Konsileo

A UK chartered commercial insurance broker, founded as a start-up in 2018, built around giving brokers autonomy and modern technology.

About Konsileo

Konsileo is a UK commercial insurance broker. It arranges cover for businesses from sole traders to mid-sized firms, including public liability, employers' liability, product liability, professional indemnity, cyber, trade credit and start-up business insurance. It has sector pages for industries such as construction, hospitality, healthcare, technology, retail and agriculture, and a client portal called Riskube. Press coverage describes it as a chartered broker focused on advised sales to small, medium and mid-corporate businesses.

Its website says it is "disrupting the insurance landscape" by giving brokers "the freedom, resources and technology to truly protect their clients", and its tagline is "Protect Your Business, Properly." Co-founder and chief executive John Warburton says: "We've always believed that great brokers do their best work when you give them autonomy, equip them properly and support them rather than manage them."

The founders were John Warburton, formerly of Allianz, and Peter Henderson, formerly technical director at the mental health start-up Big White Wall, who is chief technology officer. Konsileo's website lists an address at 27 Old Gloucester Street, London WC1N 3AX; articles say it operates across the UK without naming other offices, and a search result linked it to York, which we could not confirm. It won Broker Start-up of the Year in 2018 and is a founding member of InsurTech UK, the industry body for insurtech firms.

On culture, the company says its model is built around individual brokers rather than branches, with a flat structure where coaching replaces line management, in-house training through the Konsileo Academy, and pay that rewards the value brokers create. Its proprietary platform automates admin and builds in compliance checks. Staff numbers were reported as about 160 in an earlier article and more than 220 in a more recent one, and it says growth has been organic, without acquisitions. These are the company's and its investors' own descriptions.

Its site has featured designers, developers, marketers and consultants as well as brokers, so a broker employs more than insurance specialists. Those staff profiles are from 2018, so the current team may differ. A broker like this is a useful route into insurance because you learn about many different industries.

What they do

• {'desc': 'Cover for businesses of all sizes across many sectors.', 'title': 'Commercial insurance broking'}
• {'desc': 'Pages and expertise for industries from construction to technology.', 'title': 'Sector specialisms'}
• {'desc': 'Online login for clients to manage their cover.', 'title': 'Riskube client portal'}

Key facts

• Founded by John Warburton and Peter Henderson (trade press)
• London address: 27 Old Gloucester Street, WC1N 3AX
• Broker Start-up of the Year 2018 (own site)
• More than 220 staff (trade press, recent)

Website: konsileo.com