EY announces alliance with INSTANDA to help insurers modernize core architecture for the AI era

• Creating the foundations needed to help scale AI across the insurance value chain
• Improving enterprise-wide transformation of legacy systems across products, operations and customer experiences
• Helping reduce transformation risk through integrated technology, implementation and industry knowledge

LONDON, Oct. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The EY organization today announces an alliance between INSTANDA, one of the leading AI-augmented no-code insurance platforms, and Ernst & Young LLP (EY UK) to help insurers execute transformation at scale, unlock the full potential of AI and support their people to provide greater value across the business.

The EY-INSTANDA Alliance combines EY UK's insurance consulting, implementation and transformation capabilities with INSTANDA's intelligent product design, policy lifestyle management, open API integration and highly configurable platform.

Together, the organizations help insurers reduce architectural complexity, modernize core operations and create the foundations required for long-term agility and sustained technology adoption.

The Alliance supports insurers as they move from AI experimentation to enterprise adoption, where increasing focus is placed on the technology architecture, operating models and governance required to achieve successful implementation. The EY-INSTANDA Alliance helps support clients in defining transformation roadmaps, modernizing operating models, implementing and integrating technology platforms, managing change programs and improving the value of digital investments across the insurance value chain.

Christopher Payne, EY-INSTANDA Alliance Leader, EY UK, says:

"Insurance organizations are navigating a period of significant change, balancing the need to modernize operations, improve agility and respond to rapidly evolving market demands. By bringing together EY UK's transformation experience and insurance industry knowledge with INSTANDA's purpose-built intelligent, no-code platform, we can help clients reimagine how they design, deploy and scale insurance solutions, turning strategic ambition into tangible business outcomes."

Tim Hardcastle, CEO & Co-Founder at INSTANDA, says: 

"The insurance industry is rapidly entering a new phase, where the ability to adapt quickly will increasingly define competitive advantage. Insurers understand the opportunity presented by AI, but too many remain constrained by technology architectures that were never designed for the pace of innovation required today."

"Our Alliance with EY UK is about giving insurers control over how they innovate, how they evolve their operations and how they prepare for the future. It's about supporting organizations to become more agile, more resilient and better equipped to capitalize on whatever comes next, with the freedom and agency to evolve at the pace customers and markets demand."

For more information, visit ey.com/alliances.

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About INSTANDA

INSTANDA is a leading global provider of AI-augmented no-code insurance technology, empowering insurers, MGAs and brokers to rapidly build, launch and manage insurance products across global markets. Trusted by some of the world's largest insurers alongside ambitious insurance innovators, INSTANDA delivers an intelligent cloud-native platform that combines product agility, intelligent automation and enterprise-grade governance.

By embedding AI directly into the fabric of the platform, INSTANDA enables insurers to accelerate innovation, streamline operations and prepare for the next generation of insurance transformation without the constraints of legacy technology.