Five specialist AI agents deliver complete underwriting assessments in minutes; first product on the DeRISK Intelligence Platform
BOSTON, MA — May 11, 2026 — DeNexus, Inc., the industrial cyber risk quantification company, today announced the public launch of DeRISK UWA Agentic — the first agentic AI underwriting platform built specifically for industrial cyber insurance. The platform is the first product on the DeRISK Intelligence Platform, a unified agentic AI architecture designed to serve industrials, insurers, and the broader risk transfer market.
DeRISK UWA Agentic uses five specialist AI agents coordinated by an Orchestration Agent to execute a complete underwriting assessment — from submission ingestion to actuarial output — in minutes. The platform produces expected loss, maximum foreseeable loss, full loss exceedance curves, premium indication, a structured insurance program, and mandatory binding conditions with deadlines. Every finding is traceable to its source document, pipeline step, and model version.
The platform is pre-trained on all standard cyber insurance questionnaires and applications in the market today — including specialized OT supplementals and ransomware supplementals — and ingests PDF, Excel, CSV, Word, and JSON formats.
Addressing the Industrial Cyber Underwriting Gap
Industrial cyber insurance — covering manufacturers, energy producers, utilities, and critical infrastructure operators — remains one of the most complex and least standardized segments of the cyber insurance market. Underwriters typically spend 10–30 hours on a complex industrial submission, with 60–80% of that time dedicated to data extraction rather than risk assessment. OT environments — control systems, SCADA networks, safety interlocks — are frequently assessed using IT-centric frameworks that fail to account for physical consequences including equipment damage, production shutdown, and safety events.
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"The insurance industry has tools for IT risk. It does not have tools for OT risk — not at the depth or speed that underwriting demands. DeRISK UWA Agentic changes that. It delivers the capability of a specialist OT cyber underwriting team — without hiring one." José María Seara, Founder and CEO of DeNexus |
Key Capabilities
- Real-time OT threat intelligence: a proprietary cyber threat intelligence database, continuously updated with MITRE ATT&CK for ICS techniques, injected on every assessment run.
- Dual IT + OT specialist agents: two independent risk agents score the IT and OT environments in parallel against industry-standard and industrial-specialist cybersecurity frameworks, with cross-domain dependency detection.
- Sound of Silence: unanswered OT-specific questions are flagged as structural risk signals rather than treated as missing data.
- Proprietary actuarial engine: grounded in 300+ real industrial OT deployments since 2019. Modular by design — insurers can substitute their own actuarial model.
- Full adaptability: report structure, cybersecurity framework, questionnaire formats, deployment model, and workflow integration all adapt to the insurer's existing environment.
BCG Validation
BCG's Agentic AI Maturity Framework for Insurance (March 2026) positions most carriers at Horizon 0–1 — rule-based automation or single-agent tools. DeRISK UWA Agentic deploys at Horizon 2–3 on day one, with orchestrated specialist agents executing end-to-end underwriting workflows. BCG's research explicitly recommends that specialist insurers pursue buy-and-integrate strategies for agentic AI capability rather than attempting to build from scratch.
Availability and Commercial Model
DeRISK UWA Agentic is available in three tiers — Standard (triage), Professional (peer review), and Enterprise (bind + API integration) — with a phase-in approach designed for low-risk adoption. The platform is designed for regulatory compliance across four jurisdictions: US/NAIC, UK/FCA, Lloyd's, and EU/EIOPA.
DeRISK UWA Agentic is the first product on the DeRISK Intelligence Platform. Additional products are in development.
Early Adopter Validation
Chaucer Group, a Lloyd's syndicate with a specialist cyber underwriting book, participated in the DeRISK UWA Agentic early adopter program and has approved being named publicly as an early adopter.
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"DeRISK UWA delivers cyber risk insights for industrial sectors quickly and in a format underwriters can use to make informed decisions — or provide a deep dive into complex OT and property damage factors." Chris Norwood, Cyber Analyst, Chaucer Group |
About DeNexus
DeNexus is building the global standard for industrial cyber risk quantification. The company's DeRISK platform serves industrial operators, insurers, and the risk transfer market with agentic AI-powered cyber risk quantification, threat intelligence, and underwriting automation. With 300+ CRQ implementations across two continents, DeNexus is the only company with a native OT cyber risk dataset built at the account level. For more information, visit denexus.io.