Built for the CIO who owns the transformation roadmap, defends the budget, and answers to the board. De-risk every platform upgrade. Consolidate five QA vendors into one. Show concrete modernization ROI in months, not years.
Before · 5 vendors
Selenium UI suite
~$180K/yr · breaks on every PC upgrade
Postman / REST-assured
~$60K/yr · 3-person maintenance team
LoadRunner / Gatling
~$240K/yr · siloed from functional tests
Bespoke rating harness
~$150K/yr · built 2019, owner left 2022
Excel spot-checks
~$80K/yr FTE time · no coverage signal
After · 1 platform
VeriQuant
unified testing platform
API
REST · SOAP
UI
PolicyCenter
PERF
Reuse functional
RATING
Dual-mode
5 → 1
Vendors consolidated
$310K
Net annual savings
0
Upgrade rework · YoY
A year in your role
CH. 01
Every CIO at a modernizing P&C carrier carries the same four-quarter cadence. Upgrade. Integration. Regression panic. Board review. VeriQuant changes each one.
Q1
Guidewire ships release 2026.1. Your team needs to validate the entire policy lifecycle, rating engine, integrations, and UI across 14 states and 6 LOBs. Before VeriQuant, this was a six-month marathon. Now, your regression suite runs in 4.2 seconds.
Q2
Marketing announces a D2C auto portal. The rating that powers it has to be bulletproof from day one. You validate every edge case pre-launch, produce a CISO-ready audit trail, and ship on schedule. No whiteboard war room.
Q3
Procurement wants the $710K annual QA-tooling bill cut. You show them five contracts consolidated into one, $310K net savings, and a vendor Guidewire itself has chosen. Procurement’s quarterly win becomes yours.
Q4
“Modernization ROI” used to be a one-slide hand-wave. Now it’s three numbers you defend with confidence: leakage caught YTD, filing cycles compressed, vendors consolidated. You leave the boardroom early.
What you stop fighting
CH. 02
Five QA vendors. Four licensing renewals. Three incompatible reporting conventions. One VeriQuant covers API, UI, performance, and rating in one DSL — and retires the rest.
5 → 1 vendors · ~$310K net savings
Selenium scripts break every PolicyCenter release. VeriQuant is API-native — and built by Guidewire’s own testing technology partner. Upgrades stop being risk events.
0 rework on last 3 upgrade cycles
On-premise deployment by default. Rate IP, PII, premium data never leave your network. No cloud dependency. Your CISO sleeps. Your board approves.
100% on-prem · 0 third-party data paths
Premium leakage prevented, filing cycles compressed, vendors consolidated. Three concrete numbers that move on your watch — every one of them quarterly-deck-ready.
3 board-ready KPIs · measured monthly
What your board sees
CH. 03
Vendor consolidation
5 → 1
Testing vendors consolidated onto a single, enterprise-supported platform. ~$310K net annual savings on a typical tier-1 toolchain.
licensing + ops · 3-year TCO
Upgrade de-risking
0
Scripts broken on the last three PolicyCenter upgrade cycles. API-native and embedded — upgrades become schedule events, not risk events.
rework · yoy · across Guidewire Cloud releases
Modernization ROI
3 KPIs
Leakage prevented, filing cycles compressed, vendors consolidated. Three concrete, monthly-measurable metrics that translate transformation spend into business outcomes.
board-ready · every quarter
Expected outcomes
ModeledWhat your transformation roadmap looks like after consolidating on one local-first testing platform.
5 → 1
Vendors consolidated
Selenium, Postman, LoadRunner, custom harnesses, and spreadsheet spot-checks unified into one platform.
0
Upgrade rework · YoY
API-native, embedded in Guidewire’s own testing framework — PolicyCenter releases pass through unchanged.
100%
On-premise · your VPC
No cloud dependency. No outbound telemetry. Rate IP and PII never leave your network — passes CISO review without exceptions.
Source: VeriQuant methodology · Karate Labs internal benchmark
The next step
A senior member of our team walks you through your tool-consolidation exposure, the upgrade-risk reduction we’re seeing across Tier-1 carriers, and a tailored 3-year TCO model. No slides. No product demo theater. Your stack, our benchmark.