How We Do It
Bold Penguin builds the intelligence infrastructure that powers commercial insurance—from the moment a submission arrives to the moment a policy is bound. Our agentic AI platform extracts, enriches, scores, and routes every submission automatically, across every line of business and every market.
By owning the full workflow—not just one step in it—we turn every transaction into proprietary placement intelligence. The result: faster decisions, better data, and compounding improvement across your entire book.
Capitalizing on market shifts
Commercial insurance is undergoing its most significant operational shift in decades. The carriers, brokers, and distributors who will win are the ones who automate what used to require armies of people—and use the resulting intelligence to outplace, outprice, and outgrow the competition. Bold Penguin was built for exactly this moment.
The Bold Penguin difference
We don't just connect carriers and brokers. We sit in the workflow between them—processing over 5 million submissions annually, across 45+ integrated carriers and 27 countries—and turn that volume into an intelligence advantage no point solution can replicate.
A Win-Win-Win For All Our Partners
#bindislife
What started as our unifying vision statement is now a reality.
“Along the way, we’ve never lost sight of the fact that we are a technology company serving the complex needs of our carrier partners, agents, and customers. As we leverage our market intelligence at the top of the funnel, we work directly with our partners to place business that is right for their underwriting appetite and where they want to grow. And as we have developed these capabilities, we say ‘Bind Is Life’.”
– Peter B. Settel, Bold Penguin President and CEO
– Peter B. Settel, Bold Penguin President and CEO
Leadership
Meet the team behind our Bold moves
Company Culture
Team engagement is
our top priority.
From pitch competitions at Penguin Tank to Friday coffee chats with our CEO, we foster a team that can both work and play together. We talk about carrier APIs, risk appetite, and all things commercial insurance.
But we also talk about all the things we have in common: our favorite books, our bucket list travel destinations, and our four-legged companions.
In-person Waddle
Penguin Tank Presentation
Community Service
Hands-on Meetings
Being Bold
In-person Waddle
Penguin Tank Presentation
Be present.
Hands-on meetings
Being Bold
Values
The principles that fuel our actions
Be agile.
We evolve to serve the needs of our customers.
Be diverse.
We optimize outcomes by embracing all perspectives.
Be authentic.
We align our actions with our ideas and values.
Be present.
We are mindful and aware of the impact of our decisions.
Be Bold.
We challenge the status quo to power the future of insurance.
Flexibility
Most employees are able to work wherever they work best – with some positions based in a specific location, including our Dublin, OH, headquarters.
Engagement
We keep communication open and dynamic with regular all-hands meetings, or Waddles, that keep everyone in the loop and aligned.
Agility
Our products are agile and continuously improving, and so are we.
Authenticity
Everyone is quirky, and we embrace it all. You be you.
Balance
Your off-hours time is yours. Embrace the balance and go do what makes you happy outside of work.
Awards
In addition to being certified as a 2024 Most Loved Workplace®, here are a few other national workplace awards that have spotlighted the coolness of our company culture.
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