The network puts these around an agency: Carrier access, Stronger economics, Agency growth, Expert support, Technology and tools.
Comparison
The platform marketplace
How the platform marketplace works, who it suits, and where this network differs.
Comparison
The platform marketplace
How the platform marketplace works, who it suits, and where UAA Network differs.
Written from what organizations using this model publish about themselves, and deliberately not naming them: the useful comparison is between ways of building a network, not between logos. If anything here is out of date or unfair, tell us and it will be corrected. That offer is not decoration.
Side by side
The platform marketplace
- A technology platform rather than a membership network
- No onboarding fee and no subscription; sign-up measured in minutes
- Genuinely good product: appetite search and comparative rating built into the workflow
- Platform access is not the same as somebody who knows your agency
UAA Network
- A network, not a marketplace. The relationship is the point
- Placement help on the account that does not fit anywhere
- Support for hiring, commercial expansion and perpetuation
- Slower to join, deliberately, because membership is selective
Who it is built for
Built around software and speed.
Where the platform marketplace is the right answer, and for which agency.
The better platform marketplaces have shipped appetite search and quoting further along than most membership networks run, ours included, and they will have you quoting the same afternoon you sign up. For an agency whose problem is genuinely "I need to quote this now", that is a real answer and a fast one.
If you want a tool rather than a network, that is what this model is for.
What it leaves you to solve
What this model leaves on the owner.
Every arrangement puts some risk back on the agency. Here is where this one does, and what we do instead.
- Agent of record is the question that decides everything here, and it is not always you.
- A marketplace is a transaction each time rather than a relationship that compounds, so a carrier never starts pricing you on volume.
- Contingency generally does not reach you at all, which is the most profitable money in the business.
Every one of those is settled in writing here before you join, and the commercial terms behind them are published in public.
The honest way to choose is to ask both.
Ours takes four questions and gives you an answer at the end, including an honest "not yet".
The honest way to choose is to ask both.
Ours takes four questions and gives you an answer at the end.