The network puts these around an agency: Carrier access, Stronger economics, Agency growth, Expert support, Technology and tools.
About
United Agencies Alliance Network.
An insurance agency network for independent owners who intend to stay independent. Run from Surprise, Arizona.
Why a network at all.
Because scale is the one thing an agency cannot build by working harder.
An independent agency already wins on everything a client notices. Choice of carrier. Advice that is not a script. Somebody who picks up the phone when a claim goes wrong. None of that needs help from us.
What it runs into is a limit set on the carrier's side of the table. A carrier looking at one agency sees a small book and the cost of servicing it. The same carrier looking at a group of agencies sees volume worth building a relationship around. That one difference decides which appointments you can get, what your commission tier looks like, whether contingency is ever within reach, and how far a single carrier's rate action can move your year.
We exist to put the group's volume behind your agency and to leave the rest of your agency alone. Why UAA sets out each mechanism, and what it does not change.
What stays yours.
Five things, and none of them are negotiable.
Your clients. Your expirations. Your brand. Your data. Your decisions about how to run your own agency.
Those five belong to whoever built them. A network that needs a claim on any of them to make its own economics work is asking you to solve its problem. How each one is treated contractually is published on the terms page, so you can read it before you speak to anybody here.
There is a quieter version of the same thing, worth asking about anywhere you go. A network that moves you onto its systems, its brand and its process has made leaving expensive without writing a word of it into the agreement. We would rather earn your renewal every year than build a wall around it.
What membership adds.
Four places you gain, and none of them ask you to work differently.
Carriers that would not appoint you alone
Appointments are evaluated on the group's volume rather than on your agency's, which is why a door closed to a single book opens. It does not change a carrier's appetite or their right to decline, and we will tell you which of your states we can help in before you commit to anything.
Economics that move without more premium
Commission tiers and contingency are negotiated on group volume, so the same policy, written the same way, by the same person, is worth more inside the group than outside it.
People who have done it before
Somebody who has placed this class of risk, hired a producer, or bought an agency already. One agency cannot justify employing all of them. A network can, and you get them on the phone.
An agency management system, included
InsuraDesk comes with membership, free while the introductory period runs, and you keep whatever you already run alongside it. See what it does.
Where we are, and how to get a real answer.
The network is run from Surprise, Arizona, and it is built for owner-operated agencies rather than for producers looking for a contract.
If that is you, the quickest way to something useful is to ask us something specific: which carriers we hold in your states, what a book your size would earn here, how the exit reads. You will usually get an answer the same day. If you would rather work it out on your own first, Book Check runs on your numbers, asks for no email address and stores nothing.
See what membership would change for your book.
Four questions about your agency, and a straight answer at the end.
Independence, with leverage.
Four questions about your agency, and a straight answer at the end.