Taven exists because the path between a retail agent and the right specialty market is longer than it needs to be. We shortened it. Direct access, one file, and the same four people on every account.
Specialty insurance is a trust business, but the way it's delivered to retail agents doesn't feel that way. Submissions sit in carrier inboxes for days. Quotes come back with subjectivities that should have been answered in intake. The account you spent two hours writing up is "being reviewed" by someone you'll never meet.
We started Taven because the work is worth doing well. A retail agent running a hard case should have direct access to specialty markets, a dedicated human on the account, and a file that everyone can see. Not a portal, not a ticket queue. A broker.
What we built is small on purpose. Four people touch an account: a broker, an assistant, an underwriter liaison, a claims contact. That's the team. They stay on the file through renewal. When you call, you get them.
We are betting that retail agents will pick the shop that moves the fastest and stays the longest, not the one with the biggest logo. If that's the bet you want to make too, we'd like to work with you.


These are the three things we refuse to compromise on. The rest. Tooling, workflow, office location. We'll change if it makes the work better.
Every account has a dedicated team of four. They stay with the file through intake, quote, bind, renewal. No rotating inboxes, no re-explaining.
Thirty-plus specialty carriers as direct appointments. No sub-brokering, no layered commissions, no "let me check with the market."
Thirty-minute median first response. Quotes in hours where the market allows it. If we're slow, we owe you a reason.
We'd rather still be figuring it out than settled into the wrong answer. Here's where we are.
Luke Button and Luke Rosa leave their respective posts to build a specialty shop that treats retail agents like customers, not throughput.
Direct appointments with the first cohort of specialty carriers across Property, Professional, and Management Liability.
We began accepting submissions from retail agents across California. First accounts bound within weeks.
Four-person account teams, thirty-plus direct markets, every line we list. We grow the roster, not the process.
A small bench of specialty underwriters placing where the standard market won't. 140+ retail agencies in 36 states.