A $3T insurance portfolio still ran on Excel — spawning AI-native brokerage Delegance
CShorten30 · x · 2026-09-28
On the Weaviate podcast, Delegance Brokerage founder alexledbetter15 recounts how an internship at AXA XL revealed that a three-trillion-dollar insurance portfolio was still managed in Excel, with legacy systems and 25% broker commissions leaving room for modernization. That observation became Delegance, an AI-native commercial insurance brokerage.
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