WHY THIS MATTERS:
Climate risk is rapidly reshaping commercial underwriting, exposing the limitations of traditional location data and static hazard maps. As physical risks become more granular and interconnected, insurers need real-time, high-definition intelligence at the point of decision—not manual research after the fact. Integrating geospatial and multi-source data directly into underwriting workflows reflects a broader shift toward automated, data-led risk selection. This approach enables underwriters to assess exposure with greater accuracy while reducing decision latency and operational drag. As climate volatility intensifies, insurers that can enrich submissions instantly with precise location intelligence will be better positioned to price risk correctly, allocate capacity confidently and protect portfolio resilience.
Cytora, the digital risk processing platform, has announced a strategic partnership with Altitude Intelligence, a provider of specialized intelligence-as-a-service capabilities. This collaboration integrates Altitude Intelligence’s advanced geospatial (GEOINT) and multi-source fusion data directly into the Cytora platform, allowing commercial insurers to automatically enrich submissions with granular climate and location-based insights at the point of underwriting.
By leveraging Altitude Intelligence’s robust data capabilities—which fuse Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) with high-fidelity geospatial analysis—Cytora customers can now instantly assess complex physical risks with greater precision. The integration enables insurers to replace manual location research with automated, high-definition data injection, transforming fragmented submission information into a definitive, decision-ready view of risk exposure.
This partnership empowers underwriters to visualize and quantify climate and physical risks associated with specific assets, ensuring that pricing and capacity decisions are based on the most accurate, real-time intelligence available. By combining Cytora’s Generative AI-powered risk processing with Altitude Intelligence’s proven “Intelligence-as-a-Service” model, insurers can streamline the “Enrichment” phase of their workflows, reducing decision latency and improving portfolio resilience against evolving climate threats.
The collaboration is the latest step in Cytora’s mission to build the insurance industry’s most comprehensive data ecosystem. It follows a period of significant growth for Cytora, including major collaborations with global carriers and the continued expansion of its platform capabilities to support automated, data-driven risk selection.
Santiago Fisher, Head of Analytics at Altitude Intelligence, said: “Intelligence makes the difference when every decision counts. By integrating our specialized geospatial and multi-source capabilities into the Cytora platform, we are ensuring that commercial insurers have seamless access to the actionable insights they need to navigate an increasingly complex risk landscape. We are excited to see our proven intelligence systems helping to drive the next generation of insurance workflows.”
FF NEWS TAKE:
This partnership strengthens the move toward intelligence-driven underwriting. The real value will be in execution—how seamlessly underwriters adopt richer data without slowing workflows. Watch for geospatial enrichment to become a baseline expectation as insurers modernise climate risk assessment.
