Submit Bonds
For surety carriers

Your brand. Your rules. Our infrastructure.

Deploy a carrier-grade bond submission platform without building one.

Submit Bonds is the operating layer behind bond submissions, power issuance, and audit accountability — delivered as a private-label platform under your brand. You configure the rules. We run the infrastructure. Your underwriting and capital stay yours.

The problem we solve

Carriers have the least visibility into what their paper is doing.

Every surety carrier signs treaties, posts collateral, and assumes downstream submission discipline. Then a bad bond, a missing power, or a fraudulent re-use surfaces — usually weeks late, usually by surprise.

Submit Bonds inverts that. The carrier becomes the source of truth, with real-time accountability over every bond submitted under its paper.

Power issuance is reactive.

Today, carriers issue paper powers in books and trust agents to use them correctly. There’s no live enforcement of authority limits, geography, class, or expiration.

Accountability is retrospective.

Submission audit trails get reconstructed after the fact, often from fax confirmations and email threads. Regulators, reinsurers, and treaty auditors expect better.

Agent–MGA–carrier views diverge.

Three parties operate in three systems. Reconciliation is manual. Disputes are unresolvable without phone calls.

What Submit Bonds™ provides

Three pillars. One platform.

Pillar 1 — Power

Authority you actually enforce.

Carriers configure power authority once and enforce it in real time. Authority limits, geographic restrictions, class authorizations, expiration rules, and revocation triggers all live in a system the carrier controls. Every power is issued under the carrier’s brand, the carrier’s seal, and the carrier’s rules — not anyone else’s.

Pillar 2 — Accountability

An audit trail you can hand to a regulator.

Every submission, power action, document upload, and status change writes to an immutable audit trail. When a regulator, reinsurer, or treaty auditor asks, the answer is in seconds, not weeks. The audit trail is the carrier’s, scoped to the carrier’s data, exportable on demand.

Pillar 3 — Accessibility

One source of truth for everyone.

Carrier, MGA, agent, sheriff, and read-only auditor all work in the same system, with role-appropriate permissions. No more chasing PDFs. No more reconciling spreadsheets. One source of truth.

How a deployment works

Carrier deployment in 90 days.

Submit Bonds is delivered as a private-label platform configured to your brand, your rules, and your jurisdictions. We run the infrastructure; your underwriting and capital remain yours.

Stage 1 — Discovery

Day 1–7

Kickoff covering carrier details, branding assets, agent network size, target states and counties, integration requirements, and go-live targets.

Stage 2 — Configuration

Day 8–30

Carrier branding setup. Power authority rule configuration. State and jail activation. Role and user assignment. Notification preferences. Payment processing through Authorize.Net. Identity verification through Persona.

Stage 3 — Agent Network Migration

Day 15–45

Bulk agent and MGA import. License verification batch run. Power authority assignment per agent. Training materials and credential delivery.

Stage 4 — Pilot

Day 30–60

Single county or single MGA pilot under monitoring. Daily standups logged in-system. Performance metrics dashboard. Issue tracking.

Stage 5 — Full Activation

Day 60–90

Production cutover. Legacy parallel run. Carrier handoff to platform support.

What stays yours

We provide infrastructure. You keep the business.

You retain

  • Underwriting authority and risk decisioning
  • Customer relationships with agents and MGAs
  • All bond and submission data (exportable on demand)
  • Branding, pricing, and commercial terms
  • Reinsurance and treaty relationships
  • Capital and collateral management

We provide

  • Submission platform infrastructure
  • Power issuance engine
  • Identity verification and license monitoring
  • Audit trail and reporting
  • Jail and sheriff integrations
  • 24/7/365 platform support

Pricing model

Pricing aligned to volume, not seat counts.

Submit Bonds pricing combines a deployment configuration fee, a monthly platform license, and per-transaction fees on submissions and powers issued. Agent and MGA seat fees are flat and predictable. Pricing scales with your activity, not with how many users you onboard.

Platform fees are passed through to your downstream agents and MGAs at your discretion — most carriers structure deployments so the platform pays for itself off transactional volume.

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What this is not

A few things to be clear about.

This is not a sale of underwriting capability. Submit Bonds does not provide risk scoring, decisioning, or capital. Your underwriting stays with you.

This is not data resale. Submit Bonds does not sell carrier or agent data, ever. Carriers retain ownership and exclusive rights to their data.

This is not lock-in. Carriers can export their data at any time in standard formats. 90-day post-termination data access is contractual.

This is not vaporware. The underlying platform has been operating in participating Florida counties since 2019. Carrier-grade private-label deployment is the modernization layer being added now.

FAQ

Common questions from carriers.

Is this competitive with iGuarantee?

No. iGuarantee is Palmetto Surety’s underwriting platform. Submit Bonds is the carrier-facing submission and power infrastructure. Carriers deploying Submit Bonds bring their own underwriting; Palmetto runs both as the reference implementation.

Does Submit Bonds™ work for non-bail surety lines?

The current platform is built for bail surety. Adjacent surety lines may be supported as the platform expands; contact us to discuss your specific use case.

What states is Submit Bonds™ available in?

Submit Bonds has been operating in participating Florida counties since 2019. Nationwide expansion is underway with state activations driven by carrier demand. New state deployments take 60–90 days from carrier commitment.

Does my carrier need to have a Florida footprint?

No. State availability is driven by carrier deployments, not by Submit Bonds pre-building each state.

How does pricing compare to building in-house?

Carrier internal builds for comparable functionality typically run $2M–$5M over 24–36 months, plus ongoing maintenance, regulatory updates, and integration work. Submit Bonds deployments cover the same functional surface in 90 days with no capital expenditure.

What’s the security and compliance posture?

Daily license monitoring against state regulators. Persona-verified agent identity. Tamper-evident audit trail. Authorize.Net payment processing under PCI-compliant infrastructure. SOC 2 Type II readiness in progress; full compliance documentation available under NDA.

Ready to see a live deployment?

The next step is a 30-minute deployment briefing. We’ll walk you through the platform, the configuration model, the deployment timeline, and the pricing structure for your specific carrier profile.

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