Can Strkr replace our agency management system (AMS360, Applied Epic, HawkSoft)?
For the CRM, workflow, submission pipeline, X-date renewal flows, service queue, and E&O audit trail, yes. Many agencies run Strkr as the CRM and workflow layer while keeping their legacy AMS for the policy module and carrier download during a phased transition. Others replace the AMS entirely when they confirm Strkr covers their policy management needs, including policy records with coverage, carrier, premium, splits, X-dates, declarations page storage, endorsement tracking, and the integrations with their primary carriers. The right answer depends on which AMS features the agency actively uses. Strkr sales will walk the agency through a feature-by-feature comparison before quoting, so the switching cost is quantified up front.
How does Strkr handle multi-carrier quote tracking on a single submission?
Every submission can carry an unlimited number of carrier quotes as child records. Each quote stores the carrier, premium, coverage limits, deductibles, binder date, underwriter contact, and the raw quote PDF. Producers compare the quotes side by side on the submission detail, flag the winning quote at bind, and the policy record auto-generates from the winning quote at the stage transition. The losing quotes stay on the submission history, so twelve months later when the agency wants to remarket the renewal the full carrier history is on the record and the producer does not have to rebuild the picture from scratch.
How does the X-date renewal cascade work?
Every policy carries an X-date (the renewal effective date). Strkr fires the renewal flow at 120, 90, 60, and 30 days before the X-date with a different structured task at each milestone. At 120 days out the writing producer gets a strategic review task with the current coverage summary and carrier appetite notes. At 90 days out any flagged remarket candidates get a new submission opened to alternate carriers. At 60 days out the renewal proposal drafts and routes to the client with a 10-day follow-up. At 30 days out the client sign-off task fires with a hard escalation if unresolved. The producer walks into every renewal with a plan and the client never gets a renewal document with 14 days to decide.
How are split commissions handled across writing producer, servicing producer, and house accounts?
Every policy carries a commission split structure with writing producer percentage, servicing producer percentage, house account percentage, and effective date. The split survives producer departures: when the servicing producer swaps, the writing credit history stays intact. The monthly carrier commission statement imports as a batch (CSV, carrier portal feed, or AMS integration), reconciles against the policy record on carrier, policy number, premium, and commission split, and flags discrepancies so the office manager clears the exceptions instead of hand-reconciling the whole statement. The Friday payroll takes five minutes with the audit trail intact.
How does Strkr handle the E&O audit trail?
Every submission, every carrier quote, every coverage recommendation, every declined-coverage waiver, every client acknowledgement, and every policy change is logged on the account and policy timelines with timestamp, author, and attachment. When the E&O carrier audits the agency and asks for the submission history and coverage sign-offs on three dozen accounts, the agency filters the audit report by date range, producer, or account list and produces the full packet in minutes instead of a two-week scramble through emails and policy folders. Document retention policies are configurable per tenant to match the agency E&O carrier requirements.
Does Strkr integrate with carrier portals and comparative raters?
Strkr integrates with the major carrier download feeds (IVANS, carrier direct APIs where available) and the most common comparative raters (EZLynx, PL Rating, Turborater) for inbound quote data. The integrations auto-create child quote records on the submission with the carrier premium, coverage, and raw quote PDF attached. The agency does not have to copy-paste quote details from the rater or the carrier portal into the CRM, and the full carrier-shopping history lives on the submission record for renewal cycle re-use twelve months later.
Can producers and office managers make admin changes without a vendor professional services engagement?
Yes, within the permission matrix. Custom fields, Layouts, saved views, submission stages, stage entry criteria, Flows, service request types, SLA policies, and dashboard widgets are self-serve for the role the principal has granted the permission to. Most agencies give the office manager full self-serve on the service queue and the renewal calendar, give the principal self-serve on the production dashboards and routing rules, and route tenant-wide changes (new object, cross-tenant automation) through the Strkr support team. The change ships the hour it is needed with an audit trail on who changed what, so the quarterly vendor release that legacy AMS vendors impose on the agency does not exist.