More than 3000 users chose Akur8's best-in-class actuarial software
“Akur8 allows for a reduction in modeling time, enabling us to build new prices much faster and significantly decreasing our time-to-market, while increasing the productivity of our team.”
Enrique Rodríguez, Head of Personal Actuarial Department at AXA Spain
“On a combined ratio basis we’d be looking at a 6% improvement in our performance based off the work we did with Akur8. That’s a huge improvement for us, and is basically the difference between the class of business being loss making and performing well.”
Product Director at Vave, Canopius Group
”Akur8’s value very quickly came to light. Modeling speed is 5x faster, while keeping a thoroughly transparent and auditable process. The user-friendliness of the interface and the collaborative aspect of it are a great asset for the team, making it very easy-to-use, while enhancing internal communication. The responsiveness of the Akur8 team also was instrumental in our very fast learning curve.”
Eyrich Samba, Actuarial Studies Manager at Generali France
"We chose Akur8 because it is an innovative solution, which allows us to put the best-in-class pricing technology at the service of our employees. The modeling speed saves precious time for our teams.”
David Quantin, Matmut Group Deputy Managing Director in charge of Information Systems and Innovation
“Akur8 is a best-in-class pricing solution. The results we observed during the pilot phase are speaking for themselves, with dramatic reduction in modeling time and more predictive power of the models. This will both accelerate our time-to-market and improve our pricing accuracy, bringing substantial value to our partners and the end-customer, in a time that requires ever more reactivity and transparency.”
Joanna Chardon, Chief Product and Pricing Officer at Wakam
“We are delighted to announce our partnership with Akur8, which we believe is an advanced and effective solution in the P&C retail market for risk modeling. The results we observed during the 2-week pilot were compelling, considering both our prediction indicators and the significant time reduction in risk modeling. Above all, we expect it to be of great value for our customers, with increased personalization and targeted pricing, contributing to offering them a fair insurance policy.”
François Moyrand, Head of Products, Pricing & Analytics at Yuzzu
”As a fully-digital real-time insurer, partnering with the best-in-class solution on the market is of tremendous value to us and our customers. Time to market is a core KPI for our central product factory. We’ve brought it down from months to a few weeks already. Akur8 will help us to further reduce the time to market for new tariffs to a couple of days. wefox Insurance and Akur8 are both committed to bringing more speed and fairness to their customers.”
Oliver Lang, CEO at wefox Insurance
“Akur8 offers a game changing approach to ratemaking compared to manual solutions, that we were eager to adopt. The benefits in terms of speed and performance are major, while the process is robust and safe. The collaborative and intuitive interface, the smart features as well as the reactive and proficient support were also greatly appreciated by our pricing teams.”
Julius Kondratas, Technical Director and Management Board Member of Lietuvos Draudimas AB
“This alliance with Akur8 is another proof point of our tech and digital DNA. Embracing best-in-class technology to ensure faster, more accurate and fully transparent ratemaking is a key differentiator and HDI Seguros is excited to lead the way”.
Felipe Feres, General Manager at HDI Seguros in Chile.
“The partnership with Akur8 illustrates Axa Direct Japan’s commitment to delivering the highest quality and best experience possible to our customers, by partnering with the best-in-class player in their field, for a process as core as pricing decisions. It is also a strong embodiment of the pursuit of our exciting digital transformation journey.”
Kenichi Sato, Chief Technical Officer and Chief Actuary, Corporate Officer at Axa Direct Japan
“Akur8 helps us continue to strive for technical sophistication and empowers us to deliver valuable insurance solutions to our customers more efficiently while ensuring utmost transparency and control. We believe Akur8 will not only be an important asset to our team’s work along the whole pricing value chain, but also of great value to our customers for providing increased personalization and targeted pricing in a dynamic marketplace.”
Scott Yin, Chief Pricing Officer & Chief Actuary, AXA Tianping
“Providing efficient, reliable and consistent pricing creates a win-win for the risk taker and agent. Having the ability to improve risk pricing by running complex models and updating those models as new data comes in at any moment is a game changer for us, and a competitive differentiator. It is crucial for the rapidly changing E&S marketplace.”
Ed Jackson, President of Bass Underwriters
"Akur8’s platform offers a best-in-class pricing ecosystem for data analytics, risk and demand modeling, rate making and impact assessment. Akur8’s pricing suite is fully integrated and easy to use. It allows us to speed up our modeling process, turning weeks of modeling into a few hours and shifting team effort from production to analytics and decision making."
