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Live directory · Updated 14 June 2026

Insure your AI agent before it insures itself.

Your agent books, buys, promises or decides on your behalf. Most existing policies will not respond. This is the directory of carriers, coverage categories and the one framework underwriters read, so you can start insuring, not hoping.

Do not pause your insurance review (7 May 2026) The EU AI Omnibus, in force since 27 July 2026, delayed the AI Act's high-risk obligations to 2 December 2027 for Annex III systems and 2 August 2028 for Annex I systems embedded in products. The things that actually drive your insurance and liability exposure are not delayed. Article 5 prohibitions have been in force since February 2025. Article 50 transparency obligations still apply from 2 August 2026, with one narrow relief: systems already on the market before that date have until 2 December 2026 to meet the Article 50(2) obligation to mark AI-generated content. US case law (Moffatt, Mata, Mobley v Workday, Benavides v Tesla) stands. The ISO generative AI exclusion endorsements are already appearing in renewals. Colorado's AI Act is operative. The revised Product Liability Directive transposition deadline is 9 December 2026. None of those moved. Read the Omnibus Master Brief.
5 coverage categories mapped
7 dimensions underwriters read
Q3’26 European market opens
Short answer

Most standard E&O, cyber, and general liability policies do not cover AI agent mistakes: they were written before autonomous systems existed, and insurers are adding explicit AI exclusions at renewal through 2025 and 2026. In the EU, exposure is widening further: the AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689) adds deployer duties from August 2026, and the revised Product Liability Directive (Directive (EU) 2024/2853) brings AI systems inside strict liability from 9 December 2026. The Moffatt v. Air Canada tribunal (2024) confirmed that a business is liable for what its agent says to a customer. Dedicated AI agent coverage exists but requires operators to produce structured governance evidence first.

Calibrated against the instruments insurers actually read.
RegulationEU AI Act
FrameworkAgent Certified
LiabilityPLD 2024
PublisherFuture Proof
The framing

Three things most operators miss.

If you run an SME and you turned on an AI agent this year, you are probably sitting inside all three of these gaps without realising it. Here is the short version. The rest of the site walks each one in detail.

Your agent can cause real harm.

Not theoretical harm. An Air Canada chatbot invented a bereavement discount and a tribunal ordered the airline to pay it. A New York firm filed fictional case citations generated by an AI tool and was sanctioned. Agents that transact, communicate or advise create exposure the moment they go live.

Your current policies probably exclude it.

Most Errors and Omissions wordings, cyber policies, and general liability contracts were written before autonomous systems existed. Insurers are now adding explicit AI exclusions at renewal. Even without an exclusion, proving the event was covered gets difficult fast when the decision was made by a model.

There is a path to coverage.

New insurance products are coming online in 2026. AIUC-1 just became the first certification standard to underwrite an AI agent deployment. The EU AI Act and the revised Product Liability Directive are pushing the market to respond. Coverage exists. You have to prepare for it.

How it works

Three steps to an insurable agent.

No brokers, no cold emails, no guessing. Read the path, check your stack against the framework, and walk into a carrier conversation with the file they actually want.

STEP 01

Run the diagnostic.

A ten-minute self-assessment on scope, exclusions, and incident response. Honest answers, no score theatre.

STEP 02

Match the framework.

Map your agent to the seven dimensions underwriters read. This is the evidence file any carrier will ask for.

STEP 03

Compare carriers.

Review the five coverage categories, the live directory of programmes writing in Europe, and request an indication.

Live directory

Carriers and standards writing this line.

Programmes, standards bodies and reinsurer-backed initiatives working on AI agent coverage today. This directory expands as the European market matures through 2026 and 2027. No paid placement yet; every entry is editorial.

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Certification standard

AIUC-1 · Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company

First certification and assurance standard for AI agents written with reinsurer participation. Precedent for binding coverage on autonomous systems.

AI certified liability Standalone wrappers
Listing Reference only Visit programme
Reinsurer-backed

Munich Re · aiSure

A performance guarantee for AI systems settling on measurable performance data covering proven AI errors, rather than conventional loss adjustment. A reference programme for the space.

Performance / parametric
Programme Active Visit programme
Coverholder

Armilla · Lloyd’s coverholder

AI assurance firm positioned as a Lloyd’s coverholder, structured AI liability underwriting for European operators ahead of the 2026 deadlines.

AI certified liability Cyber + AI
Programme Active Visit programme
Adjacent line

Professional lines with AI endorsement

E&O and professional indemnity policies offered by specialty carriers with AI endorsements available at renewal. Read exclusions carefully.

E&O with AI
Availability By market See guidance
Adjacent line

Cyber with AI coverage extension

Cyber carriers adding AI-specific riders covering prompt injection, model manipulation and automated-action losses. Sub-limits typical.

Cyber + AI
Availability By market See guidance
Featured slot

Your programme here.

Carriers and programmes writing AI agent coverage in Europe can apply to be listed and featured. Partner slots open Q4 2026.

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The path

From exposure to coverage in six steps.

