{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/62822c55f7114f0012f2582a/6aa3edf9c939da2795abfa2f?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Dax Craig on Building an AI-Native MGA — With a Team of Five","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/62822c55f7114f0012f2582a/1789128060530-f40d295b-3d6f-41fd-8aca-ecdca8039df8.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>This week, host Alex Bond is joined by Dax Craig, co-founder and CEO of Comeryx — a serial insurance entrepreneur.</p><p><br></p><p>In this conversation, Dax shares:</p><p><br></p><p>✅ His journey from a wireless start-up in grad school to founding two prior insurance ventures and why he came back for a third</p><p>✅ Comeryx's AI-native approach to small commercial insurance, targeting hard-to-place ENS risks through wholesale brokers with no-touch processing from submission to renewal</p><p>✅ How a five-person team is aiming to deliver the output of 50-75 employees and why profitability matters more to him than growth for growth's sake</p><p>✅ Why MGA structures beat traditional carriers on speed and innovation and his warning against MGAs drifting into becoming carriers</p><p>✅ What's really overlooked in small commercial insurance, and where investors are repeating mistakes from the mid-2010s</p><p><br></p><p>It's a conversation about building lean, staying disciplined on profitability, and why real distribution expertise still beats hype in Insurtech.</p>","author_name":"Alex Bond"}