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Justin Levine discusses the insurance challenges in construction related to the AI boom and how Shepherd is addressing these issues.

Everyone talks about the AI boom in terms of compute, models, and software. Justin Levine spends his days thinking about something different: who insures the actual construction of the data centers, energy assets, and projects that make all of it possible.The AI race moved from the cloud to the construction site. And the construction site has an insurance problem. In Episode 162 of InsurTechTalk, Shepherd Co-Founder & CEO Justin Levine — civil engineer turned construction risk manager turned InsurTech founder — explains how his company is building the first behavior-based commercial underwriting platform, why the Coalition-Allianz deal is a seminal moment for the MGU model, and how Shepherd Savings is rewarding contractors for technology they already use with up to 25% lower premiums. In this episode: - Why the construction insurance problem is speed and data, not capacity — and why that distinction matters- How Shepherd delivers underwriting indications in minutes by integrating with Procore, Autodesk, DroneDeploy, and OpenSpace- The personal auto telematics parallel: why commercial construction is 20 years behind on behavior-based pricing — and what happens when it catches…

People in this episode

Host: Gilad Shai

Guest: Justin Levine

Topics covered

• AI in construction
• insurance challenges
• behavior-based underwriting
• construction risk management
• technology adoption in construction

Keywords

• construction insurance
• AI race
• underwriting platform
• commercial construction
• technology rewards

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Shepherd, Coalition, Allianz, Procore, Autodesk, DroneDeploy, OpenSpace

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