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Recaptured Value Assessment

Harbor Point Insurance Group

Independent P&C agency · $4.3M book, 1,400 policies

PreparedSeptember 17, 2026

Prepared byByteable

Systems assessed13

Added a year once phase 1 is live

+$55K

Enterprise value created

+$220K

Illustrative report. Harbor Point Insurance Group is a representative independent insurance agency, not a real client; the figures are the published assessment for a business of this size.

01

Business summary

$600K

Commission income

$4.3M

Premium book

$200K

Owner profit

1,400

Policies

87%

Retention

The highest leverage per dollar of profit added, because retention and recurring commission compound rather than reset each year. Note that the income figure is commission, not premium volume.

Area of the businessRecommended stack
Agency management systemKeep the AMS, add an AI orchestration layer on top
Comparative raterAI intake pre-fills the multi-carrier rater
Phone and intakeVoice agent answers, takes quote intake and first notice of loss
Renewal and retentionRenewal review, churn scoring, automatic remarketing
CommissionsStatement ingestion and reconciliation
MarketingSpeed-to-lead follow-up and nurture
ReviewsTriggered requests and AI response drafting
DocumentsExtraction from dec pages and ACORDs, certificate auto-generation
Carrier integrationIVANS download, carrier APIs, RPA where there is no API
02

Executive summary

We found 13 opportunities worth an estimated $96K a year combined. Retention is where the leverage is, because commission recurs rather than resetting: roughly 180 policies lost a year compound against the book, while renewals and certificates eat the CSR hours that would otherwise write new business.

We recommend starting with 6 quick wins, high impact and low effort, worth $55K a year. Built one at a time on a Breakaway membership, all 6 are live by month 8. The 7 larger builds follow.

Owner profit moves from $200K to $255K. At a 4.0× multiple, held constant, the business becomes worth about $220K more.

The three biggest gaps

  1. 1Retention and win-back campaigns +$13K/yrToday: 87% retention, roughly 180 policies lost a year.
  2. 2Renewal processing and remarketing +$12K/yrToday: Renewals handled by hand, and rate shock drives churn.
  3. 3Certificate auto-issuance +$10K/yrToday: ~25 certificates a week at 45 minutes each, ~19 hours of CSR time.

New revenue$36K

Cost and time saved$60K

03

Implementation plan

Every system, in the order we would build it, with when it goes live and what it adds each year.

BUILD FIRST · worth more, lands soonerFAST, SMALLERBIG BETS · worth the waitLATERFinancial impact, added a year →$3K$8KImplementation time →2 wks4 wks14 wks1. Speed-to-quote and lead follow-up — +$9K a year, about 3 weeks to build12. Retention and win-back campaigns — +$13K a year, about 5 weeks to build23. Certificate auto-issuance — +$10K a year, about 4 weeks to build34. AI voice agent for inbound — +$9K a year, about 4 weeks to build45. Cross-sell and account rounding — +$8K a year, about 6 weeks to build56. Document extraction — +$6K a year, about 5 weeks to build67. Review and reputation generation — +$3K a year, about 2 weeks to build78. Referral and nurture — +$3K a year, about 3 weeks to build89. Renewal processing and remarketing — +$12K a year, about 11 weeks to build910. Multi-carrier quoting and prefill — +$10K a year, about 11 weeks to build1011. Commission reconciliation — +$5K a year, about 7 weeks to build1112. Claims intake and status bot — +$4K a year, about 7 weeks to build1213. Endorsement and servicing automation — +$4K a year, about 14 weeks to build13
Phase 1, quick winsPhase 2, bigger buildsScroll the chart sideways. Each number is a row in the plan below.

We start in the bottom right, where a system is worth the most and takes the least time to build, and work outward from there. The 6 systems in that corner are phase 1.

