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“For some time, we had been looking for a better way to connect and utilize all of our rich property and risk data.”
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"Archipelago has transformed our ability to source and share quality data with our insurers for our Property Insurance Program."
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"Archipelago gave us the ability to streamline our renewals and deliver a new way to tell our portfolio story—virtually and securely."
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"Advisen orchestrated a virtual exploration of the hardening commercial property insurance market and the related impact on buyers, brokers, and insurers.... here are my takeaways and thoughts..."
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"By harnessing this data you can take control of your risk management, be proactive with your insurance partners and drive results that are reflective of your individual, ever-changing risk profile."
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"It’s understandable that many underwriters and their teams are skeptical of the information. It’s ironic: an industry built on trust lacks trust in the very data that defines what it does."
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"...the availability of digital twins for properties, and their risk characteristics, opens up new possibilities for insurance to help with the risk management of properties. Connected data and real-time analytics can improve..."
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"Later in my career,I became a broker and ultimately, led the Real Estate and Hospitality practice for Willis Towers Watson. In this capacity, I saw CAT modeling transform commercial property insurance. As the models matured and advanced, reliance and acceptance grew significantly over the years. With hundreds of billions of dollars at risk, much time, effort and research was poured into multivariate algorithms."
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"In our experience, accurate and plentiful data can be a great differentiator in this marketplace, separating quality customers from the rest of the market. Archipelago is a step ahead in the evolution of data and property insurance."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"Today we launched Archipelago after 20 months in stealth. Archipelago uses AI to digitize risk for large owners of commercial property to increase their resiliency and lower their total cost of risk, including by improving their insurance outcomes. Our journey thus far…"
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"Does this sound familiar - an enormous undertaking annually to collect property information from disparate reports and asset managers dodging your emails? Being limited to the cells on a spreadsheet for the information used by underwriters to price your risk? Meanwhile vast amounts of new data is available for risk managers..."
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"...it's now imperative for risk managers and underwriters to accelerate adoption of the digital age, including for the insurance renewal process. And, business interruptions like COVID-19 have further underscored the need for an efficient and comprehensive technology to support critical risk management functions."
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"As Risk Managers, now more than ever it’s crucial we take proactive steps to prepare for our next renewal. How are you planning to differentiate your portfolio to your markets?"
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"This is just the beginning of the new possibilities. Next steps for us include expanding utilization of the platform to our Asset Management business, and we believe there will be material cost savings in the future by us doing so."
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"When I had my first insurance renewal at a self storage company, I thought it would be pretty straightforward to insure some property and employees - I was wrong. As it turned out, most insurance carriers knew little about insuring the..."
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"The commercial real estate sector holds over $25 trillion in assets and the global insurance industry writes $1 trillion in annual commercial insurance premiums – and yet, where these two massive industries interact much of the work is manual."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"But, as CUO, I developed a healthy appreciation for the real-world challenges that underwriters face. Underwriters, particularly those in large account commercial lines, are in a difficult position. It’s where the ideology of The Data meets the reality of The Business."
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"Property owners and operators are moving quickly to embrace digital, data-driven decision making. We believe Archipelago will serve as the platform of choice for risk mitigation and stakeholder alignment among the world's most sophisticated owners."
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"Perhaps the most lasting impact of the current capacity 'crunch' will be the changes in the way of working... a step-change in the capture and use of data, and the embracing of modern ways of working - digital and increasingly remote."
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"Data is the lifeblood for the insurance industry, yet gathering, curating and publishing that data is a hard problem. We’re all familiar with folders full of Excel spreadsheets, PDF files, images and so on. Before the data is useful, it needs to be transformed. We set out to build a platform to do just that!"
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"This requires an appreciation for the entire value-chain, with a healthy respect for why and how work currently gets done; not naively, as in 'I have an algorithm...' but how technology and data can slip comfortably into how the market currently works, and then drive change from the inside out."
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"While [vulnerability curves] can work well in an aggregate analysis involving a diversity of property types and vulnerability classes, there are some cases where the default use of generalized vulnerability curves do not adequately address the performance of a particular construction style."
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"One large deal today can involve 500 individuals across 100 organizations over 3 months, bogged down in preventable and duplicative data processing activity. And the process repeats every quarter as portfolio updates are disseminated through the chain."
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"Now more than ever, it's time to modernize and simplify these dynamics... to create a platform that will make it simpler, clearer and more compelling to convey the critical information needed by underwriters..."
