Modelling and analytics for weird and wonderful data sets

Bringing together the best software engineers, designers, actuaries and community-makers, hx has created a next-generation platform for complex data-driven decision-making.

About us

Modelling
reimagined

Led by two actuaries with computer science degrees, we are a collection of engineering and mathematical modelling enthusiasts who love to push the boundaries.

hx combines deep, practical actuarial pricing experience with first-class software engineering expertise. It’s a combination we’re using to help our clients solve some of the thorniest pricing problems facing the speciality insurance market.

Our co-founders came from senior positions in the insurance industry with CVs that span more than two decades and three continents. Their time in the corporate world, where they were ultimately responsible for designing and rolling out an entire ecosystem of pricing and analytical models, told them the industry standard solutions weren’t fit for purpose. Software could be smarter, more user-friendly and agile. Data could be leveraged more intelligently. Repetitive but important work could be automated.

So they quit their jobs and set out to create the kind of software they wished existed and they know their customers needed.

The result is hx and our next generation modelling platform, Renew.

Amrit Santhirasenan

Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder

Michael Johnson

Chief Product Officer and Co-founder

hx focuses on the needs of the modern day pricing actuary

Head of pricing, major global insurance company

Our product

Redefining
actuarial modelling

We have reimagined what an actuarial pricing system can do, creating a platform that’s fast, effortlessly agile and powerful.

Renew is our managed, web-based SaaS platform for creating speciality pricing models – it’s custom-built for the small, sparse and fragmented datasets that are regularly used to drive critical decisions in many businesses. The first pricing platform of its kind to be built by insurance professionals who’ve been at the coal-face of the market, it allows customers to rapidly build models, deploy them to their users and refine them regularly and easily.

At hx we have a unique engineering challenge – not only are we developing a custom IDE for our clients to build their own models in a coded environment using well known open-source frameworks, but we also want to enable them to innovate, both mathematically and technologically. This involves cutting-edge engineering across the whole stack – from design systems work to complex infra-as-code, there’s something in it for every engineer. Our success lies in solving the really difficult computer science challenges, so that our clients never knew they even existed.

The Renew platform makes it easy to…

Develop models using open-source tech in a custom-built, user-friendly environment

Deploy to the web, effortlessly and with enterprise-grade security and reliability by design

Use models in a professional, responsive interface which adapts to whatever device you’re working on. Build once, use anywhere

Refine using our in-built deployment framework which handles version control, supports effortless testing and automates the IT heavy-lifting in the release process

Build using the latest open-source technology

Renew uses popular, powerful, well-supported technology including Python, React and JSON. This makes it easy and quick to learn - customers can build impactful models fast, and keep learning as part of a huge, growing open-source community.

We want people to build models in house. We’ve made Renew so easy, any actuary can use it and make it their own.

Michael Johnson, Co-founder

Peace of mind by design

By automating many of the complex functions required to build and host pricing models, Renew provides a secure, reliable and enhanced user experience on top of rock-solid data integrity.