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Can Outmarket expand into the MGA / Carrier market with significantly higher TAM?
Bull case ↑
Outmarket can leverage data suite or submission intake to access MGA / carrier markets.
  1. Develop & cross-sell MGA specific workflow solutions to current MGA logos buying its data suite. While MGA / carrier workflows differ from brokerages, underlying ingestion capability is the same.
  2. Own submission intake at the brokerage level, eliminating the need for carriers to re-clean the same data downstream. Winning Tier 1 brokers captures the majority of submission volume — carrier adoption could then pull more brokerage partners onto the platform.
“There’s overlap in the kinds of data held by these two types of players in the insurance industry. So eventually there might be some convergence”
Head of GTM | AI Insurtech
“The reason we often buy software is not so much because we need it. It’s because we want to go to our customers — who for us [a large carrier] are mostly brokers — and say we are completely integrated with Applied.”
IT Leadership | Carrier
Bear case ↓
Carrier and MGA expansion requires significant investment in a hotly contested market.
  • No evidence expansion is a near-term priority, given their focus on moving upmarket in brokerages and the 2025 shift to back-office automation.
  • Significant investment required to build new GTM motion and product to compete with well-funded players like FurtherAI & Pace AI.
  • Well-capitalized competitors have already developed mature intake capabilities on the carrier / MGA side.
“Not that much right now, to be honest. Are we going to venture into carrier workflows? Potentially, but we have a lot to do on the broker side first.”
Head of Product | AI Insurtech
“The enterprise [carrier] market takes a really, really long time to sell into. You could prove it works quickly, then twiddle your thumbs for months waiting on a peer review.”
Former GTM | AI Insurtech
What makes or breaks the deal?
What makes the deal
Outmarket wins Tier 1 brokerages and builds traction in carrier / MGA market
  • Greenfield is wide and Outmarket is already winning in Tier 2s against a better-funded incumbent; Tier 2 traction translates into Tier 1 wins.
  • Outmarket accelerates product & GTM to reach more logos before Fulcrum gets there.
  • Outmarket leverages its data & analytics suite or upstream brokerage position to unlock carriers / MGAs.
What breaks the deal
Multi-front squeeze boxes Outmarket into Tier 2 head-to-head vs Fulcrum
  • Market capped at top and bottom: Tier 1 adoption limited by DIY; long tail adopts generic LLM agent plug-ins.
  • Greenfield in Tier 2 narrows with each customer contested by Fulcrum.
  • Better-capitalized cross-segment players like FurtherAI lock out intake needs at carriers / MGAs.
Search is a persistent pain point, driving lawyers to spend excessive time finding precedents or fall back on less relevant prior work.
How often do lawyers at your organization struggle to find the most relevant internal precedent or prior work product?
Very often
10%
Often
26%
Sometimes
37%
Occasionally
13%
Rarely
12%
Not sure
2%
“If your Windows desktop was, you know, millions of documents and, you know, with virtually no organizational schema, that’s what most law firm DMS look like.”
— CIO | AmLaw 200
“The biggest complaint I get from partners is: ‘I’ve got 5 million documents in this thing and I can’t find the contract I need.’”
— Co-founder & Chief AI Officer | Legal Tech
Sources: Market participant survey Mar 2026 (Overall N=100), market participant interviews Feb / Mar 2026 (N=22)
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Altis Sourced Expert – Call Transcript

Owner & COO | Commercial insurance brokerage

May 12, 2026 · AI InsurTech Market Study · Outmarket

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