Akur8, the global actuarial AI platform, announced today the launch of its new Akur8 Deploy Rating Accelerator on Guidewire Marketplace. Built for Guidewire PolicyCenter customers, the extension connects PolicyCenter and Deploy, Akur8’s modern external rating engine, cutting integration timelines from months to weeks.

By delivering a metadata-driven mapping and transformation layer between PolicyCenter and Deploy’s rating API, the extension for Deploy reduces the custom integration effort required to connect PolicyCenter and Deploy’s rating API. Insurers using the extension can compress that integration phase into a matter of weeks while enabling real-time rating within native PolicyCenter quote workflows.

For actuarial and pricing teams, the extension enables greater control over the rating lifecycle. Once live, actuarial teams can update rating logic, push new rates, and launch revised products directly in Akur8 Deploy, without requiring IT tickets or PolicyCenter redeployment. This reduces reliance on policy administration system release cycles and helps insurers bring rate changes to market faster.

Key capabilities include:

• Faster implementation through pre-built mappings between PolicyCenter and Akur8 Deploy
• Real-time rating within PolicyCenter quote workflows, returning itemized rating factors and premium breakdowns without disrupting the native Guidewire user experience
• Supports both online quote-time rating calls from PolicyCenter and off-line batch re-rating use cases
• Reduced integration risk through standardized transformation logic, validation scripts, and Guidewire-aligned delivery guidance
• Greater actuarial control over rating updates, testing, and deployment from model to policy

Management Comments

Samuel Falmagne, CEO, Akur8

“The Guidewire ecosystem is a critical pathway to market for P&C carriers, and this extension reflects our long-term commitment to meeting insurers where they already operate. Deploy was built to give actuarial teams greater autonomy over the rating process. By prebuilding the integration between Guidewire PolicyCenter and Deploy, we are making that autonomy accessible to a much broader set of carriers. This is about more than technical efficiency; it is about what pricing teams can achieve on their own, without depending on IT.”

Wade Mansoori, Head of Solution Delivery, Akur8

“External rating engine integrations have historically required months of custom middleware development, with actuarial, IT, and system integrator teams coordinating just to connect the rating engine with PolicyCenter. With this extension, that work is packaged into a repeatable, standards-aligned delivery framework. Carriers benefit from a tested mapping specification, validated QA scripts, and a sprint structure that aligns with Guidewire implementation standards. The result is a dramatically shorter path from contract to live rating.”