Akur8, a next-generation InsurTech, and Branch, a Columbus-based insurer, have expanded their existing partnership to strengthen pricing transparency and market intelligence through the adoption of Akur8 Discover, a solution designed to provide on-demand insight into U.S. regulatory filings and competitive dynamics.
By extending its use of Akur8’s platform, Branch is seeking to enhance transparency, speed and consistency within its actuarial and pricing workflows, while reinforcing its commitment to offering fair and competitive insurance rates to its members.
Akur8 provides insurers with advanced pricing and reserving tools that combine actuarial science with machine learning.
Its platform is designed to bring transparency and governance to complex pricing models, allowing actuarial teams to make faster, more informed decisions without compromising control. The company positions its technology as a way to modernise insurance pricing while remaining aligned with regulatory expectations.
Through Akur8 Discover, regulatory filings that are traditionally unstructured and time-consuming to analyse are transformed into structured, searchable intelligence. This enables pricing and actuarial teams to quickly access insights into market behaviour, rate changes, market positioning and regulatory trends. For insurers operating in rapidly changing markets or with limited historical data, this capability supports more robust and timely pricing decisions.
The expanded partnership also reflects a broader shift among modern U.S. carriers towards integrated pricing platforms that balance speed and analytical rigour with transparency and actuarial governance. Branch’s use of Akur8 Discover demonstrates how insurers are increasingly looking to technology to gain market awareness without increasing operational complexity.
Branch co-founder and CTO Joe Emison said, “Pricing is both a technical and strategic discipline. Akur8 has helped us bring modern tooling and transparency to our pricing processes. By adopting Akur8 Discover, we’re adding a new layer of regulatory and market intelligence that strengthens how we assess trends, validate assumptions, and support responsible growth.”
Akur8 CEO Samuel Falmagne said, “Branch represents the new generation of data-driven insurers. Their decision to adopt Akur8 Discover reflects a forward-looking approach to pricing and market awareness. We are proud to support Branch with a unified suite that brings modeling, governance, and market intelligence together on one platform.”
Akur8 head of applied AI and co-founder of Matrisk AI Sergey Filimonov said, “Regulatory filings hold enormous pricing signals, but extracting it has meant weeks of manual work. In an early Branch use case, a member of Branch’s pricing team reproduced two and a half weeks of coverage and filing research in a couple of hours with Akur8 Discover. That’s the shift: faster market insight with traceability back to the source.”
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