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Geospatial Analytics for Financial Services & Insurance

From climate risk modeling to realtime hazard response, Wherobots empowers financial institutions to process billions of transactions, assets, and geospatial data points at unprecedented speed and completeness.

Why Financial Institutions and Insurers Use Wherobots for Geospatial Analytics

Incomplete climate risk assessment
Limited alternative data insights
Slow assessments
Fragmented portfolio intelligence
Inadequate retail location optimization
Incomplete climate risk assessment
Industry Problem

Incomplete Climate Risk Assessments Across Property Portfolios

Portfolio concentration risk is invisible when traditional systems can’t process spatial correlations across millions of properties and multiple perils simultaneously

Wherobots solution

Asset-Level Climate Risk Scoring for Wildfires, Floods, and Natural Hazards

Process petabytes of satellite imagery, climate data, and asset locations to generate granular, asset-level climate risk scores for wildfires, floods, and other hazards across entire portfolios

30 000+
Assets assessed
Limited alternative data insights
Industry Problem

Why Hedge Funds and Investment Firms Miss Alpha-Generating Signals

Hedge funds and investment firms cannot efficiently process massive satellite imagery, shipping data, and foot traffic datasets to generate alpha-generating signals, missing opportunities to predict earnings before public disclosure

Wherobots solution

Planetary-Scale Alternative Data Processing for Investment Signal Generation

Analyze petabytes of satellite imagery and geospatial alternative data extracting investment signals at planetary scale. E.g. retail parking lot traffic, agricultural crop health, or oil storage tank levels

100%
Data coverage
Slow assessments
Industry Problem

Post-Catastrophe Exposure Assessment Is Too Slow

Post-catastrophe response is too slow, taking days to assess exposure across affected areas while policyholders wait and losses mount

Wherobots solution

Catastrophe Response in Hours, Not Days

Accelerate catastrophe response to hours with distributed processing that analyzes millions of affected properties against event footprints in near real-time.

95%
Time saved
Fragmented portfolio intelligence
Industry Problem

Why Portfolio Risk Concentration Goes Undetected

Investment managers lack the ability to spatially analyze how thousands of holdings are exposed to location-based risks such as natural disasters or socioeconomic factors. Limiting their ability to reduce risk in portfolios.

Wherobots solution

Location-Based Portfolio Exposure Across Natural Disasters and Socioeconomic Factors

Integrate diverse geospatial datasets with portfolio holdings data to visualize and quantify location-based exposures, enabling data-driven rebalancing decisions and scenario analysis at scale.

Thousands
Of holdings analyzed
Inadequate retail location optimization
Industry Problem

Suboptimal Branch Placement Due to Fragmented Location Data

Retail banks cannot efficiently analyze demographic shifts, competitor locations, and customer mobility patterns across thousands of locations, resulting in suboptimal retail location placement and resource allocation.

Wherobots solution

Branch Network Optimization Using Location-Specific Data

Process massive demographic, foot traffic, and transaction datasets to optimize branch networks, identify underserved markets, and forecast performance based on location-specific factors.

Millions
Of locations analyzed

Financial Institutions and Insurers Using Wherobots and Apache Sedona

“Getting data, algorithms, and compute in one place with Spark/Sedona notebooks is a huge boost. Powerful like Earth Engine, but with the control developers need to get jobs done.”

John Powell
Sr. Geospatial Data Engineer, Addresscloud

Unlock deeper financial services impact

Schedule a demo to see how leading financial institutions process billions of location records and work with raster and vector data in the same platform.

Resources for Financial Services and Insurance Teams

Use cases, examples, and reproducible notebooks for financial services & insurance teams.

Frequently Asked Questions: Geospatial Analytics for Financial Services and Insurance

How do data teams from financial institutions and insurance organizations use Wherobots

Wherobots allows financial institutions and insurance teams to run large spatial joins and raster math against portfolios without legacy GIS bottlenecks. Insurers and portfolio managers often use the platform to price at the address level, determine CAT risk and impact, validate claims, and monitor accumulations.

We already use H3 to analyze risk concentration. How would Wherobots extend that capability?

Keep H3 for indexing and risk score aggregations. Use Wherobots to join scores with higher fidelity data including parcels, imagery, and weather event footprints; to compute custom factors; and to run portfolio-wide queries and raster sampling that H3 alone cannot cover.

What data types does Wherobots support?

Any spatial or tabular data. E.g. Policy and claims tables, parcels and buildings, hazard data captured in rasters, point inventories, satellite and aerial imagery, Digital Elevation Models (DEMs), climate grids, weather event footprints, and third-party model scores. With Wherobots, tabular, vector, and raster data can live in one engine.

What deployment options does Wherobots support?

Wherobots is available as a managed, serverless cloud offering, or can be deployed in your own cloud or VPC.

How does Wherobots compare to traditional GIS systems and geospatial tools?

Wherobots delivers scale and speed for spatial joins, raster operations, and spatial AI that traditional GIS systems cannot match. Built on Apache Sedona, it handles billions of rows and terabytes of rasters and vector data with SQL and Python, then feeds outputs to your downstream systems. Traditional desktop GIS and single-node libraries don’t come close to this scale.
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