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January 9, 2024

Sixfold Joins Guidewire Insurtech Vanguards Program

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New York City, January 9, 2024

Sixfold, the Generative AI exclusively built for insurance underwriters, today announced that the company has joined Guidewire’s Insurtech Vanguards program, an initiative led by property and casualty (P&C) cloud platform provider, Guidewire (NYSE: GWRE), to help insurers learn about the newest insurtechs and how to best leverage them.

Jane Tran, Co-founder & COO at Sixfold, expressed, “Guidewire stands as the industry's foremost policy vault, embodying the definitive source of truth. Collaborating with Guidewire empowers us to advance our enterprise-grade generative AI solutions tailored specifically for underwriters.”

Insurtech Vanguards is a community of select startups and technology providers that are bringing novel solutions to the P&C industry. As part of the program, Guidewire provides strategic guidance to and advocates for the participating insurtechs, while connecting them with Guidewire’s P&C customers. 

Sixfold seamlessly handles the ingestion, routing, classification, and summarization of submissions, and provides trustworthy, data-driven policy recommendations to underwriters in a user-friendly format.

About Sixfold

Sixfold brings the power of generative AI to the underwriting process. The platform significantly reduces manual workload for underwriters and amplifies confidence in every underwriting decision with improved accuracy, transparency, and capacity.

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Use Case
Current Process
With Narratives
Quoting
Currently, risk factors are pulled together manually to decide if a case should be quoted.
Automatically summarizes key risk drivers upfront, providing a clear snapshot to prioritize cases faster.
Peer Reviews
Peer reviews are slowed by unstructured summaries; reviewers often have to go back to source documents.
Risk factors and case notes are presented clearly and consistently.
Referrals
Referral memos vary between underwriters; approvers often have to sort through inconsistent write-ups to understand the case.
Consistent case summaries make it easier for approvers to see the full risk story and sign off faster.
Decision Documentation
Underwriting rationale is often recorded unevenly; teams spend time cleaning up notes when preparing for audits.
A standardized record of underwriting rationale is created automatically, ready for audit without extra effort.
Business Impact
Faster decisions on which risks to quote.
More consistent risk appetite application and faster reviews.
Faster referral decisions.
Lower compliance risk and faster audit prep.
Quoting
use case
Current Process
Currently, risk factors are pulled together manually to decide if a case should be quoted.
With Narratives
Automatically summarizes key risk drivers upfront, providing a clear snapshot to prioritize cases faster.
Business Impact
Faster decisions on which risks to quote.
Peer Review
use case
Current Process
Peer reviews are slowed by unstructured summaries; reviewers often have to go back to source documents.
With Narratives
Risk factors and case notes are presented clearly and consistently.
Business Impact
More consistent risk appetite application and faster reviews.
Referrals
use case
Current Process
Referral memos vary between underwriters; approvers often have to sort through inconsistent write-ups to understand the case.
With Narratives
Consistent case summaries make it easier for approvers to see the full risk story and sign off faster.
Business Impact
Faster referral decisions.
Decisions Documentation & Audits
use case
Current Process
Underwriting rationale is often recorded unevenly; teams spend time cleaning up notes when preparing for audits.
With Narratives
A standardized record of underwriting rationale is created automatically, ready for audit without extra effort.
Business Impact
Lower compliance risk and faster audit prep.