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Launch HN: Risklytics (YC S26) – Insurance brokerage for frontier tech companies

Risklytics, a Y Combinator S26-backed insurance brokerage, launched to provide commercial insurance for frontier tech companies deploying AI and robotics, with packages starting at $500 per year for prototypes. The company uses AI to translate plain-English business descriptions into draft insurance applications, which are then reviewed by licensed producers and placed with carriers that want this risk. Risklytics aims to address coverage gaps in standard commercial forms that fail to account for AI agents and robots operating in the physical world.

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Launch HN: Risklytics (YC S26) – Insurance brokerage for frontier tech companies
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Prototype & Pilot

For teams shipping a first product or running a limited pilot.

[Start application](https://app.risklytics.ai/sign-up/?package=prototype)

Commercial insurance for companies putting AI to work, from software teams to robot fleets. Coverage built around how you actually operate, placed with carriers that want this risk.

Our thesis

An AI agent handling customer work, or a robot on a customer site, carries risk that standard commercial forms never contemplated. Carriers quote it anyway, on paper drafted before any of this existed, and the exclusions buried in that paper surface after a loss.

Risklytics is a brokerage built for companies that put AI to work, from models in a workflow to machines in the field. We take the operation to carriers that want this risk on their books, and we read every form that comes back before anything binds.

How it works

You describe the business once. We handle the insurance translation.

01

Answer three short questions about what you build and where it touches the physical world. Plain English is the point.

02

AI turns your words into a draft application. You review and confirm every field before it goes anywhere.

03

Your submission goes to carriers that want this risk. Submissions are reviewed by a licensed producer; nothing is bound online.

Coverage lines

You choose the lines inside the application. The packages below are ready-made combinations of these.

Packages

Pick the closest match. You can change every requested coverage line before the application goes to broker review.

For teams shipping a first product or running a limited pilot.

For AI and machines working in production at customer sites.

Higher limits as revenue, headcount, and deployments grow.

These are application starting points, not evidence of coverage. Carrier appetite, policy terms, licensing, and availability govern every quote.

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