Cytora, a digital risk processing platform for commercial insurance, has partnered with InformData to integrate verifiable people data into commercial risk workflows. The collaboration enables insurers using Cytora's platform to digitise submissions, renewals, claims and mid-term adjustments whilst receiving verification insights on those risks. The integration aims to help insurers make faster decisions and strengthen defences against fraud and compliance violations. It also supports risk monitoring use cases, providing visibility into enterprise risk including potential insider cyber threats. Juan de Castro, COO at Cytora, said the partnership allows commercial insurers to have a complete view of risk beyond property data. Jackie Rousseau-Anderson, CRO at InformData, stated the integration provides a trusted data layer for assessing people behind commercial risk.

Cytora and Treefera partner to bring real-time, first-mile commodity intelligence to commercial insurance workflows. New collaboration integrates Treefera's plot-level data on risk related to nature based assets - such as land performance, weather & climate events into Cytora's risk processing platform to enhance risk pricing and underwriting precision. Cytora, the digital risk processing platform, has announced a new strategic partnership with Treefera, an AI-powered first-mile intelligence platform, to incorporate granular agricultural and nature-based asset data into the Cytora platform. The collaboration will allow commercial insurers to seamlessly access Treefera's unique portfolio of intelligence within Cytora's ingestion and digitization workflows. Through this integration, underwriters will immediately be able to enrich their risk submissions with near real-time signals from Treefera, including specific datasets on soil moisture, water stress, crop health, and land-use change. By bringing these precise, plot-level insights directly into the Cytora platform, insurers no longer must rely on static assumptions or regional proxies. Instead, they can accurately quantify how weather and climate volatility impact land performance and agricultural production, enabling precise risk pricing and capital allocation across commodities, locations, and time horizons. The collaboration with Treefera is the latest integration partnership Cytora has agreed upon as the insurtech seeks to build one of the world's most comprehensive data ecosystems for insurers. It also follows a period of significant growth for Cytora, including a major collaboration with Chubb, and the continuous enhancement of its platform, which leverages agentic AI to bring a new level of performance, efficiency, and explainability to risk assessment and underwriting processes. Juan de Castro, COO at Cytora, said: "Environmental and climate volatility are increasingly critical factors in commercial underwriting. Through our partnership with Treefera, we are making it easier for insurers to embed highly granular, first-mile intelligence directly into their workflows. This empowers underwriters to make smarter, faster pricing and risk selection decisions with unparalleled visibility into plot-level risks." Caroline Grey, CRO and Co-Founder at Treefera, said: "Soft and agricultural commodities underpin half of the global economy, yet there is often a lack of visibility into supply conditions and risks at the point of origin. By integrating our proprietary AI and financial-grade risk analysis into Cytora's advanced platform, we are helping insurers replace regional proxies with plot-level insight in near real-time so they can accurately price risk and build resilience in an increasingly volatile world."

Zurich scales agentic AI to five countries in 90 days, cutting Manual risk Processing time by 80%. * Insurtech * 18.05.2026 10:28 am Zurich Insurance has completed a breakthrough 90-day deployment of Cytora's agentic AI-powered risk digitization platform across five countries. The programme will now scale to more than 20 markets over 16 months. Zurich now operates a fully integrated, end-to-end underwriting model, with Cytora serving as the upstream, headless intelligence layer. With Cytora, Zurich is able to automatically convert unstructured and multi-language submissions into structured, decision-ready risks aligned with Zurich's global underwriting standards. By prioritizing deployment speed and redesigning how risks are digitised and triaged globally, Zurich has delivered immediate measurable operational gains in speed, quality and scalability: * Manual triage time has fallen by 80% from 75 minutes to 15 minutes * Digitization accuracy has increased from 70-80% to 98% * Intake Straight-Through Processing has increased from 10% to 95% * Established a repeatable deployment model for global expansion. Prior to deploying Cytora, Zurich's underwriters were manually reading, reviewing and interpreting every single risk that they received, resulting in a capacity to focus on only a fraction of the submissions received, and no consistent way of prioritising them. Underwriters were also forced to interact with multiple systems, slowing down decision-making. To solve this problem, Zurich sought out a solution that would reduce time to quote by 60 minutes through automating decision ready risks, enabling underwriters to process greater volumes of business. The challenge lay in the heterogeneous nature of incoming risk submissions and the need for them to conform to Zurich's own view of risk while accommodating local differences. This required a platform that can transform 'submissions' into 'decision-ready risks' across multiple countries in parallel, without the traditional months-long rollout for every new territory or line of business. Zurich selected Cytora due to its advanced configurability, commercial insurance expertise and headless digitization layer, presenting a multi-language, unstructured data solution that could be scaled quickly. Cytora enabled Zurich to achieve both rapid deployment and control to author the target view of risk of Zurich globally, as well as meet the needs of each country of operation. Outputs are delivered in local languages out-of-the-box, enabling Zurich's business units to operate with native-language insight in a globally deployed tool - supporting faster without the need for local custom builds. Armin Schaefer, Head of Customer & Digital IT, Commercial Insurance and Project Director, at Zurich Insurance, said: "Cytora united cutting-edge tech and a winning team to deliver fast, collaborative, high-quality results at unprecedented speed." Richard Hartley, CEO of Cytora, said: "Through this partnership we have created a model for the rapid and effective deployment of agentic AI powered automation across Zurich's global operations. Huge efficiency savings have been achieved without compromise. Zurich can launch new markets and products with minimal setup while adapting to local requirements - delivering consistent, accurate, decision-ready output every time. This partnership showcases the power of agentic AI to deliver tangible and immediate results on a global scale."