Meet Employee Navigator — your benefits HQ, now powered by AI.
Employee Navigator acquired the Ease platform in 2023. In 2026, Waugh Agency is moving every client onto the modern Employee Navigator portal — more connected, more automated, and still free to you.
Massachusetts & the Northeast — serving employers in all 50 states.
One move, one upgrade: Ease → Employee Navigator
In 2023, Employee Navigator acquired Ease and began folding its best features into a single, more powerful platform. Employee Navigator is now sunsetting Ease, and Waugh Agency is proactively transitioning all of our client groups to the Employee Navigator portal throughout 2026 — handling the migration for you so nothing falls through the cracks.
Everything Ease did well — plus the things it couldn't
Ease pioneered simple benefits enrollment for small businesses. Employee Navigator takes that foundation and adds a far larger integration marketplace, API-driven carrier connections, a built-in forms library, and native artificial intelligence.
More connections, fewer errors
Enter data once and Employee Navigator keeps your carriers, payroll, and benefit-account vendors in sync — cutting the billing mismatches and re-keying that eat up HR time.
Compliance on autopilot
ACA tracking and 1095 reporting, COBRA, new-hire onboarding, and a digital forms library are built in — so your obligations are handled where your benefits already live.
One home for employees
Your team gets a single, modern portal to enroll, add dependents, and find their plan details — on any device, any time of year.
Artificial intelligence that does the heavy lifting
In 2025, Employee Navigator added AI-powered plan building that reads carrier quotes and benefit documents and sets up plans automatically — work that used to take hours of manual entry. For you, that means faster setup, fewer mistakes, and more time for your people.
- AI reads your carrier documents and configures plans in minutes
- Cleaner data flowing to carriers and payroll, with fewer eligibility errors
- Ongoing AI investment in analytics and real-time compliance checks
- Especially powerful for startups standing up benefits for the first time
With Employee Navigator's AI plan builder, standing up a company's full benefit set drops from a half-day of manual work to minutes — so your coverage is ready when you are.
We cover the subscription — Employee Navigator is free to our clients
Waugh Agency absorbs the platform fee for eligible client groups. You get enterprise-grade benefits technology and AI, with no software line item on your budget.
On the forefront of benefits technology for over a decade
Waugh Agency has championed modern benefits administration since long before it was the norm. In 2013, the Massachusetts Health Connector featured us in its Progress Report as one of the brokers helping roll out its benefits technology — and we've stayed ahead of the curve ever since.
We're platform-agnostic. We support every major benefits-admin and HR system our clients use — and we recommend the one that fits each group best. After hands-on experience across the market, we believe Employee Navigator is the leading platform in the space, and we're proud to offer it at no cost.
Ready to move to Employee Navigator?
Whether you're transitioning from Ease, launching benefits for a new startup, or rethinking your whole program — Waugh Agency will handle it, end to end.
Andover, Massachusetts · Serving MA, CT, NH, ME, NY, FL & all 50 states
Employee Navigator and Ease are trademarks of their respective owners. Waugh Agency, LLC is an independent insurance agency and is not affiliated with Employee Navigator or Ease. Platform availability and features are subject to carrier and vendor participation and may change. This page is general information, not legal, tax, or insurance advice.