Engineering servicesFor agencies, MGAs & insurtech teams · US

The AMS360 API,
put to work instead of talked about.

Searches for “AMS360 API” mostly return documentation portals and forum threads, not people who will actually build the thing.

Working with
Trucker Path InsuranceLuckyTruckIIGHilson MoranNomod

Client relationships include work through Alfabolt, NativeBase's parent company.

Scoping call20 minutes

Bring us the integration. We’ll scope it on the call.

Twenty minutes, no deck. You leave with a written map, and we say on the call if it is a dead end.

14-day pilot, $2,499: live or you don’t pay · then $2,499 / mo

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We’re the second kind. We design and run integrations on top of Vertafore AMS360: CRM sync, portal autofill, renewal pipelines, reporting extracts. Engineers who already know the AMS360 data model, on a flat monthly fee.

Julie Zimmer, CEO at LuckyTruck
Adam Smith, VP of Product at Trucker Path Insurance
Paul, client
“It is like having an in-house fractional head of engineering and a fully functional dedicated team.”
Adam Smith · Truckerpath Insurance · read more →
Before you scope anything

What the AMS360 API really gives you.

AMS360 has had programmatic access for years. The catch is knowing which rail to use for which job, what access your Vertafore agreement includes, and where the data model will fight you. The 20-minute scoping call usually settles all three.

What it gives you
  • Web-services access to the records that matter: customers, policies, lines of business, personnel, activities, and suspense items.
  • Both read and write: enough to keep an external CRM, portal, or warehouse in sync and to push activities and notes back so AMS360 stays the system of record.
  • A stable, long-lived integration surface: AMS360 integrations tend to run for years once the mapping is right.
  • Vertafore’s partner/developer programs for sanctioned access patterns, plus established integration points used by hundreds of vendors.
  • Enough coverage to eliminate most manual exports: daily CSV downloads and re-uploads can usually become real, monitored syncs.
Where it bites
  • Access depends on your Vertafore agreement and edition, so confirming what your contract includes is step zero, and we help you ask Vertafore the right questions.
  • The classic web services are SOAP/XML with their own paging and session quirks; treating them like a modern REST API produces fragile integrations.
  • The data model has history. Customer vs. policy vs. line relationships, transaction types, and personnel assignments need mapping discipline or your sync double-counts.
  • Rate behavior matters at book scale: initial full-book syncs need batching and retry design, not a for-loop.
  • Some workflows (real-time carrier quoting, documents from carrier sites) live outside AMS360 entirely. That’s IVANS or portal automation territory, and we’ll tell you which.
What we build

Shipped before, shipped again.

These are the engagements we run most often on this platform. If yours isn’t here, bring it to the scoping call. If we can’t build it, we’ll say so on the call.

AMS360 ↔ CRM bridge

Customers, policies, and renewal dates synced into HubSpot, Salesforce, or your CRM, with producer activity written back into AMS360 as activities and suspense. No more exporting CSVs every Monday.

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Carrier-portal autofill from AMS360

Submission and quoting data pulled straight from AMS360 and pushed into carrier portals: the rekeying your CSRs do between AMS360 and carrier sites, gone. Pairs with our ACORD pipelines.

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Renewal radar

Expirations and renewal status extracted daily across the whole book and delivered where your team works (Slack, email digests, CRM tasks) with the policy and servicing context attached.

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Reporting & warehouse extracts

Scheduled extracts into Postgres or your BI tool, modeled so premium, commission, and retention numbers reconcile against AMS360 instead of “directionally matching” it.

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Download reconciliation

AMS360 + IVANS together: compare what carriers sent against what landed in the AMS, flag the gaps, and stop trusting that downloads applied cleanly just because nothing errored.

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Data hygiene & migration tooling

Dedupe passes, code-table cleanups, and complete extracts for migrations or acquisitions, done with API discipline instead of a temp army doing copy-paste.

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Looking for the product instead of the engineering? We also run ready-made automation on top of AMS360: see AI automation for AMS360. Or, if you’d rather add a person than a project, hire an insurtech engineer who already knows this platform.

