ArgosBrain · For cyber & E&O insurers

You're insuring code
you can't see.

Your insureds now ship software that's 70–90% written by AI. Questionnaires are self-reported. External scans see the perimeter. Neither sees the code. ArgosBrain gives your underwriters a deterministic, code-level risk signal — generated locally at the insured, so you get the evidence without ever hosting their source. The same report that prices their risk lowers their premium, which is why they run it.

01The risk you can't price

AI writes the code now. Your insureds can't fully vouch for it — and neither can you.

The fastest-growing exposure in your book is the one your current tooling can't see. As of 2026, AI generates the majority of code at the companies you insure — 70–90% at frontier shops, and climbing everywhere else. With it comes measurable risk: GitHub's 2026 data shows broken-access-control vulnerabilities up 172% year over year, with AI-generated scaffolds cited as a cause; engineering telemetry across 22,000 developers shows production incidents up 242% after AI adoption.

Your signals weren't built for this. Questionnaires are self-reported — the insured grades their own homework. External attack-surface scanners (BitSight, SecurityScorecard) see the perimeter, not the code. Manual code review doesn't scale across a portfolio. So the single biggest shift in software risk in a decade is, to your underwriters, invisible.

02The underwriting signal

A code-level risk assessment — deterministic, not self-reported.

ArgosBrain walks the insured's actual codebase end-to-end and produces a structural risk report. For an underwriter, it answers the questions that actually predict a claim:

  • Where sensitive data flows — every path customer / PII / payment data travels, from entry to storage.
  • External attack surface — every reachable entry point, and exactly what (if anything) guards each one.
  • Security risks, ranked — SSRF, injection, exposed secrets, missing auth — each traced to a file and line.
  • Dead & unreachable code — extra attack surface the AI left behind that nobody is maintaining.
  • Unfinished "fake-done" work — stubs the AI called complete: the gaps that surface as production incidents.

Because the engine is deterministic, the same codebase yields the same report every time — a standardized code-health signal you can price against and compare across your whole book.

And the part that makes insureds say yes: the report is generated locally, on the insured's machine. You receive the signed, verifiable report — you never host, transmit, or even see the source code. No data-room, no IP exposure, no new breach surface on your side.

03Why your insureds will say yes

The same report that prices their risk lowers their premium.

Adoption usually dies when a carrier asks an insured to do more work for the carrier's benefit. ArgosBrain inverts that: the insured has three reasons of their own to run it.

  • Better terms. Proving their code is clean earns a lower premium or unblocks coverage that a blank questionnaire couldn't.
  • Faster underwriting. One signed report instead of a months-long questionnaire-and-follow-up loop.
  • One report, many doors. The exact same evidence closes enterprise sales reviews and clears investor due diligence. They were going to need it anyway.

And it stays local-first — their source never leaves their machine, so even security-sensitive insureds can comply without a fight. You ask once; they have every incentive to keep running it.

04The flywheel

Recommend it once. It compounds.

Because the insured wants to run it and you want the signal, adoption isn't a cost you carry — it's a loop that tightens on its own:

  • You recommend or require an ArgosBrain report for better terms.
  • Insureds adopt it — for the premium, the speed, and their own sales and fundraising.
  • You get a standardized, comparable code-health signal across your entire book.
  • More insureds → more outcome data → sharper pricing → the signal earns more weight in your model.

ArgosBrain becomes both your risk signal and your distribution — at zero customer-acquisition cost to you. The carrier that adopts it first sets the standard the rest of the market follows.

05vs what you use today

Questionnaires self-report. Scanners see the perimeter. We read the code.

  • vs self-reported questionnaires — the insured grades themselves and you find out at claim time. ArgosBrain is computed from the actual code, not asserted.
  • vs external attack-surface scanners (BitSight, SecurityScorecard) — they rate the perimeter from the outside. ArgosBrain reads the structure from the inside, where the risk lives.
  • vs manual code review / pentest — expensive, slow, and unrepeatable across a portfolio. ArgosBrain is deterministic, runs in minutes, and costs nothing at the margin per insured.
  • vs LLM-based code scanners — an LLM's non-deterministic opinion, usually run in their cloud. ArgosBrain returns file-and-line facts, generated on the insured's machine.

It doesn't replace your stack — it adds the one layer none of them have: deterministic, code-level evidence.

06Honest limits

What this is, and what it isn't.

ArgosBrain is structural reachability — necessary evidence, not a guarantee. It shows the code paths and surfaces the risks; it does not prove that tainted data dynamically reaches a sink (a sanitiser on the path may neutralise it). Treat it as a strong, repeatable underwriting signal, not a legal-grade exploitability proof.

It reads code, not running systems: it won't audit live cloud config, runtime behaviour, or a third party's infrastructure. Pair it with your existing dynamic and perimeter controls. Every report states these limits up front — the honest-about-limits posture is itself a trust signal in underwriting.

07Next

Pilot it on a slice of your book.

Pick a sample of insureds, have them run ArgosBrain locally, and compare the code-health signal against your own loss and incident data. We'll help you read the reports and design the underwriting integration.

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