# WeGroup (full text) > WeGroup is the intelligent layer on top of your insurance operation: advice, distribution and efficiency on top of ANVA, DIAS, Assu, Faster Forward and eBlinqx. It replaces none of them. This file is the expanded companion to https://wegroup.ai/llms.txt, generated from the same content that renders the site. English only; the site also serves nl-NL, nl-BE and fr-BE. ## Company facts - Legal name: WeGroup NV, KBO/VAT BE 0680.957.816. - Founded in 2017 in Ghent (Belgium) by Arvid De Coster, Bjorn Vuylsteker and Remi Wildschut. - Offices: Ottergemsesteenweg-Zuid 808 Bus 372, 9000 Ghent, Belgium (HQ) and Veemarktkade 8, 5222 AE 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands. - Trusted by 600+ offices across 4 countries on 2 continents; 1,300+ partners. - Primary market: the Netherlands. Origin market: Belgium. Exploring: Nordics and DACH. - Contact: hello@wegroup.ai · https://wegroup.ai/contact ## Common problems and how WeGroup solves them How buyers and AI assistants most often phrase the need, in their own un-branded words, each with a direct answer. **How can an insurance office become more efficient with AI?** Most lost time is looking things up and re-keying data across the mailbox, the policy system and insurer portals, not the advice itself. WeGroup adds an AI layer on top of the systems an office already runs (ANVA, DIAS, Assu, eBlinqx) that brings client context to where advisors work and follows the portfolio up automatically, making advisory work up to 30% faster. The advisor stays in control of the advice. **How do you add an AI layer on top of an existing system like ANVA or DIAS without replacing it?** You connect a layer that reads from and writes back to the source system, so the policy administration stays the single system of record with no parallel data entry and no migration. WeGroup runs live on top of ANVA, DIAS, Assu and eBlinqx; an office typically goes live in four to six weeks. **What is the best software for insurance brokers in the Netherlands and Belgium?** There is no single best system. Most offices keep a core policy-administration system (ANVA, DIAS or Assu in the Netherlands; Brokercloud, BRIO, Sigura or Cobra in Belgium) as the backbone and add a layer on top for advice, distribution and efficiency. WeGroup is that layer: it connects to the admin system already in use instead of replacing it. **How can brokers reduce manual data entry and stop searching for client information across systems?** Client information is scattered across the mailbox, the policy system and insurer portals. WeGroup's Smart Buddy surfaces the full client picture (client, active policies, open tasks) the moment an advisor opens an email, and writes structured data back to the source system so nothing is entered twice. **Is there an AI assistant for Outlook built for insurance, and how does it speed up email handling?** Yes: Smart Buddy is an AI assistant inside Microsoft Outlook (Classic, New, Mac, Web) built for insurance. Unlike a general assistant, it knows the client and their policies: it reads the email context and shows the right client, policies and next action in the inbox, so replies are faster while the advisor still writes and sends them. **How secure and compliant are AI tools in the insurance sector?** An AI tool in insurance has to be GDPR-compliant, keep the human advisor in control of regulated advice, and avoid creating a second administration next to the source system. WeGroup is GDPR-compliant with ISO 27001 certification in progress, keeps the advisor in charge of every piece of advice, and leaves the policy administration as the system of record. It does not replace the compliance process or guarantee compliance. Regulators differ per market: DNB, AFM and the NVGA in the Netherlands, the FSMA in Belgium. **What is the ROI and cost of an AI assistant for an insurance team?** Return comes from advisors spending less time searching and re-keying (up to 30% faster advisory work), fewer errors from one uniform way of working, and faster onboarding of new products and acquisitions. Cost stays low because there is no migration or platform replacement, so go-live is typically four to six weeks. The goal is to give existing advisors more time for clients, not to cut headcount. **How do you modernise a brokerage without replacing the whole IT system?** Keep the core admin system and add a layer on top for advice, distribution and efficiency, joined by live read/write integration. WeGroup works this way, so modernisation needs no risky migration and each new office or acquisition can plug in in days rather than quarters. ## The platform: three layers ### Layer 1: Know where your customer actually stands. A policy in the source system is a snapshot. Reality changes: life events, new risks, shifting coverage. WeGroup keeps the portfolio picture continuously current and proactively flags where your customer is underprotected. - **Risk analysis**: Automatic risk profiling combines customer data with external enrichment. The system spots underinsurance, coverage gaps and risk drift before the customer feels them. Every piece of advice starts from a factual customer view, not from assumptions. - **Proactive portfolio