InsTech - insurance & innovation
InsTech
3 episodes
Diya Sawhny, Head Comml Strategy & Head Customer Engagement, Moody’s Insurance Solutions: Beyond the slip: how connected intelligence is changing underwriting (421)
1 Nov · 21 min
- Moody's Insurance Solutions leads with inorganic growth through acquisitions and partnerships, with partnerships positioned as a way to reach customers where they already work.
- Moody's pitches its Connected Intelligence knowledge graph as a curated, governed and auditable alternative to raw data, aimed at insurance underwriting rather than bank underwriting.
Jamie Wilson, VP of Strategy: hyperexponential: Why AI needs to raise the bar of underwriting, not just the floor (418)
20 Sept · 30 min
- Survey of 350 senior US and UK underwriters finds 51% say AI's most meaningful value is saving time and manual admin, while only 21% credit it with better decision quality.
- Hyperexponential's Hyper Operator, an AI agent that runs across its underwriting platform within insurer-set guardrails, aims to free underwriters from simple renewals to focus on complex new business.
Richard Gunn, President & CRO: hyperexponential: What it takes to scale insurtech across markets (383)
30 Nov 2025 · 33 min
- Hyperexponential, known as HX, now serves about 60 clients writing over $50bn of premium on its pricing and decision platform, with about 40% of that premium in the US.
- Richard Gunn, HX's President and CRO, advises expanding companies to sell through existing global customers' US operations and to build a US team, making HX dual headquartered.