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Chris Marcus
Executive CTO & AI Architect specializing in regulated SaaS (InsurTech/Healthcare/FinTech)
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Insurance-tech CTO and repeat founder with 10+ years in insurance startups; was employee #4/CTO at Polly (formerly DealerPolicy) and helped scale it from a PowerPoint to 250 employees while raising $180M+. Currently building and selling AgentCanvas.ai—an extensible AI accelerator platform for large insurance agencies—after coding the product end-to-end and now running demos/POCs with prospective buyers.
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Key Strengths
- Built an AI insurance-agency operations platform solo (100% coded) over 14 months using an agentic dev team of ~5 agents
- Deep insurance startup expertise (10+ years) with firsthand understanding of agency/call-center workflows and data-quality issues
- 0→scale startup leadership as CTO (employee #4) at Polly/DealerPolicy: grew 4→250 employees in 4 years
- Fundraising and hypergrowth experience: helped company raise $180M+; Series C included $110M with Goldman Sachs and Progressive
- Strong execution approach: decomposes complex problems, drives clear prioritization, and ties work to strategy via Vision-to-Execution model
- Early-stage commercialization: actively demoing product, running POCs, and engaging potential acquirers with positive feedback
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