For many insurance companies, pricing models start in Excel. Whether it’s defining underwriting rules, building rate tables, or running scenario analyses, Excel remains the go-to tool for actuaries and underwriters. However, turning these models into production-ready systems can be tedious and time-consuming. Swallow makes this process seamless by allowing users to upload their Excel-based models directly into our platform, transforming them into live, testable, and deployable pricing tools with minimal effort.
This feature bridges the gap between pricing and production. No more manual re-coding or relying on engineering teams to interpret Excel logic. Instead, pricing teams can quickly validate their models, ensuring they work as intended, and deploy them to an API or embeddable form in just a few clicks. It’s a faster, more efficient way to turn your expertise into action, giving insurers more agility to respond to market changes and freeing up engineering resources for other priorities.
Most pricing models begin in Excel, and now Swallow can create XLS files. This allows users to move between their pricing tools for testing and share models for compliance purposes.
With Playground, users can experiment with Swallow's low-code syntax to transform data, query data sets and even write custom code. By using the Playground, Swallow users can quickly get up to speed on how to build pricing models in the platform.
We're adding to our data features with Sales Reporting! Our users connect their policy administration system or database to Swallow and we can report those sales and calculate their quote-sale conversion rate. This is the first feature of many in this space.
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Swallow's latests embedded forms make it easy and visual for customers to put in their details. You can use Swallow's forms on your own branded portal, use on your website, or hit the API to run pricing quickly and confidently.
With Swallow's export feature, you can send customer inputs and quote details over email or to an endpoint of your choosing, such as a database or spreadsheet.
When Swallow's AI builds you a model, it automatically groups steps into peril groups or other similar steps. When manually building models you can also group your different transformation, table, API and more steps together to easily understand complex models.
Using the Swallow AI, we can create 100s of tests based on your pricing model. This allows you to quickly generate a range of user inputs to ensure you are accurately pricing common and edge cases.
Using Swallow AI, users can go from no model to a multi factor GLM model in seconds. Once the model is setup, users can make changes to rates and rules easily and get their project pricing live to webform and API.
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In the first of many Swallow AI features, Version Summary makes it quick and easy to summarise what has changed version to version of your pricing model. Instead of manually tracking your changes to the model, just click "Generate with AI" and we'll summarise what has changed in plain english.
Swallow now has tutorials built in. Our first tutorial is how to get started with a simple pricing model.
Swallow makes it easy to amend your details, company information, and manage users in Settings.
Swallow now helps you easily search your pricing model for inputs, factors and more using our new spotlight search.
Swallow now autocompletes as you build your pricing model. This makes it easier to create your rules, transformations, calculations and beyond!
From the moment you create and draft model, Swallow generates a Try form for you to test the latest pricing. You can also hit the pricing API to test.
Swallow now enables you to upload assets and specify tasks. All part of delivering a smooth governance process to pricing teams.
Swallow has added test functionality in the build feature. You can now use run your tests quickly against the latest version of your pricing model to ensure it is pricing as expected.
Swallow's pricing building blocks have a new look. You can easily add these steps to your pricing model, from API calls to large data tables.
Swallow's Data feature has a new look, making it easy to search through your quotes to find information on a customer.
Swallow Tests are now even easier to create with our new upload feature. By drag and dropping a CSV you can create thousands of tests within seconds. You can also dig into the details of each test to easily make changes.
Swallow's Process feature has a new look, making it easier to summarise your version changes and see who's involved in your project.