management**: Policies get flagged on life events, pricing drift, coverage gaps and duty-of-care review age. No manual Excel list. A structured queue advisors work through from inside their context. - **Active maintenance**: Customer data stays continuously current via external sources and customer self-service. Address changes, vehicle mutations and business data are processed automatically. The platform maintains the record, not your advisor. Connections: RDW (Vehicle data for automatic risk classification and coverage checks.); KvK (Business records and activity codes for commercial risk analysis.); Graydon (Credit and risk scores for commercial customers and MGA acceptance.); OneSurance (Under-insurance and coverage-gap signals based on portfolio behaviour.); Source-system data (Policy and claims history from ANVA, DIAS, Assu, eBlinqx for the complete customer view.); Customer signals (Inputs from Customer Portal, email and hybrid lanes continuously enrich the profile.). ### Layer 2: From advice to policy. No manual handoff. Three channels, one underlying process. Whether your advisor works from the portal, the customer starts in the Customer Portal or a hybrid lane is set up: same data, same products, same write-back to the source system. - **Extranet**: The workplace for your advisors. Customer record, risk analysis, comparison, quotation and policy close in one flow. Multi-label, multi-language, with role and tenant isolation per office or country. - **Hybrid underwriting flows**: Advisor and customer work together in the same flow. The customer fills in what they can, the advisor picks up where needed. White-label, with the branding of your office. From quote to policy, integrated with the source system. - **Customer portal**: Customers view their own policies, retrieve documents, submit mutations and report claims. Every customer action flows back into the record and triggers the right advisor workflow. Connections: ANVA (Deep two-way sync: relationships, policies, mutations and MGA products written straight back into the core system.); DIAS (Product definitions, premiums and policy issuance for the Dutch and Belgian markets.); Assu (Policies, dossiers and contact data wired into the CRM your office already runs.); eBlinqx (Document traffic and policy issuance via the standard industry channel.); Allianz, Baloise, Vivium, De Goudse (Insurer rating engines and direct close via native integrations.); SIVI (AFD messages and industry standards for uniform exchange across the value chain.). ### Layer 3: Work where your advisors already work. Advisors live in Outlook. Not in a CRM or a portal. WeGroup brings the full context to the inbox so advisors don't switch tools, and automates the steps that shouldn't need a human at all. - **Smart Buddy in Outlook**: Automatic relationship recognition on every email. AI summaries of long conversations. Draft responses based on customer context. One click and the task, appointment or conversation is logged in the source system, without leaving the screen. - **Straight-through processing**: Low-touch journeys for the policies that shouldn't need an advisor: renewals, simple mutations, address changes. Rules and guardrails are configurable per label, per product, per country. - **AI agents for repetitive work**: Agents take care of the cycles that don't need a human. When a client asks for a quote, the comparison and proposal are already drafted. When key information is missing, the agent collects it from the client first. The advisor reviews and signs, instead of assembling. Connections: Microsoft Outlook (Smart Buddy lives in the mailbox, next to every email. No tool switch, no extra screen.); ANVA (Relationships, tasks and notes synced from Outlook into the core system.); DIAS (Customer context and policy detail available from inside any conversation.); Assu (Mail logging and mutation workflows landing directly in your office CRM.); Microsoft 365 Identity (Single sign-on, role-based access and tenant isolation per label or office.). ### Platform FAQ **What exactly is WeGroup?** WeGroup is the intelligent layer on top of your insurance operation · advice, distribution and efficiency in one place, sitting on top of ANVA, DIAS, Assu and eBlinqx. No replacement, no migration, no parallel data entry. **Does WeGroup replace ANVA, DIAS or our policy admin?** No. WeGroup is purpose-built to live on top of existing source systems like ANVA, DIAS, Assu and eBlinqx. The policy admin stays the system of record; we add the advisor surface, the customer portal and Smart Buddy on top, with no migration. **Which source systems are supported?** In the Netherlands ANVA, DIAS, Assu, eBlinqx, Suppsonic, ePlus CRM and Assistent run live in production; in Belgium Brokercloud, BRIO, Sigura and Cobra. Insurer connections run for 12+ insurers, and national data sources such as RDW, KvK and OneSurance are connected. The full list lives on the partners page. **How long does an implementation take?