Feb 10, 2025
Launching Vantel: AI built for commercial insurance brokers
Vantel launches to remove the manual work that dominates commercial insurance, so brokers can focus on judgment, relationships, and the moments that actually matter to clients.
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Every meaningful company starts with a specific tension. In commercial insurance, that tension is between the value brokers create and how their time is actually spent. The industry relies on deep expertise, context, and trust, yet much of the daily work revolves around manual tasks that slow teams down and dilute that expertise. Vantel was created to resolve this mismatch by redesigning how brokers interact with information.
The Founding Moment
Vantel began with a shared instinct between two founders who recognized both a personal fit and a structural opportunity. Both are Swedish engineers with degrees in Engineering Physics from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, shaped by a mindset of first principles and systems thinking. One founder had hands on experience processing claims at Trygg Hansa, seeing firsthand how complex information flows through the insurance lifecycle. The other had previously built a startup selling data to insurance companies, understanding how fragmented and underutilized that data often is. When they met, it was immediately clear that this was a partnership worth building around.
“We wanted to build a startup, we wanted to do it together, and insurance kept pulling us back in.”
Vantel began with a shared instinct between two founders who recognized both a personal fit and a structural opportunity. Both are Swedish engineers with degrees in Engineering Physics from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, shaped by a mindset of first principles and systems thinking. One founder had hands on experience processing claims at Trygg Hansa, seeing firsthand how complex information flows through the insurance lifecycle. The other had previously built a startup selling data to insurance companies, understanding how fragmented and underutilized that data often is. When they met, it was immediately clear that this was a partnership worth building around.
“We wanted to build a startup, we wanted to do it together, and insurance kept pulling us back in.”
Vantel began with a shared instinct between two founders who recognized both a personal fit and a structural opportunity. Both are Swedish engineers with degrees in Engineering Physics from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, shaped by a mindset of first principles and systems thinking. One founder had hands on experience processing claims at Trygg Hansa, seeing firsthand how complex information flows through the insurance lifecycle. The other had previously built a startup selling data to insurance companies, understanding how fragmented and underutilized that data often is. When they met, it was immediately clear that this was a partnership worth building around.
“We wanted to build a startup, we wanted to do it together, and insurance kept pulling us back in.”
Learning From The Industry
Rather than starting with assumptions, the team started with conversations. Over the course of several weeks, they spoke to one hundred professionals across the commercial insurance ecosystem. These conversations spanned underwriters, actuaries, and claims adjusters at carriers, brokers and agents on the distribution side, and CFOs and risk managers responsible for insurance decisions on the client side. The goal was not validation of an idea, but clarity on where the real friction lives.
A consistent pattern emerged. Brokers care deeply about being trusted advisors. They want to help clients navigate risk, make confident decisions, and feel supported when it matters most. That is the part of the job they enjoy and the part clients value.
“One broker told us the human, advisory part of the job is about 20 percent.”
Rather than starting with assumptions, the team started with conversations. Over the course of several weeks, they spoke to one hundred professionals across the commercial insurance ecosystem. These conversations spanned underwriters, actuaries, and claims adjusters at carriers, brokers and agents on the distribution side, and CFOs and risk managers responsible for insurance decisions on the client side. The goal was not validation of an idea, but clarity on where the real friction lives.
A consistent pattern emerged. Brokers care deeply about being trusted advisors. They want to help clients navigate risk, make confident decisions, and feel supported when it matters most. That is the part of the job they enjoy and the part clients value.
“One broker told us the human, advisory part of the job is about 20 percent.”
Rather than starting with assumptions, the team started with conversations. Over the course of several weeks, they spoke to one hundred professionals across the commercial insurance ecosystem. These conversations spanned underwriters, actuaries, and claims adjusters at carriers, brokers and agents on the distribution side, and CFOs and risk managers responsible for insurance decisions on the client side. The goal was not validation of an idea, but clarity on where the real friction lives.
A consistent pattern emerged. Brokers care deeply about being trusted advisors. They want to help clients navigate risk, make confident decisions, and feel supported when it matters most. That is the part of the job they enjoy and the part clients value.
“One broker told us the human, advisory part of the job is about 20 percent.”
