Built for specialty underwriting

Built for performance. Structured for scale. Aligned for impact.

Next-generation MGU serving the commercial specialty market

Meet ascendex

Ascendex is a tech-enabled, performance-driven MGU with underwriting practices operating as true enterprise owners. Our model eliminates bureaucracy, scales underwriting excellence, and aligns every stakeholder around disciplined risk selection and shared outcomes.

01/03 WHAT WE STAND FOR

A launchpad
for growth

Underwriters today often don’t have the capabilities and support model to truly underwrite. Ascendex was built with expertise, agility, and shared ownership to solve this problem.

02/03 WHO WE ARE

The discipline
behind the platform

Our leadership team has scaled platforms, launched startups, and managed billions in premium. Our underwriters are former carrier executives, program architects, and proven producers.

03/03 EMPOWERING EXCELLENCE

Technology built
to scale specialty
programs

Ascendex is built for modern, profitable underwriting. Our technology infrastructure is designed to streamline complexity, accelerate decision-making, and free underwriters to focus on risk, not redundancy.

AI-enabled underwriting platform

Powered by Federato, our teams gain intelligent risk insights in real time, which enables smarter decisions, faster quoting, and more profitable portfolios.

AI-native financial planning technology

Operationally, Workday delivers enterprise-grade agility, giving Ascendex and our teams real-time financial control, performance tracking, and scalability from day one.

Trusted by brokers and carriers

What partners get

Our distribution and capacity partners value what we value: speed, transparency, follow-through, and excellence. We curate programs built to outperform, led by underwriters who know their niche and are committed to consistency. We’re built to help our partners succeed.

For underwriters who want more

Build with confidence

Ascendex is a home for underwriters with a deep track record for building high-performance practices. Here, underwriters are owners with aligned incentives and supported by a centralized infrastructure and industry-leading technology. They scale with confidence and build value on their terms.

Driven toward growth

our leadership

Our leadership team of senior industry experts has built platforms, launched underwriting businesses, and managed large-scale portfolios across the specialty market.