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DataCubes and St. Joseph University Forge Research Collaboration

AI & machine learning research & academic partnership with St Joseph University Maguire Academy of Risk and Insurance Management - Haub School of Business to advance AI

CHICAGO (Aug. 27, 2019) - DataCubes, the leading decision automation platform that helps commercial P&C insurance carriers automate intelligence gathering, discover important underwriting insights and make better underwriting decisions in near real-time, today announced a collaborative partnership with St. Joseph University, one of the top insurance schools in the country.

Through the relationship, DataCubes and St. Joseph University’s Risk Management and Insurance program will collaborate to design, implement and monitor a mutually beneficial research program. The program, which aims to build on existing insights and broaden research in the field of AI and machine learning, will initially focus on bringing DataCubes’ technology to the classroom.

DataCubes’ d3 Underwriting™ platform, which uses AI and machine learning to help commercial insurance carriers optimize and automate the underwriting decision process, will be integrated into the students’ curriculum. DataCubes will help facilitate research projects, offering guidance and mentorship, best practices on innovation, as well as internships to St. Joseph’s Risk and Insurance Management students. The partners will also collaborate on the university’s annual insurtech symposium.

“St. Joseph University’s Risk Management and Insurance program consistently ranks in the top five undergraduate insurance programs in the country and we are thrilled to be sharing expertise and working with some of the best scientific minds in the country,” said Harish Neelamana, DataCubes co-founder and chief product officer. “The research we do together will have the potential to influence the evolution of the entire industry!”
“This immersive program will nurture talent, ideas and discoveries,” said Michael Angelina, executive director of the Academy of Risk Management and Insurance at Saint Joseph’s University. “We look forward to working with DataCubes on our vision to bridge academia and business with the goal of developing talent and advancing the insurance industry.”

The mission of the Maguire Academy of Insurance and Risk Management is to promote and support the concept of risk management and insurance education; to provide services to risk management and insurance students, including scholarship aid, recruiting, internships/cooperative education, counseling and placement; and, with and through the University, to support the Department of Finance, which houses the risk management and insurance program.

About DataCubes

Headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois, and founded in 2016 by Kuldeep Malik and Harish Neelamana, DataCubes is the first decision automation platform for commercial P&C underwriting. The company has revolutionized the commercial underwriting process with cutting-edge AI and data science. Commercial carriers of all sizes use DataCubes to make real-time underwriting decisions based on rich data and highly accurate intelligence gathered by external sources to improve productivity, profitability, efficiency and accuracy. To learn more, visit datacubes.com.

About Maguire Academy of Insurance and Risk Management

Created by James Maguire ’58, founder of Philadelphia Insurance Company, the mission of the Maguire Academy of Insurance and Risk Management is to promote and support the concept of risk management and insurance education; to provide services to risk management and insurance students, including scholarship aid, recruiting, internships/cooperative education, counseling and placement; and, with and through the University, to support the Department of Finance, which houses the risk management and insurance program.

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"Crestwell Underwriters first saw value in Convr's Intake module and recognized that Convr could help eliminate submissions that didn't meet our risk appetite and reduce the need for manual review by an underwriter," said Paul DiFrancesco, ChiefUnderwriting Officer at Crestwell Underwriters.

The partnershiphas since expanded. Crestwell Underwriters now leverages both Convr Intake and Convr Scores, gaining a more complete view of each submission and a faster path from data to decision.

"Crestwell Underwriters is primed to take their underwriting to the next level through the power of Convr," said John Stammen, Chief Executive Officer at Convr."What sets Crestwell apart is their willingness to challenge the status quo and envision the best approach to commercial underwriting.”

By combining Intake and Scores, Crestwell Underwriters has placed their organization in a position to process more business, focus their underwriters on the risks that truly fit their appetite, and deliver faster, more consistent decisions to their broker partners.

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Convr® has added support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the open standard that lets AI agents call external systems as tools, making the RCE the industry's only commercial P&C knowledge graph and semantic ontology purpose-built for underwriting — available to any MCP-compatible AI system.

What underwriters can now do from inside their AI agent of choice:

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Because the RCE is calibrated against real commercial P&C submissions and refined in production across carriers, MGAs, and brokers, every response carries the same grounding and traceability as work done directly in the Convr Underwriting Workbench.

"Underwriting decisions are only as good as the context behind them, and the best source of commercial P&C insurance context is the Convr Risk Context Engine," said Harish Neelamana, Founder, President and Chief Product Officer at Convr. "With MCP, an underwriter can stay in Microsoft Copilot, Claude, or whichever AI agent their carrier has standardized on, and the RCE meets them there — with the same grounded, traceable intelligence they'd get inside the Convr Underwriting Workbench. The decision gets made faster, with better context, and the underwriter never has to leave the tool they're already in."


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MCP connectivity is available to Convr Underwriting Workbench customers. Carriers, MGAs, and brokers interested in learning more can visit convr.com or contact a Convr representative.

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The announcement comes as commercial insurance organizations confront a difficult modernization reality: the speed of AI is accelerating, but core system replacement cycles remain measured in years, not months. Carriers and MGAs cannot afford to wait for a full core system transformation before deploying AI in underwriting, and they cannot afford to be locked into AI tools that work with only one platform. Convr's architecture is designed expressly for this moment, bringing AI-powered intake, enrichment, classification, scoring, and agentic decisioning to underwriting teams without disrupting their existing systems of record.

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Convr's AI Underwriting Workbench is purpose-built as a modular layer that integrates with, not in place of, a carrier's existing system architecture. Through modern APIs, configurable data exchanges, and a flexible integration framework, Convr's platform connects with the major commercial insurance ecosystems, including:

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Convr's integration approach is grounded in the same proprietary commercial P&C ontology that powers the rest of the workbench, allowing the platform to translate between data models, classification schemas, and exposure structures across systems. The result: underwriters get a unified, AI-powered submission experience regardless of which core platform sits behind it.

"Underwriting transformation cannot wait for core system transformation," said John Stammen, Chief Executive Officer at Convr. "Our customers run on every major platform in the industry, and they need AI that works with what they already have. We built Convr from day one to be the connective tissue between underwriting intelligence and core systems, not a replacement for either."

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Convr's Underwriting Workbench and powerful Risk Context Engine is available today for carriers and MGAs operating on any major commercial insurance core system. Organizations interested in learning more can visit convr.com or contact a Convr representative.

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