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Notes from the CSR desk.
What we have learned routing carrier work for 212 agencies, written by people who used to do it by hand.
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Certificates
Sep 24, 2026
The second phone call
Nobody calls an agency twice about a certificate because they enjoy it. The second call is the one number a certificate desk should be run on, and most agencies have never counted it.
Dana Ruddick
Co-founder, CEO · 3 min read
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Sep 10, 2026
Review mode
What Bevel holds back, and why
An automation that sends everything is easy to build and impossible to trust. Here are the four things Bevel will not send to a carrier or a holder on its own, and the reasoning behind each line.
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Aug 27, 2026
Renewals
Take down the sticky notes
Every agency has a renewal system, and most of them are a wall. A 45-day window run the same way every morning does the wall’s job without anyone having to remember to look at it.
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Aug 13, 2026
Carriers
A portal is not an integration
Of the 38 carriers Bevel connects to, 9 have an API. The other 29 are reached the way your CSRs reach them. Here is what that means for speed, for breakage, and for where your passwords live.
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Jul 30, 2026
Endorsements
Adding a truck on a Friday
A trucking account buys a tractor at 3:30 on a Friday and wants it on the road Monday. What happens in the next hour is the difference between an endorsement and a coverage gap.
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Jul 16, 2026
Payments
The trust ledger nobody wants to reconcile
Premium trust accounting is the least loved job in an agency and the one a state examiner looks at first. Matching each payment to its policy the day it arrives turns a monthly dread into a daily line.
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