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Lisa Khoury Took the Scenic Route to Insurance's AI Rewrite
Before she sold the future of underwriting, Lisa Khoury learned to read balance sheets, build categories, and make complicated products legible. Now the former banker is giving insurance's AI argument a sharper spine.
ProNavigator Turned a 97-Minute Hold Into the Search Bar Insurance Bought
Joseph D'Souza started with a chatbot for stranded policyholders. The more valuable business was hiding behind the call center: helping insurance employees find the one trustworthy answer buried across PDFs, portals, inboxes, and shared drives.
arqu
arqu is a San Francisco-based, tech-enabled wholesale insurance brokerage rebuilding how large, complex commercial risks are placed in the roughly $100bn US Excess & Surplus (E&S) market. Rather than acting as a quick-quote platform, arqu pairs experienced broker teams with proprietary software that pre-underwrites every risk in depth, giving retail brokers and capacity providers better data, faster placements, and sharper pricing. It focuses on construction, real estate, energy, and environmental risks and works with 20 of the largest retail brokerages in the country.