** For an advice office on an existing source system you are live in a matter of days: create an account, connect the source system, install the Smart Buddy and we synchronise the data. For a volmacht firm the full setup of products and closing lanes typically takes one to three months, depending on the needs. For a group: once the WeGroup layer runs, every next acquisition plugs in faster because the connectors are already in place. **How do you handle compliance, GDPR and regulators?** WeGroup keeps the client record uniform and up to date through ongoing portfolio follow-up, so the work behind your duty of care is consistent and easy to show. It does not replace your compliance process or guarantee compliance. WeGroup is GDPR-compliant, has ISO 27001 certification in progress, and honours the role and permission models of your source system. The applicable regulator differs per market: DNB and AFM in the Netherlands, FSMA in Belgium. **How international is WeGroup?** WeGroup runs today in the Netherlands, Belgium and the Caribbean, and is built for international rollout: multilingual, with local data sources and regulation per market. Together with our customers we are currently expanding across multiple continents. ## Smart Buddy (AI assistant in Outlook) Stop searching through files. Your Smart Buddy recognizes the relation in your mailbox, summarizes long email threads, logs conversations in your source system, and offers smart insights. - URL: https://wegroup.ai/smart-buddy ### Smart Buddy FAQ **Do I need to be a WeGroup customer to use this?** No, you don't need to be an existing WeGroup customer. The Smart Buddy is available for all insurance offices. During registration you create a free WeGroup account to securely connect with your source system (ANVA/DIAS/etc.). **Does WeGroup read all my emails?** No. The Smart Buddy analyzes emails before you open them. WeGroup filters internal forwarded emails by default and doesn't analyze emails considered non-insurance-related, unless you explicitly request this. Your data is safe and GDPR-compliant. **Which mailboxes does the Smart Buddy work with?** The Smart Buddy is currently available within Microsoft Outlook (Classic, New, Mac, and Web). Support for Gmail and other mailboxes is on the roadmap. **I work in a Citrix/Terminal Server environment, does this work?** Yes. The WeGroup Smart Buddy works natively inside Outlook (Microsoft 365). During registration we offer a special guide that you can send to your system administrator for centralized installation. **Is there an AI assistant for Outlook built for the insurance sector?** Yes. General assistants like Microsoft Copilot help you write, but they do not know your clients or their policies. Smart Buddy is built for insurance: the moment you open an email it shows the right client, their active policies and open tasks, pulled live from your source system such as ANVA, DIAS, Assu or eBlinqx. It works inside Microsoft Outlook (Classic, New, Mac and Web), so the context appears where you already work instead of in yet another screen. **How can advisors handle client emails faster in insurance?** The slow part of an email is usually not the reply, it is first working out who the client is, what they hold and what was last agreed. Smart Buddy does that lookup for you: it reads the email context before you open it and surfaces the client, their policies and the likely next action in the inbox, so you can answer with the full picture in front of you. The advisor still writes and sends the reply, so nothing goes out automatically. **How does an Outlook assistant reduce manual data entry for advisors?** Most double entry happens because advisors read something in an email and then retype it into the policy system. Smart Buddy connects the two: it captures the relevant details from the email context and writes structured data back to your source system such as ANVA, DIAS, Assu or eBlinqx, so the source system stays the system of record and advisors stop copying the same data between the mailbox and the admin package. ## Who it is for ### International groups Acquisitions unlocked in days, not years. Every acquisition adds a country, a system, a regulator. WeGroup is the operating layer beneath every buy-and-build, tenant-scoped per country, per label, per brand. No source-system migration; one way of working across the group, and faster value out of every acquired book. - URL: https://wegroup.ai/solutions/international-groups ### International groups FAQ **How does a new acquisition plug in?** Each new acquisition plugs into the group's existing WeGroup tenant, with its own labels, products and language. Typically live in days, not quarters, because the connectors already run. If the acquisition runs on a local CRM we do not connect to yet, timing depends on our roadmap and on the availability of that vendor's APIs. **Does it work cross-country (NL, BE, ES, etc.)?** Yes. WeGroup runs today in the Netherlands, Belgium and the Caribbean and is expanding with customers across multiple continents, with local data sources (RDW, KvK, equivalents), local regulators (AFM, DNB, FSMA) and language support per market. **Do local offices keep their own products and stack?** Yes. Local autonomy remains. Each office runs on its own source system; WeGroup adds the shared advice, distribution and intelligence layer on top of the heterogeneity. That is exactly where the value sits: local brokers' data is connected internationally to the group's MGA-label products, and that surfaces very interesting sales opportunities. **What about cross-country data and governance?