CLARA · Interactive Cyber Risk Companion

Your client just asked what a widespread event exclusion means. For the ninth time this month.

Cyber is the fastest-growing line in the book and the slowest conversation in the office. CLARA answers the questions that eat your producers' week, instantly, accurately, and in the language of the policy, so the meeting can be about the decision instead of the definition.

NameCLARA · Cyber Liability and Risk Advisor Developed byLodestone Risk LabsIllustrative Release2.4Illustrative DeploymentHosted · Embedded · White-label

The problem isn't appetite. It's translation.

Cyber buyers arrive without the vocabulary. They cannot evaluate a quote they cannot read, so they default to price, and the broker spends the placement defending a decision the client never really understood.

That knowledge gap is expensive in both directions. It burns producer hours at the front of the process and produces disputes, declinations and lapsed renewals at the back of it. Every attempt to close it with a PDF glossary has failed, because nobody reads a glossary. People ask questions.

Eight concepts explained on repeat
Applications returned incomplete
Control gaps found at bind, not at bind minus 60
Limits chosen by peer benchmark, not exposure
Coverage arguments traced to a clause nobody read aloud
The answer

So give them something that answers. CLARA moves that knowledge to the front of the process, where it is cheap, instead of the back, where it is expensive.

What CLARA is.

CLARA is a conversational interface to the cyber insurance market. Not a quoting engine, and not a chatbot bolted onto a marketing site. A user asks in plain language; CLARA answers in the language of the policy, cites the clause or data source behind the answer, and keeps the thread so the next question builds on the last.

Retail brokers & producers

Answer tier-one client questions instantly; arrive at the renewal meeting with the coverage conversation already half-done.

Underwriting & wholesale teams

Receive submissions that are complete, consistent, and framed against the controls that actually move price.

Insureds & risk managers

Understand what is covered, what is excluded, and what evidence a carrier will want, before the application is opened.

Core capabilities.Illustrative

Everything below happens in one continuous conversation, in plain language, with the clause or data source cited behind each answer.

Policy language translation

Explains forms, endorsements, sublimits and exclusions, from war and widespread event to betterment and prior acts, clause by clause.

Coverage-part explainers

Network security and privacy liability, business interruption and contingent BI, extortion, funds transfer fraud, media, regulatory defense.

Control readiness walkthrough

Steps a client through MFA scope, EDR, immutable backups, privileged access, email filtering, patch cadence and IR testing.

Gap flagging before submission

Identifies the answers most likely to trigger a referral, a subjectivity, or a declination, while there is still time to fix them.

Exposure narrative

Builds a scenario story scaled to industry, revenue band and data footprint, with modeled frequency and severity ranges.

Limits and retention framing

Supports the "how much is enough" discussion with modeled loss exceedance rather than peer benchmarks alone.

Claims-path navigation

First-72-hours sequence, notice provisions, panel vendor selection, consent-to-settle mechanics.

Session-to-submission output

Converts the conversation into a structured, citable summary the placement team can attach to a submission.

What a user can ask it
"My carrier added a widespread event exclusion. What does that actually take away?"
"We run MFA on email but not on remote access. How much does that hurt us?"
"What is the difference between contingent BI and system failure coverage?"
"We're a 900-employee manufacturer at $400M revenue. Is a $10M limit defensible?"
"Walk me through what happens in the first 24 hours of a ransomware notice."

What changes when CLARA is in the room.Illustrative

The definitional half of the cyber conversation moves to the client's own time. What reaches your producers, and the market, is the decision half.

6.5 hrs

Producer time back, per placement

The definitional half of the cyber conversation happens before the meeting, on the client's own time. Your producers arrive to a client who already knows what they're choosing between.

Illustrative modeled figure

Fewer incomplete submissions

Control gaps surface during the conversation, not during underwriting review, so what reaches the market is complete, consistent and quotable on the first pass.

Illustrative modeled figure
24/7

An expert who never leaves the desk

Every office, every producer, every time zone gets the same answer to the same question, with the clause or data source attached to it.

