Brokers With Clients, mea With Everything Else: mea Wins Insurance Broker Support Partner of the Year 

mea, the award-winning insurance AI company, has won Insurance Broker Support Partner of the Year at the 2026 UK Broker Awards, hosted by Insurance Age.  

The back office absorbs roughly half of broker margin: coordination work, rework, manual routing and chasing missing information. That cost has sat inside the broking operating model for decades, with dozens of poorly kept promises of supposed innovation holding operations stagnant. 

At mea, we believe placement processing is common to every broker, and owning it has never set one apart; that is the work mea was built to take away. 

On the night of the awards at The Vox in Birmingham, the broking community recognized it. 

UK Managing Director, Graeme Asquith collecting his 4^th trophy for mea in recent weeks.

What the UK Broker Awards Recognize 

The UK Broker Awards are the only awards dedicated entirely to the insurance broking community. Hosted by Insurance Age as part of UK Broker Week after their renowned Broker Expo, they recognize the firms and partners raising the bar across the broking market. 

The awards are judged by an independent panel on client service, innovation and specialist expertise; making this win even sweeter for the mea team! 

Insurance Broker Support Partner of the Year recognizes the service providers and technology partners that serve the broking market directly.  

In this category, the judges look for a partner that has demonstrated innovative responses to broker demands, delivered consistent service to their clients and built real business success through the broker relationship. Broker testimonials help validate each entry, so the award goes to a partner whose value brokers themselves can point to. 

Broking Operations in Production: The Ardonagh Group 

This category rewards what a partner’s clients achieve, and in 2026, one of the London Market’s leading independent brokers put mea Broking Operations to work, live and in production. 

In March, Price Forbes, part of The Ardonagh Group, the largest independent specialty broker in the London Market, selected mea to automate data ingestion and document processing across submissions, inquiries and related workflows. 

For Price Forbes, it has meant enabling its teams to move faster while improving consistency, accuracy and client service. 

In segments where submission complexity, document variability, and speed to market matter most, the repeatable work now runs on mea, and Price Forbes’ brokers spend their time where it counts: with clients and markets.  

Results like these are what the category was built to recognize. 

How mea Platform Works with Brokers 

Every broking engagement at mea starts from the same principle: the broker’s edge is advice, judgment and the client relationship; that is where their people’s time should go. mea takes on the work between an inquiry arriving and a placement reaching market: intake, triage, data handling, document preparation, market submissions and quote comparison. 

We work behind the systems a broker already runs. There is no platform replacement, allowing teams to go live in weeks rather than months or years. 

mea reads risk information, structures the data, and moves the work through existing placement and policy systems, so the work reaching a broker arrives already extracted, validated and ready to act on. 

We start where the return is clearest. mea Broking Operations is modular, so a broker can begin with one workflow, such as submission intake and expand as the value proves out.  Accuracy is backed contractually, starting at 92% extraction accuracy out of the box. 

We keep brokers in control; with every action captured and traceable to its source, and exceptions and judgment calls routed to people. Each client runs on its own private instance, so its data and the learning derived from it stay its own. 

The results show up where brokers measure them:  

• Up to 30% productivity increases 
• Up to 60% operating cost reduction in targeted workflows 
• Up to 90% cycle time compression 

Placements move faster while brokers spend more of their time with clients and markets. 

Why mea Platform winning Broker Support Partner of the Year Matters 

The UK Broker Awards add to a strong year of independent recognition for mea, including Insurance Technology Launch of the Year at the British Insurance Technology Awards, two wins at the Insurance Times Tech & Innovation Awards, and a place on FinTech Global’s InsurTech100; all in less than a month.  

This one carries particular weight because it comes from the broking community itself; one we are glad to serve. 

The back office has long taken a share of broker margin that never had to be lost. This recognition is a sign that the market is winning it back. 

Thank you to Insurance Age, the judges and the brokers and partners whose work in production made this possible; they are the reason we continue to be recognized across the industry. 

AI agents own the repeatable; people own the consequential.