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"AI is part of the solution to this semantic mess, but as I’ve learned through the course of investing in multiple analytics, AI and fin/insurtech start-ups, tech alone isn’t sufficient to change a business ecosystem..."
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$365B+
Unique TIV of Property Value on Platform
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2,000+
Active Platform Sessions Across Brokers and Underwriters
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35,000+
Documents & Images Ingested and Transformed on Platform
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500+
Brokers and Underwriters Registered and Using the Platform
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105
Insurance Markets Experiencing Submission(s) on Archipelago
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40
Active Insights per Average Underwriter Session on Platform
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$365B+
Unique TIV of Property Value on Platform
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2,000+
Active Platform Sessions Across Brokers and Underwriters
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35,000+
Documents & Images Ingested and Transformed on Platform
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500+
Brokers and Underwriters Registered and Using the Platform
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105
Insurance Markets Experiencing Submission(s) on Archipelago
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40
Active Insights per Average Underwriter Session on Platform
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“For some time, we had been looking for a better way to connect and utilize all of our rich property and risk data.”
This is some text inside of a div block.
"Archipelago has transformed our ability to source and share quality data with our insurers for our Property Insurance Program."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"Archipelago gave us the ability to streamline our renewals and deliver a new way to tell our portfolio story—virtually and securely."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"Advisen orchestrated a virtual exploration of the hardening commercial property insurance market and the related impact on buyers, brokers, and insurers.... here are my takeaways and thoughts..."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"By harnessing this data you can take control of your risk management, be proactive with your insurance partners and drive results that are reflective of your individual, ever-changing risk profile."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"It’s understandable that many underwriters and their teams are skeptical of the information. It’s ironic: an industry built on trust lacks trust in the very data that defines what it does."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"...the availability of digital twins for properties, and their risk characteristics, opens up new possibilities for insurance to help with the risk management of properties. Connected data and real-time analytics can improve..."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"Later in my career,I became a broker and ultimately, led the Real Estate and Hospitality practice for Willis Towers Watson. In this capacity, I saw CAT modeling transform commercial property insurance. As the models matured and advanced, reliance and acceptance grew significantly over the years. With hundreds of billions of dollars at risk, much time, effort and research was poured into multivariate algorithms."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"In our experience, accurate and plentiful data can be a great differentiator in this marketplace, separating quality customers from the rest of the market. Archipelago is a step ahead in the evolution of data and property insurance."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"Today we launched Archipelago after 20 months in stealth. Archipelago uses AI to digitize risk for large owners of commercial property to increase their resiliency and lower their total cost of risk, including by improving their insurance outcomes. Our journey thus far…"
This is some text inside of a div block.
"Does this sound familiar - an enormous undertaking annually to collect property information from disparate reports and asset managers dodging your emails? Being limited to the cells on a spreadsheet for the information used by underwriters to price your risk? Meanwhile vast amounts of new data is available for risk managers..."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"...it's now imperative for risk managers and underwriters to accelerate adoption of the digital age, including for the insurance renewal process. And, business interruptions like COVID-19 have further underscored the need for an efficient and comprehensive technology to support critical risk management functions."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"As Risk Managers, now more than ever it’s crucial we take proactive steps to prepare for our next renewal. How are you planning to differentiate your portfolio to your markets?"
This is some text inside of a div block.
"This is just the beginning of the new possibilities. Next steps for us include expanding utilization of the platform to our Asset Management business, and we believe there will be material cost savings in the future by us doing so."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"When I had my first insurance renewal at a self storage company, I thought it would be pretty straightforward to insure some property and employees - I was wrong. As it turned out, most insurance carriers knew little about insuring the..."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"The commercial real estate sector holds over $25 trillion in assets and the global insurance industry writes $1 trillion in annual commercial insurance premiums – and yet, where these two massive industries interact much of the work is manual."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"But, as CUO, I developed a healthy appreciation for the real-world challenges that underwriters face. Underwriters, particularly those in large account commercial lines, are in a difficult position. It’s where the ideology of The Data meets the reality of The Business."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"Property owners and operators are moving quickly to embrace digital, data-driven decision making. We believe Archipelago will serve as the platform of choice for risk mitigation and stakeholder alignment among the world's most sophisticated owners."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"Perhaps the most lasting impact of the current capacity 'crunch' will be the changes in the way of working... a step-change in the capture and use of data, and the embracing of modern ways of working - digital and increasingly remote."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"Data is the lifeblood for the insurance industry, yet gathering, curating and publishing that data is a hard problem. We’re all familiar with folders full of Excel spreadsheets, PDF files, images and so on. Before the data is useful, it needs to be transformed. We set out to build a platform to do just that!"
