This marks a key moment in the history of McKenzie Intelligence Services and the GEO platform.
McKenzie Intelligence Services (MIS), a global leader in geospatial intelligence and insurance technology, has reached a significant milestone with its Global Events Observer (GEO) platform. MIS have now responded to over 200 global catastrophic events since its launch in 2021 delivering intelligence to the global insurance industry on a wide-range of perils across the world.
Covering an average of 66 catastrophic events per year, GEO has proven to be an indispensable tool for insurers. MIS offers rapid, actionable intelligence for perils including hurricanes, wildfires, floods, tornadoes, earthquakes, and civil unrest. This milestone underscores MIS’ dedication to equipping the market with the insights needed to accelerate decision making and ensure greater accuracy for claims’ processes and catastrophe responses.
Reflecting on the journey, Forbes McKenzie, founder and CEO of MIS, said: “Reaching 200 event reports in GEO over just three years highlights the platform’s value to the industry and the increasing frequency of natural and human-made disasters. GEO’s ability to integrate multi-sourced data and deliver precise insights has transformed how insurers respond to events, from understanding portfolio exposures to accelerating claims triage.”
The GEO platform integrates cutting-edge AI with military intelligence expertise to evaluate property damage using sources such as imagery from satellites, aerial, and where possible human intelligence from ground-based data. This unique combination of data points enables MIS to process raw data into actionable intelligence for insurers so that what they are receiving from MIS is in near real-time.
In 2024, MIS has responded to over 50 major global events on GEO across 37 countries. 27 of those events were in the US and what’s more, this was across nine different perils. Wildfires triggered the most responses in 2024, with 11 event reports, followed by 9 for flooding and 7 for hurricanes.
Major events covered since GEO’s launch in 2021, include:
- Hurricane Milton: The biggest event of 2024 for the insurance industry, seeing 19 MIS intelligence releases via GEO over 21 days, including the analysis for Wind and Flood Claims Grids, Ground Level Imagery, and 15cm Aerial Imagery
- Hurricane Ian (Florida, 2022): Assessed 168,000 relevant in-force client locations with in-depth damage evaluations for one of the most economically damaging insurance events in recent times
- Hawaii Wildfires (2023): Delivered assessments for 3,000 impacted properties within 72 hours, identifying physical and internal damage risks
- Turkey/Syria Earthquake (2023): Pinpointing client’s affected insured buildings within 12 hours, facilitating immediate resource deployment to affected policyholders
MIS continues to enhance GEO’s capabilities to meet the demands of an industry facing increasingly frequent and complex catastrophic events. The platform’s ability to streamline decision-making post-event has earned recognition from prestigious industry organisations and strengthened its position as an essential resource for (re)insurers, loss adjusters and policyholders
As the frequency of disasters rises due to climate change, MIS remains committed to enhancing its unique GEO platform to empower insurers to make faster, better-informed decisions, worldwide.
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About McKenzie Intelligence Services
McKenzie Intelligence Services (MIS) provides immediate post event, multi-sourced data and the military grade intelligence that creates dynamic and three-dimensional loss information. Using its proprietary Saas, geospatial platform, the Global Events Observer (GEO), MIS systematically tracks and responds to catastrophes. GEO has the ability to host a vastly broad dataset, including satellite and drone imagery, radar, mobile phone, ground, and sensor data. This raw data, it is vetted by trained and experienced former military intelligence analysts to ensure accuracy and then translated into something actionable, which means when clients receive the intelligence, they can rely upon it immediately rather than having to undertake additional work. MIS empower decision making in real time, vital in the immediate aftermath of a major event, whether from natural catastrophes or man-made conflicts, all involving multi- peril coverage.
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