Hello there. Welcome or welcome back to the Instech podcast. It's Zoya here and this week,

Robin is joined by Sasha Hako, CEO and co-founder of Unitary. From studying black holes to building one of the fastest growing

AI companies and insurance, Sasha's story doesn't quite follow the usual script. To say she's

working right at the heart of one of the industry's biggest challenges, not whether to automate,

but how to actually make it happen. And because across the London market, firms already know the workflows,

submissions, claims, Bordero, but moving from pilot to real-life productions where things often stall.

That's exactly why we're hosting a networking event with the Unitary on April 21st in London,

bringing together operations, underwriting and technology leaders to focus on what practical,

fast-tracked implementation really looks like. How do you get started? How do you deploy in weeks,

not months, and how do you avoid adding yet more complexity to already stretch systems?

Pour yourself with coffee and enjoy the conversation, and if it gets you thinking we'd love you to

join us in London to continue it.

Welcome to this week's Intertech podcast. My guest today is Sasha Haco. She's the CEO and co-founder

of Unitary. Sasha, welcome. Thank you very much. Great to be here.

Now, tell us to your background, because you're not an insurance person through and through.

What were you doing before you co-founded Unitary? I'm definitely not an insurance person through and

through. It's been a journey to get here. So before I started Unitary, I was doing physics.

I was in academia, did a PhD, looking at black holes. So I was a

astrophysics kind of person and trying to figure out what happens to something when it falls into a

black hole. That was like consuming all of my time and energy was trying to solve this black hole

mystery, which actually has nothing

at all in common with insurance. You won't be surprised to hear. I was working on that one

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