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Pitch Day at Lloyd’s.
One of ten chosen for Cohort 17 of the Lloyd’s Lab Accelerator, from a record 280 applications. Pictures from the day.
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On 10 September we pitched at Lloyd’s for a place in Cohort 17 of the Lloyd’s Lab Accelerator. Fifteen companies presented to a room of underwriters, brokers and market experts. On 15 September Lloyd’s announced the ten selected, and Glacis is one of them, chosen from a record 280 applications. Our place is in the theme Lloyd’s calls experimental innovation.
What we pitched, in the words of the deck: a bounded layer for AI incident costs, a fixed payment after a defined control event, backed by a record that shows the event happened and which controls ran. Over ten weeks from 28 September we will work with market participants on one class of risk and ask which observations help assess a safeguard or interpret a loss.
Lloyd’s Lab runs two cohorts a year and takes around ten teams from 150 to 200 applications each time; this cohort drew 280. Lloyd’s reports that its alumni have generated $200 million in Lloyd’s premium and that 85 per cent keep a commercial relationship with the market after the programme. That is the company we are joining.
The argument we took into the room is set out in The Knowledge of the Insured, and at length in the working paper The Missing Proof.
Photographs from Lloyd’s Lab Pitch Day, 10 September 2026. Primary source for the selection: Lloyd’s Lab unveils Cohort 17 following Pitch Day in London, Lloyd’s press release, 15 September 2026.