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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.
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
Open evidence packet
Associate uploads with an authenticated claimant and existing claim; quarantine unsupported files before specialist processing.
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
Extract observations
Process images and invoices independently; retain page coordinates and mark unclear amounts or damage observations for human inspection.
4
Reconcile estimates
Compare invoice identities and calculate totals deterministically, keeping possible duplicates separate from confirmed duplicate payment evidence.
5
Prepare adjuster review
Show policy citations, disputed facts, missing documents, and proposed correspondence without presenting a model recommendation as a coverage ruling.
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
Decision
Benefit
Cost
Multimodal extraction
Makes image and document evidence searchable together.
Requires specialist validation and image provenance handling.
Separate policy retrieval
Limits unsupported coverage statements.
Adds explicit reconciliation when endorsements conflict.
Draft-only correspondence
Keeps 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.