COVU Launches COVU OS, the AI-native Operating Layer Rebuilding How Insurance Work Gets Done

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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 10, 2026--

COVU today announced the launch of COVU OS, the core operating layer of its AI-native operating stack for insurance distribution. COVU OS is not AI added to existing workflows. It is the workflow rebuilt: a task-native orchestration layer that converts every inbound service request into a structured task and routes it to the right execution layer, whether AI, licensed agents, or offshore support based on cost, compliance, and complexity.

THE PROBLEM INSURANCE HAS NEVER SOLVED

The average independent agency spends 50 to 70 percent of its resources on service work while operating at 20 to 25 percent EBITDA. A mid-size agency with 10,000 policies processes up to 100,000 service transactions per year, still managed through email, manual triage, and fragmented handoffs. None of it is designed to be routable, measurable, or improvable.

The bottleneck is not intelligence. It is operational design. AI agents bolted onto ambiguous, unstructured workflows break in regulated, exception-heavy environments. Without decomposing work into structured tasks, AI remains an assistant layered on top of the same broken system and infrastructure.

INTRODUCING COVU OS

COVU OS is the core of COVU's New Operating Stack for insurance distribution. It does not add intelligence to old workflows. It rebuilds the workflow itself around a single new unit of work: the task.

Every service request entering a COVU agency is now automatically understood, enriched with full policy and carrier context, decomposed into structured tasks with defined inputs and outputs, and routed to the right execution layer: AI, automation, offshore, or licensed agent, based on cost, compliance, and complexity and so many other factors baked into the system.

This is the shift: not AI layered onto legacy workflows, but workflows redesigned so AI can operate inside them.

COVU OS sits at the center of a broader stack that includes VERO, Connect, Service Engine, Markets, and Capital. OS is not a standalone feature. It is the layer that makes the entire stack real.

WHAT IT ENABLES

When the task becomes the unit of work, insurance operations become visible, controllable, and continuously optimizable for the first time. COVU OS gives operations leaders a true control plane: real-time visibility into cost per task, time to resolution, escalation frequency, rework rate, workload balance, and routing efficiency. Not just a reporting dashboard, but a live operating instrument.

PROVEN IN PRODUCTION

COVU OS is now live across dozens of agencies serving tens of thousands of customers.

The early results:

- AI embedded natively across 230+ task types spanning 50+ lines of insurance, with automation coverage expanding monthly.
- COVU OS has processed 150,000+ tasks in its first 30 days of production
- 4.77 / 5.0 CSAT, top 5% of the industry
- 2-3x EBITDA improvement on individual books
- 91.2% renewal GWP retention

Task-level cost tracking enables continuous optimization, with economics compounding as more workflows move onto the stack. A certificate of insurance that costs the industry $10-15 and 44 minutes costs COVU under $2 and completes in minutes. A renewal that used to require a licensed agent end-to-end is now 15 structured tasks orchestrated by COVU OS, with licensed capacity reserved only for the steps that genuinely require a license. The economics compound every month as the system learns.

"Insurance agencies have been trying to modernize for more than 20 years," says Ali Safavi, Founder & CEO of COVU. "The missing piece was never smarter software or better AI. It was an operating layer that actually runs the work. COVU OS is that layer. It takes every service request, breaks it into structured tasks, routes each one to the right execution layer, and learns from every outcome. The result isn't incremental efficiency, it's a fundamentally different cost structure and a fundamentally better operation. We're not selling a tool. We rebuilt the workflow itself."

ABOUT COVU

COVU is building the AI-native operating stack for insurance distribution — bringing together the full stack required to modernize how agencies operate, grow, and transition. The platform combines software that restructures work into AI-native workflows and connects the fragmented systems agencies already run on, services that ensure compliant execution, markets that expand carrier access and distribution leverage, and capital that supports ownership, growth, and succession.

Learn more at https://go.covu.com/os

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