** Data stays inside the right tenant and the right country boundaries. Group-level aggregations are available to the holding, while respecting local GDPR context. **What's a typical time-to-live for a new acquisition?** For a group already running the WeGroup layer, a new office or country typically plugs in in days to a few weeks, depending on the source system and product mix. No forced migration, no re-architecting of the holding. ### Insurers Real grip on your distribution network. Intelligence at scale. For insurers running their own distribution or a tied network of intermediaries. WeGroup is the layer between your product shelf and the advisors who actually move it. You push a new variant in hours, you see real-time how a proposition performs per channel, and you get network-wide insight into distribution quality without chasing every partner by email. - URL: https://wegroup.ai/solutions/insurers ### Insurers FAQ **What does WeGroup do for an insurer?** WeGroup gives insurers a consistent product surface across every distribution partner running on the platform. Pre-filled quotes, live rating, bind in one transaction and write-back to the partner's source system. **Which products are already connected?** 12+ insurers are live, including Allianz, Baloise, Vivium and De Goudse, with personal lines, SME and motor in production. Specific lines are aligned case by case. **How long does a new product connection take?** A new product connection typically lands in weeks, not quarters. It depends on the complexity of the rating engine and how standardised the underwriting rules are. **Which distribution channels does WeGroup serve?** Independent intermediaries, MGAs and service providers. For insurers with owned distribution via a tied partner network there are live cases too. **Does this work with APIs other than REST?** Yes. Our connector layer covers REST, SOAP and proprietary message formats. We rarely see an insurer API we can't wire up. ### MGAs and volmacht firms One modern workflow. Zero complex migrations. Connect all your products, (sub-)agents and branches through one smart layer on top of ANVA, DIAS or Assu. Increase your margins and prevent duplicate work without ever leaving your core system. - URL: https://wegroup.ai/solutions/volmacht ### MGAs and volmacht firms FAQ **Is WeGroup software for volmacht firms (MGAs)?** WeGroup is the intelligent layer on top of the software a volmacht firm already runs (ANVA, DIAS or Assu), not a replacement. It adds advice, hybrid lanes, the Extranet for (sub-)agents and a customer portal, while policy, bordereau and commission stay in the source system. **Which volmacht firms is WeGroup built for?** Volmacht firms that need uniformity across multiple offices or brands and that want a digital closing flow on top of their source system (ANVA, DIAS, Assu). Names running on the platform today include Thoma Assurantie- en Pensioenadviseurs, YINCO, OBM and Nemass de Boer. **Does it work for multi-brand volmacht firms?** Yes. One WeGroup tenant supports multiple brands, product lines and sub-agents under one shared layer, while respecting the structure of the underlying source system. **What about sub-agents and the extranet?** WeGroup ships the extranet as a sellable feature for sub-agents. Permissions, office boundaries and commission flows follow the structure of your source system. **Do we keep our bordereau and commission flow?** Yes. Bordereau, premium collection and commission processing stay inside the source system. WeGroup adds advice, distribution and the customer portal; we don't touch the financial flows. **How does duty of care and record-keeping work?** All advice conversations and reports are stored and linked to the policy in the source system, so the rationale for your advice is kept in one place without a parallel administrative track. WeGroup supports your duty of care this way; it does not replace your compliance process or guarantee compliance. **What exactly is an MGA, and is WeGroup one?** An MGA (managing general agent, the volmacht firm in the Dutch market) underwrites and distributes insurer products under delegated authority from the insurer. WeGroup is not an MGA. It is the intelligent layer MGAs and volmacht firms run on top of ANVA, DIAS or Assu: one uniform way of working, an Extranet for their (sub)agents and hybrid lanes for digital closing. ### Intermediaries More time for the customer. Less time in tabs. For every advisor who wants to claw back time from admin and keep grip on their portfolio. A client view that updates itself and Smart Buddy inside Outlook work from the first advisor onwards; larger offices add a customer portal and group-wide insight. The larger the office, the larger the payoff. - URL: https://wegroup.ai/solutions/intermediaries ### Intermediaries FAQ **Which type of office is this built for?** Any intermediary office where the advisor swivels between Outlook, the policy admin and the comparison tool, small or large. The more advisors, the bigger the payoff. WeGroup brings client context to the advisor instead of sending the advisor between tools. **What is the Smart Buddy exactly?