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On June 2, over 80 executives from 60+ companies across insurance, financial services, fintech and venture gathered at the Classic Car Club Manhattan for TracerCon, Lazarus AI’s first major conference. The goal was to let people experience the power of extractive AI firsthand. We kicked off with a high-level overview of Lazarus AI’s technology, highlighting how our purpose-built foundation models are reshaping operations in regulated industries like insurance. Attendees then dove into an interactive experience built around RikAI, our suite of document-processing and multimodal reasoning models. The takeaway was clear: AI is no longer experimental. It’s inevitable.
The conference draws its name from tracer rounds — projectiles that light the path of an object as it travels through space. In our case, that path traces the transition from legacy infrastructure to intelligent automation.
Our goal for TracerCon was to give industry leaders a tangible view of how AI can be embedded into enterprise infrastructure to transform cumbersome, high-friction processes into scalable, intelligent systems. For decisive leaders ahead of the curve, this is a career-defining opportunity.
The centerpiece of the day was a hands-on prompting challenge designed to simulate the real-world complexity of insurance operations. Attendees received a thick stack of mock claim documents, the kind of unstructured data that consumes hours of adjuster time. Working in teams with the help of RikAI, they were tasked with investigating the claim and issuing a decision.
As each group collaborated, they began to see RikAI not just as a product demo, but as a mission-critical asset. Prompt structure, model persona and output formatting became the subjects of serious strategic debate. And yes, every team found that the antihero of our case study, Frank Fraus, was ultimately committing fraud — something RikAI helped uncover in minutes. The speed-to-insight shift wasn’t just impressive. It was transformative.
TracerCon wasn’t a "show and tell." It was show and do. Participants experienced how Lazarus AI models like RikAI can:
• Deliver >99% accuracy on document processing
• Return field-level confidence scores and full verbal reasoning for transparent decision-making
• Operate in a human-in-the-loop system that elevates trust and governance
What once took hours or days of manual labor can now happen in minutes. That’s not just a productivity win — it’s a shift in how talent is deployed across the enterprise.
To close the program, we showcased ATLS, our orchestration model. While RikAI functions like a tenured analyst, ATLS performs like a multidisciplinary team — capable of coordinating complex, dynamic workflows across domains and data types.
We ran Frank Fraus' underwriting file through ATLS. The model autonomously sourced public and internet data to determine that this particular individual presented a high risk profile, riddled with red flags. The result? A process that would typically require input from multiple departments was achieved through a single, agentic AI interaction.
It was the kind of intelligent orchestration leaders have been promised but rarely seen executed at this level.
The irony of innovation is unlocking it often requires a deliberate pause. At TracerCon, attendees got to slow down, examine legacy bottlenecks and experience the precision of modern AI tooling. Once a prompt is validated and deployed within RikAI, it just runs — reliably and scalably. It just works. A careful investment up front can develop the capability to deliver the reality every insurer aspires to: optimal customer satisfaction.
With Lazarus AI, claims teams can:
• Triage faster
• Focus on complex decision-making
• Improve outcomes with no additional tools or retraining
At TracerCon, we used claims to demonstrate a broader principle: AI, when designed intentionally and deployed with discipline, doesn’t just speed things up. It unlocks new capacity, new thinking and new potential. The same transformation we illustrated in the claims process can be applied across financial services, from underwriting and compliance to loan operations and onboarding. TracerCon was a glimpse of what’s possible when you pair the right models with the right people.
And we’re just getting started.