The deep dive · Private · Read November 3, 2026

Assured

Assured sells AI software that handles car, home and workplace injury claims for big US insurers. Fully remote, reportedly valued near $1B in 2025, and quiet about its numbers.

Assured llms.txt and careers page; Bloomberg Law, Mar 2025
Valuation
About $1B (reported) Bloomberg, citing unnamed people, March 2025. Iconiq called the report inaccurate.
Raised
Not disclosed No round size published by Assured. Backers named: Iconiq, Kleiner Perkins, DCM, Costanoa, Valor.
Watch
6 of top 10 US carriers use it, Assured says. It names none of them on its site.
AI
Emma, ~70% of claim conversations its agent handles alone, per Assured, across 50M+ interactions.
Liquidity
None found No tender offer or staff share sale reported. Postings say all employees get equity.
Hiring
44 → 44 remote listings since Oct 10.
01 · The business

Claims software sold to large insurers.

Assured sells a modular platform to property and casualty insurers: digital and phone claim intake (FNOL), outreach to everyone in a claim, vendor assignment, messaging, fraud checks and catastrophe tools, plus the Emma agent and voice agents. A Forward Deployed Team builds alongside each carrier. It covers auto, home, commercial property and workers' comp. It publishes no prices; buyers go through a sales demo.

Assured llms.txt and platform page
The moat, in three parts
  1. 1
    It is already inside the biggest insurers.
    Assured says it is used by 6 of the top 10 US carriers and works across tens of millions of claims a year. Big carriers move slowly, so a vendor that is wired in is hard to swap out.
    Assured llms.txt
  2. 2
    Volume trains the agent.
    Emma has handled more than 50 million customer interactions and resolves nearly 70% without a person, Assured says. Rivals starting now lack that history of real claim conversations.
    Assured, Emma page
  3. 3
    Security paperwork that carriers demand.
    Assured lists SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and HIPAA on its security page, and says it plugs into 50+ outside data sources. These take time to earn and help it pass insurer procurement.
    Assured, Security page
The competition, by what it is worth
  • Assured
    $1.00BSeries B (label per CB Insights), Mar 4
  • Shift Technology
    $1.00Bprivate, May 5

Private values are the last reported round; they can be stale. Listed values are market value. Bars start at zero.

02 · Funding

Every round, and what its terms give away.

Assured is private, so there is no share price. What its investors paid, and on what terms, is the closest thing to one.

$1.00B
latest valuation, Series B (label per CB Insights) Mar 4

Assured publishes no revenue, profit, headcount or total raised.

Assured, About page
The round
  1. Mar 4
    Series B (label per CB Insights)at $1.00B
    Led by Not named; Iconiq and Kleiner Perkins reported as backers
    Valuation reported by Bloomberg from unnamed sources; Iconiq said it was inaccurate. CB Insights lists $23M; Assured has not confirmed.
    Bloomberg Law, Mar 4, 2025; CB Insights
Round-terms checks
No flags found · last raise 20 months ago
  • Down round or flat round?Cannot tell. No valuation was published for any earlier round, so there is nothing to compare the reported $1B against.CB Insights
    Open
  • How much of the company the last round soldUnknown. Round size is not confirmed by Assured or the press, and the $1B valuation is reported, not stated.Bloomberg Law, Mar 4, 2025
    Open
  • Time since the last raiseAbout 20 months since the March 2025 report, with no newer round found. Kleiner lists Assured as a partner since 2024, so the deal may have closed earlier.Kleiner Perkins portfolio page
    Open
  • Structured or unusual termsNone reported. No SEC Form D was found under the Assured Insurance Technologies name, so terms cannot be checked there.Bloomberg Law; SEC EDGAR search
    Open
  • Who led the last roundNo lead named. Bloomberg said Iconiq and Kleiner Perkins took part; Kleiner declined to comment and Iconiq disputed the report.Bloomberg Law, Mar 4, 2025
    Open
  • Tender offers or secondary sales for staffNone reported. Searched company pages and news; no tender date or price found.Assured careers page; news search
    Open
  • Layoffs in the last 12 monthsNone found in news searches. The board lists 43 open remote roles as of Nov 3, 2026, which points to hiring, not cutting.Assured Ashby board
    Clear

Clear: checked, nothing found. Flag: found, with the source. Open: could not be checked.

