Independent insurance producer · Danville, CA
Twenty-three years placing insurance, ten years building the tech behind it. Now independent.
I don't care which carrier wins your business. That's the point. I'm a broker, not an agent: no carrier owns my loyalty, and I shop the whole market for you, direct carriers and the major wholesale desks alike. Every placement has to pass the same test. The coverage fits your actual risk exposure, the pricing is competitive, and the program is built around your preferences. Lean and contract-compliant, comprehensive and airtight, or self-insuring the risks you'd rather carry: your call, my job.
Twenty-three years of placements taught me where the red flags hide. You'll know how your program will actually perform in a loss, and if one comes, I'm there to advocate for you. Ten years building Embroker made me an insurance technology optimist. I build tools like Coverage Intelligence to ensure you get my expertise and the expertise of rapidly improving AI.
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Why work with me
Experience, sharpened by technology.
Over two decades placing insurance: commercial, personal lines, life, and health, through every kind of market this industry runs. Soft markets, hard markets, regulatory shocks, and the wildfire seasons that rewrote California homeowners coverage overnight. A lot of it was complex or hard to place. The pattern recognition that builds over twenty-three years is the part you can't shortcut.
The last ten of those years I spent on the founding team at Embroker, the first true commercial insurtech, which raised over $150M and grew to more than 125 employees across the country and overseas. I took over direct sales and helped design and create what we called the "brain of a broker," the technology that turned a manual, fragmented placement process into something faster and sharper. That's where I learned what insurance looks like when it's built around modern tooling instead of fax machines and spreadsheets.
Here's what I believe, and it's why I built my practice this way. I've always been a good broker. With modern AI tools, I'm one of the best. The same technology lets me give clients far more than a solo shop usually can: deeper coverage insights, real policy audits instead of surface checks, more accurate placements, and genuine cost savings. The twenty-three years tell me what to look for. The tools let me find it faster and more completely.
That conviction has a name: Coverage Intelligence, the policy-analysis engine I built and use on every commercial review.
Today I work independently in partnership with Panta, a Y-Combinator-backed insurtech. You get a producer that reads the policy, has the carrier relationships, and tells it straight. I'm focused on working with great people and companies, and on making sure they get the best coverage, service, and experience possible, for life.
23 yrs
placing insurance
#6
Embroker's first insurance hire
10 yrs
on a founding insurtech team
24h
first response, every inquiry
What clients and colleagues say
In their own words.
Recommendations from LinkedIn, verbatim and attributed.
"Tyler is a seasoned insurance expert with a consultative approach, the perfect solution for all of the choices and options we have in insurance today."
"Tyler was our initial contact at ISU Insurance and listened to a rather unique request for professional as well as general liability insurance for our start-up business. Tyler enlisted the team at ISU and challenged them to locate coverage for our consulting / asset verification business. Tyler stayed involved in our project through to the point of closing on two policies for our business. We have since renewed these policies and remain clients of Tyler / ISU."
"While at ISU, I collaborated with Tyler on multiple projects. I saw first hand his aptitude for insurance and understanding clients that makes him stand out from other insurance professionals. As a relationship manager, he truly cares about his clients' success. Tyler goes above and beyond to make sure clients' risk management programs promote a healthy, safe and productive work environment."
"As Relationship Manager for our account, Tyler did a great job of bringing all the necessary components together to resolve a pretty big issue with our insurance provider. Tyler was always helpful and was a strong advocate for our company. I hope to work with him again."
"Tyler made valuable contributions during his time at Embroker, especially in the way he supported and collaborated with the Customer Success team. His communication was clear, his follow-through was reliable, and he consistently helped move accounts forward in a productive way."
"Tyler is an excellent relationship manager, ready to answer any and all questions with correct planning and great results - he is the go to guy."
"Tyler is detail oriented, has great follow through and excellent customer service. My clients who used Tyler were very happy with his services and spoke highly of him. I would not hesitate to recommend Tyler for his insurance services."
"Tyler worked efficiently to ensure that all clients' personal insurance needs were met in a timely and professional manner. Tyler was a dedicated member of the Private Client Group at Marsh."
"Tyler exemplifies hard-work, persistence, and integrity. Those qualities serve him well in his profession. I would highly recommend Tyler to anyone interested in doing business with him."
Where I focus
Three programs.
Each is a distinct market with distinct carriers and distinct gotchas. Pick the one that fits your situation, or call and we'll figure it out together.
Hard-to-place CA homeowners
Wildfire HO
Coverage for $2M+ replacement-cost homes when admitted carriers won't write. Placed through the Stand Insurance Solutions program, FAIR Plan + DIC wraps, and other surplus-lines markets. Focused on California for now.
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D&O · Tech E&O · EPLI · Cyber
Tech
Insurance for venture-backed and growth-stage technology companies, placed nationwide across Seed, Series A, Series B and beyond. Built from ten years on the founding team at one of the modern insurtech platforms.
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Adult daycare · NEMT · Healthcare staffing · Residential care
Senior Care & Allied Health
Specialty coverage for the regulatory, abuse-liability, and HPL realities operators in this space actually face, placed with the markets still writing this class.
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More about how I got here
From State Farm in 2002 to insurtech founding team to independent.
The full career arc: the firms, the moves, the placements, and why I'm building this practice the way I am.
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