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At-Bay vs Convr — Underwriting workstation for US insurance, 2026.

At-Bay (3 named carriers) and Convr (7 named carriers) both sit at the underwriting workstation layer. Zero customer overlap in the public roster — they are addressing different segments of the same stack layer.

Last verified 2026-05-29 · methodology

TL;DR

  • At-Bay has 3 publicly-named carrier deployments; Convr has 7. Both at the underwriting workstation layer.
  • Zero customer overlap in the public roster. At-Bay and Convr are addressing different carriers within the same stack layer.
  • Both classified ai-native on Phidea's generation axis.
  • Both independent ownership.
  • Analyst coverage: 0 firms cover both, 3 only At-Bay, 3 only Convr.

Customer overlap

BucketCount
Named on At-Bay only3
Named on Convr only7
Named on both0
of which US-named on at least one side0

Only on At-Bay

  • At-Bay Specialty Insurance Company (US)
  • Markel Corporation (subsidiary) (US)
  • HSB Specialty Insurance Company (Munich Re) (US)

Only on Convr

  • Zurich North America (US)
  • Hiscox USA (US)
  • Penn National Insurance (US)
  • Encova Insurance (US)
  • Selective Insurance (US)
  • WCF Insurance (US)
  • Columbia Insurance Group (US)

Counts derived from 10sourced carrier-deployment entries across both vendor cards. Aggregate-only statements (e.g. “16 of the top 20”) excluded.

Stack position

Generation
ai-native
Stack layer
Underwriting workstation
Founded
2016
Lines
commercial, specialty
Replaces
manual cyber underwriting, traditional mga submission review
Generation
ai-native
Stack layer
Underwriting workstation
Founded
2016
Lines
commercial, specialty

Ownership and corporate context

At-Bay
Type
independent

Source: At-Bay

Carrier-segment specialization

At-Bay — geographic split

  • US
    3

Convr — geographic split

  • US
    7

Analyst coverage differential

Only At-Bay cited by
  • TechCrunch (2020: Cyber insurance startup At-Bay raises $34M Series C, adds M12 as a new investor)
  • Insurance Insider US (2025: At-Bay to exit the admitted cyber market, sunsetting its product offering)
  • Insurance Journal (2022: Cyber MGA At-Bay Acquires Tech-Solutions Provider Relay)
Only Convr cited by
  • Carrier Management (2020: DataCubes Becomes Convr, and Its CEO Explains Why)
  • Reinsurance News (2025: Zurich North America enhances underwriting efficiency with Convr AI)
  • PR Newswire (2025: Convr AI Holds the Universe of Commercial Insurance within Submission Ontology)

Recent news (last 12 months)

No news items in the last 12 months for either tool.

Sourced limitations

  • At-Bay is a US-only operator. Cyber policies are placed through At-Bay Specialty Insurance Company (E&S, 44 US states) or through a Markel subsidiary (admitted, 47 states). No UK, EU, or Canadian authorised entity is published. Internationally licensed brokers cannot bind At-Bay capacity directly.
    Source: At-Bay
  • In 2024–2025 At-Bay shuttered its Relay digital placement platform (acquired August 2022), laid off approximately 10% of staff including 25 Israeli R&D roles, and announced the sunset of its admitted cyber product — retrenching to E&S cyber and InsurSec. This signals that the combined 'insurance + MDR' thesis has not yet produced a scalable dual-sided P&L.
  • At-Bay's claims efficacy data (ransomware frequency, MDR containment times under 15 minutes) is self-reported from its own book via the annual InsurSec Report. Independent validation from Gartner, Forrester, Celent, or Advisen is not published in 2024–2025 cyber insurance quadrants.
    Source: At-Bay
  • Convr's total disclosed funding is approximately $18M across two rounds, ending with the $15.2M Series B in November 2019. No later equity rounds have been publicly announced. That capital base is modest compared to well-funded underwriting automation peers, which may constrain the pace of model development and international expansion.
    Source: PR Newswire
  • Convr is a US commercial P&C specialist. Its submission ontology and carrier integrations are built for the US market — standard and specialty commercial lines. It does not serve personal lines, life, health, or workers' comp as primary lines, and no European or Asia-Pacific carrier deployments have been publicly announced.
    Source: Convr
  • Convr's accuracy claim for machine-read data is 91%, which means roughly 1 in 11 data points still requires human review or correction. For high-volume small commercial portfolios this is workable; for complex middle-market risks with long loss-run histories, residual manual touches remain.
    Source: Convr
  • Convr does not replace a policy administration system or rating engine — it sits upstream of those. Carriers that lack mature APIs into their policy admin stack will need integration work to route the structured output Convr produces into downstream underwriting decisions.
    Source: Convr

Limitations published on Phidea are sourced to the underlying citation and reflect what is publicly named — not an exhaustive list. Consult the vendor card for the full record.

Frequently asked

Do any carriers run both At-Bay and Convr?
Not in Phidea's public roster. Across 10 sourced carrier-deployment entries on both vendor cards, zero carriers appear on both. The two tools are addressing different carriers within the same stack layer.
Who owns At-Bay and Convr?
At-Bay is independently held. Convr is independently held.
Which has more named US carriers?
Convr has the larger publicly-named US roster: At-Bay 3, Convr 7. Public-roster size is a coverage signal, not a quality signal — vendors with stronger NDAs may have larger actual US footprints than the public count shows.
Where are these tools positioned in the insurance stack?
Both sit at the underwriting workstation layer. At-Bay replaces manual cyber underwriting, traditional mga submission review; Convr operates as a standalone vendor.

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