# Archipelago

> Archipelago is an AI-powered risk data platform that connects large commercial property owners with their insurance markets, turning messy schedules of values, loss runs and engineering reports into clean, broker-ready submissions. Founded in 2018 by RMS co-founder Hemant Shah, the San Francisco-based company digitizes property risk for portfolios totaling trillions of dollars in insured value.

- **Founded:** 2018
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Hemant Shah (Co-Founder & Executive Chairman (former CEO)), Roger Bodamer (Co-Founder, CTO & COO)
- **Team size:** ~120
- **Products:** Property Data Hub, SOV Manager, PreCheck, Zerotouch, Risk & Resiliency Analytics
- **Notable:** Surpassed $2 trillion in insured value on the platform (2021), Reduced SOV preparation from ~15 days to ~15 minutes for broker teams, SOC 2 compliant enterprise platform

## Products & services

- **Property Data Hub** — Central platform where brokers and owners ingest, enrich, and govern property schedules and underwriting data.
- **SOV Manager** — AI assistant that ingests messy schedules of values, extracts COPE attributes, and reconciles them against industry data - cutting a 15-day workflow to roughly 15 minutes.
- **PreCheck** — AI underwriting assistant that flags critical data gaps and suggests fixes before a submission goes to market.
- **Zerotouch** — Next-gen data processing and enrichment automation for broker submission preparation.
- **Risk & Resiliency Analytics** — Hazard, catastrophe, and climate risk insights layered on top of cleaned portfolio data.

## Achievements

- Surpassed $2 trillion in insured value on the platform (2021)
- Reduced SOV preparation from ~15 days to ~15 minutes for broker teams
- SOC 2 compliant enterprise platform
- Raised over $72M across Seed, Series A and Series B

## Latest updates

- **2024-12** — Launched AI assistants (SOV Manager, PreCheck) to streamline broker submission workflows.
- **2023-07** — Alex Lyashok appointed CEO; co-founder Hemant Shah moved to Executive Chairman.
- **2021-04** — Closed $34M Series B led by Scale Venture Partners.

## Links

- Website: https://onarchipelago.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/onarchipelago
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/OnArchipelago

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Last updated: 2026-05-19