Simon Glairy has spent his career at the intersection of insurance, risk management, and AI. He’s helped carriers, MGAs, and brokers translate emerging technology into disciplined operations that respect regulation and earn customer trust. In this conversation, he unpacks how agentic AI can move
Life insurance long meant paper forms, phone calls, and weeks of limbo. Now Liberty Mutual and Ethos offer an end-to-end online path that approves many applicants in minutes through a short health questionnaire, typically without a medical exam. The shift reframes coverage from a drawn-out chore to
Claims decisions are now shaped by instant updates, clear rules, and empathetic care at the exact moment beneficiaries expect both speed and certainty from life insurers, turning claims into the brand’s most public test of promise and performance. Rising expectations, staffing constraints, and a
An underwriting submission that once sprawled across spreadsheets, PDFs, and emails can now be digitized, enriched, and scored before a human even opens the file, shifting the bottleneck from data gathering to decision quality. That shift framed the rationale behind a new partnership embedding
Speed now decides winners in commercial insurance as brokers expect quotes in minutes while carriers confront tight margins, volatile capacity, and mounting demands for data transparency across product lines. This shift has elevated submission intake from back-office chore to front-line
The global transition toward electrification has forced battery recycling and material production into the epicenter of modern industrial strategy while testing the limits of rapid startup growth. Redwood Materials, founded by Tesla co-founder JB Straubel, has long been viewed as the frontrunner in