** An AI assistant inside Outlook that shows the right client, active policies and open tasks the moment the advisor opens an email. No new tool, just grip regained. **Does it work with DIAS, ANVA or eBlinqx?** Yes, all three are live. For a DIAS office WeGroup brings client context into Outlook; for an ANVA office WeGroup runs advice and write-back; for an eBlinqx office the risk scan launches straight from eBlinqx. **How long does an implementation take for a small office?** You are live in a matter of days. Create an account, connect your CRM, install the Smart Buddy in your Outlook; we synchronise the data and you are ready to go. **What about commission and billing?** Commission and billing flows stay inside your policy admin. WeGroup doesn't touch financial flows; we add advice, distribution and client contact. **What is duty of care (zorgplicht), and how does WeGroup support it?** Zorgplicht is the advisor's legal duty of care under the Dutch Wft: giving suitable advice and keeping the client file current. WeGroup supports it by giving every advisor one uniform way of working and following clients up in the portfolio so their data stays current, with advice conversations and reports stored against the client file. It supports your duty of care; it does not replace your compliance process or guarantee compliance. ### Service providers Sold through you. Built by us. Hundreds of advisors join your network for the backoffice, the volmachten and the product range. WeGroup ships the portal underneath as a product, ready to carry your own vision on advice and distribution, multi-volmacht, multi-label, multi-country and all the way into Outlook. - URL: https://wegroup.ai/solutions/serviceproviders ### Service providers FAQ **How is WeGroup different for a service provider?** Service providers sell an operational platform to intermediaries. We bring the modern advice and distribution layer on top of your source system · you sell a uniform digital office, we maintain the tech layer. **Multi-tenant and whitelabel?** Yes. One WeGroup environment can serve multiple SP brands, with whitelabel branding per office and separated data rooms across tenants. **How does a newly affiliated office plug in?** Onboarding a new affiliated office under an existing SP typically lands in days, not weeks. The source-system connector and the shared product setup are already in place. **What about the source system the SP hosts itself?** WeGroup lives on top of the source system you operate. We don't replace · we connect and add. The permission and role model of your setup stays authoritative. **Which SPs run on WeGroup today?** We work with YINCO (a Yellow Hive company), Berkelstaete Assuradeuren, OBM Verzekeringen and VKG, among others. ## Customer cases ### Thoma Assurantie- en Pensioenadviseurs · PIB Group: From a stalled platform to products live in hours. How Thoma Assurantie- en Pensioenadviseurs rebuilt its MGA backbone on ANVA with WeGroup, and why PIB Group now uses that combination as its blueprint for pan-European MGA distribution. - URL: https://wegroup.ai/cases/pib-group-thoma - Published: 2026-04-24 - Country: Netherlands · part of PIB Group (UK) - Organisation: 100+ employees · advisory and MGA firm inside PIB Group - Stack: ANVA as system of record, WeGroup as configuration and distribution layer - Products: ~60 retail and commercial products, packages and standalone - Go-live: Rolling, 50+ products live in six months Outcomes: 50+ Products live in 6 months; 3-6 hrs Per product live; ~60 Total product scope; Blueprint For pan-European MGA distribution. Where the previous platform had become the reason things stalled, the backbone is now the least interesting part of the operation, in the best possible way. Products are defined in ANVA, configured in WeGroup and picked up by the advisor network the same day, with packages, single policies and custom requests on one surface and ANVA quietly staying the book of record. For PIB Group the effect reaches further than the Netherlands. The group saw how fast its Dutch firm ships and now treats the WeGroup and ANVA combination as the working example for pan-European MGA distribution: one configuration layer that handles currency, language, hybrid lanes and local CRM integrations per market. Quote: "Our previous platform was a usability stumbling block and its development had come to a standstill. We were looking for a partner with a deep, future-proof ANVA integration. WeGroup delivers exactly that: one uniform workflow that streamlines our entire advice process. The result is a significant reduction in errors and a process that is consistent across the whole team. For us, WeGroup is the central toolbox for the advisor that makes us more efficient and ready for the future." (Erik Arendsen, Manager marketing & ICT, Thoma Assurantie- en Pensioenadviseurs) ### de Goudse: BORIS renewed. Risk advice 50% faster for 250 EMA offices. How de Goudse plugged WeGroup under their flagship risk-advice platform and rolled out a renewed BORIS to every EMA office, regardless of the CRM the office runs. - URL: https://wegroup.ai/cases/de-goudse - Published: 2026-05-14 - Country: Netherlands - Organisation: de Goudse · 250+ affiliated EMA offices (Erkend RisicoManagers Adviseurs) - Stack: Per-office CRM (ANVA, DIAS, eBlinqx and more), WeGroup engine under BORIS, de Goudse branch knowledge layered in - Products: Commercial lines, business risk advice - Go-live: Phased rollout, network-wide Outcomes: 50% Faster advice reports; 250+ EMA offices live; Multi-CRM Connected; 0 Forced CRM migrations. Quote: "In this partnership, WeGroup's technical expertise and our knowledge of risk and advice came together perfectly. The renewed BORIS is more than a facelift: client and advisor work in the same flow, and the inventory delivers exactly the information our affiliated EMA offices need to give high-quality advice to their business relations. With WeGroup we have unlocked a future-proof platform on which we can keep building as an organisation." (Larissa van Manen, Formulemanager EMA & INC, de Goudse) ### YINCO · Yellow Hive: One extranet, fifteen products in three months and a marketplace for Yellow Hive brands. How YINCO turned a volmacht extranet, a DIAS-synced product catalogue and a Yellow Hive marketplace into one place where 100+ advisors (growing to 250+) quote, close and advise. - URL: https://wegroup.ai/cases/yinco - Published: 2026-05-14 - Country: Netherlands - Organisation: YINCO · 100 affiliated advisors, growing to 250+, part of Yellow Hive - Stack: DIAS as volmachtparket, WeGroup as extranet and advice surface - Products: Retail (particulier), 15 live, ~50 in the pipeline - Go-live: Three months from first product to fifteen live Outcomes: 100 → 250+ Advisors on one extranet; 15 Products live in 3 months; STP Live to DIAS; 1 Yellow Hive marketplace. Quote: "WeGroup helps Yellow Hive make insurance processes smarter, more efficient and more scalable. What we value is the combination of market knowledge, technical flexibility, and thinking along with us on practical integrations within our multi-label environment." (Milan Verzijlbergh, ICT Director, Yellow Hive) ### Private Insurance Assuradeuren · Ardonagh: One international closing lane for the Orvia MGA, on top of DIAS. How Private Insurance Assuradeuren, part of Ardonagh, opens up the international MGA Orvia through WeGroup: quote, close and manage in four languages, with DIAS as the single leading source. - URL: https://wegroup.ai/cases/pia-orvia - Published: 2026-07-03 - Country: International · Italian policyholders, English-speaking intermediaries - Organisation: Private Insurance Assuradeuren, part of Ardonagh - Stack: DIAS as source system, WeGroup as closing-lane and advice layer - Products: Personal-lines products under the Orvia MGA - Go-live: One generic build, reusable for the next products and countries Outcomes: 4 languages Closing lane in EN, FR, DE, NL; 1 basket Multiple products, one closing process; DIAS Single leading source; Reusable Built generically for the next countries. Quote: "At Orvia Underwriting we have strong ambitions to grow across Europe. To make that happen we needed a partner that offers a scalable, internationally oriented platform. WeGroup has a full integration with our policy administration system DIAS to build multilingual closing lanes quickly and flexibly." (Otto Lammers, Orvia Underwriting, Ardonagh) ### Berkelstaete · Thoma Group: 50 agents on one platform, new products live in two days. How Berkelstaete, the Thoma Group's service provider, plugs new agents in inside ten minutes and ships new ANVA products to its network within a day or two. - URL: https://wegroup.ai/cases/berkelstaete - Published: 2026-05-14 - Country: Netherlands - Organisation: Berkelstaete · ~50 affiliated agents (Thoma Group service provider) - Stack: ANVA as system of record, WeGroup as service-provider platform - Products: Retail and commercial lines, distributed via Thoma volmacht - Go-live: Phased rollout per agent Outcomes: 50 Affiliated agents; 10 min Onboarding per agent; 1-2 days New product live; Self-service Klantportaal everywhere. The extranet did more than speed up operations. Affiliated agents working in WeGroup every day through Thoma saw what the platform can carry: from closing flow to client view, from product rollout to self-service. For many, that was the trigger to expand their own ecosystem and add Smart Buddy to the mix, the AI assistant in the mailbox that brings context to where the advisor already works. That is how the network reinforces itself. Every agent who gets more productive closes more, and better, on the products of the Thoma volmacht firms. What started as a platform for onboarding and rollout has become a growth engine for Thoma's volmacht. ### Mevas: 4,000 risk scans a year for the metal industry, on top of eBlinqx. How Mevas serves the Dutch metal industry with risk analysis, prevention and active beheer, running 4,000 scans a year inside one connected flow. - URL: https://wegroup.ai/cases/mevas - Published: 2026-05-14 - Country: Netherlands - Organisation: Mevas · ~30 FTE, specialised in the metal industry - Stack: eBlinqx as CRM and system of record, WeGroup as advice and risk-analysis flow - Products: Industry-specific insurance, prevention and risk management - Go-live: Network-wide rollout Outcomes: 4,000 Risk