Practitioner notes on AI implementation, vendor evaluation, and operational reality in insurance.
The market is not short on AI experts. It is short on people who can engineer AI into an existing infrastructure, framework, and process — and produce results a CFO can see.
A small desktop converter, built in days, that has to live where ePHI lives. The build was the easy part. The security and compliance journey was the education.
I built a tool that answers provider network lookups over SMS. The AI was the easy part. Carrier compliance, static-IP architecture, and encrypted transport were where the real lessons lived.
The three frames in circulation for what AI means for the modern insurance agent are usually treated as competing. They are all true at the same time. Choosing one and ignoring the other two is the most common mistake being made.