Services

What engagement looks like

Clear scopes. Built for precision on insurance program design and placement with carriers, and for retained advisory when teams want ongoing senior judgment on key insurance coverages.

Matthew Bishop

Independent advice for corporate risk teams and operators. This practice does not sell policies for commission.

Engagement principles

  • Risk Management Consulting for a fee — no placement commission from carriers
  • Construction cover (builders’ risk and delay in start-up) treated separately from operating property damage and business interruption
  • Explicit attention to whether business interruption, contingent business interruption, cyber, and supply-chain wording are adequate for the footprint
  • Plain-language reporting for executives and boards
  • Artificial intelligence treated as tools and capabilities — judgment still decides what may bind; no model-as-underwriter theater
  • Risk-platform thinking when operating models need intake, guidelines, and portfolio views
  • Confidentiality respected; industry-class language only unless cleared
  • Written deliverables and a clean hand-off at engagement close
Primary

Program design and placement support

Four-to-twelve-week advisory engagements for technology, data-center, and semiconductor programs — before the market sets terms, or when an existing tower needs a buyer-side reset with carriers.

  • Tower and retention architecture across property and liability layers
  • Breadth across nine lines of business from prior specialty leadership: general liability, cyber, tech errors and omissions, property, energy, power, construction, political risk, and EIL (environmental impairment liability)
  • Submission quality and narrative that specialty underwriters can underwrite
  • Construction-to-operations transition (builders’ risk versus operating property and business interruption)
  • Business interruption and contingent business interruption limits, waiting periods, and dependent-property schedules
  • Supply-chain and service-interruption policy wording judgment
  • Cyber and emerging artificial intelligence risk cover relative to the rest of the tower
  • Accumulation and lender pressure points on concentrated campuses
  • Alternative Risk Solutions conversations when annual open-market structures are not enough
Capability

Risk platforms and AI tools

Hands-on help designing and governing risk platforms and artificial intelligence capabilities that underwriters and risk teams will actually use.

  • Intake, guidelines, referral, and portfolio views
  • Where models accelerate review versus where human judgment still binds
  • Workflow governance without hype
  • Buyer- and carrier-side platform language
  • Practical tooling for placement, risk identification, and wording watchpoints
Retainer

Retained risk advisory

Scheduled senior capacity for companies that want ongoing buyer-side judgment without waiting for a crisis renewal.

  • Office hours with finance and legal
  • Broker challenge function on submission quality and program structure
  • Light-touch renewal oversight with carriers and markets
  • Escalation when placements go sideways or wording gaps surface mid-term
Available

Short-cycle leadership support

Available for short-cycle leadership support on renewals, broker transitions, or concentrated project windows — when a team needs senior capacity for a defined stretch. This is not the lead offer and is not marketed as temporary Risk Manager fill-in.

Capability stack behind the offer

The same seven pillars as the home page: engineering depth, risk management and internal controls, board experience, underwriting, broking, AI tools and capabilities, and building risk platforms.

Who this is for

  • Technology companies with material property, business interruption, and contingent business interruption exposure
  • Data-center developers and operators facing construction and operating coverage decisions
  • Semiconductor and high-tech manufacturing footprints with supply-chain and accumulation pressure
  • Heavy industrial and auto companies with sophisticated towers and dependent-property risk
  • Not a fit: commodity personal-lines work
  • Not a fit: plain real-estate-only risk manager shops as the primary wedge
  • Not a fit: clients seeking dual-agency broker commissions