HiQOR — Strategy Brief

The Next Layer of HiQOR

Turning the infrastructure we are already building into a persistent consumer platform.

Same partners. Same integrations. A much more valuable position for HiQOR.

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01Today

The infrastructure is already real.

This is not a broken model. The ecosystem in place today is real and valuable — a working transaction with clear ownership at every step.
Race / Event Partner
  • Registration
  • AD&D opt-in
HiQOR
  • Integration
  • Data orchestration
EDL
  • Licensed insurance layer
  • Consumer journey
Carriers
  • Insurance products
  • Underwriting

Upstream partners own registration.

EDL owns regulated insurance distribution.

HiQOR connects the ecosystem.

The rails are already in place.

We have already built our place in the transaction.

02The Gap

The journey ends — and HiQOR owns too little.

Two structural gaps sit inside today's model. Both are opportunities, not failures.
GAP 01The consumer journey ends
EDLComplimentary AD&D
Race Registration
AD&D Opt-In
EDL Journey
AD&D Bind
End
EDLTraining (standalone)
Training Offer
EDL Training Experience
Purchase
End
EDLAD&D + Training
Combined Offer
Complete
End

EDL's journeys perform the insurance transaction successfully. But once the action completes, the experience expires. There is no persistent account and no environment to return to.

The transaction completes.
The relationship ends.

GAP 02HiQOR is a data router
Upstream

Owns registration + initial distribution

HiQOR
pass-through

Receives → transforms → routes → posts

EDL

Owns the insurance transaction

HiQOR is important to the transaction, but today we create relatively little persistent proprietary infrastructure around the consumer.

We sit in the middle.
We don't yet own the destination.

The opportunity is to keep everything that works — and add the layer that doesn't exist today.

03The Platform

HiQOR becomes the persistent consumer layer.

The same upstream and downstream ecosystem stays in place. Nobody is replaced. The HiQOR node expands from a routing step into a real application the consumer returns to.
Race / Event Partner
  • Registration
  • AD&D opt-in
HiQORPersistent platform

HiQOR Protection

Persistent identityConsumer accountEvent historyDiscoveryOffers
Embedded EDL Insurance LayerEDL

Insurance presentation, bind & servicing

Insurance Carriers
  • Products
  • Underwriting
UI AHiQOR Protection dashboard
app.hiqorprotection.com
HHiQOR Protection
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Welcome back, Alex

Your active life, protected.

Keep track of your protection, events and benefits in one place.

Protection Overview

Insurance powered by EDL
Race-Day Protection Active

Bubble Run Seattle

Next protected event

Training Protection

Protect training days

Life Protection

Options for your family

Upcoming Events

In your account
Bubble Run eventMay 18

Bubble Run

Seattle, WA

Spartan Sprint eventJun 07

Spartan Sprint

Portland, OR

Muddy Dash eventJul 12

Muddy Dash

Tacoma, WA

Discover Events

Across participating partners
Spartan Beast event

Spartan

Bend, OR

Bubble Run 5K event

Bubble Run

Boise, ID

Muddy Dash event

Muddy Dash

Spokane, WA

Iron Run Trail event

Iron Run

Leavenworth, WA

Resources

Preparing for Race Day
Injury Prevention
Recovery After an Event

Member Offers

Example Marketplace Categories
Training Gear
Recovery
Event Travel
HiQOR Protection — Home. Concept product screen.
A persistent HiQOR destination for protection, events, resources and offers.
UI BYour Protection
app.hiqorprotection.com
HHiQOR Protection
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Your Protection

Everything active on your account, in one place.

Race-Day Protection

Event: Bubble Run Seattle

Active
Coverage activated
Insurance powered by EDL

Training Protection

EDL Insurance ExperiencePowered by EDL

Protect yourself while training between events.

Coverage for the days between race days, presented and serviced by EDL.

Life Protection

EDL Insurance ExperiencePowered by EDL

Explore life insurance options.

Longer-term protection for you and your family.

How this page is composed

HiQOR Experience Layer
Embedded EDL Insurance Component
EDL API / Backend
HiQOR Protection — Your Protection. Concept product screen.
Regulated insurance experiences remain powered by EDL inside the HiQOR environment.

