Insurance Company Advisor Cuts Out the Middle Man

摘要

A risk analysis consultancy long focused on construction delays has branched out to apply its chops to the development of a hyperlocal software-as-a-service weather risk-management system for construction that launched Jan. 29. The developers partnered with the Associated General Contractors of America to ground-truth the software with industry users. They claim the system can help contractors predict and mitigate downtime or damage due to foul weather delays. "It's not your daddy's weather service," says Michael Kennedy, general counsel at AGC, about the new product, called GaugeConstruc-tion. The AGC partnered with developer Athenium Analytics by supplying the code writers with contractor beta testers for a year to tune up the product to address real industry needs.