This is some text inside of a div block.
"This requires an appreciation for the entire value-chain, with a healthy respect for why and how work currently gets done; not naively, as in 'I have an algorithm...' but how technology and data can slip comfortably into how the market currently works, and then drive change from the inside out."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"While [vulnerability curves] can work well in an aggregate analysis involving a diversity of property types and vulnerability classes, there are some cases where the default use of generalized vulnerability curves do not adequately address the performance of a particular construction style."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"One large deal today can involve 500 individuals across 100 organizations over 3 months, bogged down in preventable and duplicative data processing activity. And the process repeats every quarter as portfolio updates are disseminated through the chain."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"Now more than ever, it's time to modernize and simplify these dynamics... to create a platform that will make it simpler, clearer and more compelling to convey the critical information needed by underwriters..."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"AI is part of the solution to this semantic mess, but as I’ve learned through the course of investing in multiple analytics, AI and fin/insurtech start-ups, tech alone isn’t sufficient to change a business ecosystem..."
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$365B+
Unique TIV of Property Value on Platform
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2,000+
Active Platform Sessions Across Brokers and Underwriters
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35,000+
Documents & Images Ingested and Transformed on Platform
This is some text inside of a div block.
500+
Brokers and Underwriters Registered and Using the Platform
This is some text inside of a div block.
105
Insurance Markets Experiencing Submission(s) on Archipelago
This is some text inside of a div block.
40
Active Insights per Average Underwriter Session on Platform
This is some text inside of a div block.
“For some time, we had been looking for a better way to connect and utilize all of our rich property and risk data.”
This is some text inside of a div block.
"Archipelago has transformed our ability to source and share quality data with our insurers for our Property Insurance Program."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"Archipelago gave us the ability to streamline our renewals and deliver a new way to tell our portfolio story—virtually and securely."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"Advisen orchestrated a virtual exploration of the hardening commercial property insurance market and the related impact on buyers, brokers, and insurers.... here are my takeaways and thoughts..."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"By harnessing this data you can take control of your risk management, be proactive with your insurance partners and drive results that are reflective of your individual, ever-changing risk profile."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"It’s understandable that many underwriters and their teams are skeptical of the information. It’s ironic: an industry built on trust lacks trust in the very data that defines what it does."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"...the availability of digital twins for properties, and their risk characteristics, opens up new possibilities for insurance to help with the risk management of properties. Connected data and real-time analytics can improve..."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"Later in my career,I became a broker and ultimately, led the Real Estate and Hospitality practice for Willis Towers Watson. In this capacity, I saw CAT modeling transform commercial property insurance. As the models matured and advanced, reliance and acceptance grew significantly over the years. With hundreds of billions of dollars at risk, much time, effort and research was poured into multivariate algorithms."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"In our experience, accurate and plentiful data can be a great differentiator in this marketplace, separating quality customers from the rest of the market. Archipelago is a step ahead in the evolution of data and property insurance."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"Today we launched Archipelago after 20 months in stealth. Archipelago uses AI to digitize risk for large owners of commercial property to increase their resiliency and lower their total cost of risk, including by improving their insurance outcomes. Our journey thus far…"
This is some text inside of a div block.
"Does this sound familiar - an enormous undertaking annually to collect property information from disparate reports and asset managers dodging your emails? Being limited to the cells on a spreadsheet for the information used by underwriters to price your risk? Meanwhile vast amounts of new data is available for risk managers..."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"...it's now imperative for risk managers and underwriters to accelerate adoption of the digital age, including for the insurance renewal process. And, business interruptions like COVID-19 have further underscored the need for an efficient and comprehensive technology to support critical risk management functions."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"As Risk Managers, now more than ever it’s crucial we take proactive steps to prepare for our next renewal. How are you planning to differentiate your portfolio to your markets?"
This is some text inside of a div block.
