BirdsEyeView, a European Space Agency-backed insurtech specialising in natural catastrophe modelling and exposure management, has launched CERA, an enhanced ‘Catastrophic Exposure and Risk Analytics’ platform. This aims to represent the next generation evolution of the firm’s Hazard Modelling platform.
The multi-peril platform incorporates the company’s latest street-level resolution North America and Australia wildfire models, an updated ML tropical cyclone model, and an earthquake model, with a new hail model scheduled for release by the end of the first quarter of 2026.
The launch supports the firm’s long-term growth strategy, with new perils and enhancements added quarterly. In the second quarter, the company aims to introduce CERA AI, a co-pilot functionality designed to enhance underwriting decision-making.
The recent launch of an AI Data Scrubbing tool further enhances data quality and modelling accuracy at scale.
The platform features globally available primary and secondary peril catastrophe exposure and risk analytics, in combination with probabilistic hazard modelling, enhanced with live exposure management and reporting.
James Rendell, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, BirdsEyeView, said, “This launch marks a significant milestone BirdsEyeView, already a major provider in the Lloyd’s market. CERA® is stronger, broader, and more capable than anything else on the market.
“By combining the sophistication of traditional catastrophe modelling platforms with the usability and speed of modern hazard tools, CERA® delivers actionable risk intelligence at the point of underwriting decision, furthering our mission to become the go-to provider in the UK, Australian, Canadian, and US markets.”
CERA is designed for insurers, MGAs, and brokers globally, enabling users to model broker-submitted schedules instantly for flood, wildfire, severe convective storm, tropical cyclone, and earthquake risk.
The platform can also monitor live portfolio aggregates across binders and open market business, receive automatic hazard alerts when forecast events threaten insured exposures, and generate rapid forecast loss and exposure reports.
Additionally, CERA can clean and geolocate up to 10,000 locations simultaneously using AI, and integrate seamlessly via API with internal pricing and exposure systems
BirdsEyeView works with a growing proportion of the Lloyd’s insurer and Coverholder market across Australia, Canada, and the US.
