Haris Khan & Arved Pohlabeln: Novee: Redesigning underwriting for the specialty market (381)

Episode notes

In this episode, Robin Merttens sits down with Haris Khan and Arved Pohlabeln, co-founders of Novee, to unpack what’s broken in specialty underwriting - and how AI is finally in a position to fix it. Having met as consultants at Deloitte, Haris and Arved kept encountering the same themes: overworked underwriters, inconsistent submissions, and transformation efforts that rarely made a real difference. That frustration turned into action. Today, they’re building Novee - an AI assistant designed specifically for underwriters, combining insight generation with targeted automation.

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