Guidewire Names Beazley, Definity and RCIS 2026 Innovation Award Winners

Beazley: one global platform for specialty insurance

Beazley, a Lloyd's syndicate and global specialty insurer, is modernizing its policy administration and billing on the Guidewire Cloud platform. The aim, according to Guidewire, is a consistent global foundation that still leaves room for local market variations.

Working with Capgemini, a Guidewire Consulting Global Strategic partner, Beazley implemented Guidewire PolicyCenter and BillingCenter. The European solution was delivered in approximately eight months. The program also rationalized more than 200 marketable products into a condensed, streamlined set, which Guidewire says reduced complexity and improved speed to market.

Capgemini's AI-enabled delivery model, combined with Guidewire's Advanced Product Designer (APD), established a repeatable Product Factory approach for rapid development. Beazley's digital and broker platforms are also connected to its core underwriting operations through Guidewire Integration Gateway, which uses API and event-driven integration for broker submissions, customer and account data, and policy servicing. Guidewire says this supports Beazley's move toward increasingly AI-enabled underwriting.

Definity: agentic AI for first notice of loss

Definity launched its first production agentic AI solution to manage and triage broker First Notice of Loss (FNOL) intake. Instead of staff re-keying data by hand, the system generates structured draft claims directly in Guidewire for a claims adjuster to review.

The solution was developed with Deloitte, a Guidewire Consulting Global Premier partner. It uses a network of AI agents to classify submissions, extract and reason over information, and execute workflows that create draft claims in ClaimCenter. Guidewire describes it as a governed, traceable path from AI processing to claims operations that keeps adjusters firmly in the loop while reducing manual effort and improving speed and consistency.

According to the announcement, the initiative also sets up a scalable base for deploying reusable, governed agentic AI capabilities across Definity's claims lifecycle.

RCIS: modernizing crop insurance

RCIS, which operates in crop insurance, described by Guidewire as one of the industry's most complex and highly regulated lines of business, is moving to Guidewire InsuranceSuite, the Jutro Digital Platform, data and AI-first innovation. The work is part of its Passion for the Possible™ initiative, and RCIS enlisted PwC, a Guidewire Consulting Global Strategic partner, to replace its legacy environment with a unified platform on Guidewire Cloud Platform.

The transformation includes complex legacy data migration, integrated geospatial Farm Maps, automated Risk Management Agency (RMA) regulatory reporting and streamlined core insurance operations. Guidewire says this was done while maintaining business continuity through critical seasonal agricultural cycles.

RCIS is among the top providers of crop insurance in the U.S. and one of only 12 Approved Insurance Providers of the Federal Crop Insurance Program. It is the only one to offer coverage in all 50 U.S. states, through a national network of more than 3,700 agents.

What Guidewire says it means for the industry

Brian Desmond, CMO of Guidewire, said the insurers "applied AI to the work that runs their business and have measurable results to show for it." He added that "Agentic insurance is where the industry is heading: AI agents that execute work within the controls the insurer sets."

The three cases point to different uses of AI: faster product and software delivery at Beazley, supervised claims intake automation at Definity, and AI-first engineering for a regulated agricultural line at RCIS. In each, the announcement stresses controls and human review, such as the adjuster review step in Definity's workflow. The details come from Guidewire's own announcement, and the source does not provide independent performance figures for the projects.