Next-level P&C Insurance Underwriting

October 18, 2024 - Sixfold, the AI solution designed to streamline end-to-end risk assessments for underwriters, announced its partnership with AXIS, a global leader in specialty insurance and reinsurance, a collaboration that has yielded positive results in its initial rollout. Within the first month of deployment, AXIS underwriters leveraged Sixfold’s solution to improve efficiency, accurately classifying businesses and aligning cases with their risk appetite.

“This partnership is all about leveraging AI to empower our underwriters and even further enhance the service we provide to our customers. We were searching for a solution that could reliably deliver precision, and Sixfold has done just that and more.

The real game-changer has been the time savings—freeing up valuable hours so our underwriters can zero in on the work that drives results while ultimately benefiting the customer” said Josh Fishkind, Head of Innovation at AXIS.

“Our goal is to provide meaningful ROI for all our customers, and AXIS has already begun to see these benefits,” said Alex Schmelkin, Sixfold's Founder & CEO. “We look forward to continuing our partnership as AXIS discovers more ways Sixfold can enhance their underwriting processes.”

Read the full customer story here and check out the Insurance Post article covering our work with AXIS.

In 2025, the cyber risk landscape is expected to become more complex with increasing threats driven by rising privacy violations, data breaches, the rise of AI, and external factors such as emerging regulations. According to Munich Re, the cyber insurance market has nearly tripled in size over the past five years, with global premiums projected to surpass $20 billion by 2025, up from nearly $15 billion in 2023, as reported by CyberSecurity Dive.

Reflecting the rapid market growth and emerging threats, Sixfold has seen increased demand from specialty insurers in the cyber sector and has successfully brought on several industry leaders as customers.  "In the near future, cyber policies will become as essential as General Liability or Property & Casualty coverage. Given the world we live in, this shift is inevitable. Cyber policies are poised to become the most specific and highly customized policies available" said Jane Tran, Co-founder & COO at Sixfold.

"In the near future, cyber policies will become as essential as General Liability or Property & Casualty coverage. Given the world we live in, this shift is inevitable. Cyber policies are poised to become the most specific and highly customized policies available"

Empowering Underwriters to Quickly Adapt to New Cyber Risks

As cyber risks grow, the pressure on underwriters to assess risks accurately and expedite the case review process continues to increase. Sixfold’s AI solution for cyber insurance addresses these challenges by securely ingesting each insurer’s underwriting guidelines and aggregating all necessary business information to quickly provide recommendations that align with the carrier’s risk appetite. This capability allows insurers to quickly adjust their risk strategies in response to new cyber threats.

“With Sixfold, insurers can synchronize their underwriting guidelines across the board and adapt quickly. For example, when a new malware threat is identified, you can instantly incorporate it into your risk criteria through Sixfold. This ensures that the entire cyber team factors it into their assessments immediately without needing to learn every detail or the threat or spending hours digging for the right information” said Alex Schmelkin, Founder & CEO of Sixfold.

Besides, effective cyber underwriting demands deep expertise in IT systems, cybersecurity measures, and industry developments. This need for specific expertise presents a significant talent issue for insurers, especially with 50% of the underwriting workforce set to retire by 2028. Sixfold bridges the knowledge gap by instantly providing underwriters with the specialized knowledge they need for accurate risk assessments. 

“Underwriters no longer need to be cyber experts; they can rely on Sixfold to spotlight the critical information needed for accurate underwriting decisions. Our platform simplifies the complex world of cyber risk and empowers underwriters to make more confident decisions, faster” said Jane Tran, Co-founder & COO at Sixfold.

Sixfold Partners with CyberCube to Enhance Cyber Risk Assessments

‍Sixfold has teamed up with CyberCube, the world’s leading analytics provider to quantify cyber risk. This integration of CyberCube's advanced cyber risk analytics with Sixfold's AI underwriting solution enables insurers to achieve faster and more accurate risk assessments. The partnership enhances underwriting efficiency, strengthens regulatory compliance, and offers highly tailored cyber insurance solutions, empowering insurers to stay ahead of the rapidly evolving cyber threat landscape. "The partnership between CyberCube’s comprehensive cyber data and Sixfold’s innovative risk assessment is setting a new standard for the future of underwriting, keeping insurers prepared for new challenges in determining accurate cyber policies.” said Ross Wirth, Head of Partnership and Ecosystem for CyberCube.

