Strategy & growth
Where should you compete next?
Sharpen portfolio, pricing and distribution choices so growth comes from risks you actually want to write.
Discuss strategyConsulting for insurance groups
We help insurers, MGAs and brokers make hard decisions with confidence, then see them through. Strategy, regulation and transformation from people who work in insurance and nothing else.
Clear thinking where the stakes are highest.
- Strategy
- Regulation
- Transformation
Overview
When the problem is hard, who do you want in the room?
Insurance doesn't forgive guesswork. Capital, conduct and claims all sit under the regulator's eye, and a decision made in the boardroom shows up in a customer's policy months later.
We keep our work senior and focused. The person who scopes your engagement is the person who delivers it, and we judge ourselves on what changes in your business, not on the thickness of the report.
- 01People who know the marketUnderwriting, claims, capital and distribution. We speak the language, so you don't spend the first month explaining it.
- 02Advice you can act onRecommendations come with an owner, a cost and a sequence. If it can't be delivered, it isn't finished.
- 03Change that stays changedWe build the capability inside your team as we go, so progress doesn't leave the building when we do.
What we do
How can we help you reach your goal?
Six areas where insurance groups most often bring us in. Most engagements touch more than one, so we work across them rather than handing you between teams.
Regulatory change
Are you ready for what the regulator asks next?
Get ahead of Consumer Duty, Solvency UK and operational resilience without stalling the rest of the business.
Discuss regulationOperating model
Is your structure slowing you down?
Redesign how underwriting, claims and support functions fit together, then run the change until it sticks.
Discuss transformationFinance & capital
Does your finance function tell the board what it needs?
Improve reporting, planning and capital insight so decisions are made on numbers people trust.
Discuss financeClaims & operations
Where is value leaking out of claims?
Find the delays, cost and customer friction in your claims journey, and fix them in order of impact.
Discuss claimsData, AI & technology
How do you use AI without adding risk?
Choose the right tools, govern them properly and put them to work in underwriting, pricing and service.
Discuss data & AI
Who we work with
Built around how insurance actually works
A carrier, a managing agent and an MGA face different pressures. We start from yours. Select a segment to see where we tend to help.
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Insurers01
Insurers
Personal, commercial and specialty carriers balancing growth, capital and conduct. Strategy, operating model and regulatory programmes.
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Lloyd's & London market02
Lloyd's & the London market
Managing agents, syndicates and specialty carriers. Business planning, performance oversight and market modernisation.
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MGAs & delegated authority03
MGAs & delegated authority
Growing MGAs and the capacity providers behind them. Capacity readiness, oversight frameworks and scaling without losing control.
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Brokers & intermediaries04
Brokers & intermediaries
Retail and wholesale brokers. Integration after acquisition, client outcomes under Consumer Duty and more efficient placing.
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Reinsurers05
Reinsurers
Reinsurers and their cedants. Portfolio strategy, data exchange and the operating detail that sits behind treaty and facultative business.
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Investors in insurance06
Investors in insurance
Private equity and strategic buyers. Commercial due diligence, value creation plans and post-deal integration for insurance assets.
How we work
From first conversation to lasting change
Every engagement follows the same shape, scaled to the problem. You always know where we are, what comes next and what it costs.
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Understand
We get under the numbers and talk to the people doing the work, so the problem we solve is the real one.
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Decide
Clear options, the trade-offs between them and a recommendation we're prepared to stand behind.
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Deliver
We stay for the hard part. Plans become milestones with named owners, tracked week by week.
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Hand over
Your team runs it from here. We leave the tools, the governance and the know-how behind.
Why Archangel
The focus of a specialist, the standards of a large firm
Big consultancies bring scale. We bring attention. Senior people on every piece of work, and a single focus on the insurance market.
Insurance only
One market, understood properly. No learning curve paid for by you.
Senior-led
The people you meet at the pitch are the people who do the work.
Independent
No software to sell and no preferred vendors. Our advice has one interest: yours.
Built to last
We measure success by what still works a year after we've gone.
Perspectives
What we're thinking about
Short views on the issues coming up most often in conversations with insurance leaders.
Regulation
Consumer Duty is now an evidence problem
The rules are settled. What firms find hard is proving good outcomes with data they trust, across products and distribution chains they don't fully control. That's where the effort needs to go now.
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Data & AI
AI in underwriting needs governance first
The tools are ready sooner than the controls around them. Getting ownership, testing and explainability right early is what lets AI scale safely.
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Delegated authority
Oversight that scales with your MGAs
Audit-heavy oversight doesn't keep up as programmes grow. Better data and risk-based monitoring give capacity providers more control with less friction.
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Contact
Talk to an expert
Tell us a little about the challenge you're facing. We'll come back to you personally, usually with a few questions and a time to talk.
Founder & Chief ExecutiveArchangel Consulting