Top InsurTech AI vendors to see at ITC Vegas 2026

Abhi Balijepalli Co-founder, CopyCat

Published August 21, 2026·9 min read

The short version

• ITC Vegas 2026 runs September 29 to October 1 at Mandalay Bay, with 9,000+ attendees and 600+ exhibitors. Over 230 exhibitors in the official directory tag themselves AI/ML, more than a third of the floor.
• This list is picked for independent agencies: tools your team can actually run, one vendor per job, no overlapping category padding.
• For the agency itself: CopyCat AI (proposals and quote comparison), Canopy Connect (client data intake), Zocks (meeting notes), Liberate (voice AI), Fenris (quoting data prefill).
• Carrier-side platforms (Shift, CLARA, Akur8, Sixfold, Wisedocs, Ushur, Balto) are worth a walk-by to see where your markets are investing.
• CopyCat will be on the floor as an exhibitor and Supporter Sponsor. Come watch a carrier quote become a branded, cited proposal live.

More than a third of the ITC Vegas 2026 exhibitor directory now tags itself AI/ML: over 230 companies out of 600+ exhibitors. That is too many booths to evaluate honestly in three days, and most of them are not built for you. The majority sell to carriers: claims platforms, actuarial pricing, underwriting workbenches, fraud detection. Valuable work, but someone else's workflow.

So this is a working shortlist for independent agencies, split into two lists: AI your agency can put to work the week after the conference, and carrier-side platforms worth seeing so you understand where your markets are heading. For dates, venues, and the rest of the fall calendar, see our 2026 conference guide for commercial brokers.

The shortlist at a glance

AI your agency can use: the independent-agency five

CopyCat AI: proposals, quote comparison, and market summaries

CopyCat is AI purpose-built for independent insurance agencies: commercial, personal lines, and employee benefits brokers. Upload carrier quotes and CopyCat turns them into an agency-branded proposal in about two minutes: coverage, limits, deductibles, premiums, and exclusions extracted from the source documents, organized into a side-by-side comparison, and kept editable through final review. Benefits teams get market summaries and live-formula workbooks from the same platform.

The difference to look for at the booth is verifiability. Every extracted number carries a page-level citation back to the carrier document, and customer documents are never used to train AI models. Pricing is a simple monthly fee: no implementation charges, no per-module add-ons, no annual lock-in. See how the insurance proposal software works, browse real sample proposals, or compare it against alternatives on the comparison hub. We'll be exhibiting on the floor as a Supporter Sponsor. Bring a real carrier quote and watch it become a proposal.

Canopy Connect: client data intake without the questionnaire

Canopy Connect solves the ugliest step in quoting: getting accurate current-policy information out of a prospect. You send a link, the prospect connects their existing carrier account, and verified personal or commercial policy data lands in your inbox in seconds and more than 20,000 agents use it. It pairs naturally with proposal software: clean data in, client-ready comparison out, without the dec-page archaeology in between.

Zocks: the meeting writes itself up

Zocks listens to client meetings and calls, then turns the conversation into structured notes, data fields, and follow-up tasks. For producers running back-to-back renewal conversations, it is the difference between CRM notes that exist and CRM notes that do not. It stays out of the sales pitch itself, which is exactly why it earns a spot on a non-overlapping shortlist.

Liberate: voice AI that resolves, not deflects

Liberate deploys insurance-native AI agents across voice and digital channels for sales, service, and claims intake. For an agency, the near-term use is service capacity: certificate requests, billing questions, and first notice of loss handled end-to-end after hours, with the conversation summarized for the account manager in the morning.

Fenris: fewer questions per quote

Fenris supplies data prefill and enrichment APIs that shrink quoting intake from a questionnaire to a name and address. It is plumbing rather than a demo-floor spectacle, and that is the compliment: prefill is one of the quietest ways to raise quote-to-bind conversion.

Carrier-side AI worth a walk-by

None of these are agency tools, but each one signals where your markets are spending, and a fifteen-minute booth conversation is the cheapest market intelligence at the show. Shift Technology puts AI agents on claims and fraud decisions at hundreds of carriers. CLARA Analytics reads casualty claims files and guides adjusters on loss costs. Akur8 has become the reference for transparent actuarial pricing AI, serving 350+ customers across 40 countries. Sixfold AI reasons through underwriting submissions the way an experienced underwriter would, before a human opens the file. Wisedocs turns mountains of medical and legal records into decision-ready claims summaries. Ushur automates policyholder journeys (service, renewals, group benefits) across text, email, voice, and chat. Balto gives contact-center agents real-time guidance, QA, and coaching in one platform.

When a carrier partner tells you their renewal turnaround or claims communication is about to change, odds are one of these platforms is why. Knowing the names makes you a sharper buyer and a sharper advocate for your clients.

Five questions to ask at any AI booth

The expo floor rewards skepticism. Whatever the category, the same five questions separate production software from a demo reel:

These are the standards CopyCat holds itself to: page-level citations on every extracted value, no model training on customer documents, SOC 2 Type II, agency templates reproduced exactly, and one simple monthly price. Ask us the same five questions at the booth. That is what they are for.

Meet CopyCat at ITC Vegas

CopyCat will be exhibiting at ITC Vegas 2026, September 29 through October 1 at Mandalay Bay, as a Supporter Sponsor. If your agency is evaluating AI for proposals, quote comparison, or benefits market summaries, bring a real carrier quote to the booth and watch it become a cited, branded, editable proposal in about two minutes. Or skip the line and book a demo before the show.