Click-Ins CEO Eugene Greenberg: Eliminating Insurance Fraud with AI

I’ve founded Click-Ins to help insurance companies solve one of the most serious and painful problems - Insurance Fraud. After initial research, we've realized that this could be a huge market opportunity. Being an entrepreneur all my life, I was excited at the prospect of building a company that solves a pressing problem.

At high level, we have succeeded at combining AI with a number of engineering disciplines that provides an unprecedented level of accuracy in damage detection. The solution works close to real-time, literally with a single smartphone tap. Just snap a picture of a car with your phone and upload it to our service. Under 60 seconds, you will receive a detailed report. This report includes information about the damage, its location and measurement, missing car parts, and repair replacement logic. And by the end of the year, we will provide the cost assessment as well.

This is a billion-dollar question, you are definitely right. On the one hand, the decision to use synthetic data has indeed slowed down the development process. On the other hand, our sales cycle shortened to 6-10 weeks. When it comes to data acquisition from customers to train the models, the process involves jumping through privacy hoops and could take from 6 to 9 months to resolve for each new customer. Since we do not have such a problem as our AI solution is pre-trained and we do not require customer data, we can deploy it much faster than our competitors.

We have been in R&D for almost 5 years which is too long for a startup, but we have survived. Now we brought to the market a very unique solution that soon could become a standard in the Insurance and Automotive industries. The most challenging part of building out Click-Ins was to translate the car damage into a unique identifier having only one picture of the car.

Our technology brings a new standard to fighting fraud called DamagePrint™. It is a unique identifier of damage similar to a human fingerprint. So, our ability to convert each damage to a DamagePrint allows insurance companies to put an end to any manipulation with the damaged parts such as claims exaggerations or claiming pre-existing damage as a new one.

Hiring the right people fast :)

Definitely, that's our main target. The ultimate goal is to align interests of consumers and insurance companies serving them by providing a solution that prevents unnecessary losses.

You are right - fraud causes huge monetary loss. In the US alone, it is an $80+ billion headache. And that's only investigated fraud in car insurance. Non-investigated fraud is estimated at over $300 billion.

To tackle this and other challenges, today AI is entering almost all parts of the Insurance industry. Some of the use-cases include underwriting using AI telematic solutions and automation of paperwork through OCR systems. Also, the claims process is going to be absolutely automated by AI. Furthermore, COVID-19 has accelerated all these transformations. The process automation for insurers is not a nice-to-have anymore but a must-have.

In our domain, the next thing we want to resolve is Full Collision Reconstruction. Such reconstruction will allow avoiding insurance fraud, proving to the insurance companies the feasibility of two different damages from two different cars. Although it is a very complicated task, we know how to solve it.

We are in the process of finalizing a Series A round with industry leaders and top-tier VCs. We plan to spend it on expanding the business and hiring more teammates.