Ascend

Ascend enables carriers to leverage spatial data in their day-to-day insurance operations from underwriting and claims to CX and new product development. With over 35 partnerships and 2000+ attributes, Ascend incorporates satellite, drone, and aerial imagery as well as property characteristics and climate models directly into insurer workflows.

The Ascend solution is built upon 3 core pillars: Unparalleled access to an extensive spatial data marketplace, dynamic data fusion delivering real time fit-for-purpose data layers, and seamless integration into insurance processing ecosystems.

Data Driven
Underwriting

Leverage the best of geospatial AI, imagery, flood, fire, and climate models directly in underwriting workflows. Ascend will automatically and dynamically pull from the best data sources in the world for each geography and product type.

Post CAT
Claims

Handle claims more quickly after a disaster using the best post catastrophe data including AI models leveraging satellite, drone, aerial, stratospheric balloon data. Ascend combines post-cat data with advanced geocoding to drive automatic loss calculations.

Portfolio Risk/
Loss Estimation

Reserving intelligently requires a continuous understanding before, during, and after an event for rapid assessment of total damage. Ascend calculates losses across full portfolios by dynamically leveraging the best geospatial data, models, and geocoders.

Customer
Experience

Be the organization customers look to in a time of crisis. From pre-event alerts to post claim handling speed, knowing which of your policy holders will be affected trough weather and catastrophe modeling allows customer success teams to ensure unique and valuable CX.

Data integration
and normalization

Over 2,000 attributes are ingested and normalized to ensure our customers have the highest accuracy and availability of data.

Validation
and selection

Ascend validates and selects from across sources to ensure our customers have the right answers for their business needs.

Data enrichment
and insights

From rapid response time to an event, greater clarity for of accumulation risk/exposures, to a single platform to enable more intelligent underwriting, Ascend translates the data into immediately consumable insights.

Location
Intelligence

Global geocoding, parcel, and building footprint data

Risk
Models

Flood, fire, hurricane, peril risk maps, and weather data

Geospatial Artificial Intelligence

Property characteristics, change detection

Data Fusion & Aggregation

Policy level satellite, drone, aerial imagery, and IOT sensor data

Data integration

Ingests, normalizes, and interprets spatial data from all sources
Selects and utilizes the most accurate data
Base-map and partner data library (35+ partners, public & open data)

Data management

Corrects policy location data using Ascend’s proprietary Geocoding Consensus Algorithm
Base-map and partner data library (35+ partners, public & open data)
Data layer management to access Ascend’s partner data marketplace
Portfolio management tools (filter, search, aggregate, report, export, etc...)

Data visualization

Displays assets / insured properties, and the correlating spatial data
Shows analytic layers and imagery basemaps
Provides portfolio insights and summary statistics
NatCat Event management
Configurable front-end visualization components

Accessibility

REST Output API
Easily integrates directly into core BI and Policy Admin systems
Hosted enterprise deployments
Platform and data usage monitoring

Security

SSO/SAML/OIDC integration
SOC2 certified platform

geospatial enterprise platform
for portfolio management

Empowering the entire insurance value chain through simplified integration of spatial data

One API for all Geospatial Data

Data coverage for the full policy lifecycle

Highlights