Dun & Bradstreet, a business data and analytics company specialising in commercial intelligence and risk solutions, has launched new insurance capabilities within Anthropic’s Claude AI platform, enabling insurers and brokers to access the company’s verified business information and risk intelligence during commercial underwriting.
The new integration connects Dun & Bradstreet’s Commercial Graph and predictive analytics with Claude through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). According to Dun & Bradstreet, the technology is intended to reduce underwriting processes that can typically take days or even weeks into workflows completed within minutes.
The company said this allows underwriting teams to spend less time on repetitive administrative tasks and more time evaluating complex risks, making informed decisions and supporting brokers and clients.
“For decades, insurance companies have relied on Dun & Bradstreet’s verified business data and analytics to help them improve risk selection and pricing and increase profitability,” commented Scott Spencer, General Manager, Finance & Credit at Dun & Bradstreet.
“Now, Claude allows us to draw inference across our Commercial Graph to provide a more holistic understanding of the risks they are insuring. By making D&B’s business information and risk intelligence accessible in Claude, not only are our customers able to consider opportunities faster, but the outputs are explainable, auditable, and consistent, allowing decision-makers to act with confidence.”
Dun & Bradstreet said commercial underwriting remains heavily dependent on disconnected systems, manual processes and multiple sources of information, often slowing the assessment of new submissions.
The integration with Claude consolidates a range of underwriting activities into a single AI-assisted workflow, combining business verification, entity resolution, ownership analysis, know your business (KYB) checks, compliance screening, financial risk assessment and customer onboarding. According to Dun & Bradstreet, this approach simplifies the initial clearance stage while maintaining the governance, transparency and audit trails expected within regulated insurance markets.
The capabilities were demonstrated during last week’s Insurtech Insights USA event by Anthropic’s Mike Ram and Eoghan Scully. Dun & Bradstreet said the integration is designed to support underwriting decisions throughout the insurance workflow by applying its business intelligence and insurance-specific data rather than simply aggregating information from multiple sources.
According to Dun & Bradstreet, an insurer receiving a new commercial submission could use Claude to verify the identity of the insured organisation, confirm ownership structures, validate Broker of Record details and producer licences across products and jurisdictions, perform regulatory screening, complete financial risk assessments, detect duplicate submissions and prepare a comprehensive risk profile for underwriters in a matter of seconds.
“Claude is at its most powerful when it can reason over verified, real-world context,” added Mike Ram, Head of Insurance at Anthropic. “By bringing D&B’s business data information and risk intelligence directly in Claude, insurers can create and use agents that act on trusted data. This helps D&B’s customers move faster on clearance, underwriting, and claims without compromising the accuracy these decisions demand.”
Through the MCP integration, Dun & Bradstreet said insurers are able to securely connect to its Global Commercial Graph throughout the underwriting process. The company noted users can verify the identity, ownership and control structures of insured businesses and brokers, automate submission clearance at the point of intake, conduct Broker of Record verification, producer licensing checks, duplicate submission detection, OFAC and KYB screening, and generate financial risk profiles.
The platform enables insurers to build more comprehensive risk assessments by combining first-party and third-party business information with predictive risk scores. Organisations can automate underwriting, pricing, quotation and claims workflows while producing documentation that is fully auditable and supported by real-time business intelligence.
The new insurance capabilities build on the risk and compliance workflows it introduced for Claude last month. The latest release extends those functions with additional financial strength insights, giving insurers greater visibility into an insured business’s credit profile, regulatory filings, payment history and other indicators that may influence underwriting decisions.
