AIUC, the Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company, is creating the insurance and trust infrastructure for the AI-agent era. Its model is a trifecta: the AIUC-1 safety framework that sets a technical and operational baseline for AI agents, independent audits that test real-world agent performance against that standard, and liability coverage that lets enterprises deploy autonomous AI systems with financial backstops if those systems cause harm. By underwriting AI agents the way insurers underwrite other risks, AIUC aims to give buyers confidence and give AI vendors a credible certification. The company emerged from stealth in July 2025 with a $15M seed round it described as among the largest in insurance history, led by Nat Friedman's NFDG, with Emergence and Terrain participating alongside angels including Anthropic cofounder Ben Mann and former CISOs of Google Cloud and MongoDB.