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Property claim evidence workbench

Coordinate damage evidence, coverage documents, and repair estimates into an adjuster-owned claim review.

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The business situation

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Illustrative architecture: A property insurer faces storm claims containing photographs, contractor estimates, policy endorsements, and incomplete incident descriptions. Adjusters need a consistent evidence packet while specialist teams handle fraud concerns and disputed coverage. The architecture supports their workflow and makes no automated coverage determination.

Problem

Claim packets contain contradictory dates, duplicate invoices, and policy versions that vary by loss date. Unchecked image summaries can turn uncertain visual observations into asserted damage amounts, while automatic correspondence may disclose another claimant's information.

Why a multi-agent system?

Separate extraction, policy lookup, estimate comparison, and completeness review so each produces traceable findings. A claim orchestrator reconciles their results against the authoritative policy and leaves coverage and payment decisions with authorized staff.

Intended outcome

The intended result is a reviewable operational decision with source evidence and explicit ownership. Track preparation time alongside correction burden and unresolved evidence. A shorter packet is useful only if adjusters can still inspect the originals and explain the decision through existing review procedures.

Specialist agent team

Evidence intake agent

Index photographs and documents by loss event, location, and source; label uncertain extraction.

Tools

  • Document OCR
  • image metadata reader

Authority boundary

Cannot infer causation or replace an assessor's inspection.

Policy retrieval agent

Find policy wording and endorsements effective on the recorded loss date.

Tools

  • Policy administration read API
  • clause search

Authority boundary

Returns citations and ambiguity; cannot decide coverage.

Estimate comparison agent

Compare line items, units, duplicate invoices, and approved repair catalogs.

Tools

  • Estimate parser
  • arithmetic service

Authority boundary

Cannot set settlement amounts or approve contractors.

Adjuster briefing agent

Compile conflicts, missing evidence, and a draft request for clarification.

Tools

  • Claim draft API
  • evidence graph

Authority boundary

May draft correspondence only for the assigned claim owner.

Enterprise systems

Claims management system

Owns claim identifiers, assignments, reserves, and signed adjuster decisions.

Policy administration platform

Provides coverage-period snapshots and effective endorsements with stable document references.

Document and payment services

Store original evidence separately from draft summaries; only the payment adapter accepts approved settlement requests.

Architecture diagrams

Property claim evidence workbench — logical architecture — Specialists produce bounded findings; the evidence ledger preserves source versions and human decisions before an authorized adapter changes a system of record.
flowchart LR
    N0["Property claim evidence workbench"]
    N1["Evidence intake agent"]
    N2["Policy retrieval agent"]
    N3["Estimate comparison agent"]
    N4["Adjuster briefing agent"]
    N5["Evidence ledger"]
    N6["Human decision"]
    N7["Authorized adapter"]
N0 --> N1
    N0 --> N2
    N1 --> N3
    N2 --> N4
    N3 --> N4
    N4 --> N5
    N5 --> N6
    N6 --> N7
Failure and decision sequence — A newly uploaded endorsement changes the applicable wording. The workflow records unresolved work and resumes only after the source state and reviewer authority are checked.
sequenceDiagram
    participant O as "Case orchestrator"
    participant S as "Claims management system"
    participant H as "Accountable reviewer"
O->>S: Load claim evidence manifest
    S-->>O: Loss date and policy revision
    O->>H: Present draft claim packet
    S-->>O: Endorsement revision arrives
    O->>H: Invalidate affected policy section
    H-->>O: Request refreshed packet
    O->>S: Save reviewed replacement revision

Runtime flow

  1. 1

    Open evidence packet

    Associate uploads with an authenticated claimant and existing claim; quarantine unsupported files before specialist processing.

  2. 2

    Anchor loss date

    Read the claim's recorded date and address, then retrieve policy versions valid at that time rather than the latest document alone.

  3. 3

    Extract observations

    Process images and invoices independently; retain page coordinates and mark unclear amounts or damage observations for human inspection.

  4. 4

    Reconcile estimates

    Compare invoice identities and calculate totals deterministically, keeping possible duplicates separate from confirmed duplicate payment evidence.

  5. 5

    Prepare adjuster review

    Show policy citations, disputed facts, missing documents, and proposed correspondence without presenting a model recommendation as a coverage ruling.

  6. 6

    Publish approved work

    Save the reviewed packet and approved communication with its revision; any later evidence invalidates dependent draft conclusions.

Failure recovery

A newly uploaded endorsement changes the applicable wording.

Detect: Policy revision and loss-date lookup differ from the packet's recorded manifest.

Recover: Suspend the draft, rebuild affected sections, and notify the adjuster that their prior review is stale.

Two estimates describe the same repair under different filenames.

Detect: Normalized line-item and invoice-reference checks flag a probable overlap.

Recover: Present both originals for comparison; retain uncertainty instead of silently deleting evidence.

Security & decision boundaries

  • Restrict evidence retrieval to claim assignment and explicit specialist delegation.
  • Retain original photographs; label generated observations and extraction confidence separately.
  • Bind every clause citation to policy version and effective interval.
  • Require adjuster approval for claimant correspondence, reserves, coverage decisions, and payments.
  • Treat contractor document instructions as untrusted content with no tool authority.

Operational metrics

Measurement definitions, not promised improvements.

Packet turnaround

Elapsed time from minimum evidence arrival to an adjuster-ready packet, segmented by claim complexity.

Citation correctness

Audited policy references with correct wording and effective date divided by audited references.

Duplicate review yield

Confirmed duplicate evidence findings divided by duplicate alerts reviewed by adjusters.

Rework burden

Material packet corrections per reviewed claim, categorized as extraction, policy, or identity error.

Architecture tradeoffs

DecisionBenefitCost
Multimodal extractionMakes image and document evidence searchable together.Requires specialist validation and image provenance handling.
Separate policy retrievalLimits unsupported coverage statements.Adds explicit reconciliation when endorsements conflict.
Draft-only correspondenceKeeps judgment and tone with the adjuster.Human queue capacity limits end-to-end throughput.

Rollout plan

Archived claims

Adjusters verify date-sensitive policy retrieval and estimate calculations across settled, disputed, and incomplete cases.

Live draft pilot

A bounded adjuster team accepts the packet format after identity, disclosure, and citation tests pass.

Expanded assistance

Additional claim types launch only with their own evidence rubric and tested escalation owner.

Connected concepts

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