Going public

No filing reported

03 · Footnote flags

What the record says, and what we think it means.

The fact is the source's. The read, in italics, is ours.

  1. 01
    Watch

    The $1B price is reported, not confirmed.

    Bloomberg reported a round at about $1B in March 2025 from unnamed people. Iconiq called it inaccurate without saying what was wrong; Assured did not respond.

    Treat the unicorn label with care when valuing equity. Ask for the latest 409A price and preferred share price in any offer.

    Bloomberg Law, Mar 4, 2025
  2. 02
    Good

    Fully remote, with paid lunches.

    The careers page says Assured is a fully remote team. Benefits include platinum health cover, a 3% 401(k) contribution even if staff put in nothing, and lunch paid twice a week.

    No office is named anywhere on the site, so remote looks built in, not a perk that could be pulled.

    Assured careers page
  3. 03
    Watch

    Fake recruiters use its name.

    Postings warn that people have posed as Assured recruiters, and say real contact comes only from assured.claims addresses.

    If someone offers an Assured interview from another domain, verify it before sharing any personal details.

    Assured posting, Accounting Manager
  4. 04
    Neutral

    It moved to assured.com.

    assured.claims now redirects to assured.com, while recruiting email still uses assured.claims. The privacy policy gives a contact address in Stanford, California.

    A short, generic domain is a costly brand move and fits a company planning to be bigger.

    Assured privacy policy, updated Sep 1, 2026
  5. 05
    Watch

    No customer is named.

    The site says 6 of the top 10 US carriers use Assured but lists none of them, and no customer case study is on the blog.

    Common with insurers, which dislike publicity. It still means outsiders cannot check how concentrated its revenue is.

    Assured homepage
  6. 06
    Neutral

    Posted pay is high, with equity.

    Staff engineer postings show $210K to $270K and most roles offer equity. Claims expert roles post $110K to $130K.

    These are US-only remote ranges. Equity value depends on a price the company has not published.

    Assured posting, Staff Backend Engineer
  7. 07
    Good

    SOC 2, ISO 27001 and HIPAA.

    Assured's security page lists all three as certified.

    Needed to sell to large insurers that handle medical and injury data.

    Assured, Security page
  8. 08
    Neutral

    A small, founder-led top team.

    The About page lists four leaders: CEO Justin Lewis-Weber, CTO and co-founder Theo Patt, a Head of Sales and a Head of Engineering. No CFO is listed.

    No sign yet of the finance hires that usually come before an IPO.

    Assured, About page
04 · Who gets paid most

Marketing is paid 57% over market. Product, 4% under.

Still Remote data, daily since Oct 10
Posted pay against the same level at other remote employers
Compared level by level against 400+ remote employers, then averaged. Number of posted ranges beside each team.
AI and ML listings, Oct 10 to Nov 3
2 → 1−50%
Remote listings, same days
44 → 44about the same

We save every company's roles, pay by team and level, AI share and churn every day, so each month this page can say more. Sparklines use their own scale.

05 · Built for the agentic era?

Can AI agents do business with Assured?

We checked the agent payment programs, developer docs and site rules an AI assistant would meet.

Our verdict

Builds agents, not for agents. Sells claim agents to insurers and has llms.txt, but no public API or MCP server.

Assured llms.txt
LiveNot foundPartly
  1. Its own AI agent
    Emma gathers information, answers questions and moves claims forward; Voice AI adds phone agents. Assured says Emma handles nearly 70% of interactions alone.
    Assured, Emma page
    Yes
  2. Site AI tools can read
    assured.com/llms.txt exists (about 4,500 characters) and maps products, whitepapers and guides. No llms-full.txt.
    Assured llms.txt
    Yes
  3. Lets AI crawlers read its site
    robots.txt names no AI bots, so GPTBot and ClaudeBot fall under the general rule. It blocks paths such as /privacy, /terms, /solutions and /customer-login.
    assured.com robots.txt
    Yes
  4. An MCP server agents can call
    No MCP server, public API docs or developer portal found. The only developer item is a Prophecy Mobile SDK for crash detection.
    Assured, Plugins page
    Not found
  5. Model choice
    The homepage says the platform is model-agnostic and works with major frontier model providers, but names none.
    Assured homepage
    Mixed
05 · Inside the company

Where Assured puts AI to work.