"This is just the beginning of the new possibilities. Next steps for us include expanding utilization of the platform to our Asset Management business, and we believe there will be material cost savings in the future by us doing so."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"When I had my first insurance renewal at a self storage company, I thought it would be pretty straightforward to insure some property and employees - I was wrong. As it turned out, most insurance carriers knew little about insuring the..."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"The commercial real estate sector holds over $25 trillion in assets and the global insurance industry writes $1 trillion in annual commercial insurance premiums – and yet, where these two massive industries interact much of the work is manual."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"But, as CUO, I developed a healthy appreciation for the real-world challenges that underwriters face. Underwriters, particularly those in large account commercial lines, are in a difficult position. It’s where the ideology of The Data meets the reality of The Business."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"Property owners and operators are moving quickly to embrace digital, data-driven decision making. We believe Archipelago will serve as the platform of choice for risk mitigation and stakeholder alignment among the world's most sophisticated owners."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"Perhaps the most lasting impact of the current capacity 'crunch' will be the changes in the way of working... a step-change in the capture and use of data, and the embracing of modern ways of working - digital and increasingly remote."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"Data is the lifeblood for the insurance industry, yet gathering, curating and publishing that data is a hard problem. We’re all familiar with folders full of Excel spreadsheets, PDF files, images and so on. Before the data is useful, it needs to be transformed. We set out to build a platform to do just that!"
This is some text inside of a div block.
"This requires an appreciation for the entire value-chain, with a healthy respect for why and how work currently gets done; not naively, as in 'I have an algorithm...' but how technology and data can slip comfortably into how the market currently works, and then drive change from the inside out."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"While [vulnerability curves] can work well in an aggregate analysis involving a diversity of property types and vulnerability classes, there are some cases where the default use of generalized vulnerability curves do not adequately address the performance of a particular construction style."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"One large deal today can involve 500 individuals across 100 organizations over 3 months, bogged down in preventable and duplicative data processing activity. And the process repeats every quarter as portfolio updates are disseminated through the chain."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"Now more than ever, it's time to modernize and simplify these dynamics... to create a platform that will make it simpler, clearer and more compelling to convey the critical information needed by underwriters..."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"AI is part of the solution to this semantic mess, but as I’ve learned through the course of investing in multiple analytics, AI and fin/insurtech start-ups, tech alone isn’t sufficient to change a business ecosystem..."
This is some text inside of a div block.
$365B+
Unique TIV of Property Value on Platform
This is some text inside of a div block.
2,000+
Active Platform Sessions Across Brokers and Underwriters
This is some text inside of a div block.
35,000+
Documents & Images Ingested and Transformed on Platform
This is some text inside of a div block.
500+
Brokers and Underwriters Registered and Using the Platform
This is some text inside of a div block.
105
Insurance Markets Experiencing Submission(s) on Archipelago
This is some text inside of a div block.
40
Active Insights per Average Underwriter Session on Platform
This is some text inside of a div block.
“For some time, we had been looking for a better way to connect and utilize all of our rich property and risk data.”
This is some text inside of a div block.
"Archipelago has transformed our ability to source and share quality data with our insurers for our Property Insurance Program."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"Archipelago gave us the ability to streamline our renewals and deliver a new way to tell our portfolio story—virtually and securely."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"Advisen orchestrated a virtual exploration of the hardening commercial property insurance market and the related impact on buyers, brokers, and insurers.... here are my takeaways and thoughts..."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"By harnessing this data you can take control of your risk management, be proactive with your insurance partners and drive results that are reflective of your individual, ever-changing risk profile."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"It’s understandable that many underwriters and their teams are skeptical of the information. It’s ironic: an industry built on trust lacks trust in the very data that defines what it does."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"...the availability of digital twins for properties, and their risk characteristics, opens up new possibilities for insurance to help with the risk management of properties. Connected data and real-time analytics can improve..."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"Later in my career,I became a broker and ultimately, led the Real Estate and Hospitality practice for Willis Towers Watson. In this capacity, I saw CAT modeling transform commercial property insurance. As the models matured and advanced, reliance and acceptance grew significantly over the years. With hundreds of billions of dollars at risk, much time, effort and research was poured into multivariate algorithms."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"In our experience, accurate and plentiful data can be a great differentiator in this marketplace, separating quality customers from the rest of the market. Archipelago is a step ahead in the evolution of data and property insurance."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"Today we launched Archipelago after 20 months in stealth. Archipelago uses AI to digitize risk for large owners of commercial property to increase their resiliency and lower their total cost of risk, including by improving their insurance outcomes. Our journey thus far…"
This is some text inside of a div block.
