Building an AI Claims Adjudication Engine
Insurance claims adjudication is one of those industries where technology is decades behind. Most TPAs (Third-Party Administrators) still run on legacy systems built in the COBOL era — manual triage, paper-based workflows, and adjusters drowning in 200+ open claims each.
I built ClaimDesk AI to fix this.
The Problem Nobody's Solving Well
Here's what a typical P&C claim looks like at a mid-market TPA:
- FNOL arrives (First Notice of Loss) — someone files a claim
- Manual triage — a supervisor reads it, decides complexity, assigns an adjuster
- Document collection — adjuster chases ACORD forms, police reports, medical records
- Investigation — adjuster evaluates liability, damages, coverage
- Reserve setting — educated guess based on experience
- Settlement — negotiation, payment
Steps 2-5 are where claims sit for weeks. The average P&C claim takes 30-45 days to close. For a TPA handling 5,000 claims/month, that backlog compounds fast.
The existing "AI" tools in the space (Guidewire ClaimCenter, Duck Creek) are really just workflow automation with some rules engines. They don't actually understand the claim.
What ClaimDesk Does Differently
AI Triage on Arrival
When a claim hits ClaimDesk, the AI engine immediately:
- Scores fraud risk — pattern matching across claim characteristics, claimant history, and known fraud indicators
- Estimates complexity — simple fender bender vs. multi-vehicle injury claim vs. commercial property loss
- Predicts litigation probability — based on claim type, jurisdiction, injury severity
- Sets preliminary reserves — AI-estimated reserve ranges based on historical outcomes and market data
This happens in seconds, not the 24-48 hours it takes a human supervisor to review and route.
Smart Adjuster Routing
Claims get matched to adjusters based on:
- Specialization (auto, property, liability, workers' comp)
- Current workload and capacity
- Historical performance on similar claim types
- Geographic proximity for field inspections
This isn't round-robin assignment — it's optimized routing that reduces average claim duration by matching the right adjuster to the right claim.
Document Intelligence
The biggest time sink in claims is document handling. ClaimDesk extracts structured data from:
- ACORD forms (the standardized insurance forms)
- Police reports
- Medical records and bills
- Contractor estimates and invoices
- Photos and damage assessments
Instead of an adjuster manually reading and entering data from 15 documents per claim, the AI extracts and cross-references everything automatically.
The Technical Stack
Built with a modern stack designed for security and scale:
- Next.js for the adjuster dashboard and FNOL intake
- Supabase with Row Level Security for multi-tenant data isolation
- Groq/Llama for fast AI inference on claim analysis
- 9-table relational schema — organizations, users, claims, documents, adjusters, routing rules, reserves, audit log, fraud indicators
The architecture is designed so each TPA's data is completely isolated via RLS policies. An adjuster at TPA-A can never see claims from TPA-B, even if they share the same database.
Pricing: Per-Claim, Not Per-Seat
Most insurance software charges per seat — $150/user/month for a 50-adjuster shop = $7,500/month whether you process 500 or 5,000 claims.
ClaimDesk uses outcome-based pricing:
| Plan | Per Claim | Platform Fee | Best For |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $5 | $500/mo | < 500 claims/mo |
| Professional | $15 | $1,200/mo | 500-5,000 claims/mo |
| Enterprise | Custom | Volume | Carriers & large TPAs |
Your first 50 claims are free. No credit card required.
This aligns our revenue with your throughput — we make more when you process more claims efficiently, which is exactly the incentive structure a TPA wants from their tech vendor.
Why Now?
Three things converged to make this possible:
- LLMs got fast enough — Groq inference means we can analyze a claim document in <2 seconds, not minutes
- Legacy system contracts expiring — many TPAs signed 10-year deals with Guidewire/Duck Creek around 2015-2016. Those renewals are coming up and the switching cost conversation is real.
- Outcome-based pricing demand — McKinsey's 2025 insurance report highlighted that TPAs are increasingly rejecting per-seat pricing in favor of per-claim or per-outcome models
What's Next
ClaimDesk is live at claimdeskai.com with a working demo. We're building out:
- Full document upload pipeline with OCR + AI extraction
- Automated adjuster routing with workload balancing
- Reserve prediction model trained on historical P&C outcomes
- Integration APIs for existing policy admin systems
If you're running a TPA or working in insurance claims tech, I'd love to hear what tools you're currently using and what's broken about them.
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