Convr

Convr is a Chicago-area commercial-lines AI company that does one thing well: it reads the documents a broker sends — ACORD forms, loss runs, PDFs, emails — and turns them into structured fields an underwriter can actually use. The company was founded in 2016 in Schaumburg, Illinois by Harish Neelamana and Kuldeep Malik, both of whom came from insurance rather than software. Neelamana remains Founder, President and Chief Product Officer today. John Stammen joined as CEO and has led the company since 2020.

From DataCubes to Convr. The original name, DataCubes, described what the platform ingested. The rebrand in May 2020 pointed to what it produces: convergence of decision science and traditional insurance underwriting. Stammen's explanation at the time was plain — "DataCubes" made carriers think they were buying a data feed rather than an underwriting layer.

What the platform does. The Convr AI Underwriting Workbench is modular. Intake AI handles document ingestion: machine learning and computer vision pull text from ACORDs, loss runs, and inspection forms, then map it against Convr's commercial P&C submission ontology — a structured schema built over a decade, informed by data needs spanning roughly 80% of written commercial insurance premium. Risk 360 enriches the resulting risk profile against Convr's data lake (85M+ businesses, 120 billion risk exposures surfaced). Answers AI responds to underwriting questions automatically. Scores AI ranks submissions by appetite fit and data completeness so underwriters touch the most promising risks first. Workflow and d3 Desk manage rate-quote-bind steps and referral routing.

The platform does not replace a policy admin system or rating engine. It sits upstream, structures the incoming data, and hands off a clean JSON payload to whatever system the carrier already runs.

Named customers. Zurich North America has worked with Convr since 2017 and expanded the relationship in December 2025 to cover Intake AI for auto-line document processing. Hiscox USA adopted d3 Risk 360 and d3 Answers in September 2021, cutting submission-to-quote time by 70% and increasing new business win rates. Penn National Insurance renewed its contract in February 2025, using Risk 360 AI and Answers AI across its small-to-mid commercial portfolio. Earlier clients named in the Series B announcement include The Hanover, Selective Insurance, RLI, Columbia Insurance Group, WCF Insurance, and Tangram. Ohio Mutual Insurance Group and Western National Insurance also appear in public case study materials.

Funding and ownership. Convr raised approximately $18M across two rounds: a seed round in 2017 and a $15.2M Series B in November 2019 led by Palm Drive Capital, with participation from Altos Ventures, NFP Ventures, Stage 2 Capital, MPK Equity Partners, Seyen Capital, and MK Capital. No further equity rounds have been publicly announced. The company is independent. CCC Intelligent Solutions — sometimes cited in the same breath as Convr in insurer conversations — acquired EvolutionIQ (a disability and injury claims AI company) in early 2025, not Convr.

Ecosystem and recent moves. In May 2026 Convr announced expanded technology alliances including Guidewire Technology Alliances, Coherent, Swiss Re CatNet, Swiss Re Property Data Services, Exavalu, and Property Guardian. The integrations connect third-party data directly into the workbench without custom carrier development. In January 2026, Convr released agentic workflow agents — referral, declination, financial analyst, and underwriting authority — embedded inside the workbench UI.

What it replaces. Before a submission ingestion layer, underwriters at commercial carriers spent significant time re-keying broker-provided PDFs into their own systems, chasing missing fields, and manually answering classification questions that determine appetite fit. Convr compresses that prep work. The 70% reduction in submission-to-quote time reported by Hiscox, and the 130% efficiency gains cited across its customer base, reflect how much time was previously lost to document handling rather than actual underwriting judgment.

Where it does not go. Convr is US commercial P&C only. Personal lines, life, health, workers' comp, and any non-US market are outside its documented scope. No Gartner, Forrester, Celent, or Novarica quadrant placement exists for AI-driven submission ingestion as a standalone category as of May 2026.