Fount's story starts with an obvious but complex observation that our founders made while building actuarial data science systems for large insurance companies. Insurance marketers are fighting with one hand tied behind their backs and the entire insurance value chain suffers. Despite sitting at the most critical point in the insurance value chain—customer acquisition—they lack visibility into the key attributes, analyses, behaviors, and characteristics that actually matter for economic success in insurance.

This isn't just a marketing problem. When acquisition is inefficient, it creates ripple effects throughout the entire insurance operation: higher customer acquisition costs, higher churn, misaligned products, poor risk selection, misaligned pricing, and ultimately, unsustainable unit economics.

We realized that everything in insurance sits downstream from marketing. Better transparency and improved decisioning at the top of the acquisition funnel doesn't just improve marketing—it helps solve downstream problems in sales, underwriting, pricing, reporting, risk and capital management.

Fount emerged from MIT's entrepreneurship ecosystem to solve insurance acquisition economics. LLMs and Agentic AI capabilities have fundamentally transformed what is possible in insurance acquisition. The explosion of data, automation, analytics, coordination, testing, and personalization has unlocked an entirely new level of efficiency and effectiveness in insurance acquisition and marketing at large.

To truly unlock and activate this step change in value, we first need to unify data, people, and AI. Our platform is designed to empower insurance marketers with the data, analysis, collaborative workspaces, integrations and support they need to optimize their acquisition strategies and achieve profitable growth.