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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.”
"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."
12 Questions with Greg Hendrick, Chief Executive Officer at Vantage Group
In this Q&A, Greg Hendrick discusses catastrophe insurance, the iPad, and how the "Vantage vision" brings people together.
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Soften the Impact of a Hard Market: Underwriters Reveal Their Thoughts on Data Quality
We asked underwriters and executives at major insurance companies throughout North America to share their thoughts on the impact of data quality.
This infographic summarizes the biggest insights.
12 Questions with Alexandra Glickman, Senior Managing Director and Global Practice Leader in Real Estate & Hospitality at Gallagher
In this Q&A, we chat with Alexandra about commercial insurance as an "apprentice business," being an early riser, and the return of optimism.
CNA Taps Archipelago for Increased Data Analytics
To drive profitability and provide stability, the insurance industry must continue to digitize and maximize data and analytics, helping to quantify and better understand emerging risks.
12 Questions with Ibbi Almufti, Associate Principal at Arup’s Advanced Technology & Research Group
In this Q&A, we chat with Ibbi about climate-related risk, resilience, and design.
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12 Questions with Megan Miller, Executive Director of the Spencer Educational Foundation
In this Q&A, Megan Miller discusses the importance of leadership and supporting talent coming into the insurance industry.
Best-in-Class Risk Managers are Multilingual
After working shoulder to shoulder with risk managers for more than twenty-five years, I both have tremendous respect for the importance of their Swiss Army Knife-like roles and find them to be often unsung, often misunderstood and underappreciated.
12 Questions with Frank Nutter, President of the Reinsurance Association of America (RAA)
In this Q&A, Frank shares his thoughts on underwriting, climate risk, and remote work.
2021: A Year of Digital Convergence for Large Commercial Risks
"Over 25 years leading RMS, and now even more so with my new colleagues at Archipelago, I’ve developed an affinity for the built environment: the hazards and risks of these assets, the imperatives for resiliency...."
2020’s Most Viewed Articles
We thought it'd be fun to revisit the posts that you, our readers have found the most intriguing. Here are the five most popular posts of 2020.
2020 Trends Set to Shape 2021
Here are six topics that are top of mind for the team at Archipelago as we head into 2021.
Data Security is Paramount to Good Data Stewardship: How We Protect Data at Archipelago
"As an enterprise software company entrusted with storing and managing customer data, we consider data security of utmost importance. To help you formulate your data security practices, I'll share what we do at Archipelago to keep our data secure..."
It’s Time for Transparency
"Insurance is a data-driven industry, and it’s time we deliver data-driven transparency on what the relationships are between inputs, and outputs."
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Top Takeaways from Advisen’s 2020 Property Insights Conference
"Advisen orchestrated a virtual exploration of the hardening commercial property insurance market and the related impact on buyers, brokers, and insurers..."
Use Your Data to Get Proactive
"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."
In Trust We Data
"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."
Blue Ocean Opportunities
"...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..."
It’s Now Time for our Data to Catch-up
"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..."
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Standing out in the Hardening Market
"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."
Using Data to Unlock a Resiliency Dividend
"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…"
My Business is Digitizing, Why Not My Risk Management Too?
"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..."
Differentiating Your Portfolio in a Hard Market
"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?"
Using Data to Drive Value to Our Stakeholders
"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."
Using Data to Differentiate Our Assets
"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..."
Two Huge Markets to Benefit from a Digital Transformation
"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."
If It Were Easy...
"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."
No Risk Is an Island
"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."
Things Go Slowly, Then They Go Quickly
"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."
Building a Shared System of Trust
"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!"
Transformation in the Large Commercial Insurance Sector Needs an Inside-Out Approach
"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."
Know Your ‘Basis Risk’ in the Modeled Vulnerabilities of Your Customers' Exposures
"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."
We Know We Have to Change, So Why Is It So Hard?
"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."
The Possibilities Are Just Extraordinary
"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..."
Using Applied ML to Solve Foundational Problems in the Insurance Industry
"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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$1.2 Trillion+
Unique TIV of Property Value on Platform
2,000+
Active Platform Sessions Across Brokers and Underwriters
35,000+
Documents & Images Ingested and Transformed on Platform
800+
Brokers and Underwriters Registered and Using the Platform
105
Insurance Markets Experiencing Submission(s) on Archipelago
40
Active Insights per Average Underwriter Session on Platform
$1.2 Trillion+
Unique TIV of Property Value on Platform
2,000+
Active Platform Sessions Across Brokers and Underwriters
35,000+
Documents & Images Ingested and Transformed on Platform
800+
Brokers and Underwriters Registered and Using the Platform
105
Insurance Markets Experiencing Submission(s) on Archipelago
40
Active Insights per Average Underwriter Session on Platform
“For some time, we had been looking for a better way to connect and utilize all of our rich property and risk data.”
