QuoteSweep

Overview

Commercial comparative rater that does not use carrier APIs at all. AI web agents “log into carrier portals, fill applications, handle MFA and CAPTCHAs, and return quotes — all running in parallel across your carrier panel,” using the agency’s own credentials and appointments. Founded 2025 by Ankur (Founder & CEO), a non-insurance/data background; explicitly a machine-automation answer to the API-coverage ceiling. Claimed effect: a ~3-hour manual quote cycle compressed to under 30 minutes. Pricing is public and submission-metered: Solo $49/mo(10submissions),Pro$99/mo (30), Business $299/mo (100). Lines: BOP, GL, WC, commercial auto, umbrella, professional, cyber, EPLI. Funding not disclosed — (unknown — needs source).

Relationships

• herald · coverforce — the API-first quoting rails; QuoteSweep is the complement, not the competitor: it reaches the long tail of carriers that will never expose an API.
• bold-penguin · Tarmika · Semsee · vertafore Commercial Submissions — the incumbent API/RPA raters it positions against; all four are owned by a carrier or AMS, QuoteSweep is independent.

Notes

• ⭐ The number that matters, and it independently corroborates Herald’s own index. QuoteSweep’s founding observation: “2,700 carriers, and only 86 expose any commercial API.” 86 is exactly the carrier count in herald’s published Insurance API Index — meaning the entire API-first commercial quoting category, Herald included, addresses roughly 3% of US commercial carriers by count. QuoteSweep’s own marketing puts it as “~50 carriers (with APIs)” vs “~2,600 (portal-only)“. This is the supply-side statement of the same constraint policy-ingestion-requires-a-data-rail makes on the ingestion side: there is no API rail in US commercial insurance in either direction — only credential-driven brute force.
• This product is the “portal-raking” job. Job 4 (Quoting) in broker-jobs-to-be-done-map — logging into N carrier portals one at a time to retrieve actual numbers after submission — is precisely what QuoteSweep automates. Its existence, pricing, and claimed time saving are direct market evidence for that job’s cost and automatability.
• Requires the agency’s own appointments and credentials — the same hard constraint as herald. Nothing in this category grants market access; it only makes existing access faster.
• Security posture is unusually well documented for a 2025 startup (checked 2026-08-17): carrier credentials “never stored in our application database,” held in AWS Secrets Manager with KMS encryption; usernames, passwords and portal MFA/TOTP seeds “never included in any prompt or context sent to an AI provider” (a meaningful and non-obvious commitment for an LLM-agent product); tenant isolation scoped by agency ID at the data-access layer; TLS 1.2+, AES-256 at rest; applicant data and credentials destroyed within 30 days of offboarding. Caveat: the SOC 2 Type II certifications cited belong to its infrastructure providers (Railway, Supabase), not to QuoteSweep itself — an important distinction versus canopy-connect’s and axle’s own SOC 2 Type II.
• Carrier-count claims are internally inconsistent — the About page’s 2026 milestone says “expanded to 70+ carriers across 8 lines of business” while marketing pages claim “550+ carriers tracked” and “500+ (435 verified).” Most plausible reconciliation is 70+ actively automated vs. several hundred merely catalogued, but the vendor does not say so. Same category of red flag as insurgrid’s 150/350/450 discrepancy.
• Not yet assessed: whether it is usable programmatically (API/webhooks) or dashboard-only, reliability/completion rate per carrier portal, and how carrier terms-of-service treat automated portal login — the last being a real legal-durability question for the whole mechanism, and one that applies equally to the ingestion cohort.
• Also publishes a content/SEO operation (carrier guides, tool comparisons, an insurtech funding tracker) that is a useful — if vendor-authored — secondary source on this landscape.

Mentioned in

• insurance-vendor-diligence-tracker — added 2026-08-17 during the adjacent-vendor sweep; the portal-automation counterpart to the API-first quoting rails.