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    Curio Co. • for insurance agency owners

    Help your team actually use the tools they have been given.

    New AI tools are rolling out, you are adding team members, or you are opening another office. Your team is expected to learn new tools on top of a full day, and there is never free time to train.

    Curio Co. works with agency owners on running the office as a business. We look at how your team works day to day, help them get real use out of the tools your carriers and your agency already pay for, and write down how your best office runs so the next one starts there.

    I

    What changes

    • A practice plan for each role, so every team member uses the tools you already have in their regular work.
    • Written office procedures and a ramp plan, so new team members become productive sooner.
    • Scheduling and coverage that work across offices, with smoother handoffs between them.
    II

    What this looks like in practice

    Six moments from a normal week. For each: how it usually goes, and how it goes once the process is written down and the right steps run themselves.

    The software you already pay for

    TodayYour agency system has features nobody was trained on, so the team does the same work by hand because it is faster than working out how to make it do the job.

    With the right systemEach role gets a short plan for what to use, in the order they actually need it. The manual work goes away in ordinary working hours, and nobody waits on a vendor training to learn it.

    A new hire who is not yet useful

    TodayTraining means sitting next to someone for three weeks, and the person doing the teaching has a full book of their own.

    With the right systemA written ramp plan says what a new hire learns in week one and in their first month, with practice work attached to each step. They become useful sooner and stop asking you where to begin.

    The same service requests, all day

    TodayRequests for ID cards, copies of a policy, and coverage summaries arrive by email and phone all day. Whoever is closest stops to answer, and the queue grows every time the desk is busy.

    With the right systemThe common requests have written answers and a self-serve path your team can send in one click. Only the ones that need judgment reach a person. Nothing here puts customer information into an AI tool.

    Renewal prep that starts too late

    TodayThe renewal list is built by hand, the documents are chased one client at a time, and the review with the carrier lands the night before it is due.

    With the right systemUpcoming renewals surface on their own with what is still missing marked clearly. The review happens on a normal afternoon, with time to ask about the coverage that changed.

    Coverage across offices

    TodayEach office runs its own version of the day. Work moves between them when someone remembers to call, and the busiest office borrows people from the quiet one.

    With the right systemOne schedule and one set of procedures covers all of them, with a defined next step when work crosses between offices. Your second location starts where your best office already runs.

    The one-page AI guide

    TodaySome of the team uses AI tools, some will not, and nobody is sure which information is allowed in. The answer changes depending on who asks.

    With the right systemA one-page guide says plainly what may go into AI and what never does, with the few examples your team actually runs into. New hires get it on day one, and the conversation stops being a debate.

    We'll teach you how to set these processes up and maintain them.

    III

    How we work

    • We never touch policyholder data, connect to carrier systems, or contact your customers. We do not interpret your carrier agreement. You confirm what it allows, and we work inside that.
    • Before we change anything, we write down how long new hires take to ramp now and where the team loses time. Then we check back on a date we set together.
    • We write down what is distinctly yours: owner judgment, anything that carries your name, and what the team may not put into AI. That is the boundary.
    • If your team is already using AI tools on their own, we find them first and decide together what to keep, replace, or stop.
    • Nothing we build is left without an owner. Every procedure and plan gets a named person on your team and a simple review rhythm, so it still works next season.
    • The person who studies your office does the work and stays until your team is using it.

    The first step is a thirty-minute conversation. Tell us how your team works today and where new hires get stuck, and we will tell you where we would start.