Cinch Home Services, a home protection brand, announced its latest partnership with TrustedChoice.com, a digital marketing platform for the independent insurance industry.

TrustedChoice.com provides products for its network of independent insurance agents. Through the partnership, Cinch will directly support the independent agencies who operate through TrustedChoice.com by offering its home protection plans via the channel.

Cinch offers affordable home protection plans that help cover the repair or replacement of major appliances and systems. By combining home insurance with a Cinch protection plan, homeowners are protected from not only unexpected accidents and emergencies, but everyday breakdowns of critical home systems and appliances.

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ZestyAI, a provider of climate and property risk analytics solutions powered by artificial intelligence, announced a relationship with West Bend Mutual Insurance Company to analyze property risk in its existing portfolio and enhance the inspection process.

Using ZestyAI’s property risk analytics platform, Z-PROPERTY, West Bend will conduct a comprehensive review of its residential portfolio with a specific emphasis on assessing roof condition. To get a comprehensive analysis of roof quality and condition, West Bend will leverage ZestyAI’s Digital Roof solution within Z-PROPERTY, which is an artificial intelligence generated, three dimensional analysis offering insights on roof condition, complexity, and potential points of failure.

ZestyAI’s Z-PROPERTY platform uses computer vision and machine learning to extract insights from aerial and satellite imagery, among other data sources, for more than 150 million residential and commercial properties. ZestyAI continuously monitors and accounts for changes in property condition, maintenance, and upgrades, enhancing the accuracy of risk assessments.

With Z-PROPERTY, insurers can assess their entire book of policies and identify the highest-risk properties. These portfolio reviews require no IT integration or setup and are available for every property in North America.

West Bend is using ZestyAI data in its residential renewal underwriting process. Trained representatives make all final decisions regarding coverage.

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Small commercial insurance solution platform, Bold Penguin, announced a partnership with myCOI, enabling myCOI users to seamlessly access additional small commercial insurance needs.

Bold Penguin’s integrated digital solution platform aims to simplify small commercial insurance for agents and brokers. myCOI helps companies collect, verify, and monitor insurance tracking certificates in one platform. myCOI will leverage Bold Penguin’s Exchange and Storefront products, allowing myCOI users to not only track their current commercial insurance certificates within their platform, but also access the insurance coverage that fits their needs via the Bold Penguin Exchange.

myCOI streamlines certificate of insurance management for third-party relationships, such as vendors, suppliers, tenants, subcontractors, and carriers. This partnership will allow those third party vendors to gain access to additional coverage options when new insurance is needed or to fill gaps in current coverage.

Sources: Cinch Home Services, ZestyAI, Bold Penguin