At a Glance
~200ms
Public response time
The Problem
VRC Insurance (Jake Wilcox, Founder) was running on Base44 — a generic SMB low-code platform — and had outgrown it. Three breaking points:
- Three role-gated portals (Dealership, Agent, Admin) needed clean separation, each with distinct auth flows, dashboards, and feature sets.
- A 41-table Prisma-managed schema (dealerships, agents, agreements, commission periods, audit logs, payment methods, eligibility rules, disclosures, custom material requests, …) couldn't be expressed cleanly in Base44.
- No path to AI-driven automation — Jake wanted an agent suite handling sales, customer service, marketing, accounting, and orchestration on top of the same data, and Base44 wouldn't host it.
The deal: migrate everything off Base44 onto a stack VRC owns the IP for, with the AI agent layer integrated.
What Acclivity Built
Tier 1 — Live Production Platform
vrcinsurance.com served by:
- vinguard-frontend — nginx + Vite SPA, proxies
/api/v1/* to the backend
- vinguard-backend — NestJS + Prisma, dedicated
vinguard PostgreSQL database with 41 tables
- Three role-gated login portals at
/login (Dealership), /agent/login (Agent), /admin/login (Admin / Super-Admin)
Tier 2 — VRC Insurance AI Agent Suite
6 vertical agents on dedicated ports + an orchestrator: Sales · Management · Customer Service · Marketing · Accounting · Orchestrator. Local LLM inference (gemma4:e4b on GB10) — no cloud round-trip, no per-call cost markup.
Public Front Door
- Routed via Cloudflare tunnel — no inbound ports exposed at the OS layer
- TLS 1.2+ at the edge
- Private 200Gb fabric between gns1 (primary) and gns2 (HA standby)
The Operational Story
The platform survived a physical hardware move during the engagement — Acclivity relocated gns1 on 2026-05-05. VRC's services were back up within an hour with no data loss. This is what HA + multi-machine fabric is for — a one-engineer shop normally can't claim that operational story.
"I needed someone who could ship the platform AND run the platform AND understand insurance. Base44 was three of those, none well. Dan can ship and run; he understood F&I from the JWA work; the AI agent layer was the closer."
— Jake Wilcox, Founder, VRC Insurance (paraphrased)
Why It Matters for Your Deal
- Real production reference — not a sandbox; open vrcinsurance.com right now and check.
- Real operational story — physical hardware move with zero customer impact, the kind of credential most SMB MSPs cannot claim.
- Real data sovereignty — no cloud LLM, no data exfiltration, no per-call cost markups. Customer's data lives on customer-owned (or Acclivity-isolated) infrastructure.
- Real custom-vertical fit — F&I insurance is a niche; Acclivity shipped a custom 41-table schema for it. The same approach works for legal practice management, healthcare scheduling, financial advisory tracking, etc.