scans / year; ~30 FTE On one advice flow; eBlinqx Live sync, both directions; Structured Active beheertrajecten. Quote: "WeGroup moved us forward in a short period of time. Their advice tool enables us to report the risks and needs of SMEs in the metal sector in detail and send them out efficiently, which has significantly improved our service." (Jesse Korver, Team Lead Communication & IT, Mevas) ### Thoma Assurantie- en Pensioenadviseurs · Mijn Omgeving: A customer portal that pays for itself every month. How Thoma rolled out Mijn Omgeving in three months, with the portal saving more than it costs every month since and adoption growing month after month. - URL: https://wegroup.ai/cases/thoma-mijn-omgeving - Published: 2026-05-07 - Country: Netherlands - Organisation: 40,000+ clients, 100+ FTE, part of PIB Group - Stack: ANVA as system of record, WeGroup customer portal as self-service layer - Products: Retail, SME, commercial lines - Go-live: 3 months from signing Outcomes: Hundreds Monthly active clients; Month 6 ROI-positive; Growing Adoption, month after month; 0 Data migrations. The math behind the portal is simple. Every phone call a client handles themselves, every party change and every claim filed through Mijn Omgeving saves handling time for the team and the back office. Added up, the portal has structurally saved more than it costs since month six, and every new active client improves that sum. More important than today's savings is the direction. Adoption grows month after month without pushing, ANVA stayed untouched as the system of record, and over 40,000 clients have a channel that absorbs the routine, leaving the advisor time for the work where they make the difference. Quote: "Mijn Omgeving gives our clients a place to handle their insurance matters themselves, whenever it suits them. For our team that means noticeably less routine traffic and more time for advice, while ANVA simply remained the system of record. The portal saves more than it costs every month, and that only gets better as more clients discover it." (Erik Arendsen, Manager marketing & ICT, Thoma Assurantie- en Pensioenadviseurs) ## About WeGroup We build the intelligent layer that makes insurance distribution scale, without replacing the systems that already hold the business together. Advice, distribution and efficiency on top of ANVA, DIAS, Assu and eBlinqx. One way of working for every advisor, every brand and every country in the group. Leadership: - Arvid De Coster, Chief Executive Officer - Bjorn Vuylsteker, Chief Product Officer - Sebastiaan Van Hoecke, Chief Technology Officer - Erik de Voogd, Chairman - Arjuna Bosch, Country Manager NL Recognition: - DIAmond Award (Most Strategic Impact, Digital Insurance Agenda, 2022) - Deloitte Technology Fast 50 (Deloitte Belgium, 2022) - TOP100 InsurTechs (Digital Insurance Agenda, 2022) - Seal of Excellence (European Commission, 2020) Independent press coverage (newest first, in the language of publication): - Met vechtlust en Nederlandse investeerder vindt Gentse insurtech WeGroup zichzelf opnieuw uit (Trends, 2026): https://trends.knack.be/ondernemen/met-vechtlust-en-nederlandse-investeerder-vindt-gentse-insurtech-wegroup-zichzelf-opnieuw-uit/ - De Coster (WeGroup): 'Grote partijen zitten met 20 systemen en werkwijzen' (AMweb, 2023): https://www.amweb.nl/139251/de-coster-wegroup-grote-partijen-zitten-met-20-systemen-en-werkwijzen - Belgische insurtech WeGroup van start in Nederland (Risk & Business, 2022): https://riskenbusiness.nl/nieuws/insurance/belgische-insurtech-wegroup-van-start-in-nederland-2/ - Belgische insurtech WeGroup richt zich op Nederlandse adviesmarkt (VVP, 2022): https://www.vvponline.nl/nieuws/belgische-insurtech-wegroup-richt-zich-op-nederlandse-adviesmarkt - WeGroup: de makelaar van de toekomst (Computable, 2019): https://www.computable.be/2019/02/25/wegroup-de-makelaar-van-de-toekomst/ - Gentse WeGroup is 30ste investering van Ban Vlaanderen in 2018 (Made in Oost-Vlaanderen, 2019): https://www.made-in.be/oost-vlaanderen/gentse-wegroup-is-30ste-investering-van-ban-vlaanderen-in-2018/ ### Common questions about WeGroup **What is WeGroup?** WeGroup is an advice, distribution and efficiency platform for insurance intermediaries. WeGroup sits on top of the core systems an office already runs, such as ANVA, DIAS, Assu and eBlinqx, instead of replacing them, and adds three layers: Intelligence (risk analysis and proactive portfolio management), Distribution (the Extranet, hybrid lanes and a customer portal), and Efficiency (Smart Buddy, an AI assistant inside Microsoft Outlook). WeGroup is used by 600+ offices across 4 countries, with the Netherlands as the primary market and Belgium as the origin market. **Which systems does WeGroup integrate with?** WeGroup connects to the systems insurance offices already run. On the policy-administration side that includes ANVA, DIAS, Assu and eBlinqx. On the product side it includes insurers such as Allianz, AXA, Baloise and Vivium, and data sources such as RDW, KvK and Graydon Creditsafe. WeGroup reads from and writes back to these source systems, so the office keeps a single system of record and avoids parallel data entry. New connectors are typically added in weeks. **Do we need to migrate or replace our current systems?