About Shorekeeper

Built by engineers who got fed up with how insurance software looks and feels in 2026.

Shorekeeper is a product of Opendoor Software — a South African software team building modern, opinionated platforms for regulated industries. We started Shorekeeper because the existing insurance operations software simply did not match the way UMAs, brokers and clients actually work today.

Our mission

Bring insurance operations into the present.

South African UMAs and brokers deserve software that matches how their clients actually live — on WhatsApp, on mobile, with instant answers. Legacy systems were built in a different era, for a different kind of customer. We're building what comes next.

Every feature we ship is tested against real claims, real policies, and real compliance obligations. No vanity features. No vapourware. No "enterprise-only" paywalls on the things that matter.

By the numbers
FOUNDED
2024
BASED
Dana Bay, Western Cape
BUILT BY
Opendoor Software
BUILT FOR
South Africa

"The industry had been running on software that looked — and worked — like it was built in 2006. That wasn't good enough anymore."

— Opendoor Software · founding team
How we build

Four principles.
Non-negotiable.

i.

Clarity over cleverness

Our UI exposes real insurance concepts. No jargon, no euphemisms, no "magic" that leaves a handler guessing.

ii.

Compliance is a feature

FSCA, FAIS and POPIA obligations are first-class in Shorekeeper — not checklists bolted on at the end.

iii.

AI with guardrails

EVE is powerful, but ownership and final decisions stay with humans. Always. Authority limits are enforced at the system level.

iv.

Fair on pricing

We don't take a percentage of your premium. Ever. A subscription plus utilization — so growth pays you, not us.

The builders

Opendoor Software.

Opendoor Software is a South African software company building modern, opinionated platforms for regulated industries — insurance first, healthcare and financial services next. We're a small team that believes software for grown-up industries can still be beautiful, humane, and a pleasure to use.

We hold ourselves to a simple test: if our own mothers could use our software to do complex work, we shipped it right. If not, we keep going.

What Opendoor builds
Shorekeeper
INSURANCE OPERATIONS · LIVE

The modern operating system for claims, policy and compliance.

DataBridge
LEGACY-TO-MODERN · IN-HOUSE

Our bridge engine that safely migrates legacy insurance data into Shorekeeper.

More, in time
HEALTHCARE · FINANCE · NEXT
Compliance & trust

Built to pass an audit on day one.

i.

FSCA aligned

Every binder, broker and claim workflow in Shorekeeper is designed to line up with FSCA requirements and FAIS principles.

ii.

POPIA ready

Consent, retention, data-subject access and data-minimisation — built in at the data model level, not bolted on.

iii.

Secure by default

Row-level security on every table. Encrypted at rest and in transit. Every action signed to a user and a timestamp.

Let's talk

Curious? Sceptical? Ready?

Whether you want a full demo or just a coffee-length conversation about what's wrong with insurance software in 2026 — we'd love to hear from you.

Get in touch