"Archipelago has transformed our ability to source and share quality data with our insurers for our Property Insurance Program."
"Archipelago gave us the ability to streamline our renewals and deliver a new way to tell our portfolio story—virtually and securely."
12 Questions with Greg Hendrick, Chief Executive Officer at Vantage Group
In this Q&A, Greg Hendrick discusses catastrophe insurance, the iPad, and how the "Vantage vision" brings people together.
Soften the Impact of a Hard Market: Underwriters Reveal Their Thoughts on Data Quality
We asked underwriters and executives at major insurance companies throughout North America to share their thoughts on the impact of data quality.
This infographic summarizes the biggest insights.
12 Questions with Alexandra Glickman, Senior Managing Director and Global Practice Leader in Real Estate & Hospitality at Gallagher
In this Q&A, we chat with Alexandra about commercial insurance as an "apprentice business," being an early riser, and the return of optimism.
CNA Taps Archipelago for Increased Data Analytics
To drive profitability and provide stability, the insurance industry must continue to digitize and maximize data and analytics, helping to quantify and better understand emerging risks.
12 Questions with Ibbi Almufti, Associate Principal at Arup’s Advanced Technology & Research Group
In this Q&A, we chat with Ibbi about climate-related risk, resilience, and design.
12 Questions with Megan Miller, Executive Director of the Spencer Educational Foundation
In this Q&A, Megan Miller discusses the importance of leadership and supporting talent coming into the insurance industry.
Best-in-Class Risk Managers are Multilingual
After working shoulder to shoulder with risk managers for more than twenty-five years, I both have tremendous respect for the importance of their Swiss Army Knife-like roles and find them to be often unsung, often misunderstood and underappreciated.
12 Questions with Frank Nutter, President of the Reinsurance Association of America (RAA)
In this Q&A, Frank shares his thoughts on underwriting, climate risk, and remote work.
2021: A Year of Digital Convergence for Large Commercial Risks
"Over 25 years leading RMS, and now even more so with my new colleagues at Archipelago, I’ve developed an affinity for the built environment: the hazards and risks of these assets, the imperatives for resiliency...."
2020’s Most Viewed Articles
We thought it'd be fun to revisit the posts that you, our readers have found the most intriguing. Here are the five most popular posts of 2020.
2020 Trends Set to Shape 2021
Here are six topics that are top of mind for the team at Archipelago as we head into 2021.
Data Security is Paramount to Good Data Stewardship: How We Protect Data at Archipelago
"As an enterprise software company entrusted with storing and managing customer data, we consider data security of utmost importance. To help you formulate your data security practices, I'll share what we do at Archipelago to keep our data secure..."
It’s Time for Transparency
"Insurance is a data-driven industry, and it’s time we deliver data-driven transparency on what the relationships are between inputs, and outputs."
Top Takeaways from Advisen’s 2020 Property Insights Conference
"Advisen orchestrated a virtual exploration of the hardening commercial property insurance market and the related impact on buyers, brokers, and insurers..."
Use Your Data to Get Proactive
"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."
In Trust We Data
"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."
Blue Ocean Opportunities
"...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..."
It’s Now Time for our Data to Catch-up
"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..."
Standing out in the Hardening Market
"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."
Using Data to Unlock a Resiliency Dividend
"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…"
My Business is Digitizing, Why Not My Risk Management Too?
"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..."
Differentiating Your Portfolio in a Hard Market
"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?"
Using Data to Drive Value to Our Stakeholders
"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."
Using Data to Differentiate Our Assets
"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..."
Two Huge Markets to Benefit from a Digital Transformation
"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."
If It Were Easy...
"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."
No Risk Is an Island
"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."
Things Go Slowly, Then They Go Quickly
"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."
Building a Shared System of Trust
"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!"
Transformation in the Large Commercial Insurance Sector Needs an Inside-Out Approach
"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."
Know Your ‘Basis Risk’ in the Modeled Vulnerabilities of Your Customers' Exposures
"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."
We Know We Have to Change, So Why Is It So Hard?
"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."
The Possibilities Are Just Extraordinary
"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..."
Using Applied ML to Solve Foundational Problems in the Insurance Industry
"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..."
$1.2 Trillion+
Unique TIV of Property Value on Platform
2,000+
Active Platform Sessions Across Brokers and Underwriters
35,000+
Documents & Images Ingested and Transformed on Platform
800+
Brokers and Underwriters Registered and Using the Platform
105
Insurance Markets Experiencing Submission(s) on Archipelago
40
Active Insights per Average Underwriter Session on Platform
“For some time, we had been looking for a better way to connect and utilize all of our rich property and risk data.”
