The ShiftShapers Podcast

EP 538 From Buggy Whips To AI - with Julian Lago, Benepower

Published: November 18, 2025

Duration: 25:27

What if benefits work leaped from horse‑and‑buggy speed to highway pace? We sit down with Julian Lago, co‑founder and CEO of BenePower, to explore how AI is already compressing days of quoting, enrollment, and service into minutes—and what that means for brokers, HR leaders, and members who need clear answers right now.

We dig into the practical side of agentic AI and retrieval‑augmented generation: how specialized models fetch plan rules, accumulators, and pending claims to answer real‑world questions like “what’s left on my deductible?” with accuracy. Julian explains why virtual care is no longer...