Ben Rose, Co-Founder and President of Supercede, highlighted that the company has seen steady growth since its launch, with much of the expansion driven by brokers recognising the platform’s ability to streamline time-consuming, ‘table-stakes’ tasks and free them to focus on improving deal quality and client outcomes.
Supercede is an independent reinsurance platform designed to simplify complex workflows and improve outcomes across the reinsurance value chain. With a suite of continuously developed software tools, its advanced technology tackles the key challenges faced by reinsurance practitioners.
In an interview with Reinsurance News during RVS 2025 in Monte Carlo, Rose said brokers are increasingly recognising a massive opportunity in Supercede. The company is able to handle “table-stakes” tasks that are essential but don’t differentiate brokers to clients.
“You’re not going to choose a broker because they organise your submission data. That’s supposed to be easy, right? It just isn’t,” said Rose. “So, what they focus on is how do they make that part of the process as quick and painless as possible? And the way they’re finding that is with Supercede, and then how do we come and add way more value than anybody else is in our specific areas of strength?”
He cited Lockton Re as an example. The broker integrates Supercede with its solutions and analytics tools, allowing all of that data work to be done efficiently before going straight out to market, unlike other brokers who “spend 80% of their time fiddling about with data and only 20% of the time getting you the best deal.”
Rose explained, “Using our advanced analytics, we figure out how you’re actually going to get the best terms and so on in your placement and then we have our whole team fully focused on outcomes.”
He said that Supercede essentially works with all brokers. “Brokers use Supercede on their clients’ behalf, and a few of them have us in a collaboration mode, where both the brokers and the clients and Supercede work together on the data submissions, working on how should we do our limit banding, how should we do our stacking aggregations and so on?”
Rose explained that the company has seen steady growth since launch, with opportunities to expand with existing clients each step of the way, while also gaining access to new clients.
He said, “For some clients, they don’t want to be overcharged for their reinsurance, and so they work with us on getting their submission data clean and crisp. For other clients, they really want to just have an intelligent way to manage their reinsurance portfolio, to have this live view of everything that’s going on.”
He also highlighted the step change in API adoption over the past few years, which enables data to be sent seamlessly from one party to another or from one system to another.
“AI, obviously, is at the early-ish stage in terms of where that could go, but towards the maturing and much more common stage now, APIs are properly available and work brilliantly. I think that’s probably the unsung hero of the modern reinsurance technology stack — APIs are now actually a thing, and people are actually using them. They’re actually working.”
Looking ahead, Rose said the company is now extending its focus to back-office workflows.
“We’ve uncovered recently what it’s like for those who unfortunately work in the back office world. The guys who get handed a slip or something and are asked, can you stick this in a system? Can you work out how claims should be paid, how premiums should be allocated? They’ve been doing that without any access to the data before. So, we’re now feeding information to many of our clients, but also trying to go beyond that in a few ways as well. So, I’m really, really excited about using that information and the fact that clients are able to structure their portfolio data as a base level of data hygiene, the insurance information ready to go.”
For example, Rose referenced the AIG-Blackstone deal, stating that they spent approximately 30,000 hours modelling and preparing everything to pull off that deal.
In response, he said, “You should be able to get your data sorted so that all of the reinsurance submission information is consistent across every line of business, across every peril, etcetera. You could do that deal just straight off the cuff.”
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