And if the extract or sync is only step one, and step two is a tool the AMS never shipped (a renewal radar with its own UI, a client portal reading AMS360 policies, a commission reconciler), that is custom software built on your AMS data, scoped on the same call.

How it works

Scoped on a call.
Demoed the same week.

01
Day 0 · 20 min

Scoping call. You leave with a map.

Bring the integration you wish existed. We tell you what the platform genuinely allows on the call, and within 48 hours you have a written automation map: what we’d build first, what it saves, and what it costs.

02
Within 24 hours

A build lead joins your Slack.

A named engineer who has shipped against this platform before: not a recruiter, not a PM. They confirm access and credentials, then start on the thinnest end-to-end slice.

03
By day 14

The pilot is live, or you don’t pay.

Not a slide. The first integration running against your live environment: your policies, your clients, your edge cases, used by your team. If it isn’t live and used by day 14, the $2,499 pilot isn’t billed.

04
Month to month

It keeps running. We keep watching.

APIs version, portals change, schemas drift. The $2,499 a month retainer only starts once the pilot works: monitoring and fixes are in the flat fee, plus one new automation a month, and most clients learn something broke from our Slack message that says it’s already fixed.

What clients actually say

Engineers who already speak insurance.

It is like having an in-house fractional head of engineering and a fully functional dedicated team.

Adam Smith
VP of Product · Truckerpath Insurance
50% saved

Alfabolt took over our digital platform and internal systems, improved functionality fast, and cut hosting and infrastructure costs by 50%.

After just a few months, they were a fully integrated part of our team.

Julie Zimmer
CEO · Luckytruck
FAQ

The questions every scoping call starts with.

Does AMS360 actually have an API we can use?

Yes. AMS360 exposes web services covering customers, policies, activities, and more, and Vertafore runs partner programs for sanctioned integrations. What you can use depends on your agreement and edition. On the scoping call we’ll identify exactly what to confirm with your Vertafore rep, in their vocabulary, so the answer comes back fast.

Can you connect AMS360 to our CRM without replacing either?

That’s the standard engagement. AMS360 stays the system of record; the CRM gets a live, monitored sync instead of stale imports. Field mapping is agreed in week one, and write-back (activities, notes, suspense) is optional but usually worth it.

We already tried a Zapier-style connection and it fell apart. Why would this hold?

Generic connectors treat AMS360 like a simple table of contacts. It isn’t: it’s a relational model with transaction history, and the integrations that survive are the ones built against that model with paging, retries, and reconciliation checks. That’s also why we include monitoring: the integration tells us when something drifts, before your team notices.

Can you pull data out of AMS360 for reporting without touching production workflows?

Yes. Read-only extracts into a warehouse are the lowest-risk first project, and a common starting point. Your team keeps working exactly as before; you get queryable, current book data within the first weeks.

How fast do we see something running?

First demo on your real AMS360 data inside the first week after credentials, typically the extract or the first sync slice. Production with monitoring lands over the following weeks depending on scope.

What does it cost?

It starts free: a 20-minute call and a written automation map of the 3 to 5 workflows worth automating first. Then a 14-day pilot for $2,499 one time: one workflow, fixed scope, live and used by your team by day 14, or you don’t pay. After that, $2,499 a month keeps it running (monitoring and fixes included) and adds one new automation each month; $4,499 a month runs two build lanes. Month to month, cancel anytime, no setup fees. No per-record fees, no connector tax.

More about the engagement model, covering pricing, IP ownership, and how the team plugs into yours, on the hire insurtech engineers page, or compare all insurance engineering and integration services.

The next 20 minutes

Bring the integration
nobody wants to staff.

Twenty minutes, no deck. Tell us what should be flowing between your systems and isn’t. We’ll tell you if it’s buildable, how long it takes, and what it costs. The first piece is live in 14 days or you don’t pay. If we’re not the right team, we’ll say so and point you somewhere better.

Book a scoping call Limited pilot slots each month: one build lead per pilot