AI for Insurance Course Series
The traditional insurance model—built on manual workflows, static pricing, and human-driven judgment—is being fundamentally disrupted by artificial intelligence. AI is no longer simply a tool for efficiency; it is a “second brain” capable of automating low-value labor, enhancing decision intelligence, and transforming how risk is priced, underwritten, serviced, and resolved. This four-course certificate series is a strategic and tactical guide for insurance professionals at every level to navigate this disruption, redesign their operating models, and build a durable competitive advantage in the age of AI.
Released Jan 2026
About This Series
This professional certificate series provides a complete journey from strategic understanding to hands-on execution. The series begins by examining how AI is reshaping the traditional insurance model (from underwriting and claims to distribution and customer experience) and explores key forces accelerating industry-wide disruption. It then introduces AI-forward strategic shifts that define emerging AI-native insurance enterprise. From there, you will apply a practical, dual-framework system for identifying and prioritizing high-impact AI opportunities using both a bottom-up Use Case Model and a top-down Problem-Based Model.
The series culminates in a capstone focused on selecting and applying AI technologies using the Three Tiers of AI Technology framework, enabling you to turn strategy into action across your organization.
AI for Insurance is included with an AI Mastery Membership.
AI for Insurance
You'll Learn To
- Understand how AI is transforming the foundational economics, workflows, and value drivers of the insurance industry.
- Navigate the core strategic shifts that define the transition from traditional to AI-Forward insurance operating models.
- Apply two powerful frameworks to create an actionable AI roadmap: the Use Case Model and the Problem-Based Model.
- Master a structured process for selecting insurance-specific AI technologies using the Three Tiers of AI Technology framework.
- Build a practical implementation plan by mapping tools, technologies, and workflows to your highest-value opportunities.
Key Questions Addressed
This series provides a comprehensive playbook for insurance leaders asking the most critical questions about the future:
- How is AI disrupting underwriting, claims, pricing, and distribution, and what does that mean for my job and my company?
- What will distinguish AI-forward carriers, agencies, and professionals from those that fall behind?
- Where should I start if I want to capitalize on AI rather than react to it?
- How do I identify which tasks, workflows, or decisions to automate or augment first?
- Which AI technologies are worth testing, and how do I evaluate them effectively and safely?
Who It's For
This certificate series is designed for:
- Insurance Executives, Leaders and Owners responsible for strategy, innovation, digital transformation, and performance improvement.
- Practitioners and Agents looking to understand the future of their roles and build high-value AI skills.
- Insurance Professionals across underwriting, claims, distribution, brokerage, actuarial, and operations.
- Anyone who wants to future-proof their insurance career or organization in a rapidly evolving market.
What You'll Do
- Analyze the traditional insurance model and how AI is reshaping pricing, workflows, and value creation.
- Build a Use Case Workbook and a Problem-Based Workbook to create a prioritized, actionable AI roadmap.
- Apply the Three Tiers of AI Technology framework to map tools to your highest-value opportunities and workflows.
- Complete a preliminary action plan personalized to your organization or role.
Course Syllabus
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Course 1: The State of AI for Insurance
This course provides a foundational understanding of how AI is transforming insurance. You will examine the traditional human-centered model, explore the forces accelerating AI-driven change, and learn how the emerging AI-native landscape differs in its workflows, economics, and sources of value. You will leave this course with a clear understanding of the opportunities and threats AI presents, and a concise personal reflection on your place within this new landscape.
What You’ll Learn
This course will teach you how to:
- Identify the core components of the traditional insurance model and the historical role of humans in creating value.
- Describe the key forces driving rapid AI-driven change in insurance, including accelerating capabilities, adoption data, and bellwether examples.
- Analyze how the emerging AI-native paradigm differs from the traditional insurance model in terms of workflows, value creation, and economics.
- Evaluate how AI-driven changes create risks and opportunities for individuals, teams, and organizations within insurance.