Always-on availability
$0

Additional headcount required

CLARA scales the knowledge of your best cyber specialist across the whole book without hiring a second one. Or a fifth.

Deploys hosted, embedded or white-label
The conversation, before and after
Today
With CLARA
"I'll get back to you on what that endorsement takes away."
The client already read the answer, with the clause cited, at 9pm the night before.
Application returned by the underwriter for the fourth time.
Gaps flagged and closed before submission; one clean pass to market.
"Everyone your size buys $10 million."
"Here is your modeled loss exceedance, and here is what $10 million actually leaves on the table."
Cyber expertise concentrated in two people and a shared inbox.
The same standard of answer available to every producer in every office.
The claim arrives and nobody remembers the notice provision.
First-72-hours sequence, notice terms and panel vendors on screen in seconds.
Illustrative testimonial · placeholder for concept review

"We stopped losing renewals to price the moment clients could actually read what they were buying. The conversation moved from 'why is this so expensive' to 'what should we fix first.'"

Head of Cyber Practice, national retail brokerage

How a session works.

Three or four framing questions, then a free conversation. Every substantive answer carries an inline citation, and the whole thread exports as something a placement team can use.

Frame

Set the scene

CLARA opens by establishing sector, size, data types and current program structure. Three or four questions, not a form.

Converse

Ask freely

The user asks in plain language. Every answer carries an inline citation to a form, clause, threat source or modeled figure.

Pressure-test

Surface the gaps

CLARA states plainly which gaps the conversation exposed, and which ones a carrier will price or refer.

Hand off

Export the session

The session exports as a structured summary: questions asked, gaps found, coverage points raised, for the broker or underwriter.

Where it earns its keep
Pre-submission

Readiness

Walk the insured through the controls carriers price on, and fix what's fixable while there's still time to fix it.

At the table

Placement

Explain quotes, sublimits and exclusions side by side, so the client chooses on coverage rather than on premium alone.

Post-bind

Stewardship

Answer the mid-term questions and the first-notice questions that would otherwise land on a producer's phone at midnight.

Under the hood.Illustrative

A retrieval-constrained system with deterministic guardrails: CLARA answers only from her curated corpus, and says so when the corpus is silent.

Reasoning layer

Large language model constrained by retrieval. CLARA answers only from her curated corpus and says so when the corpus is silent.

Knowledge corpus

Standard and manuscript policy forms, carrier appetite guides, regulatory notification regimes, published claims precedent, threat intelligence and industry loss data.

Quantification

Frequency and severity distributions expressed as loss exceedance ranges, refreshed on a scheduled cadence.

Guardrails

Deterministic refusal on quoting, binding, and legal advice. Every substantive answer is citation-linked; unsupported answers are withheld rather than approximated.

Interface

Browser-based chat, embeddable in a broker portal or client extranet. No installation. Full session transcript available to the user.

Security & privacyIllustrative
  • No training on customer data. Session content is never used to retrain the underlying model.
  • Encryption in transit and at rest, with tenant-level key separation.
  • Configurable retention, from ephemeral sessions to a retained audit trail, set per deployment.
  • SOC 2 Type II control environment; regional data residency available.
  • Role-scoped access so a client-facing instance cannot surface internal appetite or pricing material.
What CLARA does not do
  • It does not quote, bind, or issue coverage.
  • It does not give legal advice or render a coverage determination on a live claim.
  • It does not replace the broker. It removes the repetitive half of the conversation so the judgment half gets more time.
  • It does not guess. Where the corpus has no answer, it says so and routes the question to a human.
Value proposition

Every client conversation starts from an informed client. The cost of cyber insurance is not only premium; it is the hours spent explaining the same eight concepts, the submissions returned incomplete, and the disputes that trace back to a clause nobody read aloud.

Now put it to the test.

Bring the three questions your clients ask most and put them to CLARA directly. No integration, no data to hand over, no form to fill. Click her card below to start a live session, by voice or text.