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"The partnership between CyberCube’s comprehensive cyber data and Sixfold’s innovative risk assessment is setting a new standard for the future of underwriting, keeping insurers prepared for new challenges in determining accurate cyber policies.”
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To see our Sixfold speeds up the cyber underwriting process join our upcoming live product demo.

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With our latest product updates, we’ve extended our commercial underwriting product with a suite of AI-powered features to facilitate end-to-end underwriting across all lines of business, scaling from transactional underwriting to complex, three-dimensional risks.

Sixfold’s number one superpower is to easily–and quickly–ingest carriers’ unique underwriting guidelines and automatically surface the submissions that match the carrier’s unique risk appetite. The platform empowers carriers to streamline the underwriting process by:

🔘 Analyzing publicly available information and ingesting data from multiple disparate sources in an instant for a comprehensive risk assessment

🔘 Generating a comprehensive summarization of the business’s operations and providing NAICS/SIC classification

🔘 Surfacing positive and negative risk factors tuned to a carrier’s unique appetite

🔘 Answering complex questions across large sets of documents

🔘 Prioritizing risks with an underwriter-facing dashboard for improved resource allocation

Over the past half, we’ve significantly matured our P&C underwriting platform with deep investments across accuracy, traceability, performance, and extensibility. Some of the key highlights include:

✔️ Improved Accuracy with Advanced Document Extraction  

As underwriters ask complex questions across large sets of documents, we’ve invested in new models to improve extraction across the universe of insurance documents. With Sixfold’s latest models, we’ve seen a 40% boost in accuracy in extracting data from the most illegible documents.

With our ongoing investments in extraction models tailored to the documents underwriters see daily, Sixfold ensures precise and reliable insights from large, challenging document sets, transforming how underwriters interact with data.

✔️ Appetite Match Scoring with Weighted Risk Scoring

To replicate underwriters’ cognitive processes, Sixfold is introducing weighted risk signals to reflect the nuance across how underwriting factors impact where a risk sits within a carrier’s appetite. Now, carriers can assign varying importance to different factors to prioritize risks more accurately based on alignment with their risk appetite.

✔️ Enhanced Transparency with Inline Citations

Not only can Sixfold answer complex questionnaires across lines of business, but now all answers are grounded in the original source material with citations to the most relevant sections for confident decision-making.

✔️ Bringing Risk Classification and Summarization Down to Seconds

With our continued commitment to investing in the Sixfold pipeline architecture to improve performance, availability, and resilience, we’ve brought down the median case processing time from 80 seconds to 31 seconds. With these enhancements, in less than a minute, Sixfold can research publicly available information to learn everything we can about a business and analyze the aggregated data for business summarization and NAICS/SIC classification.

✔️ Embed Sixfold across Underwriters’ Existing Workflows with our API

With the Sixfold API, carriers can seamlessly integrate Sixfold into existing workflows for enhanced productivity and unified risk management. From automated data gathering and ingestion to custom-tailored underwriting recommendations that can be embedded across existing workflows and systems, Sixfold cuts out the manual work and document handling overhead for 10x faster risk review processes.

✔️ Mitigating drift and bias with our Responsible AI framework 

Designed to navigate the rapidly evolving AI landscape confidently, Sixfold’s Responsible AI framework ensures carriers are well-insulated from risk with its enhanced auditability, data provenance, and traceability. By actively collaborating with regulatory bodies and legal counsel, Sixfold remains at the forefront of responsible AI innovation, safeguarding carriers with unparalleled diligence.

👀 Coming Soon: Research Assistant

Stay tuned for future launch updates to hear about upcoming capabilities like Sixfold’s Research Assistant, designed to find answers to complex research questions, all of which are grounded in the original source material with citations.

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