Humanistic AI · Production today

Welcome to the
Next Renaissance.

AI is the brush. Human potential is the masterpiece.

Renaissance builds the instruments that put intelligence in the hands of the people doing the work. The first ones ship today across employee benefits operations.

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Live in production today
HIPAA controls, US data residency
Human approval before every output
Built on AWS Bedrock, Anthropic Claude
The first instrument

Census Data Tool

Every US brokerage rebuilds the same census by hand five to ten times a year, before a single employee is enrolled. The work arrives in every shape imaginable. CDT does it in minutes.

Today By Hand how every brokerage does it now
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Census_Roster_2026_v3.xlsx multi-tab
OE_forms_batch_A.pdf 42 forms
OE_forms_batch_B.pdf 38 forms
enrollment_scan_001.pdf handwritten
IMG_0421.HEIC phone photo
scan_20260428.pdf handwritten
OE_forms_batch_C.pdf 91 forms
+ 164 more enrollment PDFs
0 / 247 forms keyed by hand
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typing row 47 of 247 · mid-PDF
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CDT Census Data Tool
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Source folder
Drag in a folder of enrollment forms, or any mix of files
📂 enrollment-forms-2026/ 0 files
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Carrier template
The carrier's required .xlsx submission format
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waiting for template
Reading the forms.
OCR'ing 200 enrollment forms...
CDT Ready for review 1:48
Here is the plan.
247 employees parsed from 200 enrollment forms
138 dependents grouped under their employees
32 carrier template fields mapped from source
3 low-confidence rows flagged for review before output
CDT Done 3:12
Carrier template, filled.
247 employees and dependents · every cell mapped, audited, flagged where unsure.
📈 Census_Output_2026.xlsx 186 KB
Source uploads + output expire in 24 hours · audit log retained
drop · approve · download
~3 min, start to finish
The labor math

Same client. Same standard. Different bill.

One AC, one client, one calendar year. Calculated at ~$45 per hour fully-loaded AC and AM labor: $70K blended salary times 1.33 for benefits, divided by 2,080 hours.

Current · By Hand
With CDT
Delta
Time per census
One census transform, source files to carrier-ready output.
10 hours
5 minutes
120x faster
Censuses per client, per year
Fewer with CDT: no back-and-forth with carriers fixing manual errors, and audits surface mistakes the first time.
8 to 10
5 to 6
3 to 4 fewer
Total time per client, per year
CDT can batch multiple sessions: proposals, enrollment, and BenAdmin upload run as ~5-minute batches each.
~90 hours
~15 minutes
~89h 45m back
Labor cost per client, per year
Total time at ~$45 per hour fully-loaded.
$4,050
$11.22
$4,038 saved
Recovered per client, per year
$4,000+
At a brokerage with 100 EB clients, that is over $400,000 in skilled labor returned every year, back to the work people actually trained for. The math scales the same way to 500 clients, or 5,000.
RENAISSANCE
Manifesto explainer

The bicycle for the mind.

The operating principle behind Renaissance Systems
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A computer is like a bicycle for your mind.

Steve Jobs
Human walking
Condor flying
Human on bicycle
Relative efficiency Higher = more distance per unit effort
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The right tool multiplies capability without changing the human at the center.
The lesson
Tools amplify people.
The right instrument multiplies what a person can do without changing who they are.
Capability expands when friction falls.
Take the friction out and potential turns into output.
Better tools return time to the work that matters.
The hours come back. Judgment, creativity, and impact stay.
The Renaissance view
Human
judgment
→
Renaissance
instrument
→
Human
approval
→
Structured
output
We do not build chat toys. We build instruments.
Intelligence is no longer scarce. Judgment still is.
AI is the brush. Human potential is the masterpiece.
Artificial intelligence is not the story. Humanity is.
In development

More instruments. Coming.

Renaissance builds wherever the rote work piles up while the judgment work waits. These are next.

Prototype
RFP Generator
Carrier proposals in. Side-by-side spread workbook and client deck out. The proposal cycle, in minutes.
Prototype
Enrollment Form Auto-fill
Last year's elections become this year's pre-filled forms. Employees review what matters, not retype what does not.
Prototype
Client Spread Generator
A consolidated side-by-side of every plan a client carries today. Maintained automatically, ready at any moment.
Prototype
AM Productivity App
The day's queue, surfaced and prioritized. Less context-switching. More time on the work that actually matters.
Concept
Client to Carrier Pipeline
Eligibility events from any source, validated and shipped to every carrier in the format they require.
The team

Three founders.

Founder · CEO
Pat Gordon
Background in AI, machine learning, and product innovation. Owns the Renaissance vision and roadmap.
pat@renaissance.systems
Cofounder · CIO
Ryan Humphries
Background in infrastructure, security, and identity. Owns the production stack.
ryan@renaissance.systems
Cofounder · CTO
Ty Lane
Background in platform engineering and applied AI. Owns how customers actually use Renaissance.
ty@renaissance.systems
Get in touch

Let's build what matters.

If you lead a benefits team that watches the same work pile up every renewal cycle, or you build tools and want to see how Renaissance is wired underneath, email is the fastest way in.

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