Write for us
We publish people who know how this works from the inside — and almost nobody else.
That is a narrower filter than most sites apply and it is the whole point. Most writing about life insurance underwriting is produced by people who have never seen an underwriting manual, read a rate filing, or watched a claim get investigated. If you have, there is something you can write that does not currently exist on the open web.
The four tracks
Pitch to the one that matches your subject. Each page carries its own brief, its own rejection list, and its own placement tiers.
Insurance — the mechanism. Underwriters, actuaries, reinsurers, regulators, claims investigators and impaired-risk brokers. Facultative referrals, table shaving, treaty terms, contestability, rate filings.
No-exam life insurance — the three products this site is named after. Accelerated underwriting models, simplified issue knockout design, guaranteed issue economics. Product managers, data scientists, insurtech operators.
Life insurance — everything downstream of the decision. Policy mechanics, beneficiaries, tax, trusts, group benefits, conversion rights, claims. Planners, estate attorneys, benefits specialists, consumer advocates.
Health — what a diagnosis or a lab value means in a risk-assessment context. Clinicians, researchers, nurses, epidemiologists.
If your piece straddles two, pick either. We will move it if it lands better elsewhere.
What every track has in common
We reject rate figures we cannot trace to a source. This is the single most common rejection across all four tracks. Name the carrier guide, the filing, or the rate card. "Industry standard" is not a source.
We reject advertising dressed as editorial. If a piece exists to make one carrier, agency, platform or practice look good, it is an ad. Ads are available as a commercial placement and they carry a visible label.
Commercial links are always rel="sponsored" or rel="nofollow". Every tier, every arrangement, no exceptions. Citations to research, filings and documentation are dofollow — those are the links that get pieces accepted.
AI-assisted drafting is fine; AI-sourced facts are not. Our AI content policy sets out how we use these tools ourselves. We check citations, and fabricated references end the relationship permanently.
Editorial contributions are free in both directions. If your piece is accepted on merit you pay nothing and we pay nothing. What you get is a byline on a site that will not publish anything it cannot source.
Placement options and turnaround
The same tiers apply across all four tracks. The first row is editorial and free; the rest are commercial placements and are labelled as such on the page.
| Placement | What you get | Review | Turnaround |
|---|---|---|---|
| Editorial contribution | Full article, byline and credentials, dofollow citations to sources | Full editorial review, may be rejected | 2–3 weeks |
| Link insertion | One contextual link added to an existing relevant article | Relevance check | 3–5 days |
| Sponsored article | Article published with a sponsored label and disclosure line | Accuracy and compliance review | 5–7 days |
| Sponsored feature | Sponsored article plus placement in the related-links block on matching condition or product pages | Accuracy and compliance review | 7–10 days |
Health contributions have one extra step — a piece may go to a second clinical reader before publication. Rates for the commercial tiers on request through the contact page.
What happens if we accept
You get an editor. We push back on unsourced claims, ask for documents, and cut anything that reads as promotional. That process is the point of the site and it is the reason a byline here is worth having.
Your piece carries your name, your credentials and a link to your professional profile. We do not publish under house bylines and we do not strip attribution. Accepted pieces are filed against the relevant condition or product and surface automatically in the related-links block on that page, which is where most of the readership finds them.
The standards we hold everything to, our own work included, are in the editorial policy.
How to pitch
Send the pitch, not the finished article. One paragraph on the argument, one on why you are the person to make it, and the sources you intend to use.
Use the contact page, and put the track in the subject line — "Insurance guest post pitch", "No-exam guest post pitch", "Life insurance guest post pitch" or "Health guest post pitch".
Questions we get asked
Do I have to work in insurance to contribute? No. The bar is verifiable expertise plus citable sources, not a job title. A researcher with primary documents beats an industry veteran writing from memory.
Which track should I pitch to? By subject, not by your job. An underwriter writing about beneficiary designations belongs in the life insurance track; a financial planner writing about how accelerated models work belongs in no-exam. Pick by what the piece is about.
Do you pay contributors? No, and you pay nothing either. Editorial contributions are unpaid on both sides.
Do you accept unsolicited finished articles? They get read, more slowly and less often than pitches, and most are rejected on an angle problem that a two-line pitch would have caught. Pitch first.
Will my links be dofollow? Citations to research, filings, statute and carrier documentation are dofollow. Links to your own commercial entity are rel="sponsored" or rel="nofollow" in every case, including on free editorial contributions. If a placement's value depends on passing authority, this is not the right site.
How long until I hear back? Two weeks on editorial pitches, and we reply to the ones we want. If you have not heard, it was not a fit — please pitch something else rather than following up on the same idea.
Can I write anonymously? Rarely, and only where the piece could not otherwise exist. We will publish under a described role — "an underwriter at a top-20 US carrier" — where we can verify the credential privately. We will not publish unattributed claims from someone we cannot identify at all.
Can I update my article later? Yes. Guidance changes and we would rather a piece stayed accurate. Send the update and we will date the revision on the page.