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Nettle Joins Guidewire Insurtech Vanguards Program

Jack Miller

Jul 16, 2025

LONDON, July 16, 2025 – nettle, an innovative AI-powered risk assessment and report generation solution for commercial insurers, has announced that the company has joined Guidewire’s Insurtech Vanguards program, an initiative led by property and casualty (P&C) cloud platform provider, Guidewire (NYSE: GWRE), to help insurers learn about the newest insurtechs and how to best leverage them.


Jack Miller,
Co-Founder and CEO of nettle

“We’re excited to partner with Guidewire and join the Insurtech Vanguards program. At nettle, our mission is to modernise risk assessment. Already, commercial insurers using nettle’s AI tooling are seeing up to five times gains in productivity. With as many as 40% of risk engineers set to retire within the next 5 years, Guidewire’s P&C ecosystem expands access to nettle precisely when the industry needs it most,”


Insurtech Vanguards is a community of select startups and technology providers that are bringing novel solutions to the P&C industry. As part of the program, Guidewire provides strategic guidance to and advocates for the participating insurtechs, while connecting them with Guidewire’s P&C customers.


Laura Drabik,
Chief Evangelist of Guidewire

“nettle exemplifies the next wave of insurtech innovation. Their use of AI to eliminate bottlenecks in risk assessment is not only timely - it’s transformational. We’re excited to welcome them to the Insurtech Vanguard program,”


nettle allows risk engineering and underwriting teams to:

  • Instantly enrich client data from underwriting systems with tailored insights from NatCat, web, standards, loss history, and more

  • Analyse images, voice notes, and documents collected on-site via an intuitive mobile app

  • Automatically complete inspection surveys, risk scoring, and recommendations using nettle’s bespoke AI, generating comprehensive risk reports in one click

  • Analyse risk reports in any language and format to extract key insights in seconds

About nettle

nettle is an AI-powered platform that revolutionises commercial insurance by streamlining risk assessment. Combining remote risk identification, bespoke inspection guides, mobile evidence analysis, and instant report generation, nettle transforms the week-long process of surveying and assessing commercial risks into a one-click solution. By automating manual tasks, nettle enables insurers to underwrite more business, faster, and with greater precision.

About the author

Jack Miller is co-founder and CEO of nettle. Prior to launching nettle, Jack was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company and a Principal Product Manager at QuantumBlack, where he scaled a suite of 20 AI insurance products to $1M+ ARR and deployed with 100+ insurers globally.

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