How Proshore helped Surebird take flight

Surebird’s technology compares multiple insurance policies across different insurance types to provide customers with continuous access to the best deals. Taking the hassle out of renewing insurance policies, whilst saving customers time and money, is a brilliantly simple idea that required the development of a sophisticated algorithm. 

One of the main technical challenges was the need for a robust and reliable connection with vast quantities of ever-changing insurance policy data – presented to users within the platform itself and via notifications. Another unique feature was the ability for customers to buy a package of insurance policies from different providers in order to find the cheapest possible combination. To facilitate this, Surebird needed a complex algorithm to crawl insurance data from different providers and retrieve the best quotes.

At the same time, as a tech startup based in the Netherlands, Surebird faced an all too common challenge – recruiting the best tech talent at the right cost. Like many other tech startups (and scale-ups) a skills shortage in the country – and the wider European Union (EU) – led the Surebird founders to look for opportunities to outsource development of their MVP. However, putting together a remote development team using freelancers was complicated and time-consuming. There was also the question of reliability and security of contracting freelancers. 

With the backing of EIT Digital, an European Investment Fund co-funded by the European Union, group of private investors, a group of insurance agents, and the largest insurance company in The Netherlands, Surebird was financially ready to get off the ground. What they needed was a cost-effective, proficient, and proven development team as a service. Enter Proshore!