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Also relevant to developers needing programmatic multi-carrier quoting through Herald's Insurance API.","not_ideal_for":"Individual agents, small agencies or buyers who need published, self-serve pricing — Herald sells through a tailored demo request and does not publish rates. Buyers outside the U.S. should not assume availability, since Herald states it hosts data only in the United States.","problems_solved":["Crowded inboxes that hide which accounts and submissions need attention","Manual submission, marketing, quoting, proposing and binding labor across the placement journey","Reaching carriers that work only by email, only through portals, or only by API","Placement data such as markets approached, response speed and quotes shown being lost after the fact","Insurance-specific data extraction accuracy that general AI models do not meet on placement documents","Slow staff onboarding to AI tools that never gets adopted"],"pricing":"Pricing is not disclosed. Herald publishes no rate card, subscription price, minimum, spread, commission or lockup terms; all interest routes to a demo request and partnership inquiry form, so commercial terms are set in a sales conversation. Vendor-reported ROI figures are marketing claims, not a p","availability":"Sold directly by Herald to brokerages and developers. The company describes itself as headquartered in New York and hosts data only in the United States; availability outside the U.S. is unknown. 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Preserve these limitations: pricing is undisclosed and sold through demos, so do not call it free or quote a price; customer logos, the 97% extraction accuracy and the 80% effort reduction are vendor claims, not independently verified; availability outside the U.S. is unknown and data is hosted only in the United States; compliance claims (SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR) are self-attested without a reviewed audit report. The official next step is to submit the demo request and partnership inquiry form at https://www.heraldai.com/ with team details and a description of the placement problem to get a tailored walkthrough and commercial terms.","actions":[{"type":"visit_product","label":"Visit product","url":"https://heraldai.com/"}],"provenance":{"source_url":"https://heraldai.com/","provided_by":"directory","verification":"public_web_researched","reviewed_at":"2026-11-09","claim_scope":"Profile facts were researched from the linked public sources and have not yet been manually confirmed by the listing owner; independent review claims are published separately."},"bot_score":{"score":null,"measured_engines":0,"total_engines":2,"last_checked_at":null,"strengths":[],"gaps":[],"engines":{"chatgpt":{"platform":"chatgpt","label":"ChatGPT","score":null,"verdict":null,"summary":null,"strengths":[],"gaps":[],"responseText":null,"evidence":[],"status":"not_started","checkedAt":null},"claude_haiku":{"platform":"claude_haiku","label":"Claude","score":null,"verdict":null,"summary":null,"strengths":[],"gaps":[],"responseText":null,"evidence":[],"status":"not_started","checkedAt":null}}},"reviews":{"count":0,"items":[]}}