Political Risk and Violence Intelligence: Turning Signals into Structured Peril Insights

About this episode

This episode discusses Canongate AI's political risk and violence intelligence solution and its impact on underwriters.

Canongate AI is a new political risk and political violence intelligence solution that converts millions of geopolitical inputs into structured intelligence for underwriters. Already deployed by specialty insurers, the platform provides underwriters and analysts with a clear, structured view of the geopolitical landscape, distilled by AI, from what would otherwise be an overwhelming flow of raw information. Tim Hurst, Canongate AI’s co-founder and chief technology officer, is joined by James Newport, executive director of forecasting advisory the Swift Centre, for this special episode, to explain how Canongate ingests millions of documents from government sources, corporates, trade unions, NGOs and others, turning these signals into territory and peril specific insights, making sense of a volatile world.

People in this episode

Host: David Benyon

Guests: Tim Hurst, James Newport

Topics covered

• political risk
• political violence
• geopolitical intelligence
• AI in intelligence
• insurance
• data analysis

Keywords

• political risk
• violence intelligence
• geopolitical inputs
• structured intelligence
• AI
• underwriters
• insurers

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Canongate AI, Swift Centre, NGOs

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