Rozmith runs IT, cybersecurity, and M&A integration for PE-backed insurance brokerages as one accountable team. We currently run two PE-backed brokerages in production — NYDFS-aligned, producer-data-grade, AMS-aware. GuidePoint-grade governance, regional-firm pricing.
The Pain
Brokerages that buy a tuck-in every quarter live with a permanent integration backlog. Producer data is moving constantly. AMS environments don't talk to each other cleanly. NYDFS doesn't care that you're mid-deal. The PE sponsor wants synergy capture on a clock. And IT is usually the last function consulted on the LOI.
01 — M&A Velocity
Producer onboarding, identity, mailbox migrations, AMS data harmonization, branch network changes — all on a sponsor-set clock. Day-1 hits hard. PMI runs long.
02 — Producer Data
Producer onboarding, offboarding, and book transfers are constant. Each one is a data movement, an identity event, and a potential leakage point. Most stacks weren't built for that velocity.
03 — NYDFS & State Regs
NYDFS cyber rules, multi-state insurance regulators, and SOC 2 expectations from carrier partners. Evidence, not effort, is what gets you through.
04 — Sponsor Scrutiny
"What's our cyber posture? What's our integration backlog? What's our exit-readiness on the IT side?" The honest answers are usually messy. They don't have to be.
How We Work
For brokerages, the assessment is usually an M&A diligence on a target — or a current-state diligence on the platform you already run. Either way, we come in for one job, with audit-grade evidence. Then we have an honest conversation about who runs what after.
"You need brake pads. A rotation. A few other things." That's the conversation. With evidence. Not vibes.
IT, cyber, GRC, and AMS data diligence on a live target — or a current-state diligence on the platform.
Findings pack a PE sponsor would respect. Mapped to NYDFS, NIST CSF, and the integration playbook.
Day-1 → carve-out → PMI → synergy. Quest for migration tooling, Microsoft tenant work end-to-end.
If it makes sense, we move into MSP / MSSP / GRC. Continuous run, integration capacity always available.
Proof — Anonymized
We don't name clients. Here's the pattern in production.
Pattern — PE-Backed Insurance Brokerage
Before: a small internal IT team buried under a permanent integration backlog. Each new acquisition meant an emergency mailbox migration, producer identity scramble, AMS data harmonization in spreadsheets, and a sponsor reporting cycle that kept asking the same questions.
After: one team across IT, cybersecurity, and M&A integration. Microsoft 365 tenant strategy designed for absorption. Apptega-powered continuous evidence mapped to NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500. Quest-driven migration playbooks. Day-1 producer onboarding runbook that takes hours, not weeks. Sponsor reporting on a quarterly cadence that lands in the language a TOP actually reads.
We run two PE-backed insurance brokerages and additional regulated mid-market clients today. Anonymized references available under NDA.
Lead Magnet
The diligence checklist we actually use when a sponsor calls us in on a brokerage target. Free. No sales call attached — but the box is there if you want one.
Talk To Us
30 minutes. Bring a live target or a current platform question. We'll talk through the IT & cyber posture, the AMS exposure, the producer-data movement, and where the integration risk sits. If a paid diligence makes sense, we'll scope it. If it doesn't, we'll say so.
FAQ
Either. Many engagements start as M&A diligence on a single target — that's a clean, contained engagement that doesn't touch the run. From there, you decide: keep the incumbent and bolt us on for security + integration capacity, or move the whole stack. We've done both.
Applied Epic, Vertafore AMS360, Sagitta, and the related ecosystem. We're not the AMS vendor — we're the team that makes the AMS environment behave during integration, audit, and migration. We work with your existing AMS partner, not against them.
We map controls to NYDFS, SOC 2 Type II, NIST CSF 2.0, and where relevant ISO 27001 — through Apptega, our GRC platform of record. Evidence is continuous, not point-in-time. Sponsor and carrier reporting both pull from the same source.
Diligence → Day-1 → carve-out (if applicable) → PMI → synergy capture. Managing Partners in the room from LOI. Quest for migration tooling. Microsoft 365 tenant strategy designed for absorption from the start, not retrofitted at each close. Producer onboarding runbooks measured in hours.
Yes. Most of our brokerage work involves quarterly sponsor reviews and sponsor-grade reporting. We're comfortable in that room — partner-level engagement is standard on every account.
Sweet spot is mid-market brokerages — roughly 250–2,500 producers across the platform — with active M&A. PE-backed especially. Smaller and the math can still work; larger and we partner with internal IT leadership rather than replace it.
An M&A IT diligence runs 2–4 weeks per target. A platform assessment runs 4–6 weeks. MSP transitions typically land in 90–120 days, structured around the integration calendar so there's no "go-live cliff" on top of a Day-1.