Phase 1 · Quick wins

High impact, low effort. Built first. · $55K a year

1Speed-to-quote and lead follow-upWin the work · New revenueOver twenty hours average response, ~30 leads a month, 20% close. → Follow-up inside five minutes, ~27% close.2–3 wks80 BytesMonth 1+$9K
2Retention and win-back campaignsKeep and grow · New revenue87% retention, roughly 180 policies lost a year. → At-risk scoring and outreach, about three points back.4–5 wks140 BytesMonth 3+$13K
3Certificate auto-issuanceWin the work · Efficiency~25 certificates a week at 45 minutes each, ~19 hours of CSR time. → Issued in seconds, staff reallocated.3–4 wks110 BytesMonth 4+$10K
4AI voice agent for inboundWin the work · Efficiency~800 calls a month, about 20% missed. → 24/7 intake, about three policies a month recovered.3–4 wks110 BytesMonth 5+$9K
5Cross-sell and account roundingKeep and grow · New revenueAbout 30% of the book is monoline, roughly 450 households. → Gap-finder and campaigns, about 20 more policies a year.5–6 wks170 BytesMonth 7+$8K
6Document extractionWin the work · EfficiencyManual keying of dec pages, ACORDs and loss runs. → Extracted and written back to the AMS.4–6 wks150 BytesMonth 8+$6K

Phase 2 · Bigger builds

Deeper integrations that compound on phase 1. · $41K a year

7Review and reputation generationFind customers · New revenueFew reviews and no system. → Auto-ask after binding and after a claim.1–2 wks50 BytesMonth 9+$3K
8Referral and nurtureKeep and grow · New revenueAd-hoc referrals, neglected nurture. → Life-event nurture and timed referral asks.2–3 wks80 BytesMonth 9+$3K
9Renewal processing and remarketingKeep and grow · EfficiencyRenewals handled by hand, and rate shock drives churn. → Renewal review and automatic remarketing at risk.10–12 wks330 BytesMonth 13+$12K
10Multi-carrier quoting and prefillWin the work · EfficiencyA quote takes 25–90 minutes, quote-to-bind about 34%. → Quote in under two minutes, bind above 40%.10–12 wks330 BytesMonth 16+$10K
11Commission reconciliationGet paid · EfficiencyManual, so leaked and underpaid commission goes unseen. → Auto-reconciled and flagged, about $5K a year recovered.6–8 wks210 BytesMonth 18+$5K
12Claims intake and status botGet paid · EfficiencyAfter-hours claims burden, at the worst possible moment. → 24/7 intake and status updates.6–8 wks210 BytesMonth 20+$4K
13Endorsement and servicing automationGet paid · EfficiencyMid-term changes done by hand through carrier portals. → Automated servicing, RPA where there is no API.12–16 wks420 BytesMonth 24+$4K

All 13 systems, live by month 24 on Breakaway

+$96K a year

04

Value created

Phase 1 quick wins only, at a 4.0× multiple.

Profit today

$200K

Worth $800K

Added by phase 1

+$55K

a year, once live

Profit after

$255K

Worth $1.02M

Enterprise value created: +$220K. Agencies trade higher than most owner-operated businesses because the commission book is recurring and transferable. Held constant.

05

Build your queue

Start from our recommended order, or pick your own and watch when the revenue arrives.

Step 1 · Pick your systems

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Step 3 · Watch the revenue arrive

Everything live by month 6 on Escape Velocity.

A full year, once it is all running

+$52K

0$1K$2K$4K$5KSpeed-to-quote and lead follow-up — live month 1, $750 a monthRetention and win-back campaigns — live month 2, $1K a monthCertificate auto-issuance — live month 3, $833 a monthAI voice agent for inbound — live month 4, $750 a monthReview and reputation generation — live month 4, $250 a monthCross-sell and account rounding — live month 6, $667 a monthall livenowm2m4m6m8m10

Built one at a time in your queue order, each ramping up over about 2 months. Figures describe a representative business. A projection, not a forecast.

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Method and sources

Representative business: ~$600K commission income · ~$4.3M premium book · ~$200K owner profit · ~1,400 policies · 87% retention. Commission is roughly 14% of premium. Impact and difficulty are reasoned relative scores. Build order puts high-impact, low-effort systems first, then ranks by value per Byte. Go-live months assume one system at a time on a Breakaway membership.

Sources: IRS SOI and industry sources on agency margins, MIT/InsideSales on speed-to-lead, Bain on retention, plus vendor case studies.

Conservative, illustrative estimates for the representative business described, grounded in the cited benchmarks. For planning conversations, not guarantees. Actual results vary and are confirmed in your own Recaptured Value Assessment.

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