Cara Joins ACORD to Advance Data Standards Adoption Through AI-Powered Workflows

Cara, the AI platform purpose-built for insurance brokerages, today announced that it has joined ACORD, the global standards-setting body for the insurance industry. The collaboration will help agencies bring ACORD Standards into modern AI-powered workflows, making it easier for teams to leverage standardized insurance data while reducing manual processes.

ACORD Standards provide the foundation for how insurance information is exchanged across agencies, carriers, and technology platforms. As agencies continue to adopt AI, connecting those standards with modern workflows is increasingly important to help teams improve efficiency while maintaining the consistency and structure required across the industry.

Through the partnership, Cara is helping agencies and brokerages operationalize ACORD Forms and data within the workflows they manage every day. Cara currently supports ACORD PDF forms in production across certificates and evidence of insurance, commercial lines applications, personal lines applications, workers’ compensation forms, and supporting forms.

By combining ACORD Standards with Cara’s insurance-native AI platform, agencies can use AI to support workflows including certificate generation, application preparation, document review, submission workflows, and servicing. Cara helps teams reduce repetitive manual work, improve consistency, and keep human expertise at the center of insurance operations. Through AI-powered workflow automation, Cara can reduce ACORD Form completion time from approximately 45 minutes to approximately 2 minutes, helping agency teams spend less time preparing forms and more time focused on client service.

“ACORD Standards have played an important role in creating a common language for insurance data exchange across the industry,” said Vic Yeh, Co-Founder and CEO of Cara. “As agencies adopt AI, it is critical that technology works alongside the standards and systems they already rely on. Our membership in ACORD helps agencies put standardized insurance data to work in the workflows where insurance teams operate every day, while reducing the manual effort that slows teams down.”

“Cara shares ACORD’s mission of helping the industry to maximize the value of its data,” said Bryan Smith, ACORD’s VP, Membership, Development & Retention. “When data flows seamlessly from PDFs and paper to AI and digital systems, and back again, brokers and agents can spend less time rekeying and more time adding value for their customers. And that’s only possible when that data is all aligned around a common standard.”

The collaboration reflects a shared commitment to advancing the future of insurance operations through greater connectivity, standardization, and intelligent automation. By bringing together ACORD’s industry standards with Cara’s AI-powered workflow capabilities, agencies can modernize existing processes while continuing to rely on the data structures and systems that support the insurance ecosystem.