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Insurance innovation, tested against market reality.
InsTech is an industry-literate interview show about how insurance changes in practice. Its conversations test new data, AI, modelling, claims tools, and climate-risk ideas against underwriting reality, pricing discipline, and the awkward question of who will actually use them.
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InsTech is a measured, interview-led show about insurance innovation as it is experienced by the people trying to make it work. The subject matter is technical, but the governing question is usually simple: does this help the market understand, price, transfer, or manage risk better? Recent conversations examine property data quality, AI agents for insurance operations, catastrophe modelling, claims transformation, sustainability strategy, and the commercial realities behind new underwriting tools. The show is strongest when it moves from the promise of a technology to the mechanics of adoption. Data is not treated as magic. It is tested through questions about claims outcomes, satellite attributes, LiDAR, submissions, bordereaux, historical loss gaps, and whether insurers can trust what they are being sold. AI receives the same scrutiny. Episodes look at automation in underwriting and claims, but they keep returning to workflow, deployment time, data standards, and the risk of enthusiasm running ahead of structure. Climate and sustainability coverage is similarly practical. Rather than treating resilience as a slogan, the show asks how carbon capture, renewable energy, ocean-floor exposures, and global financial resilience become insurable. There is room for personality, especially in partner chats and founder conversations. The style can be dry, direct, and occasionally blunt, but the centre of gravity remains analytical. Guests such as Mark Cunningham, Rachel Delhaise, Sasha Haco, Martha Dreiling, and Guillaume Bonnissent bring perspectives from data analytics, sustainability, AI, claims, and underwriting technology. Matthew Grant also appears on shared episodes that connect InsTech's own story to bootstrapping, catastrophe modelling, and third-party data. The show assumes a listener who already understands the contours of insurance. It does not stop to translate every acronym or market reference. That confidence gives the conversations room to get specific. Brokers, carriers, reinsurers, founders, underwriters, operations leaders, and insurance technology teams will find a steady stream of concrete examples. The value is not breathless trend coverage. It is the repeated pressure-testing of innovation against capacity, price, trust, incentives, and the real work of getting insurance done.
Made for: Built for insurance professionals, insurtech founders, underwriters, brokers, claims leaders, data teams, and investors who already speak the industry's language. It suits people who want practical signals about adoption, not surface-level technology hype.
What sets it apart: InsTech keeps innovation grounded in underwriting, claims, pricing, capacity, and operational use. Its edge is the patient follow-up: what the tool changes, who trusts it, and whether it helps insurers say yes to better-understood risks.
A weekly interview hosted by Matthew Grant peeking behind the curtain of what‘s going on with some of the most well know companies - and some the newest - from in and around insurance, technology, data and investment.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
InsTech makes insurance innovation concrete by tracing how data, models and judgment shape underwriting, pricing and resilience.
InsTech follows insurance innovation down to the decisions that make it useful. Matthew Grant's interviews ask how data changes underwriting, how unfamiliar risks can be priced, and where new technology gives insurers enough confidence to offer cover.
A wildfire model helps underwriters say yes, if you like your innovation measured in actual coverage.
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Mark Cunningham argues that claims data could help insurers ask better questions.
Mark Cunningham thinks insurers may be asking customers the wrong questions. Speaking with Matthew Grant, the Price Hubble managing director points to construction data that can identify who is building, which materials they are using and how far the work has progressed.
How insurers weigh risk, offer advice and price cover for energy projects.
Insurance can help an energy project move forward, provided the cover is priced within its reach. Matthew Grant and Convex Chief Sustainability Officer Rachel Delahays get into what that means for renewable energy.
Matthew Grant on profitability, early hires and InsTech's bootstrapped exit.
Matthew Grant describes building InsTech without external funding and reaching a successful exit. He explains why he valued profitability over rapid growth and what a small company could offer early hires when salary alone was not enough.
Better catastrophe data may help an insurer recognize a risk it can cover.
Matthew Grant draws on 25 years in catastrophe modelling and keeps the discussion close to the underwriting desk. He looks at how carriers pull details from submissions without re-keying them, test attributes derived from satellite imagery and LiDAR, and build their own models…
London market colleagues discuss talent, shared work and flexibility in everyday office life.
PwC's Anna Craston says the London insurance market faces a problem attracting and keeping people. In a PwC CEO survey, 93% of respondents said they recognised a need to change their talent strategy or were already changing it.
Practical risk education for insurance professionals.
Insurance talk with the machinery exposed.
Matthew Grant discusses leveraging AI and third-party data in catastrophe modelling, covering data extraction, satellite attributes, and model selection.
Will Ross, CEO of Federato, discusses how AI-driven risk ops helps insurers improve underwriting and portfolio management.
Talent is the market problem on the table.
Mark Cunningham poses a blunt data test.
Sustainability has not disappeared from insurance.
Sasha Haco, CEO of Unitree, discusses her transition from studying black holes to building AI agents for insurance, focusing on practical implementation challenges in the London market.
In this 400th episode, Matthew Grant and Robin Mertens discuss whether insurance is truly improving risk understanding or just getting better at talking about it, exploring the excitement and chaos around generative AI and technology adoption.
Martha Dreiling discusses how Reserv is using AI and data to transform claims processing and underwriting in the insurance industry.
Matthew Grant sits on the other side of the microphone.
Matthew Grant is in the guest chair here.
Guillaume Bonnissent, CEO of Quotec, discusses AI hype versus reality in insurance underwriting and data standards.