- Create a concise personal reflection that summarizes the industry’s AI-driven changes and outlines your top opportunities, threats, and commitment to becoming AI-forward.
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Course 2: The Future of Insurance: Core AI-Forward Strategies
This course examines the strategic shifts reshaping insurance: from static pricing to dynamic, granular ratemaking; from sequential, manual workflows to domain-wide automation powered by agentic AI; and from inconsistent, human-driven processes to elevated decision intelligence. You will come away understanding these shifts, and how your company and career need to change in order to navigate them.
What You’ll Learn
This course will teach you how to:
- Define the purpose of an AI-forward strategic playbook and explain how it shifts the focus from understanding AI disruption to responding to it.
- Describe core strategic shifts in insurance by contrasting the old way of operating with the emerging AI-forward approaches, supported by relevant data and examples.
- Analyze the implications of each strategic shift for pricing, workflows, value delivery, competitive advantage, talent development, and organizational culture.
- Evaluate your organization’s current position on each strategic shift by rating yourself as Lagging, Adapting, or Leading.
- Answer key strategic questions for any shift where you are Lagging or Adapting to determine your most important areas for AI-forward improvement.
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Course 3: Finding Your AI Advantage: Use Cases in Insurance
This course is a step-by-step walkthrough of how to identify use cases for AI and problems that can be solved in a smarter way using AI. You will use the Use Case Model to unbundle tasks using JobsGPT and CampaignsGPT, and the Problem-Based Model to articulate top strategic problems using ProblemsGPT. By the end, you will have built your foundational AI action blueprint: a prioritized list of quick-win pilot projects and strategic problem statements.
What You’ll Learn
This course will teach you how to:
- Describe how the Use Case Model functions as a bottom-up framework for identifying AI opportunities and why unbundling tasks reveals quick-win pilot projects.
- Apply the Use Case Model by using JobsGPT and CampaignsGPT to unbundle your own role or workflow and enter the outputs into the Piloting AI Use Case Workbook.
- Analyze and prioritize the use cases you generated by applying the workbook criteria for impact, effort, feasibility, and exposure.
- Describe how the Problem-Based Model functions as a top-down framework and explain how ProblemsGPT supports the creation of strong strategic problem statements.
- Create a preliminary AI action blueprint by completing both the Piloting AI Use Case Workbook and the Problem-Based Workbook to determine the highest-value starting points for implementation.
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Course 4: Applied AI for Insurance: How to Select and Use AI Technology
This course teaches you how to navigate the AI technology landscape and select tools that align with your workflows and use cases. You will learn the Three Tiers of AI Technology framework and analyze examples from across underwriting, claims, distribution, and operations. You will also get a behind-the-scenes look at core implementation skills such as high-context prompting, grounding AI in your documents, and building reusable custom agents.
What You’ll Learn
This course will teach you how to:
- Describe the core challenge of navigating the AI technology landscape and explain the purpose of the Three Tiers of AI Technology framework.
- Explain the role and value of each tier (Existing Tech, Frontier Models, and Third-Party Tools) as a practical system for prioritizing and selecting technologies, with examples of each.
- Interpret key evaluation criteria using examples from a curated set of industry-specific AI tools to understand how to vet technology effectively.
- Explain the value of essential implementation skills such as creating high-context prompts, conducting deep research, grounding an AI assistant in your own documents, and building a reusable custom agent.
- Apply the Three Tiers framework and your hands-on skills to complete a preliminary implementation plan by mapping tools to your prioritized use cases.
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Final Exam
Upon successful completion, you will earn a Professional Certificate for the AI for Insurance course series.
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About the Instructor

Taylor Radey is an instructor for AI Academy by SmarterX and the founder of Randall Pine, a consultancy that helps small and mid-sized businesses integrate AI to improve marketing, sales, and operational performance. She is also the creator of growthcurve, a practical, every-other-week newsletter that helps hundreds of business leaders understand and apply AI to scale their expertise and their businesses.
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