drafted for a named person to release. The gate is yours to loosen later, and every release is on the record either way.

Can our carrier see the record?

When you choose to show it. Every clearance decision is a row you can export: what was received, which rules ran at which version, what was flagged, who approved. That is the delegated-authority audit, answered from a query instead of a reconstruction.

How long, and what does it cost?

Four to eight weeks from scoping to a working line in your environment, for a fixed fee agreed before anything starts. We quote it in the first conversation, not on a page.

Bring us the intake queue.

Tell us the program, the carriers, and the person who reads the inbox today. Scoping is a conversation, the fee is fixed before anything starts, and the first review is on your calendar before we write a line.

No newsletter. No drip sequence. Every request gets a real reply within one business day, from someone who can answer it.