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Insurance Broker Software Stack: BMS, Rater, CRM, and Intake
·Intakecore
What software a new or growing brokerage actually needs. Intake is not a BMS. A rater is not a website. Here is the stack principals should buy in order.
Principals Google “insurance broker software” and get a pile of brand names: Applied Epic, TAM, PowerBroker, HubSpot, comparative raters, website builders. They are not substitutes. Buying the wrong layer first is how a five-person shop ends up with three logins and still takes applications by email.
Four jobs, four tools
- Intake: capture and qualify the new business file (web + phone)
- Rater / carrier portals: price the risk you already structured
- BMS: policy admin, downloads, accounting, the book of record
- CRM / marketing: nurture, renewals campaigns, producer pipeline—optional until volume exists
What a new brokerage should buy first
If you have no BMS yet, you still need a front door. If you already have Epic or TAM, you still need a front door—those systems were not designed as a mobile client experience. Intake vs BMS is the distinction that saves six months of “we’ll just customize the AMS.”
Where Intakecore sits
Intakecore is intake and qualification: branded forms, decline rules, CSR and broker views, document upload. It does not replace your BMS. It stops garbage and half-files from ever landing there. Talk to us if you want the stack in the right order.
Put this to work on your intake.
Intakecore gives brokerages branded forms, AI document parsing, decline rules, and a dashboard your CSRs and brokers actually use.