Insurance Operations

Reduce the repair, waiting and manual effort embedded in insurance operations

Built for specialist brokers, MGAs and insurance-service businesses where submission, servicing, document and exception volumes are putting pressure on operational capacity, service levels and cost-to-serve.

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A practical starting point

Start with one high-volume insurance workflow

Leania establishes the baseline, where repair, waiting and rework concentrate, what drives them, the credible £ value pool, and which intervention is justified before more technology or headcount is added.

  1. 1Baseline
  2. 2Root cause
  3. 3£ value pool
  4. 4Right intervention

You leave with an evidence-backed decision on what to change, what it is worth and what should happen next.

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Start anywhere

Pick the first workflow

  • Broker submission readiness
  • Policy servicing and certificates
  • Claims intake
  • Payments and invoicing
  • Reconciliation
The workflow

Where the cost sits — and where the work stops

  1. Submission receivedStep
    Where capacity leaks: Queue time
  2. Completeness validationStep
    Where capacity leaks: Missing evidence
  3. Evidence and schedule repairStep
    Where capacity leaks: Repeated repair
  4. Operational screeningStep
    Where capacity leaks: Re-keying · Avoidable senior handling
  5. Case ready for underwriting assessmentStep
    No avoidable work here

Avoidable work accumulates here

This is the workflow as it actually runs, including the repair and exception routes a standard process map leaves out.

The opportunity sits before the underwriting decision: missing evidence, repeated repair, queue time, re-keying and avoidable senior handling.

Repair, waiting and repeat handling consume capacity and make growth more expensive before the underwriting decision is even reached.

The result

What you will know at the end

  1. Where is capacity actually being consumed?

  2. What does a unit of this work cost today?

  3. What happens to that as volume rises?

  4. Which response has the strongest economics?

  5. What should be funded in the next 90 days?

Relevant insurance experience

Insurance operations discovery and delivery assurance

Policy servicing, fiduciary operations, opportunity discovery and governed delivery assurance, with identified opportunity kept separate from delivered operational improvement.

45,000 annual hours
Annual opportunity pipeline identified by discoveryAn identified opportunity, not a measured result.
10 opportunities / c.30 FTE
Prioritised opportunities identified, with capacity estimated by the delivery teamAn identified opportunity, not a measured result.
30% improvement
Improvement in aviation certificate processing, delivered by the redesigned workflow

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The principle

Start with the problem. Earn the technology.

Six ways to remove capacity loss. Each is assessed on the evidence; none is the default.

  1. Stop
  2. Simplify
  3. Standardise
  4. Workflow
  5. Automate
  6. AI

The preferred intervention is the simplest one that reliably achieves the outcome and clears the economic and control threshold.

When each one fits, and when it does not →

What it is worth

What it is worth

On the published synthetic model, the capacity released is about £1.79 per submission, or roughly 2,322 more submissions absorbed in a year without adding headcount.

The same released capacity is either redeployed into volume or taken out as cost. It is one or the other, never both.

Synthetic demonstration case — calculated preview

Illustrative, on the stated inputs of the synthetic demonstration case. Not a forecast, and not realised cash: released capacity becomes cost only if management takes it out.

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How the capacity number is built

Every input stated separately, so finance can challenge any one of them

Leania separates delivered results, released capacity, identified opportunity and forecast value so leadership can see exactly what has — and has not — been achieved.

How a capacity figure is built, input by input →

The engagement

One engagement, two stages, one decision between them

21 working days to a Pilot Blueprint

  1. Stage 1 · Working days 1–10
    Establish, then Diagnose & Select

    Build the evidence and the baseline, find where capacity is actually going, and select the intervention worth testing.

    Ends in a GO / STOP decision on the evidence.

  2. Stage 2 · Working days 11–21
    Design, then Specify & Challenge

    Design the future state to the depth the selected intervention requires, then specify the pilot and challenge its assumptions.

    Ends in the Pilot Blueprint and a GO / CHANGE / STOP pilot decision.

The decision at day 10

Stage 1 runs working days 1–10 and ends in a decision. If the evidence doesn't justify continuing, the engagement ends there: you keep the evidence and pay only for Stage 1. If it does, Stage 2 takes the selected intervention to a Pilot Blueprint by working day 21.

£7,500 to start. Stage 2 (£9,500) only if the evidence justifies it.

£17,000 — Total if both stages run, for one bounded workflow. Larger scopes are quoted.

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Optional overview

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See how Leania finds where repair, waiting and manual handling consume capacity, then establishes which intervention is worth funding.

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A worked synthetic example

Broker submission received and logged to complete case ready for underwriting assessment. Worked end-to-end on a synthetic operational log — the discipline is inspectable without any client data.

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The boundary

What we do not do

No actuarial, underwriting, tax-technical, legal or audit advice. No audit opinion. No certification of accounts. Where technical build is required, it is delivered by the client's existing technology team or vetted specialist delivery partners against Leania's requirements, acceptance criteria and quality controls.

Bring one insurance workflow. We’ll start with the evidence and economics, not a technology pitch.

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