Marie Carter, Head of Pricing at AllClear Travel Insurance
"Pour Ornikar, il est essentiel de créer une offre d'assurance compétitive et différenciée adaptée à sa clientèle cible : les jeunes conducteurs. Akur8 nous est apparu comme la solution la plus performante pour apporter souplesse et rapidité tout en garantissant la solidité des modèles de tarification nécessaires à Ornikar"
Philippe Maso y Guell Rivet, CEO Insurance at Ornikar
"We found insightful interactions after one day of modeling with Akur8’s insurance pricing solution. Leveraging this user-friendly and transparent platform will enable our pricing team to build better models faster across more lines of business."
Nick Foore, Assistant Vice President Strategic Development at Western Reserve Group
"MMIC is elated by our partnership with Akur8 and the potential it holds to drive our company’s digital transformational journey in insurance pricing. Akur8’s innovative technology aligns seamlessly with Madison Mutual’s commitment to delivering exceptional customer experiences and optimizing pricing capabilities.”
Allah Rakha Sheikh, Chief Information Officer at Madison Mutual Insurance Company
“As a data-driven company, HDVI continues to invest in tools that leverage our proprietary big data sets and telematics data to develop industry-leading insights and risk models.The Akur8 platform enables greater collaboration across our growing team. By eliminating the coding language barrier and providing increased transparency, it will reduce errors and allow us to more quickly develop additional models that can be incorporated into our insurance product and safety solutions.”
Todd Witte, Chief of Insurance Product and Pricing for HDVI
"Together with Akur8, we’re able to further innovate upon our current capabilities to deliver even more accuracy, speed and efficiency at scale for NEXT’s growing customer bases."
Phil Natoli, Chief Actuary at NEXT
“Speed wins in our business. Using Akur8’s solution allows our pricing actuaries to build models more quickly, giving us more time for testing and, more importantly, improving speed to market on our product offerings.”
Paul Brocklebank, President and CEO at Canal Insurance Company
“The Akur8 platform does a remarkable job at streamlining complex ratemaking and modeling tasks. By leveraging this solution, our team can quickly run pricing and profitability models for multiple lines of business, across geographic locations. Akur8 allows us to easily summarize complex results and distribute them across internal teams.”
John Myers, Vice President, Product Management at Cypress
"We foster innovation through various initiatives, and value integrity and fairness: Akur8’s transparent solution is perfectly aligned with these core principles. Akur8 will provide us great potentialities to be able to become the company and the group which sustainably have capabilities to develop various products and services for realization of a safe and secure society."
Fujioka Takeshi, Section Manager of International IT Planning Section at MSI’s IT Planning department
“Akur8’s insurance pricing solution will enable TMNAS to quickly build intuitive and easily explainable predictive models across all products, providing new insights for underwriters. As a shared services company, it is key for us to be able to translate predictive information into useful measures for our clients. Akur8 will help us fill a missing component to complete the framework for transparent, and data-driven decision-making.”
John Ferraro, SVP & Pricing Actuary at TMNAS
“Our team really values the speed of model creation and iteration, transparency and ease of reporting that Akur8’s Core Platform solution provides. Being able to review the indicated vs. predicted and then make a selection is something in the current pricing process that Akur8 helps make a lot more efficient. We also love that if a member of our team ever runs into a roadblock, Akur8’s live support is always there to help us resolve any issues that arise.”
Steven Reslie, Actuary and Manager of Rate Development at Georgia Farm Bureau.
"We love Akur8 Discover. We used to spend hours—sometimes days—trying to figure out how endorsements were priced or how competitors were pricing certain classes. It was frustrating and slow. With Discover, we get answers in minutes. It’s dramatically improved our efficiency and more importantly, it’s expanded the kind of work we’re able to take on. This is the future of actuarial work: AI-powered, efficient, and focused on insights."
Jessica Leong, CEO at Octagram and former CAS President
"We used to joke that we're a pricing team who didn't build pricing models. Since we've got Akur8, we've pushed out numerous models and it's been a game changer to us."
Clive Hogart, Head of Retail Pricing at Old Mutual Insure
"We chose Akur8 because it provides an amazing balance. On one hand, it gives you a lot of power and sophistication with very powerful underlying models. On the other hand, it provides a nice governance framework—some guardrails that allow you to let your pricing team free and focus on exactly what they do best, avoiding lengthy conversations with the engineering team every time you want to do a deployment. Essentially, you give them full control, going from insight to deployment."
Michalis Antoniou, Chief Product Officer at Hellas Direct