Most operators are at step one today and do not know it. Most carriers are sitting on step five and cannot yet quote. This is the full walk. You do not need to complete it before August, but you need to know which step you are standing on.

01
Exposure

The agent is in production.

Autonomous actions are shipping to users today. No coverage response confirmed.

Today
02
Diagnostic

Read the three questions.

Scope, policy exclusions, incident response. A ten-minute self-assessment.

This week
03
Framework

Assess against Agent Certified.

Seven dimensions. Honest self-score. The evidence file underwriters will want.

This quarter
04
Review

Broker conversation.

Share the framework score, the evidence, the scope. Ask for an indication.

Q2 to Q3 2026
05
Quote

Binding indication.

Carrier returns a price and terms. Negotiate sub-limits, retention, exclusions.

Q3 to Q4 2026
06
Covered

Policy bound.

Coverage active. Annual renewal. Evidence maintained as a live record.

2027 onward
Figure A. The operator path from unmanaged AI exposure to bound coverage. Steps 04 to 06 depend on the European market opening for AI-specific lines, currently expected in the Q3 to Q4 2026 window. Not legal advice.
Start here

Three questions to find out where you stand.

Before you talk to a broker, a lawyer, or a certification body, you need to know the answers to three questions. We wrote them as a short diagnostic. It takes about ten minutes to read and will tell you exactly what to do next.

Read the three questions
  1. 01

    Do you know what your agents actually do?

    Documented scope, guardrails, and human checkpoints.

  2. 02

    Have you read your policies for AI exclusions?

    E&O, cyber, general liability, D&O. All four.

  3. 03

    Do you have an incident response plan?

    Who pauses the agent, who calls legal, who notifies users.

Case files

Three decisions that rewrote the picture.

The law has already made up its mind on AI agent exposure in three places. One tribunal, one court, one standards body. Every operator should know these three files. The lessons are the reason every broker conversation from here has a new agenda.

01
Decided 14 February 2024
Jurisdiction British Columbia Civil Resolution Tribunal
Party Moffatt v. Air Canada

Air Canada's chatbot invented a bereavement discount. The airline was ordered to honour it.

A customer was told by Air Canada's customer-service chatbot that bereavement fare refunds could be claimed retroactively. That was not the airline's policy. When Air Canada refused the refund and argued the chatbot was a separate legal entity, the tribunal rejected the argument. The company was held liable for the agent's representation and ordered to pay.

Outcome

CAD 812 awarded plus tribunal fees. Air Canada liable for chatbot misrepresentation.

Lesson for operators

A business cannot disclaim what its agent says to a customer. Representation is binding the moment the output is delivered.

02
Decided 22 June 2023
Jurisdiction US District Court, Southern District of New York
Party Mata v. Avianca, Inc.

A law firm filed AI-fabricated case citations. The court sanctioned the firm, not the tool.

Counsel in Mata v. Avianca submitted a brief containing six judicial decisions that did not exist. They had been generated by ChatGPT. The court found the firm had failed its duty of candour to the tribunal regardless of the technology used to produce the filing. Sanctions followed. The tool was not a defence.

Outcome

USD 5,000 sanction against the law firm and two attorneys. Professional misconduct on record.

Lesson for operators

Professional responsibility attaches to the human. The presence of an AI tool does not reduce the standard of care owed.

03
Announced 2025
Publisher Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company
Subject AIUC-1 standard · ElevenLabs deployment

An AI agent was underwritten against a formal standard for the first time.

AIUC-1 is an assurance standard for AI agents published by the Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company. The first production deployment to be certified and underwritten against it was an ElevenLabs voice agent. It is the first case on record of an insurer accepting a structured AI evaluation as the basis for binding coverage on an autonomous system.

Significance

First AI agent to carry coverage anchored in a published certification standard. Precedent for the Q3 2026 market.

Lesson for operators

Coverage follows evidence. Operators who cannot produce structured evidence against a recognised standard will not be quoted by carriers writing this line.

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Latest reading

Three articles to start with.

Written for operators and founders in plain English. Each one sits on a specific question we keep hearing from people running AI in production.

Compliance

The EU AI Act deadline just moved. Do I still need AI agent insurance?

The EU AI Act's high-risk deadline moved from August 2026 to December 2027. Here is what that change does, what it does not change, and why AI agent insurance still matters now.

10 min read · 17 August 2026
AI liability

Does your online store need AI agent insurance in 2026?

A plain-English guide for online store owners on whether a shopping assistant, pricing bot, or support chatbot is covered by existing insurance in 2026.

11 min read · 12 August 2026
D&O and management liability

Does D&O insurance cover AI agent mistakes?

Does D&O insurance cover AI agent mistakes? A plain-English guide to the coverage gap, exclusions, and what to ask your broker before your 2026 renewal.

10 min read · 10 August 2026
Coverage

Does sole trader insurance cover AI agent mistakes?

A sole trader has no corporate veil between an AI agent's mistake and personal assets. Here is what sole trader insurance actually covers, and what does not.

12 min read · 7 August 2026
Coverage

Does business interruption insurance cover AI agent downtime?

