Q&A: Tim Hardcastle, Instanda
Tim Hardcastle, CEO and co-founder of Instanda, speaks to Insurance Post about the progress of his complex commercial lines product, promising underwriting agentic pilots, and the ‘black box’ limit in artificial intelligence.
In 2025, you revealed plans for a “moonshot” complex commercial lines product, which was due to be launched at the end of the year. What is the current status of this project?We are guilty of being a
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