iambuddy.com

Buddy (iambuddy.com, now buddy.insure) is a digital insurance commerce platform that turns insurance product rules, pricing, and workflows into structured data via its Insurance Object Notation (ION) engine, so carriers, MGAs, brokers, and agents can sell P&C insurance online across direct, agent-assisted, embedded, and agentic channels without core-system changes. Its Offer Element embeddable checkout widget adds quote, apply, bind, and pay in a few lines of code, and Buddy MCP connects insurance products to AI assistants such as Claude for conversational selling. Founded by Charles Merritt and David Vogeleer in Richmond, Virginia, Buddy is licensed in all 50 states and is SOC 2 Type 2 and PCI DSS compliant, working with carriers including Allstate, Aon, W.R. Berkley, Chubb, Great American, and Starr.

iambuddy.com is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Insurance, InsurTech, Embedded Insurance, and Insurance Commerce.

iambuddy.com’s developer surface includes support, engineering blog, and 14 more developer resources.

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24.8/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 12/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

0 APIs 1 MCP Servers

CompanyInsuranceInsurTechEmbedded InsuranceInsurance CommerceP&C InsuranceMCPPayments

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 24.8/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 4.8 / 20

Commercial Clarity 8.4 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 12/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Login

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conformance

Components

Components

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Compliance

Compliance

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Licenses

Licenses

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

About

About

LinkedIn

Source (apis.yml)

aid: iambuddycom
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/iambuddycom.png
name: iambuddy.com
description: Buddy (iambuddy.com, now buddy.insure) is a digital insurance commerce platform that turns insurance product
  rules, pricing, and workflows into structured data via its Insurance Object Notation (ION) engine, so carriers, MGAs, brokers,
  and agents can sell P&C insurance online across direct, agent-assisted, embedded, and agentic channels without core-system
  changes. Its Offer Element embeddable checkout widget adds quote, apply, bind, and pay in a few lines of code, and Buddy
  MCP connects insurance products to AI assistants such as Claude for conversational selling. Founded by Charles Merritt and
  David Vogeleer in Richmond, Virginia, Buddy is licensed in all 50 states and is SOC 2 Type 2 and PCI DSS compliant, working
  with carriers including Allstate, Aon, W.R. Berkley, Chubb, Great American, and Starr.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/iambuddycom/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- techstars
x-tier: enriched
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Insurance
- InsurTech
- Embedded Insurance
- Insurance Commerce
- P&C Insurance
- MCP
- Payments
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/iambuddycom-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://buddy.insure/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://my.buddy.insure
- type: Login
  url: https://my.buddy.insure
- type: Support
  url: https://buddyinsure.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portals
- type: Blog
  url: https://buddy.insure/buddy-blog
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://buddy.insure/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://buddy.insure/privacy
- type: About
  url: https://buddy.insure/about
- type: Licenses
  url: https://buddy.insure/licenses
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/buddyinsurance
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/iambuddycom-mcp.yml
  name: Buddy MCP
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/iambuddycom-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: conformance/iambuddycom-conformance.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/iambuddycom-components.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/iambuddycom-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence