About the role
About Hedge
Hedge is a specialty insurance brokerage built from the beginning to be operated by AI. Software agents run the core of the business in production today: they read broker submissions, select markets, complete carrier applications, negotiate quotes, prepare binders, issue documents, and handle regulatory filings. A small team directs and supervises that work through an internal command system rather than doing it by hand.
Many companies describe themselves this way. Very few are structured so that it has to be true. We are, and it shapes every engineering decision we make.
The problem space
Commercial insurance is one of the largest industries in the world, with more than $1 trillion spent in 2025. It still runs on email, PDFs, phone calls, and carrier portals from another era. It is also genuinely difficult terrain: fifty states of regulation, surplus lines taxation, shifting carrier appetite, documents that carry legal weight, and real money moving between counterparties.
That difficulty is the opportunity. This industry has resisted automation precisely because it is nuanced, relational, and unforgiving of error. Automating it well requires unusual engineering, and the companies that manage it will be very large.
The work
You would be our founding engineer, building across the full surface of the company:
- Agent infrastructure. Long-running, multi-step, interruptible agents operating across email, documents, APIs, and live browser sessions, held to the reliability standard of a business whose output is binding legal paper and moving money.
- The command system. The internal console through which a small team supervises a fleet of agents. Closer to an operations center than an admin panel.
- Customer surfaces. A broker portal, public API, MCP server, and CLI.
- Integrations. Carrier APIs where they exist; portals, email, and document parsing where they don't. E-signature, payments, state filing systems, and the long tail of legacy software this industry runs on.
