How would you summarize the year 2025?

2025 was a transformational year for Akur8. We grew Annual Recurring Revenue by over 50%, and welcomed over 50 new clients worldwide, including more than 25 new logos in North America. In parallel, we strengthened existing customer relationships through ongoing platform enhancements and feature releases, driving broader adoption across teams and use cases. 

On the product front, we launched Rate Repo and Deploy, expanding the capabilities of our pricing suite and reinforcing our position as the insurance industry’s only end-to-end actuarial platform. With these additions, customers gain a single source of truth for rating, and a high-performance pricing engine that seamlessly moves models into live production, enabling real-time, operational deployment.

We also expanded our capabilities through strategic acquisitions and integrations. We acquired Matrisk, bringing AI-powered filings search and market intelligence into our platform. The expanded offering gained rapid traction in the market, with Branch Insurance among the first U.S.-based carriers to adopt the solution. 

Together, these advances addressed a clear need from our clients: solutions that connect actuarial work to strategy, foster cross-functional collaboration, and streamline governance from model to execution.

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From your conversations with insurers, what priorities stand out?

This year, we worked closely with a broad range of insurers, from new clients to long-standing partners, across regions, market segments, and company sizes. These conversations gave us a clear view of the priorities now at the top of insurance and actuarial leaders’ agendas. Three themes consistently surfaced in 2025:

1. Speed and Adaptability: Insurers need to move faster as new pricing inputs, regulatory updates, and market intelligence become available.
2. Transparency and Governance: Auditability, documentation, and regulatory readiness are now baseline expectations, especially for larger carriers.
3. Integration Across Functions: Pricing decisions now involve actuarial, product, underwriting, and finance teams, requiring shared data, shared assumptions, and shared tools.
   
   

These priorities map directly to Akur8’s roadmap, including Rate Repo, Deploy, and Discover, which helps insurers build models, manage rates, and incorporate regulatory intelligence with consistent rigor and transparency.

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Looking ahead, what excites you most about 2026?

First, the maturity of our platform vision. Pricing, reserving, and regulatory intelligence are no longer separate conversations, they are parts of a continuous actuarial workflow. This opens the door to new capabilities and new value for our clients. 

Second, the sophistication of our client base. Insurers are asking deeper questions, experimenting with richer data, and pushing for actuarial tooling that is both powerful and transparent. 

Third, we're making a significant shift with agentic AI embedded directly into the platform. Beyond generating insights, these agents can help actuaries move work forward, guiding data ingestion and quality checks, accelerating model iteration and documentation, surfacing governance considerations, and helping translate technical results into implementation-ready rate changes.

From a product standpoint, our priority is helping clients capture the full value of our global actuarial AI platform, from ingesting their data, to building and governing models, to translating insights into rates and putting them into production. By unifying these capabilities in a single platform, insurers can move faster, make better-informed decisions, and operationalize pricing changes with confidence at scale.

Any final thoughts for clients and partners?

I would simply say thank you. Our growth in 2025 was driven by clients who challenge us, partners who amplify our impact, and internal teams who execute with discipline. We enter 2026 with clarity, momentum, and a commitment to delivering measurable value to the actuarial community.

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Brune de Linares is Chief Client Officer and Co-Founder of Akur8, where she leads global business development and marketing. She began her career at IBM, spending over a decade in consulting and sales management roles focused on complex products, including Cloud and AI solutions. After IBM, she joined Google Cloud, where she spent two years driving strategic contracts with major retailers. With extensive expertise in B2B enterprise sales, go-to-market strategy, and sales organization management, Brune co-founded Akur8 to bring innovative AI-driven pricing solutions to the insurance industry.

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