Submit risks
Create submissions from an applicant plus lines of business, upload the supporting documents, and hand them to Hedge to market to carriers.
Hedge Broker API
The Hedge broker API gives retail brokers programmatic access to Hedge. Submit risks, check carrier appetite, run instant carrier quotes, and read back policies and payments. Anything your team does in the broker portal, you can do from your own tools.
What you can do
Section titled “What you can do”Check appetite
Ask which markets want a class of business in a given state before you spend time building a full submission.
Run instant quotes
Answer carrier questions and drive API quote sessions for markets that quote in real time.
Read policies and payments
Pull your bound policies, download policy documents, and reconcile commission payments, all scoped to your brokerage.
Three ways to integrate
Section titled “Three ways to integrate”Pick the surface that fits how you work. They share one API, one auth model, and one set of scopes.
hedge CLIA command line tool for people and scripts. Install, sign in once, and run appetite checks, submissions, quotes, and reads from your terminal.
REST APIJSON over HTTPS with bearer tokens. Call the same endpoints the portal and CLI use, directly from your backend.
MCP connectorA read-only connector for AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and Claude Code. Paste a URL, approve access, and let the assistant read your book.
Base URL
Section titled “Base URL”All REST endpoints live under a single versioned base URL:
https://api.hedgespecialty.com/api/v1Every request is authenticated with a short-lived OAuth 2.1 bearer token, and all data is scoped to the brokerage the token belongs to. There are no static API keys. See Authentication for the full flow.
Next steps
Section titled “Next steps”QuickstartGo from zero to your first appetite check and submission in a few minutes.
AuthenticationOAuth 2.1 device flow, browser sign-in, dynamic client registration, and scopes.
ConventionsStatus codes, error shapes, scopes, and how data is scoped to your brokerage.
API ReferenceEvery endpoint, request, and response, generated from the OpenAPI spec.