Kay.ai is an insurance operations platform founded in 2023 by Vishal Rohra and Achyut Joshi, machine learning engineers with backgrounds at Microsoft, Twitter, and Amazon, based in Brooklyn, New York. The company raised $3 million in seed funding led by Wing VC in March 2025, following a period in the South Park Commons Fellowship where the founders explored AI applications before settling on insurance back-office automation.
Kay functions as what the company calls a digital coworker rather than conventional workflow software: a broker forwards an email or uploads a PDF, and Kay extracts the relevant details, enters data across carrier portals, and generates quotes or complete service requests without a human retyping information between systems. The company reports the automation cutting close to 80% of administrative spend per workflow and roughly two hours per application compared to manual processing.
Kay AI is built for insurance brokers and agencies handling submissions, quoting, renewals, and servicing at a volume that manual data entry cannot keep up with. Pricing is not published as a fixed rate; the company prices against the value automated for each workflow rather than per-seat SaaS licensing, so cost requires a direct conversation.