"Archipelago has transformed our ability to source and share quality data with our insurers for our Property Insurance Program."
"Archipelago gave us the ability to streamline our renewals and deliver a new way to tell our portfolio story—virtually and securely."
12 Questions with Greg Hendrick, Chief Executive Officer at Vantage Group
In this Q&A, Greg Hendrick discusses catastrophe insurance, the iPad, and how the "Vantage vision" brings people together.
Soften the Impact of a Hard Market: Underwriters Reveal Their Thoughts on Data Quality
We asked underwriters and executives at major insurance companies throughout North America to share their thoughts on the impact of data quality.
This infographic summarizes the biggest insights.
12 Questions with Alexandra Glickman, Senior Managing Director and Global Practice Leader in Real Estate & Hospitality at Gallagher
In this Q&A, we chat with Alexandra about commercial insurance as an "apprentice business," being an early riser, and the return of optimism.
CNA Taps Archipelago for Increased Data Analytics
To drive profitability and provide stability, the insurance industry must continue to digitize and maximize data and analytics, helping to quantify and better understand emerging risks.
12 Questions with Ibbi Almufti, Associate Principal at Arup’s Advanced Technology & Research Group
In this Q&A, we chat with Ibbi about climate-related risk, resilience, and design.
12 Questions with Megan Miller, Executive Director of the Spencer Educational Foundation
In this Q&A, Megan Miller discusses the importance of leadership and supporting talent coming into the insurance industry.
Best-in-Class Risk Managers are Multilingual
After working shoulder to shoulder with risk managers for more than twenty-five years, I both have tremendous respect for the importance of their Swiss Army Knife-like roles and find them to be often unsung, often misunderstood and underappreciated.
12 Questions with Frank Nutter, President of the Reinsurance Association of America (RAA)
In this Q&A, Frank shares his thoughts on underwriting, climate risk, and remote work.
2021: A Year of Digital Convergence for Large Commercial Risks
"Over 25 years leading RMS, and now even more so with my new colleagues at Archipelago, I’ve developed an affinity for the built environment: the hazards and risks of these assets, the imperatives for resiliency...."
2020’s Most Viewed Articles
We thought it'd be fun to revisit the posts that you, our readers have found the most intriguing. Here are the five most popular posts of 2020.
2020 Trends Set to Shape 2021
Here are six topics that are top of mind for the team at Archipelago as we head into 2021.
Data Security is Paramount to Good Data Stewardship: How We Protect Data at Archipelago
"As an enterprise software company entrusted with storing and managing customer data, we consider data security of utmost importance. To help you formulate your data security practices, I'll share what we do at Archipelago to keep our data secure..."
It’s Time for Transparency
"Insurance is a data-driven industry, and it’s time we deliver data-driven transparency on what the relationships are between inputs, and outputs."
Top Takeaways from Advisen’s 2020 Property Insights Conference
"Advisen orchestrated a virtual exploration of the hardening commercial property insurance market and the related impact on buyers, brokers, and insurers..."
Use Your Data to Get Proactive
"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."
In Trust We Data
"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."
Blue Ocean Opportunities
"...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..."
It’s Now Time for our Data to Catch-up
"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..."
Standing out in the Hardening Market
"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."
Using Data to Unlock a Resiliency Dividend
"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…"
My Business is Digitizing, Why Not My Risk Management Too?
"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..."
Differentiating Your Portfolio in a Hard Market
"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?"
Using Data to Drive Value to Our Stakeholders
"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."
Using Data to Differentiate Our Assets
"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..."
Two Huge Markets to Benefit from a Digital Transformation
"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."
If It Were Easy...
"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."
No Risk Is an Island
"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."
Things Go Slowly, Then They Go Quickly
"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."
Building a Shared System of Trust
"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!"
Transformation in the Large Commercial Insurance Sector Needs an Inside-Out Approach
"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."
Know Your ‘Basis Risk’ in the Modeled Vulnerabilities of Your Customers' Exposures
"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."
We Know We Have to Change, So Why Is It So Hard?
"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."
The Possibilities Are Just Extraordinary
"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..."
Using Applied ML to Solve Foundational Problems in the Insurance Industry
"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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2021: A Year of Digital Convergence for Large Commercial Risks
Over 25 years leading RMS, and now even more so with my new colleagues at Archipelago, I’ve developed an affinity for the built environment: the hazards and risks of these assets, the imperatives for resiliency, the value of insurance when it’s efficient, and the pain that occurs when it’s not.
