Buyer question · Insurance agency management systems · release 2026-09

Which AMS should a new scratch agency with two producers start with?

A buyer who typed “Which AMS should a new scratch agency with two producers start with?” on 22 September 2026 most often got Applied Systems back: 15 of 15 answers. Then EZLynx (14) and NowCerts (13). Every engine named Applied Systems in every valid run. 11 of the 19 checked vendors were never named here, including AgencyBloc and NextAgency.

If you sell insurance agency management systems and your name is not in that list, this is the question to fix first.

These answers come from one capture on 22 September 2026, three runs per engine, to this fixed wording. They are not a ranking, and an engine can answer differently on a refresh.

Observed answers on stated dates, not a ranking. This is not a judgment of product quality.

Who was named

Each count is over the 15 valid answers to this exact question. Observed answers on stated dates, not a ranking. This is not a judgment of product quality.

Checked insurance agency management systems vendors named in answers to this question, counted per answer.
VendorNamedRateWilson 95% interval
Applied Systems15 of 15100.0%79.6% to 100.0%
EZLynx14 of 1593.3%70.2% to 98.8%
NowCerts13 of 1586.7%62.1% to 96.3%
Vertafore13 of 1586.7%62.1% to 96.3%
HawkSoft11 of 1573.3%48.0% to 89.1%
AgencyZoom4 of 1526.7%10.9% to 52.0%
InsuredMine1 of 156.7%1.2% to 29.8%
Zywave1 of 156.7%1.2% to 29.8%

Checked and never named

11 of 19 checked vendors: 0 of 15 each.

Agency Systems (Newton), AgencyBloc, BindHQ, Dyad, Ebix (SmartOffice), GloveBox, NASA (Eclipse), NextAgency, Partner XE (SIS), Quikfuzion, SIBRO.

By engine

Three runs per engine. Each cell is how many valid runs named the vendor.

Runs naming each vendor, by engine, for this question.
VendorChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI Mode
Applied Systems3 of 33 of 33 of 33 of 33 of 3
EZLynx3 of 33 of 33 of 32 of 33 of 3
NowCerts2 of 33 of 33 of 32 of 33 of 3
Vertafore1 of 33 of 33 of 33 of 33 of 3
HawkSoft2 of 33 of 30 of 33 of 33 of 3
AgencyZoom1 of 31 of 30 of 31 of 31 of 3
InsuredMine0 of 30 of 30 of 31 of 30 of 3
Zywave0 of 30 of 30 of 30 of 31 of 3

What the engines said

Assuming you mean a U.S. independent P&C insurance agency, I’d start with EZLynx if you expect to write mostly home and auto.

ChatGPT, . Full answer text in the deposit.

NowCerts is the modern, cloud-native AMS choice for small agencies that find Vertafore and Applied too heavy.

Claude, . Full answer text in the deposit.

For a new scratch agency with two producers, start with a lightweight, cloud-native AMS built for small agencies, most often EZLynx, NowCerts, or Jenesis rather than enterprise systems like AMS360 or Epic.

Perplexity, . Full answer text in the deposit. Dash punctuation normalized.

It gives you a footprint in a major insurance ecosystem without the insane overhead of AMS360, pairing smoothly with Vertafore PL Rating.

Google AI Overviews, . Full answer text in the deposit.

For a new scratch independent insurance agency with two producers, EZLynx is the best overall Agency Management System (AMS) to start with because it combines real-time comparative rating and policy management into a single platform.

Google AI Mode, . Full answer text in the deposit.

One sentence per engine at most, chosen by a fixed rule: the first full sentence naming a checked vendor, read in run order. Every answer in full: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22907695.

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Release
2026-09, published
DOI
10.5281/zenodo.22907695
Method
v1.1: ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode; ten fixed buyer questions per category; three runs per engine
Captured
Base
15 valid answers to this question; 0 excluded
Licence
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