Nearmap
Betterview Property Intelligence Platform by Nearmap
Get a holistic, actionable view of real property risk with the Betterview platform by Nearmap. Predict and prevent losses, streamline underwriting efficiency, and build a more transparent customer experience.
The Betterview Property Intelligence platform combines high quality aerial imagery with proprietary computer vision, predictive analytics, and third-party geospatial data to provide actionable insights for underwriters. With up-to-date property condition and risk factors fully integrated within the DuckCreek Policy UI, the Betterview platform powers solutions at every stage of the policy lifecycle, including rating, quoting, new business underwriting, loss control, and renewal underwriting.
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Nearmap for Insurance Solution Brief
Duck Creek Welcomes Betterview as New Ecosystem Partner Offering Risk Mitigation and Loss Control Solutions for P&C Insurers
Advantages
- Wholly owned source – Nearmap is the only provider with complete ownership and control of the imagery, the AI insights, and the software platform designed for insurance. This vertical integration eliminates third-party dependencies, ensuring unmatched consistency, accuracy, and reliability. From imagery capture to AI processing to actionable property insights, Nearmap delivers a single, reliable source of truth that insurers can depend on for critical underwriting and risk assessment decisions.
- Actionable – The Betterview platform excels at transforming aerial imagery and AI-powered property intelligence into immediate, strategic policy action. Our insights via the Duck Creek Anywhere Enabled Integration are designed to increase underwriting efficiency, optimize inspections, improve rating, and reduce losses.
- Transparent – Betterview provides complete transparency. Instead of a black box model, we show the precise size, type, and location of property issues, along with confidence scores. This transparency gives insurers the evidence they need to make confident underwriting decisions and clearly communicate risk assessments to policyholders.
Features
- AI Insights
Computer vision and machine learning models identify roof and property attributes that reveal potential risks, including roof shape, materials, condition, swimming pools, vegetations, and more. Access the largest AI insight offering in the market through the Betterview platform to predict and prevent losses, while streamlining inspections. - Roof Spotlight Index
A data-backed score that reveals overall roof condition with complete transparency. Beyond just a number, the Betterview platform visualizes the reasoning and detections on aerial imagery, enabling quick assessment of at-risk properties without costly inspections. This transparency empowers underwriters to communicate mitigation steps to policyholders, increasing satisfaction and reducing losses. - Peril Scores
Accurately assess property vulnerability and claims risk for hail, wind, wildfires, and hurricanes. These AI-powered models are trained against historical claims datasets and proven to be able to predict claims. Scores are pre-filed, validated, and approved in over 30 states for fast and confident integration into rating models. - Flagging & Property Event Monitoring
Create custom business rules that automatically flag high-risk properties based on AI attributes, peril risk scores, and partner data. Property Event Monitoring continuously tracks changes using new aerial imagery, permit records, and weather events, keeping you updated on every property in the book. Integration with Duck Creek Policy’s automated underwriting and rules engine enables confident policy decisions at quote and renewal. - Partner Connect Data Providers
Access 2,500+ geospatial data points per property from trusted partners like Guidewire HazardHub, Canopy Weather, and e2Value. Partner Connect enriches the Betterview platform’s insights and delivers a complete, actionable view of property risk in a single platform, increasing underwriting efficiency while minimizing IT effort.
Expertise
- Expert in location intelligence – Nearmap captures high-resolution aerial imagery covering 87% of the U.S. population (and 95% of the Australian population) at industry-leading sub-7cm resolution, up to 3x a year in the U.S (6x a year in AU). This owned, frequent, consistent capture is the foundation of our AI insights that ensure insurers have current, reliable property data for accurate risk assessment and underwriting decisions throughout the policy lifecycle.
- Reducing Loss Ratio – Nearmap insights within the Betterview platform empower insurers to predict and prevent losses. Top insurers avoid millions of dollars of losses and achieve over 10x ROI (return on investment).
- Improving Expense Ratio – Reduce physical inspections by ~70% through virtual assessments. Instant property data integrates directly into Duck Creek Policy — streamlining operations and cutting underwriting time and costs.
- Optimizing Customer Satisfaction – Accurate and instant property intelligence enables a rapid and precise quoting experience. Transparent insights help explain underwriting decisions and empower policyholders to take mitigation actions, build trust, and improve retention.