A little over a year ago, FurtherAI was a small team with a clear thesis: AI was going to fundamentally change how insurance operates, and we wanted to be the company that built it.

Since then, that thesis has been validated faster than we expected. We've grown over XY00% in revenue. We work with Fortune 500 carriers, public insurers, brokers, MGAs, TPAs, and reinsurers. The demand keeps coming and it's accelerating. That kind of growth creates the best kind of problem.

Our customers are asking for more: faster integrations, new capabilities, deeper AI. The insurance industry is enormous and deeply complex, and we're just getting started on what's possible. Capturing that opportunity means building an engineering organization that can match the ambition: systems, process, culture, and craft.

This leads us to one of the most important hires we've made: a VP of Engineering.

Will Palmeri has been solving these exact problems for over a decade. He co-founded StackMob, a backend-as-a-service platform for mobile developers, and scaled it from two people to twenty-seven before it was acquired by PayPal. That experience of building something from nothing, making hard calls with limited resources and growing a team while keeping the product moving, gives him a founder's instinct that not all engineering leaders have.

After StackMob, Will spent years leading infrastructure and platform teams, keeping some of the world's most critical payment systems running at scale. Then came Brex.

When Will joined Brex, the company was in the middle of hypergrowth. He led Foundation Engineering - the organization responsible for the cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, database systems, and API platform that the entire engineering org depended on. In other words, he built the infrastructure that made Brex's hypergrowth possible. That's exactly the kind of person we need.

Apart from the experience, what struck me in our conversations was how he talked about the people side of engineering leadership. He treats culture as foundational infrastructure – transparency, empathy, mentorship, making sure engineers understand the why behind what they're building. At a company like FurtherAI, where we're asking people to do hard things in a complex domain, that matters.

We're still early. Insurance is one of the largest industries in the world, and it's only beginning to grapple with what AI makes possible. The next few years will determine which companies establish the foundational platforms, earn the trust of major institutions, and set the standard for how this industry evolves.

We intend to be one of them. And Will is going to help us build at the scale this opportunity demands.

Welcome to FurtherAI, Will.

We're actively hiring across engineering, AI, product, and go-to-market. If you're excited about building AI for one of the world's largest industries, we'd love to talk.