Lloyd's officially shelved Blueprint Two, its years-long attempt to build a centralised digital marketplace for placement and processing, in March 2026. The problem it was meant to solve has not gone away. What has changed is who is solving it, and how.
Syndicates and brokers are increasingly building bespoke digital solutions rather than waiting for a market-wide platform. AEGIS London's cross-class digital follow consortium, launched in partnership with Augentic, is the latest and most structurally ambitious example.
The facility gives brokers access to follow capacity across AEGIS London's open market business in Property, Casualty and Specialty lines through a single digital arrangement. Capacity comes from Argenta, Chaucer and Liberty Specialty Markets. The design lets a broker secure a follow line spanning all three classes in one placement rather than negotiating separately across each - the kind of friction-reduction Blueprint Two was supposed to deliver at market level, now being achieved at the level of a single syndicate relationship.
AEGIS London is not alone. Brit Insurance launched its own digital follow facility for property lines in 2024. Convex has built out delegated authority tools that automate risk selection across its marine and casualty books. Several managing agents have built private API connections with their highest-volume brokers, effectively creating proprietary placement pipelines outside any centralised structure.
AEGIS London's own prior initiative with McGill and Partners in December 2025 was built along the same lines - a digital alignment of AEGIS London's risk appetite with one broker's client portfolio, automating selection, quoting and binding within that bilateral relationship. The Augentic consortium is a more open structure: available to the wider broking market rather than one partner's portfolio specifically.
That distinction is the piece's substantive news. Previous digital follow arrangements have typically been built around a single lead-broker relationship. A cross-class consortium spanning three capacity providers, administered through a tech-enabled MGA and available to any broker placing through AEGIS London's open market book, is a different structural commitment - and one that implicitly acknowledges the market cannot wait for a centralised solution to arrive.
For complex, multi-class placements against tight renewal timelines, assembling a full panel of followers has traditionally been one of the more time-consuming steps in a specialty placement. A pre-agreed cross-class facility - with underwriting parameters, pricing terms and claims handling protocols established in advance - shortens that process and reduces the risk of a follow line falling apart at the last stage of a placement.
Tom Squires, head of distribution at AEGIS London, said the consortium marks the first time the syndicate has fully combined its capacity approach with its digital strategy, framing it as a way to give brokers greater speed and certainty without removing lead underwriter expertise from the equation.
Augentic is a tech-enabled MGA built to allow brokers and carriers to trade digitally without building in-house solutions. Its role is to run the administrative and technology layer of the consortium - automating risk selection, quoting and binding against pre-agreed AEGIS London parameters - while AEGIS London retains the underwriting lead and the participating capacity providers commit on a follow basis within those terms.
The real test of the arrangement is adoption. A cross-class digital follow facility is most valuable on the kinds of complex, multi-class placements where assembling a full panel of followers manually has been genuinely slow. Whether brokers route meaningfully more of that business through it - rather than using it mainly for simpler placements that were already quick to arrange - will determine whether this advances the market's digital trading ambitions in the way that Blueprint Two could not.
