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Transforming insurance process automation with Guidewire Autopilot
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When it comes to claims processing, speed is a top priority for insurance customers. Insurance core system Guidewire has developed a solution to help insurers increase the level of automation in this area. By automating an end-to-end process for motor claims, Sollers has validated the capabilities of Autopilot.

What is Guidewire Autopilot

Guidewire Autopilot is a cloud-native workflow automation engine designed specifically for ClaimCenter. Autopilot provides insurers with a platform for automating claims and other insurance-related processes. With its low-code capabilities, native integrations and real-time monitoring, Autopilot significantly reduces the need for manual intervention while ensuring regulatory compliance.

 

Autopilot orchestrates event-driven insurance workflows. Its primary goal is to reduce the reliance on manual work, improving efficiency by up to 70% while ensuring that processes comply with industry standards and regulations. This automation engine is natively integrated with Guidewire Cloud and is primarily used with ClaimCenter, Guidewire's claims management system.

Core capabilities of Guidewire Autopilot

Autopilot's core capabilities can transform traditional claims processing. Here are its key features:

 

1. Workflow orchestration

 

Autopilot enables insurers to design and implement workflows using low-code modelling. This feature makes it easy to model insurance-specific processes, minimising development effort. Autopilot uses event-driven triggers, such as the creation of a First Notice of Loss (FNOL), to ensure that workflows are executed in a timely manner.

 

2. Native integrations

 

A key strength of Autopilot is its event-driven integration with ClaimCenter, enabling streamlined field updates, reserve checks and payment processing directly within the platform. The solution supports connectivity to third-party tools such as OCR systems or vendor portals through Guidewire's extensible integration framework, allowing insurers to tailor automation to their specific ecosystem.

 

3. Decision management

 

Autopilot provides rule-based routing of tasks. This ensures that tasks are processed in a timely manner according to pre-defined business rules. For more complex decision scenarios, advanced tools are under development and will be released in the coming months.

 

4. Operational monitoring

 

Autopilot integrates with log analysis tools (such as Datadog) and incident tracking systems. The platform allows users to review historical activity logs within ClaimCenter and identify potential bottlenecks through Root Cause Analysis (RCA) mechanisms. While real-time monitoring of process progress is available via logs, dedicated SLA dashboards require configuration in external systems.

Key benefits

Our research highlights several advantages of using Guidewire Autopilot:

 

  • 30–50% faster implementation: Autopilot comes with pre-built insurance-specific logic that significantly reduces implementation time compared to traditional ClaimCenter configurations.
  • Zero downtime updates: Unlike traditional systems that require downtime during updates, Autopilot allows insurers to modify workflows in real time, eliminating the need for ClaimCenter redeployments. Process changes, such as enhancements to claims management, can be implemented without adhering to the traditional release cycle.
  • Built-in compliance: Autopilot ensures regulatory compliance by providing automated audit trails for frameworks, enabling insurers to easily meet regulatory requirements.
  • Scalability: The system has been stress tested to handle over 10,000 simultaneous workflows while maintaining 99.98% availability, ensuring it can scale to meet the needs of high-volume insurers.
  • Process documentation: Autopilot simplifies process documentation, allowing insurers to record their workflows in a visually friendly manner without additional effort.

Guidewire Autopilot vs standalone automation engines

When selecting an automation engine, insurers must decide between a purpose-built solution like Guidewire Autopilot and standalone automation engines. A technical comparison reveals several key advantages of Guidewire Autopilot. First, Autopilot directly uses ClaimCenter event hooks for its trigger mechanism, whereas third-party engines rely on custom APIs and event listeners. In terms of data mapping, Autopilot automatically binds claim objects, eliminating the need for the manual field synchronization that third-party engines require. Regarding error handling, Autopilot provides built-in retry policies, while standalone engines generally need custom compensation workflows.

 

These distinctions clearly illustrate that Guidewire Autopilot’s native integration with ClaimCenter offers a more streamlined and efficient solution compared to standalone engines. Standalone engines typically require additional manual configuration and more complex error-handling processes, making Autopilot the more efficient and practical choice for insurers looking to automate their workflows.

Bottom line

Guidewire Autopilot significantly improves claims and insurance processes through event-driven automation and seamless integration with the Guidewire Cloud ecosystem. By leveraging its event-driven workflows, low-code modelling, and native integrations with Guidewire Cloud, insurers can accelerate claims operations, reduce manual intervention, and ensure compliance. With proven results in real-world deployments, Autopilot offers significant benefits in terms of faster implementation, scalability, and operational efficiency.

Proven track record

Sollers Consulting has implemented Guidewire Autopilot to improve the claims handling process, with great results. The insurer achieved efficiency gains, reducing the use of resources by 30–50% compared to traditional ClaimCenter configurations. The easy integration of Autopilot with Guidewire Cloud meant a quick deployment, with minimal need for custom configurations and a smooth implementation process.

 

Events triggered workflows directly from ClaimCenter, making sure that processes were initiated efficiently and on time. As a result, the automation of claims processes led to significantly faster claim handling times, which made the customer experience better and increased customer satisfaction.

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Authors of the article

 

bartlomiej gicewicz

 

Bartłomiej Gicewicz - Senior Analyst at Sollers Consulting

 

 

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Lennart Imorde - Head of Process Automation at Sollers Consulting