"Does this sound familiar - an enormous undertaking annually to collect property information from disparate reports and asset managers dodging your emails? Being limited to the cells on a spreadsheet for the information used by underwriters to price your risk? Meanwhile vast amounts of new data is available for risk managers..."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"...it's now imperative for risk managers and underwriters to accelerate adoption of the digital age, including for the insurance renewal process. And, business interruptions like COVID-19 have further underscored the need for an efficient and comprehensive technology to support critical risk management functions."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"As Risk Managers, now more than ever it’s crucial we take proactive steps to prepare for our next renewal. How are you planning to differentiate your portfolio to your markets?"
This is some text inside of a div block.
"This is just the beginning of the new possibilities. Next steps for us include expanding utilization of the platform to our Asset Management business, and we believe there will be material cost savings in the future by us doing so."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"When I had my first insurance renewal at a self storage company, I thought it would be pretty straightforward to insure some property and employees - I was wrong. As it turned out, most insurance carriers knew little about insuring the..."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"The commercial real estate sector holds over $25 trillion in assets and the global insurance industry writes $1 trillion in annual commercial insurance premiums – and yet, where these two massive industries interact much of the work is manual."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"But, as CUO, I developed a healthy appreciation for the real-world challenges that underwriters face. Underwriters, particularly those in large account commercial lines, are in a difficult position. It’s where the ideology of The Data meets the reality of The Business."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"Property owners and operators are moving quickly to embrace digital, data-driven decision making. We believe Archipelago will serve as the platform of choice for risk mitigation and stakeholder alignment among the world's most sophisticated owners."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"Perhaps the most lasting impact of the current capacity 'crunch' will be the changes in the way of working... a step-change in the capture and use of data, and the embracing of modern ways of working - digital and increasingly remote."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"Data is the lifeblood for the insurance industry, yet gathering, curating and publishing that data is a hard problem. We’re all familiar with folders full of Excel spreadsheets, PDF files, images and so on. Before the data is useful, it needs to be transformed. We set out to build a platform to do just that!"
This is some text inside of a div block.
"This requires an appreciation for the entire value-chain, with a healthy respect for why and how work currently gets done; not naively, as in 'I have an algorithm...' but how technology and data can slip comfortably into how the market currently works, and then drive change from the inside out."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"While [vulnerability curves] can work well in an aggregate analysis involving a diversity of property types and vulnerability classes, there are some cases where the default use of generalized vulnerability curves do not adequately address the performance of a particular construction style."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"One large deal today can involve 500 individuals across 100 organizations over 3 months, bogged down in preventable and duplicative data processing activity. And the process repeats every quarter as portfolio updates are disseminated through the chain."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"Now more than ever, it's time to modernize and simplify these dynamics... to create a platform that will make it simpler, clearer and more compelling to convey the critical information needed by underwriters..."
This is some text inside of a div block.
"AI is part of the solution to this semantic mess, but as I’ve learned through the course of investing in multiple analytics, AI and fin/insurtech start-ups, tech alone isn’t sufficient to change a business ecosystem..."
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From RMS to Archipelago: Shah's Second Time Around
As a CEO of a major insurance market shared with me the other day, 'Your timing is spot on.
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Exploring The 99% Invisible City
In this episode, we explain how anchor plates help hold up brick walls; why metal fire escapes are mostly found on older buildings; what impact camouflaging defensive designs has on public spaces; who benefits from those spray-painted markings on city streets, and more.
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Buildings Can Be Designed to Withstand Earthquakes. Why Doesn’t the U.S. Build More of Them?
At stake is whether places like Silicon Valley, Seattle, Salt Lake City, San Francisco or Los Angeles might be forced to shut down after a direct hit.
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Signs That Define a Building, and Sometimes a City
Building signs have grown into a $37.5 billion industry. Some have become so iconic they are permanent parts of the landscape, often standing in for their hometowns.
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Shah’s Archipelago Analytics Structuring $500bn of Property Data for Mega-insureds
Brokers at Marsh, Aon and Epic have all been using the platform, which has been deployed on around eight renewals so far in 2020.
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The Economics of Skyscraper Height (Part I)
The economics of skyscraper height. Contrary to popular belief, most skyscrapers have a strong economic rationale.
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Nobody Knows What Lies Beneath New York City
Subterranean cartographers are bringing to light the dark, tangled truths buried under the streets.
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As Concerns Over Climate Change Rise, More Developers Turn to Wood
With environmental benefits and lower labor costs, mass timber has grown into a market that could rival steel and concrete in the construction industry.
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