Herald · FinOps Profile

Herald Finops

FinOps view of Herald spend. Herald is a sales-led, contract-based unified commercial-insurance API; cost is governed by a negotiated platform agreement rather than published per-call rates. This artifact frames the meters a platform would track - submissions, quotes, applications, and connected carrier products - to allocate and govern Herald usage internally. Rates are not public and are not reconciled here.

Herald Finops is the FinOps profile for Herald on the APIs.io network, aligned with the FinOps Foundation Framework.

It defines 4 billable meters, billed in USD, on a negotiated cycle, and pricing category commitment-based.

The profile maps 8 FOCUS columns for cost-allocation reporting.

Tagged areas include Insurance, Insurtech, Commercial Insurance, Quoting, and Carriers.

Category: Insurance Pricing: Commitment-Based Billing: Negotiated FOCUS v1.3
InsuranceInsurtechCommercial InsuranceQuotingCarriersFinOpsCost ManagementFOCUS

Framework Alignment

Framework
FinOps Foundation Framework
Data Spec
FOCUS v1.3

Charge Categories

PurchaseUsageAdjustment

FOCUS Columns

BillingCurrency
USD
ChargeCategory
Purchase
InvoiceIssuerName
Herald
PricingCategory
Commitment-Based
ProviderName
Herald
PublisherName
Herald
ServiceCategory
Insurance
ServiceName
Herald API

Meters

submissions
Unit: submissions
Applications submitted to carriers; each submission requests one quote per product.
quotes
Unit: quotes
Quotes returned from carriers and retrieved via the API or webhooks.
applications
Unit: applications
Applications created and maintained prior to submission.
connected_products
Unit: products
Carrier products connected and made quotable to producers.

Sources