The AI in Business Podcast · Daniel Faggella

Modernizing Insurance Pricing From Excel to Explainable AI - Thomas Holmes of Akur8

·18 min·1 clip
Tom Holmes explains why Excel is actually opaque and inflexible, despite its perceived benefits in insurance.
Tom Holmes, Chief Actuary at Accurate, discusses modernizing insurance pricing by moving from Excel to AI-driven systems. He highlights challenges like status quo resistance, governance, and explainability, offering practical steps for incremental adoption and cross-department collaboration.

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A practical case for modernization that values explainability as much as speed.

The episode takes on a practical modernization problem in insurance pricing and reserving: how teams move beyond Excel without losing actuarial discipline. Tom Holmes keeps it close to operating reality, and the main point is straightforward.

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Modernize pricing without trading away actuarial trust.

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