Where Time Is Lost
The remaining 80 percent tells a different story. It is filled with manual, repetitive work that has accumulated over years of incremental systems and regulatory complexity. Brokers spend hours analyzing policies and contracts, managing regulatory documentation, reconciling billing, pulling data from multiple tools, and translating dense insurance language into something a client can actually understand. This work is necessary, but it is not where brokers create differentiated value.
The remaining 80 percent tells a different story. It is filled with manual, repetitive work that has accumulated over years of incremental systems and regulatory complexity. Brokers spend hours analyzing policies and contracts, managing regulatory documentation, reconciling billing, pulling data from multiple tools, and translating dense insurance language into something a client can actually understand. This work is necessary, but it is not where brokers create differentiated value.
The remaining 80 percent tells a different story. It is filled with manual, repetitive work that has accumulated over years of incremental systems and regulatory complexity. Brokers spend hours analyzing policies and contracts, managing regulatory documentation, reconciling billing, pulling data from multiple tools, and translating dense insurance language into something a client can actually understand. This work is necessary, but it is not where brokers create differentiated value.
Why The Imbalance Matters
This imbalance has real consequences. It limits how many clients a broker can effectively serve. It increases cognitive load and operational risk. It slows response times in moments where speed and clarity matter. Most importantly, it pulls brokers away from the human interactions that build trust and long term relationships. The issue is not lack of skill or effort. It is that the underlying tools were never designed for how modern commercial insurance actually operates.
This imbalance has real consequences. It limits how many clients a broker can effectively serve. It increases cognitive load and operational risk. It slows response times in moments where speed and clarity matter. Most importantly, it pulls brokers away from the human interactions that build trust and long term relationships. The issue is not lack of skill or effort. It is that the underlying tools were never designed for how modern commercial insurance actually operates.
This imbalance has real consequences. It limits how many clients a broker can effectively serve. It increases cognitive load and operational risk. It slows response times in moments where speed and clarity matter. Most importantly, it pulls brokers away from the human interactions that build trust and long term relationships. The issue is not lack of skill or effort. It is that the underlying tools were never designed for how modern commercial insurance actually operates.
Why Vantel Exists
Vantel is being built to address this exact problem. It is an AI software platform for commercial insurance brokers that turns unstructured data from policies, contracts, emails, and documents into structured, usable insights. By automating the heavy lifting in the background, Vantel helps brokers spend less time managing information and more time applying judgment.
Vantel is being built to address this exact problem. It is an AI software platform for commercial insurance brokers that turns unstructured data from policies, contracts, emails, and documents into structured, usable insights. By automating the heavy lifting in the background, Vantel helps brokers spend less time managing information and more time applying judgment.
Vantel is being built to address this exact problem. It is an AI software platform for commercial insurance brokers that turns unstructured data from policies, contracts, emails, and documents into structured, usable insights. By automating the heavy lifting in the background, Vantel helps brokers spend less time managing information and more time applying judgment.
Looking Ahead
Vantel is not about replacing brokers or removing the human element from insurance. It is about restoring it. By reducing the time spent on manual processes, the platform gives brokers leverage to do what they do best. This launch marks the beginning of a more focused, more modern way of working in commercial insurance, built around clarity, efficiency, and trust.
Vantel is not about replacing brokers or removing the human element from insurance. It is about restoring it. By reducing the time spent on manual processes, the platform gives brokers leverage to do what they do best. This launch marks the beginning of a more focused, more modern way of working in commercial insurance, built around clarity, efficiency, and trust.
Vantel is not about replacing brokers or removing the human element from insurance. It is about restoring it. By reducing the time spent on manual processes, the platform gives brokers leverage to do what they do best. This launch marks the beginning of a more focused, more modern way of working in commercial insurance, built around clarity, efficiency, and trust.
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Grow your brokerage with more confidence.
See how Vantel can fit your workflows, security requirements, and book of business in a live session with our team.
Protect your clients with more insight.
Grow your brokerage with more confidence.
See how Vantel can fit your workflows, security requirements, and book of business in a live session with our team.
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Know the difference.
Choose the right cover.
Vantel helps brokers compare coverage faster and make clearer, more confident decisions.
© 2026 Vantel Inc. All rights reserved.
Know the difference.
Choose the right cover.
Vantel helps brokers compare coverage faster and make clearer, more confident decisions.
© 2026 Vantel Inc. All rights reserved.
