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Commercial cover

Cover for a business we already understand.

Commercial cover meant to be written by us, or through a partner carrier, for a risk our other platforms already read from the site, the books, the loss history, and the owner, and priced by the same desk that tells credit whether the premium can be financed.

  • Insurance line
  • By us or a partner carrier
  • One underwriting desk
  • Not formed

The risk the platforms already read

A business known before it is covered: the site, the books, the loss history, and the owner.

What we source

Cover meant to be written by us, or through a partner carrier, limited to the scenarios our other platforms already understand.

Commercial cover is what the Insurance line is meant to write, and narrowly on purpose. The holding company is meant to write cover itself, or place it through a partner carrier, only for scenarios its other platforms already handle: the business that finances its premium, the operator with equipment and a contract, the storefront, clinic or workplace held as performing property.

What we run

The underwriting desk, on the same file that tells credit whether the premium can be financed.

Before a risk is priced, the desk reads the file those platforms hold: the site where the work happens, the books behind it, the loss history on it, and the owner who runs it. The desk belongs to the holding company, not to the platform, and it keeps one file for two jobs: the read that prices the cover is the read that tells credit whether the premium can be financed, so a business that finances its premium is underwritten once, not twice.

How it is checked

Underwriting, in-house audit, risk assessment, and active asset management.

Every policy is meant to sit on the same four controls as every other asset we hold: priced by our own underwriting before capital moves, checked in-house rather than reported, assessed for how the scenario fails before the risk is priced, and run day to day. A risk the file does not support is turned away, and that is where the premium is kept.

How the desk prices a risk

Read the file

The site, the books, the loss history, and the owner, read from the file our lending and specialty finance platforms are built to hold, so the desk starts from what we know rather than what we are told.

Price the risk

How the scenario fails is assessed before the cover is priced, and the price is set by our own underwriting before any capital moves.

Turn away the wrong risk

A risk the file does not support is declined rather than priced up; the desk is meant to write only what the platforms already understand.

Audit

Performance is checked in-house by the holding company, not reported up by the platform. Active asset management runs the book day to day, and the risk turned away is the premium kept.

Commercial cover FAQ

Has Build Capital written any commercial cover?

No. The Insurance line is in research, moving to structured, and the carrier model is still being chosen; no policy has been written, and nothing on this page is an offer.

Does a business have to finance its premium to be covered?

No. The desk keeps one file for two jobs, so a business that would rather not have the whole annual premium leave its account at once is read once, for the cover and for the finance, and a business that pays the premium outright is read on the same file.