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Insurance due diligence, written down honestly

How insurance diligence on a deal target is done today, how the agents work inside the practice’s authority, and illustrative engagements followed from an empty data room to a delivered report — with the screens and what the agents cited. Every target, carrier and figure is fictional.

Ground truth

Insurance due diligence, the way it is done today

Forty PDFs, a spreadsheet, two weeks and the report still misses the tail.

October 29, 2026 · 10 min read
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How it works

Nine diligence agents, one engagement

Read the data room, analyse the program, report and a person signs off.

October 29, 2026 · 12 min read
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Grounded figures: the model explains, the engine counts

If the number is not on the page, the sentence does not ship.

October 29, 2026 · 10 min read
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The engagement's decision record

Every review, every control, every answer, signed and in order.

October 29, 2026 · 9 min read
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The autonomy dial, and why it ships at ask-first

Draft, ask first, act and tell, act and the evidence that earns each notch.

October 29, 2026 · 9 min read
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Engagement controls in the Rules Studio

Four sentences a practice leader can read, and the report waits until they pass.

October 29, 2026 · 9 min read
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A diligence copilot that cites the data room

Ask about the target on screen; every figure in the answer is checked.

October 29, 2026 · 8 min read
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The program after closing: what the buyer will really pay

The seller's master program ends at closing. The target's premium does not stay the same.

October 29, 2026 · 9 min read
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Tails, run-off and change of control

Claims-made cover stops at closing unless someone buys the tail.

October 29, 2026 · 10 min read
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Use cases

An industrial target on its parent's program

Four lines on the seller's master program, a TCE plume and a product suit.

October 29, 2026 · 16 min read
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A software target with uncapped contracts

Three enterprise contracts promise more than the cyber policy can pay.

October 29, 2026 · 15 min read
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A logistics target with large auto losses

A tractor-trailer suit above the auto limit, a captive and collateral to unwind.

October 29, 2026 · 16 min read
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Use cases

A senior care operator with a captive

Medical professional in a captive, a wrongful death suit and no D&O.

October 29, 2026 · 15 min read
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A food manufacturer after an uninsured recall

$1.1 million of recall cost, no recall policy, and a subsidiary on its own GL.

October 29, 2026 · 14 min read
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Carving a business out of a global program

Every policy names the parent. On the day after closing, none of them will.

October 29, 2026 · 13 min read
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A vendor review: the certificate and the contract disagree

The MSA asks for $5 million of cyber. The certificate shows $3 million.

October 29, 2026 · 12 min read
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Connected suite

From diligence finding to R&W exclusion: the hand-off to InsightDealDesk

A reviewed finding travels, signed, and lands as a likely exclusion.

October 29, 2026 · 13 min read
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Connected suite

Target 360: what InsightPulse knows about the target

The subsidiary the schedule forgot is in the corporate hierarchy.

October 29, 2026 · 9 min read
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Reading the data room: schedules, policies and loss runs

A policy is only useful once its limit, retro date and clause are fields with a page.

October 29, 2026 · 9 min read
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