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.'
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.
$1.2 Trillion+
Unique TIV of Property Value on Platform
2,000+
Active Platform Sessions Across Brokers and Underwriters
35,000+
Documents & Images Ingested and Transformed on Platform
800+
Brokers and Underwriters Registered and Using the Platform
105
Insurance Markets Experiencing Submission(s) on Archipelago
40
Active Insights per Average Underwriter Session on Platform
“For some time, we had been looking for a better way to connect and utilize all of our rich property and risk data.”
"Archipelago has transformed our ability to source and share quality data with our insurers for our Property Insurance Program."
"Archipelago gave us the ability to streamline our renewals and deliver a new way to tell our portfolio story—virtually and securely."
12 Questions with Greg Hendrick, Chief Executive Officer at Vantage Group
In this Q&A, Greg Hendrick discusses catastrophe insurance, the iPad, and how the "Vantage vision" brings people together.
Soften the Impact of a Hard Market: Underwriters Reveal Their Thoughts on Data Quality
We asked underwriters and executives at major insurance companies throughout North America to share their thoughts on the impact of data quality.
This infographic summarizes the biggest insights.
12 Questions with Alexandra Glickman, Senior Managing Director and Global Practice Leader in Real Estate & Hospitality at Gallagher
In this Q&A, we chat with Alexandra about commercial insurance as an "apprentice business," being an early riser, and the return of optimism.
CNA Taps Archipelago for Increased Data Analytics
To drive profitability and provide stability, the insurance industry must continue to digitize and maximize data and analytics, helping to quantify and better understand emerging risks.
12 Questions with Ibbi Almufti, Associate Principal at Arup’s Advanced Technology & Research Group
In this Q&A, we chat with Ibbi about climate-related risk, resilience, and design.
12 Questions with Megan Miller, Executive Director of the Spencer Educational Foundation
In this Q&A, Megan Miller discusses the importance of leadership and supporting talent coming into the insurance industry.
Best-in-Class Risk Managers are Multilingual
After working shoulder to shoulder with risk managers for more than twenty-five years, I both have tremendous respect for the importance of their Swiss Army Knife-like roles and find them to be often unsung, often misunderstood and underappreciated.
12 Questions with Frank Nutter, President of the Reinsurance Association of America (RAA)
In this Q&A, Frank shares his thoughts on underwriting, climate risk, and remote work.
2021: A Year of Digital Convergence for Large Commercial Risks
"Over 25 years leading RMS, and now even more so with my new colleagues at Archipelago, I’ve developed an affinity for the built environment: the hazards and risks of these assets, the imperatives for resiliency...."
2020’s Most Viewed Articles
We thought it'd be fun to revisit the posts that you, our readers have found the most intriguing. Here are the five most popular posts of 2020.
2020 Trends Set to Shape 2021
Here are six topics that are top of mind for the team at Archipelago as we head into 2021.
Data Security is Paramount to Good Data Stewardship: How We Protect Data at Archipelago
"As an enterprise software company entrusted with storing and managing customer data, we consider data security of utmost importance. To help you formulate your data security practices, I'll share what we do at Archipelago to keep our data secure..."
It’s Time for Transparency
"Insurance is a data-driven industry, and it’s time we deliver data-driven transparency on what the relationships are between inputs, and outputs."
Top Takeaways from Advisen’s 2020 Property Insights Conference
"Advisen orchestrated a virtual exploration of the hardening commercial property insurance market and the related impact on buyers, brokers, and insurers..."
Use Your Data to Get Proactive
"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."
In Trust We Data
"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."
Blue Ocean Opportunities
"...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..."
It’s Now Time for our Data to Catch-up
"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..."
Standing out in the Hardening Market
"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."
Using Data to Unlock a Resiliency Dividend
"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…"
My Business is Digitizing, Why Not My Risk Management Too?
"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..."
Differentiating Your Portfolio in a Hard Market
"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?"
Using Data to Drive Value to Our Stakeholders
"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."
Using Data to Differentiate Our Assets
"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..."
Two Huge Markets to Benefit from a Digital Transformation
"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."
If It Were Easy...
"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."
No Risk Is an Island
"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."
Things Go Slowly, Then They Go Quickly
"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."
Building a Shared System of Trust
"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!"
Transformation in the Large Commercial Insurance Sector Needs an Inside-Out Approach
"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."
Know Your ‘Basis Risk’ in the Modeled Vulnerabilities of Your Customers' Exposures
"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."
We Know We Have to Change, So Why Is It So Hard?
"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."
The Possibilities Are Just Extraordinary
"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..."
Using Applied ML to Solve Foundational Problems in the Insurance Industry
"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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