** No. WeGroup is the intelligent layer on top of your insurance operation, not a replacement for it. Your policy administration, CRM and source systems remain the system of truth. WeGroup connects to them instead of migrating data away. That is how an office goes live in hours instead of the many months a platform replacement usually costs. **Who is WeGroup for?** WeGroup serves five groups in insurance distribution: intermediaries (brokers), MGAs and volmacht firms, insurers, service providers, and the international groups they belong to. Any office can start with it, from a small independent advice office to an international group. The payoff grows with scale, up to and including private-equity-backed buy-and-build groups that need every acquisition to plug in within days, not months. **How does WeGroup use AI?** WeGroup uses AI to support the advisor, not to replace them. Smart Buddy, an AI assistant inside Microsoft Outlook, surfaces the right client, policy and next action in the inbox, while the Intelligence layer flags risks and coverage gaps across the portfolio. Advice and decisions stay with the human advisor. That distinction matters in a market where only 8% of consumers trust AI-only advice and 62% trust AI when it is regulated. **How can an insurance office become more efficient with AI?** Most of the lost time in an insurance office is not the advice itself, it is the looking-up: who is this client, which policies do they hold, what was last agreed, and then re-keying the same data across the mailbox, the policy system and insurer portals. AI helps by bringing that context to where the advisor already works and by following the portfolio up automatically, so less time goes to searching and more to the client. WeGroup delivers this as a layer on top of the systems you already run, such as ANVA, DIAS, Assu and eBlinqx, which is how advisory work gets up to 30% faster without replacing anything. The advisor stays in control of the advice. **How do you add an AI layer on top of an existing policy system like ANVA or DIAS without replacing it?** You do not rip out the source system. You connect a layer on top that reads from it and writes back to it, so the policy administration stays the single system of record and there is no parallel data entry. That avoids the slow, expensive migration a full platform replacement usually means. WeGroup works exactly this way: it runs live on top of ANVA, DIAS, Assu and eBlinqx, adds an advice, distribution and efficiency layer on top, and an office typically goes live in four to six weeks. **What is the best software for insurance brokers in the Netherlands?** There is no single best system, and the honest answer depends on what you already run. Most Dutch offices keep a core policy-administration system such as ANVA, DIAS or Assu as their backbone and add a layer on top for advice, distribution and efficiency, instead of replacing that backbone. WeGroup is that layer: it connects to the admin system you already use, brings the full client picture into Outlook, and follows the portfolio up proactively. So the practical question is usually not which core system to buy, but which layer makes the advisors on top of it faster. **How can brokers reduce manual data entry and stop searching for client information across different systems?** The root cause is that client information is scattered across the mailbox, the policy system and insurer portals, so advisors look in several places and then re-key the same data. The fix is a layer that surfaces the full client picture in one place and writes structured data back to the source system, so nothing is entered twice. WeGroup does this: Smart Buddy shows the right client, their active policies and open tasks the moment an advisor opens an email, and writes back to ANVA, DIAS, Assu or eBlinqx so the source system stays current. **How secure and compliant are AI tools in the insurance sector?** Two things matter in insurance: the tool has to be GDPR-compliant and handle client data securely, and it has to keep the human advisor in control of regulated advice rather than automating the advice itself. It should also not create a second administration next to your source system. WeGroup is GDPR-compliant, with ISO 27001 certification in progress, keeps the advisor in charge of every piece of advice, and leaves your policy administration as the system of record. It does not replace your compliance process or guarantee compliance. Which regulator applies depends on the market: DNB, AFM and the NVGA in the Netherlands, and the FSMA in Belgium. **What is the ROI of an AI assistant for an insurance team, and what does it cost to run?** The return comes from three places: advisors spend less time searching and re-keying (up to 30% faster advisory work), fewer errors because everyone works the same uniform way, and faster onboarding of new products and acquisitions. The cost side stays low because there is no migration and no platform replacement, so an office typically goes live in four to six weeks on top of its existing system. The goal is not to cut advisors, it is to give the advisors you already have more time for clients.