“We matter as a result of we will present a degree of help … to insurance coverage carriers right this moment to make them extra environment friendly and to offer a greater buyer expertise,” Donovan mentioned.
In different phrases, fraud detection has implications effectively past simply detecting fraud.
“When it comes to fraud detection, with the ability to put automated detection on the entrance of our claims course of to assist establish claims, it’s not nearly discovering fraud but it surely’s serving to a consumer to phase and establish the meritorious claims as effectively,” Donovan mentioned. “You solely wish to kick out the claims which have some anomalous sample, or points, or behaviors, related to them. In any other case, you need that consumer to have a seamless buyer expertise.”
Shift’s expertise permits this by automating and rushing up fraud and claims processes {that a} consumer firm can leverage extra broadly throughout the group, Donovan mentioned.
Shift launched in 2014 in Paris and grew in Europe and Asia earlier than initially increasing to the US market in 2018. Its US headquarters is in Boston.
So far, Shift has raised $320 million in enterprise funding total, cash that has fueled an accelerated enlargement within the US market in addition to a shift into healthcare. The corporate employs 500 individuals and counting.
Shift has 135 prospects globally, together with greater than 30 within the US alone. Within the US, that covers 5 of the highest 10 insurers and plenty of midsize super-regional carriers, in accordance with Donovan. The corporate works with European insurers akin to AXA and has additionally generated “a really giant footprint” within the healthcare market there, he added.
Main US prospects embrace Assurant, CNA, Central Insurance coverage, Falcon Insurance coverage and Elephant.
The tech particulars
Shift’s core product is its claims fraud detection platform, in the marketplace since 2014. Since then, the corporate has developed add-ons targeted on underwriting fraud detection, subrogation detection and claims choices – all a part of an SaaS [software-as-a-service] method.
The core platform takes core knowledge and works with it in complicated methods.
“We use all of a consumer’s knowledge … all the things that’s associated to the declare from the primary discover of loss by means of the lifetime of a declare,” Donovan mentioned.
That features exhausting knowledge fields, in addition to unstructured knowledge akin to declare notes, medical payments, estimates, paperwork and buyer photographs.
Shift manages, normalizes, reconstructs and cleanses the information to arrange it for analytics.
The corporate’s method stands out, he mentioned, as a result of Shift’s fraud detection focuses solely on insurance coverage and depends closely on knowledge science.
“We spent all of our time constructing our firm round insurance coverage P/C and healthcare, so we’ve acquired a really giant knowledge science staff and that’s their space of experience,” Donovan mentioned. “With a whole lot of different gamers available in the market, round fraud particularly, they play in a number of verticals. They’re doing banking and bank cards, they’re doing different stuff … we’re targeted simply on insurance coverage.”
Buyer integration
Shift begins a buyer integration course of by having the consumer ship it knowledge for evaluation.
“We do all of the heavy lifting on that, and the consumer can ship us their knowledge in any format. We map it to our knowledge fashions, we clear that knowledge, we do the information reconstruction – we do all that work behind the scenes,” Donovan mentioned.
Subsequent, Shift applies analytics to the information and produces related output for the client.
Right here’s the way it can work: Shift has a standalone devoted consumer interface designed to be simple to make use of for the purchasers. By way of that, the corporate would situation a situation after evaluating the information explaining why it believes fraud is in play, showcasing underlying variables that help its case.
Prospects then get hyperlinks to supporting knowledge pulled both from their claims system or exterior knowledge sources.
At that time, a consumer can select to be built-in into the system, through APIs so Shift can push output from its fashions into the consumer interface straight right into a consumer’s core declare system.
Shift additionally expedites the method by means of partnerships with Guidewire, Duck Creek and Sapiens, amongst others – all firms that offer platforms and methods for a lot of carriers. By doing so, Shift purchasers can linkup extra simply to Shift’s platform.
Integration can run from weeks to a couple months, relying on the consumer.
“There’s sometimes work the consumer has to do on their aspect to arrange their surroundings for the connector,” Donovan mentioned.