Cytora, the UK-based digital risk processing platform, has formed a strategic partnership with Altitude Intelligence.
The alliance aims to incorporate geospatial and climate risk intelligence directly into insurance underwriting processes.
Under the agreement, Altitude Intelligence’s multi-source geospatial and fusion data will be integrated into Cytora’s platform.
This is designed to allow commercial insurers to automatically enhance presentations with location-specific and weather-related information at the underwriting stage.
The collaboration brings together open source intelligence and detailed geospatial analysis so insurers can stop conducting manual location investigations.
Instead, fragmented shipping data can be converted into a single, consolidated picture of physical risk exposure through automated data entries.
Cytora COO Juan de Castro said: “Accurate geospatial context is the foundation of modern property underwriting. Our partnership with Altitude Intelligence brings a sophisticated layer of multi-source fusion and geospatial data directly to the risk processing workflow.”
Cytora said the agreement will help underwriters visualize and quantify physical and climate risks linked to individual assets, supporting pricing and capacity decisions with real-time intelligence.
According to the press release, Cytora’s AI-generated risk processing has been integrated with Altitude Intelligence’s intelligence-as-a-service model.
The combination is designed to simplify the “enrichment” phase of underwriting, shorten decision cycles and strengthen portfolio resilience to climate-related threats.
The partnership is part of Cytora’s broader plan to expand its data ecosystem for insurers.
Altitude Intelligence’s head of analytics, Santiago Fisher, added: “By integrating our specialized, multi-sourced geospatial capabilities into the Cytora platform, we ensure commercial insurers have seamless access to the actionable insights they need to navigate an increasingly complex risk landscape.”
Last September, Applied Systems acquired Cytora, with the goal of accelerating the execution of its Digital Roundtrip of Insurance strategy.
Earlier this month, Cytora also partnered with Climatig, a provider of physical climate risk calculation tools, to integrate climate risk analysis into its digital risk processing platform.
This measure allows users to access climate data from Climatig as part of their assessment processes, providing underwriters with additional information to assess exposure at both an asset and portfolio level.