The insurance layer doesn't change. The destination does.

Race registration becomes the acquisition point. HiQOR becomes the persistent relationship.

04Same Ecosystem

Same partners. Same rails. More value.

Adding the persistent layer does not require anyone to give anything up. Each participant keeps what they own — HiQOR adds what does not exist yet.
Upstream

Nothing changes

Same registration experience
Same AD&D opt-in
Same integration
Same commercial model
Same racer portal

HiQOR Protection does not replace the partner's racer portal. The partner keeps registration and its existing event experience; HiQOR is the downstream protection destination.

EDL

Nothing is taken away

Remains the licensed insurance layer
Owns insurance widgets / components
Owns insurance backend + APIs
Owns insurance data capture
Continues carrier connectivity
Clearly identified in the experience

EDL gains persistent consumer continuity without building the entire portal infrastructure itself. Additive, not competitive.

HiQOR

What we add

Persistent identity
Consumer account
Portal
Marketplace
Engagement
Intelligence
Cross-event discovery
Additional monetization

The missing layer — a persistent destination around the relationship the ecosystem already creates.

No partner displacement.

No fundamental integration rewrite.

No change to the insurance model.

We add the missing layer.

UI CDiscover — engagement beyond insurance
app.hiqorprotection.com
HHiQOR Protection
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Discover

Events, resources and offers from across the participating partner network.

Recommended Events

Spartan Beast event
Spartan

Spartan Beast

Bend, OR · Aug 23

Bubble Run 5K event
Bubble Run

Bubble Run 5K

Boise, ID · Sep 06

Muddy Dash event
Muddy Dash

Muddy Dash

Spokane, WA · Sep 20

Iron Run Trail event
Iron Run

Iron Run Trail

Leavenworth, WA · Oct 04

Registration always continues with the event partner. HiQOR introduces the event.

Resources

Preparing for Your Next Event

Training Between Race Days

Recovery

Offers

Affiliate Offers

A fast way to seed the marketplace with relevant products and services.

Partner Marketplace
Conceptual / future

Longer-term direct partner inventory and commercial relationships.

HiQOR Protection — Discover. Concept product screen.
Events, resources and offers spread across the wider HiQOR Protection surface.
05HiQOR IP

This is where HiQOR builds enterprise value.

Insurance products are not HiQOR IP — EDL and carriers own those. HiQOR's proprietary value is the connective infrastructure around the consumer relationship.
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HiQOR Platform

Six proprietary capabilities

01

Consumer Identity

One persistent consumer across events, partners and products.

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Bubble RunSpartanMuddy DashOther Events
02

Consumer Platform

The account and destination the consumer returns to over time.

HiQOR Protection
03

Integration Network

Reusable connectivity across event platforms and insurance infrastructure.

Partner APIs
HiQOR
EDL infra
04

Consumer Intelligence

Participation, engagement and product signals accumulate around the relationship.

Event ParticipationProtection StatusEngagementEvent InterestsOffer Engagement
05

Marketplace

Affiliate offers can seed it quickly; direct partner inventory is the longer-term opportunity.

Event DiscoveryAffiliate OffersDirect Partner OffersFuture Products + Services
06

Insurance Orchestration

A reusable interface into regulated insurance infrastructure — without HiQOR becoming the broker.

HiQOR Experience Layer
EDL Insurance Components
EDL Backend / APIs
Insurance Carriers

Our partners continue to own what they do best.

HiQOR starts owning the connective platform between them.

06 — The Opportunity

The rails become a platform.

One-time transaction
Ongoing relationship

A participant who registers once becomes a member with a persistent home — a reason to return between events, not just on race day.

Pass-through router
Platform of record

The same flows still reach carriers, EDL, and event partners — but they now originate from a surface HiQOR owns end to end.

Invisible plumbing
Consumer brand

The people the ecosystem already serves finally have a name, an account, and an experience they associate with HiQOR.

The through-line

We are not asking the ecosystem to change. We are adding the one layer it never had — a place for the consumer to belong.

Carriers keep underwriting. EDL keeps delivering coverage. Event partners keep running events. HiQOR keeps connecting all of it — and now owns the relationship with the person at the end of every one of those journeys.

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