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AI Is Barrier-Buster for Business & IT
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Most insuretechs aren’t about flashy consumer-focused websites. They improve the plumbing — all the workflows behind the scenes never seen by agents and consumers. Sound exciting? Well, it sure is for Aaron Wright, director of strategy at Earnix, an insuretech supporting carriers’ pricing and underwriting with AI and machine learning. Aaron emerged from the carrier side, where he saw first-hand the inefficiencies plaguing the industry: “What did my well-paid actuaries spend 60% of their time on? Moving things between systems and validating if they copied and pasted things accurately from Excel. Much of this inefficiency and duplication of work was caused by the artificial barriers we put up between IT and business.” Are you a left-brain, rationale thinker? Well, here’s a guest for you: “I was drawn to insurance in college because an actuarial career sounded good. A career combining mathematics, statistics and computer science — what’s not to love?” (Yeah, what’s not?)
