Insure Your Agent Operator Edition · No. 001
  1. Assess your agents against a recognised standard

    You cannot insure what you cannot describe. The first step is a structured assessment of every agent you run, against one of the emerging certification frameworks. The most developed right now is AIUC-1, which Munich Re has accepted as an underwriting input. Future Proof Certified provides a seven-dimension evaluation covering governance, context, distribution, trust, product, AI integration, and autonomy.

    The assessment output is an evidence package: what the agent does, how it is governed, what could go wrong, what controls are in place, and where the gaps are. Insurers read this before they quote. Regulators ask for pieces of it under the EU AI Act. It is the one artefact that does double duty on every track.

    How long
    Four to six weeks
    What you need
    Technical documentation, policies, one stakeholder per agent
    You end up with
    A scored certification report and remediation plan

    Go to agentcertified.eu for the methodology and to begin the assessment.

  2. Join the coverage waitlist

    AI agent liability coverage is not a shelf product yet. It is being built right now by a small number of specialty carriers and managing general agents, with reinsurance support from Munich Re and others. The first binding policies in Europe are expected in the third quarter of 2026. The carriers writing them are being selective, and they are starting with operators who already have certification in hand.

    The waitlist on agentinsured.eu is the entry point. When you register, you will be asked for your certification status, the type of agent you run, the sector you operate in, and your headline revenue figures. You do not need to have completed certification to join, but you do need to have started. The waitlist position informs quote order, not acceptance.

    How long
    Ten minutes to join, 2026 Q3 to quote
    What you need
    Company basics, certification in progress or done
    You end up with
    A place in line and the underwriting pre-brief

    Go to agentinsured.eu to join the waitlist.

  3. Demonstrate compliance and close the policy

    When your certification report is complete and the waitlist opens to quote, the carrier will ask for three things: the certification evidence, a live demonstration of your incident response plan, and a short attestation from the board or senior management. The first is already in hand. The second is a tabletop exercise you can run in a morning. The third is a one-page document your legal counsel can draft from template.

    None of this is exotic. It is the standard evidence package every specialty underwriter has always asked for, adapted to autonomous systems. The reason it feels unfamiliar is that most operators have never had to produce it for software before. By this step you will have.

    How long
    Two to four weeks once quote is in hand
    What you need
    Certification report, IR plan, board attestation
    You end up with
    A bound policy with an actual wording you can read

    This step happens between you, your broker, and the carrier. We do not sit in the room.

Timeline

Coverage is expected to open in Q3 2026.

The pathway takes eight to twelve weeks end to end for an SME running a small number of agents. If you start in April you are comfortably positioned for the first wave. If you start in August you are still fine for the second wave in early 2027. If you start after your first incident, you are not fine.

Go back to the three questions
  1. Q2

    Assess and document

    Certification work begins. Evidence packages drafted.

  2. Q3

    First policies write

    European specialty carriers expected to bind first operators.

  3. Q4

    Renewal cycle

    Existing E&O and cyber policies start adding explicit AI clauses.