Insurance quote engine
An SME business-insurance platform whose quote engine was rebuilt for near-instant quotes, with an insurer API integration, a payment gateway and sign-in shared across subdomains. Built at Logix Built Solutions.
From 10+ minutes to under 2
The problem
Quotes took more than 10 minutes of synchronous lookups and recalculation. People abandoned the flow at the moment they were most ready to buy, so speed was the conversion problem, not a detail.
| Result | From 10+ minutes to under 2 |
|---|---|
| Category | Fintech |
| Stack | React, Node.js, REST APIs, Redis, PostgreSQL, Authentication and access control, Monitoring and debugging |
<2 min
quote delivery, down from 10+
<30s
for cached quotes
~0
support calls about speed
What I did
Profiling
Instrumented the flow and found repeated expensive lookups blocking every quote.
Caching
A Redis layer for rate tables and partial results, so repeated work is skipped.
Parallel calls
The four insurer API calls that ran one after another now run at the same time.
Database tuning
Indexes and selective denormalisation on the data each quote depends on.
Streamed progress
The UI streams progress, so a quote feels instant while it finishes.
What it does
- Quotes for liability, property and employee health cover
- Insurer API integration
- Payment gateway
- Sign-in shared across subdomains
- Product, FAQ and knowledge pages
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