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Mike Moore

Founder, Strategic AI Architects

Licensed insurance producer turned builder — he grew his own ACA book past $1 million a year, then built the technology agencies now use to get found.

Strategic AI Architects was founded by Mike Moore. He started out as a CBOE/CFE/CBOT market maker, but the part that matters to you started in 2017: he got his insurance license and grew his own ACA book past $1 million a year in production as a personal producer. Then he started building the technology that agencies now use to get found by Google, cited by AI, and called by clients.

That's the difference: we're not marketers who discovered insurance, we're an insurance producer who learned to build. We've sat in your chair, so the thesis is simple: agencies that get cited by AI in the next five years win. We build that, from a $97 per month community all the way to Ambrose, the custom AI infrastructure you own.

Track record

Before 2017

CBOE / CFE / CBOT market maker — pricing risk on the floor.

2017

Got licensed and started writing ACA business as a personal producer.

Peak production

Grew his own ACA book past $1 million a year in production.

Now

Builds AI and marketing infrastructure for insurance agencies — from a $97/mo community up to Ambrose, custom AI infrastructure the agency owns.

Why this matters for your agency

We're not marketers who discovered insurance — we're an insurance producer who learned to build. Every tool here was designed against a real book of business.

Work with the systems Mike builds

Voice AI that dials, qualifies, and warm-transfers — built by someone who carried a book.

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Articles by Mike

Mike Moore, founder of TheAffordableAI, smiling at his desk while a smartphone lights up with an incoming call next to his laptop, representing an inbound insurance lead calling in

Voice AI 20 min read

Missed-Call Text-Back vs AI Answering for Insurance Agents

A missed insurance call doesn't need a text reply, it needs a live answer. Missed-call text-back vs AI phone answering, compared and sourced for 2026.
An insurance agency founder at a wood desk looking at a laptop showing a CRM dashboard with an incoming lead notification, while his smartphone lights up with an incoming call, representing a Facebook Instant Form lead about to be called

Lead Follow-Up 20 min read

Facebook Lead Ads for Insurance Agents: Why They Go Cold

Meta's Instant Form leads submit in seconds, but most insurance agencies still call them hours later. Here's the integration gap, and how to close it.
A smartphone lighting up with an incoming call next to an open laptop showing a blurred lead dashboard on a warm wood desk, representing an incoming Google Local Services Ads lead landing on an insurance agent's phone

Lead Follow-Up 22 min read

Google Local Services Ads for Insurance Agents 2026

Google Local Services Ads now covers insurance agents in California and Florida. How lead billing, the responsiveness signal, and the Verified badge work.
Mike Moore reviewing a call abandonment rate compliance dashboard on a monitor next to a glowing emerald voice waveform, representing FTC and FCC abandoned call rate rules for insurance agency dialers

Compliance 20 min read

Call Abandonment Rate Rules for Insurance Agencies

The FTC and FCC cap abandoned calls at 3%: what counts as abandonment, what a violation costs, and how AI voice agents change the math for agencies.
Mike Moore at a desk comparing a tangle of separate vendor dashboards for telephony, speech-to-text, and text-to-speech against one clean managed calling dashboard, an emerald voice waveform between them, representing the build versus buy decision for an insurance agency's AI voice agent

Voice AI 20 min read

Build vs Buy: What an AI Voice Agent Costs in 2026

Should your agency build its own AI voice caller or buy one? Real 2026 rates from GoHighLevel, Twilio, Vapi, Bland AI, and Retell, compared line by line.
Mike Moore at a desk reviewing a lead vendor consent audit checklist on a monitor next to a glowing emerald voice waveform, representing TCPA prior express written consent compliance for insurance lead buyers

Compliance 19 min read

FCC One-to-One Consent Rule Is Dead: Insurance Leads Now

The FCC's one-to-one consent rule is vacated and repealed. Here is what changed, what didn't, and how to vet an insurance lead vendor's consent in 2026.