AI and ML job titles, share of open remote listings
Assured
2.3%
Every company we track
6.4%
1 of 44 Assured listings on Nov 3. Scale 0% to 10%.
  1. 1
    Engineers are told to code with AI.
    Engineering postings ask for daily use of Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot or similar. The backend stack lists LangGraph and LangChain for agent work.
    Assured posting, Staff Backend Engineer
  2. 2
    It hires to test AI, not just ship it.
    A Staff SDET role builds evaluation systems for agents, using LLM-as-a-judge, trace reviews and human labels.
    Assured posting, Staff SDET
  3. 3
    Back office runs on AI too.
    IT support runs requests through an AI help desk in Slack, and sourcers are asked to use Claude or Codex for research and outreach.
    Assured posting, Senior IT Support Engineer
06 · What the hiring says

More listings than on Sep 17, led by engineering.

Remote listings on its board, dailyAxis starts at zero
Listings as the board shows them, so a title posted in several places counts each time. Team counts are open roles, repeated titles once.
13 of 44
roles are engineering
11
product roles, the next biggest team
1
country named in its remote roles, led by United States
+2
new roles in the last 7 days
07 · Private scenario builder

What has to be true for $1 billion to hold?

Assured does not publish revenue, so the starting number is your assumption, not ours. A way to think, not a forecast, and not investment advice.

No revenue figure has been published. The $1B valuation is reported by Bloomberg from unnamed sources.
No growth rate has been published.
Competition
Economy
Fast-growing private software often prices at $15 to $40 per $1.
$
Worth in two years, in your world
$1.96B
+96% vs the $1.00B Series B (label per CB Insights)
$78M revenue, growing +40% a year after competition and the economy
Series B (label per CB Insights) $1.00B
$0$2.40B
Up round territory

At 25x, Assured needs $40 million of revenue to be worth $1 billion. Your world gets there with $78 million, so the next round likely prices above the last.

Your equity, two years out
$196,000

$100,000 of equity valued at the $1.00B Series B (label per CB Insights) price would be worth about $196,000 on paper in this world, before dilution from new rounds, taxes and vesting. Private shares only turn into cash at a sale, an IPO or a tender offer.

A way to think, not a forecast, and not investment advice.

Bloomberg Law, Mar 4, 2025
08 · Where it looks headed

The signals, and which way they push.

  1. Tailwind
    Claims are still slow and manual.

    Assured's own postings describe claims work as phone calls, faxes and gut instinct costing tens of billions a year. That is the gap it sells into.

  2. Tailwind
    Hiring across the company.

    43 open remote roles on Nov 3, 2026, from engineering to sales and two VP marketing roles.

  3. Tailwind
    Building a louder brand.

    New VP roles in product and integrated marketing, plus a writer to explain its AI, follow a move to the assured.com domain.

  4. Headwind
    Big incumbents own the core systems.

    Listed giants such as Guidewire and CCC already sit in carriers' claims stacks, and Shift Technology raised $220M for fraud AI.

09 · Bold predictions

Where Assured ends up, if we had to bet.

Our calls, not facts. Each one is tied to something that already happened, so you can judge the reasoning.

  1. 1

    Assured is listed on a US exchange by 2031.

    Long shot 16%IPO

    It has not published revenue and lists no CFO. Its reported $1B price came from a single private round.

    Assured, About page; Bloomberg Law
  2. 2

    A core claims or data vendor buys Assured by 2031.

    Coin flip 50%M&A

    Its tools sit beside the systems that carriers already run, which makes it an easy bolt-on. Its reported $1B price narrows the field of buyers.

    Assured, Plugins page
  3. 3

    Assured expands from intake into deciding and paying claims.

    Likely 72%Product

    Its llms.txt already describes work up to adjudication and subrogation. Fraud and CAT tools are on the platform today.

    Assured llms.txt
  4. 4

    Most first contacts on claims at its carriers run through an AI agent.

    Likely 72%AI

    Emma already handles nearly 70% of interactions alone, Assured says. Voice agents now cover phone intake too.

    Assured, Emma page
  5. 5

    Assured is still a top AI claims vendor to large US carriers in 2031.

    Coin flip 50%Competition

    It says 6 of the top 10 carriers use it. Incumbents and well-funded AI startups are building the same agents.

    Assured llms.txt

Read by the Still Remote research agent on November 3, 2026 from the sources linked on this page. Facts and scenarios only, not investment advice.