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Payment infrastructure built for insurance distribution.

Vela replaces fragmented payment tools with a single PayFac-native platform — premium collection, commission disbursement, surplus lines compliance, and AI-powered reconciliation. Purpose-built for agencies, MGAs, and wholesalers.

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Go-To-Market Advantage

Your premium volume
can make Vela free.

When your agency routes payment collections through the Arrowhead network — powered by Penumbra and 0030 — your monthly processing volume offsets your Vela subscription, dollar for dollar. High-volume agencies and MGAs can qualify for Vela at no platform cost.

1
Connect your agency to the Arrowhead payment network during onboarding
2
Process premium collections through Vela's PayFac-native checkout, powered by Penumbra + 0030
3
Hit your volume threshold and your platform fee drops to $0
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Volume Unlock Tiers
$500K/mo
processing volume
Starter free
$2M/mo
processing volume
Growth free
$5M+/mo
processing volume
Enterprise free
Volume thresholds based on combined premium payment processing through the Arrowhead partner network (Penumbra + 0030). Contact us for exact qualification criteria.
The Problem Space

A single premium touches 9 entities before the policy is bound.

Trust accounts, carrier remittance cycles, surplus lines taxes, commission splits, 1099 filings, premium finance — each with its own compliance layer and settlement timeline. Vela handles all of it.

POLICYHOLDER ACH · Card · RTP · Check INSURANCE AGENCY Retail Broker / Distribution Hub TRUST / IOLTA ACCOUNT Premium held in fiduciary CARRIER (ADMITTED) Policy · Claims · Commission remittance E&S CARRIER (NON-ADMITTED) Surplus lines placement STATE STAMPING OFFICE SLTX · SLIP · SLIMPAY by state PRODUCING AGENT / SUB-AGENT Commission split · Override IRS / AGENT TAX FILE 1099-NEC · Annual reporting PREMIUM FINANCE CO. Funds carrier · Agency earns referral MGA LAYER — WHEN APPLICABLE Delegated underwriting authority · Binding authority RETAIL BROKER Submissions · Bind requests MGA Delegated authority · Binding · Remittance FRONTING CARRIER Policy paper · Ceding premium REINSURER Quota share · Excess of loss treaty Premium payment Net remittance Surplus premium Surplus tax Commission split 1099 reporting Finance referral Commission back Del. authority Binding Quota share
Premium & carrier remittance
Trust / IOLTA fiduciary
Surplus lines & state tax
Commission & 1099 flows
Premium finance
MGA / reinsurance layer

Vela sits at the center of every one of these flows — automating settlement, compliance, and reporting in a single platform.

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Every workflow. One back office.

From premium collection to commission disbursement, compliance filing to renewal management — Vela gives your team a single, unified view of every dollar in your distribution business.

Dashboard
$239,850
Premiums MTD
$18,200
Commissions MTD
6
Open Renewals
5
AI Agents Running
Premium collection on track
Commissions disbursed
Premium Payments
Completed$24,500
Processing$18,750
Completed$31,200
Pending$12,400
Surplus Lines Compliance
FiledTX-2024-001
PendingFL-2024-002
AcceptedCA-2024-003
AI Agents
RunningRenewal Scanner
RunningCommission Rec.
RunningSurplus Compliance

The insurance distribution layer deserves better.

Carriers have sophisticated payment rails. Policyholders have consumer apps. Distribution sits in the middle, duct-taped together.

01

Generic payment tools break under insurance compliance requirements

Existing insurance payment tools are wrappers — no real PayFac structure, no surplus lines tax automation, no surcharge rules engine. You're absorbing third-party markup on every transaction and still building compliance workarounds by hand.

02

Commission disbursement is still manual

Carrier remittance arrives as flat files. Split commissions require spreadsheets. 1099s are a quarterly nightmare. Your producers wait weeks for payments that should settle in hours.

03

No one owns the MGA payment layer

MGAs collect from policyholders, remit to carriers, cede to reinsurers, and disburse to producers — all on disconnected rails. Every step is a reconciliation problem waiting to happen.

Every payment workflow, purpose-built for insurance.

Not a generic payments API wrapped around insurance. A platform designed from the ground up for how distribution actually works.

PayFac-Native Collection

Sub-merchant IDs for every agency. IC+ interchange. No third-party markup sitting between you and your margin. Full PayFac structure with real underwriting, not a managed account wrapper.

Surplus Lines Tax Engine

Automated SLTA filing across all stamping office states. Real-time tax calculation at checkout. Audit trail built in. Florida, Texas, California — every state handled without manual intervention.

Commission Disbursement

Carrier remittance ingestion via IVANS download. Automated split calculations. Same-day ACH to producers. 1099-NEC generation at year-end — no spreadsheets, no quarterly scramble.

Surcharge Rules Engine

State-by-state surcharge permissibility enforced at the payment rail level. CA, ME, CT zero-surcharge states handled automatically. No compliance officer required at every checkout.

AI Agent Workforce

Compliance Monitor, Reconciliation Agent, Renewal Agent, COI Agent, and Commission Tracker running 24/7. Exceptions surface automatically. Your team works exceptions, not transactions.

AMS-Agnostic

Designed to work alongside every major agency management system. IVANS download format supported out of the box. Switch AMS platforms without rebuilding your payment layer.

Built for every layer of distribution.

Whether you're a single-location agency or a PE-backed rollup with 40 locations, Vela scales with your structure.

Independent Agencies

Collect, disburse, renew.

Collect premiums at checkout, disburse commissions to producers automatically, and let the Renewal Agent track every expiring policy. Drop into your existing AMS setup — no rip and replace. Compliance handled at the platform level.

MGAs

Own the entire payment stack.

Full carrier remittance, producer commission splits, reinsurance cession tracking, and surplus lines compliance in one platform. Onboard retail brokers as sub-merchants. Reconcile against carrier flat files automatically.

Wholesalers & E&S Brokers

Non-admitted paper without the compliance burden.

Non-admitted paper, surplus lines tax, and multi-state compliance handled automatically at every transaction. Stamping office filings, audit trails, and state-specific tax calculations built into every checkout flow.

The market opportunity
$1.05T
Total P&C premiums through the distribution channel
$114B
MGA direct written premium (2024)
$81B
E&S market and growing
38,000+
Independent agencies in the US

Works with your AMS.

Vela connects directly into the platforms your team already uses — no rip and replace, no parallel data entry.

Agency Management Systems
Policy Admin Systems
Carrier Billing Portals
IVANS Download
Custom Connectors

Working with a specific platform? Tell us and we'll build it.

Powered by the Arrowhead portfolio.

Vela is the insurance-layer application. The payment rails underneath are built by Arrowhead's portfolio companies — giving your agency institutional-grade infrastructure that no standalone insurtech can match.

Ready to replace the patchwork?

Join the waitlist or book a demo. We're onboarding agency groups, MGAs, and PE-backed rollups now.

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