Your AI agent goes down and orders stop, bookings freeze, support queues back up. Does business interruption cover that? Usually not. Here is why and what does.

13 min read · 3 August 2026
AI liability

What does an AI agent mistake actually cost a small business?

Refund payouts, sanction fines, incident response hours, and renewal premium increases. A line-by-line look at what an AI agent mistake costs an SME in 2026.

12 min read · 29 July 2026
AI liability

Who pays when two AI agents make a bad deal?

When your AI agent negotiates with another company's AI agent and the deal turns out badly, who actually pays. A plain guide to agent-to-agent liability for SME operators in 2026.

10 min read · 27 July 2026
Liability

Am I personally liable for my AI agent's mistakes?

A limited company usually shields you personally, but not always. When AI agent mistakes can reach your personal assets as a director or sole trader, explained.

15 min read · 24 July 2026
Coverage

Do I need separate insurance for my AI chatbot?

A chat widget and an agentic AI chatbot carry very different insurance exposure. Here is how to tell which one you run, and what your existing policy misses.

13 min read · 22 July 2026
Compliance

Is AI agent insurance legally required in the EU?

No EU law names AI agent insurance as mandatory in 2026. But the EU AI Act, the Product Liability Directive, and sector rules create exposure that makes coverage a practical necessity.

11 min read · 20 July 2026
Reputational risk

My AI chatbot insulted a customer: am I liable and covered?

A DPD chatbot swore at a customer and went viral in January 2024. Here is whether an SME is liable for AI-generated insults and if business insurance responds.

12 min read · 15 July 2026
Coverage

Do I need AI agent insurance if I already have cyber insurance?

Cyber insurance was built for breach events, not for an AI agent doing its job badly. Here is exactly where your cyber policy stops and AI agent risk begins.

10 min read · 10 July 2026
Reference

Will my insurance premium rise after an AI agent mistake?

Will an AI agent mistake raise your insurance premium? A sober SME guide to loss history, renewal underwriting, non-renewal risk, and how to protect your 2026 quote.

12 min read · 8 July 2026
Coverage

Is a prompt injection attack covered by my business insurance?

Prompt injection now tops OWASP's LLM risk list, yet most SME cyber and PI policies were not written with it in mind. Here is the coverage reality.

11 min read · 6 July 2026

Browse every guide in the SME AI deployment hub, from the 90-day playbook to incident response.

Coverage landscape

Five places coverage can come from today.

None of these are a perfect fit for AI agents yet. All of them matter. This is the honest map operators should read before a broker meeting, and it is the same map carriers are currently working from.

01
Emerging

AI certified liability

Standalone policies written against a formal AI certification standard such as AIUC-1. Coverage is calibrated to the assessed governance, oversight, and safety posture of the specific agent deployment.

Typical market Specialty programmes with reinsurer participation. Currently writing in selected sectors.
02
Adjacent

Professional liability & E&O with AI endorsement

Existing professional indemnity or errors & omissions wordings extended with an AI-specific endorsement. Responds when an agent delivers professional services that turn out to be wrong.

Typical market Professional lines carriers adding endorsements at renewal from 2026. Exclusions common.
03
Adjacent

Cyber with AI coverage extension

Cyber policies extended to AI-driven incidents including prompt injection, model manipulation, and automated actions causing first-party or third-party loss. Boundaries still being tested at claim.

Typical market Cyber-first carriers introducing AI riders. Sub-limits typical. Read exclusions carefully.
04
Adjacent

D&O with AI governance rider

Directors & officers cover extended to claims arising from AI deployment decisions at the board level. Becomes material as regulators begin naming specific board-level oversight duties.

Typical market Specialty D&O markets. Uptake expected to rise alongside EU AI Act enforcement.
05
Emerging

Standalone AI agent wrappers

Dedicated policies designed from scratch for autonomous systems rather than retrofitted from older lines. Rare today. The category most observers expect to define the AI insurance market by 2028.

Typical market Early captives, reinsurer-led pilots, and specialty syndicates. Expect rapid development through 2026-2027.
06
Your carrier here

Carrier listings open Q4 2026.

Carriers writing in any of the five categories above are invited to list here. This section will expand to named programmes with coverage profiles as the insurance market matures through 2026 and 2027.

For enquiries carriers@futureproofintelligence.com
For insurance carriers

A clear operator audience. A published framework. A visible place to be.

Insure Your Agent is the operator-facing entry point of the Future Proof authority stack. Readers are SME founders, heads of operations, and technology leads actively evaluating AI agent coverage. The site is calibrated to the Agent Certified methodology so carriers can reference a single underwriting framework when discussing a programme.

Carrier partnerships will open in Q4 2026. Partner formats will include category listings, underwriting spotlights, and co-branded briefings written in the house voice. No policies are currently offered for sale through this site.

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The Methodology Context

Underwriters read one framework. Now you can read it too.

The Agent Certified methodology sets the seven dimensions insurers, boards, and procurement teams increasingly use to decide whether an AI agent is safe to rely on. Read the framework before you shop for coverage.

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