Articles
Writing on SOV data quality, underwriting workflows, and catastrophe modeling, published since 2022. Every decision downstream of the data is a data decision first.
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2026AI Makes Building Easier—Not Always Smarter
AI has changed what a small insurance team can create. It has not abolished the job of owning it.
- APRIL 18, 2023Transforming Unstructured Data Management in Insurance: Handicaps to Hole-in-Ones
Par 3s, par 4s, and par 5s: a golfer's framework for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured insurance data, and how to master each.
- MARCH 27, 2023Why Insurers Shouldn't Attempt to Build Their Own Software
A bakery, a rodeo, and a poker table: three analogies for why insurers should buy specialized software instead of building their own.
- MARCH 13, 2023Risks of Straight-through Processing (STP) in Underwriting and Catastrophe Modeling
Automating SOV processing without checks and balances is casting a spell with a broken wand. The risks of STP in underwriting and CAT modeling.
- OCTOBER 7, 20225 Reasons Insurers Aren't Turning A Higher Profit
Climate, data, technology, leadership, and culture: the five levers behind insurer profitability, and the single theme that unifies them all.
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2022The Ideal Solution
What it would take to truly solve the SOV problem: an intuitive, Excel-native tool with real AI and ML, crowdsourced intelligence, and no telephone game.
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2022Ugly Data
77% of risk professionals are negatively impacted by managing SOV data. Why SOV scrubbing is still a bottleneck, and what an Excel-native solution must do.
- MAY 5, 2023SOV Wizard joins Guidewire Insurtech Vanguards program
Wizard Analytics joins Guidewire's Insurtech Vanguards program, an initiative helping P&C insurers discover and leverage the newest insurtechs.
- APRIL 5, 2023SOV Wizard wins WSIA Insurtech Pitch Competition
SOV Wizard wins the Audience Choice Award at the WSIA InsurTech Pitch Competition in Nashville.
- APRIL 2, 2023SOV Wizard signs Palomar!
Palomar joins as a client for SOV Wizard: standardized exports, one-click scrubbing in Excel, catastrophe-model compatibility, and more.
- MARCH 3, 2023SOV Wizard shortlisted for the WSIA Insurtech Pitch Competition
The Wizard team heads to Nashville for the WSIA Insurtech Pitch Competition.
- JANUARY 20, 2023Wizard Analytics named top Insurtech company
Wizard Analytics recognized among the top key companies in the catastrophe insurance technology space.
- NOVEMBER 4, 2022Wizard Analytics launches SOV Wizard
After months of relentless coding and extensive testing, Wizard Analytics officially announces the launch of SOV Wizard.