LONDON – ISARR, which develops intelligence and operational technology for security, risk and resilience, will launch CORTEX at Lloyd's of London on Thursday 5 November 2026. Developed through the Lloyd's Lab, CORTEX is intelligence infrastructure for geopolitical and security risk and will be available from launch day.
When conditions change, the people managing, advising on and underwriting a risk all need a reliable picture of what is happening and what has happened. Today that picture is usually assembled by hand from scattered sources and rebuilt for every assessment, client meeting and renewal.
CORTEX provides a common foundation instead. It combines current and historical intelligence on geopolitical and security developments, disruptive incidents and natural hazards with hundreds of contextual and reference datasets, including critical infrastructure, trade and transport, environmental conditions, media coverage and government advisories. The result is an evidenced intelligence picture that helps organisations understand what is happening and how it may affect the places, assets and operations that matter to them.
An intelligence baseline and first-line analysis that might otherwise take a team of analysts days or weeks to assemble manually can be produced in minutes. The intelligence can then be produced and compared repeatedly, helping users identify what has materially changed rather than rebuilding the research each time. People, applications and AI agents can query the same intelligence foundation directly, including through more than 130 tools available via the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Nick Beale, Founder and CEO of ISARR, said: “Whether you're running security for a global business, advising a client or underwriting a risk, the starting point is usually the same: someone pulling a picture together by hand, from scratch, every time conditions change. CORTEX gives people a foundation they can question for their own decisions, with the sources behind it open to examination. It reduces the research burden. Interpretation and judgement stay with the professionals whose decision it is.”
The same foundation serves each side of the risk relationship:
- Security, risk and resilience teams: understanding changes around their people, assets and operations, and planning their response.
- Brokers: bringing richer, more consistent intelligence into client conversations and renewals.
- Underwriters: examining the evidence behind a risk before committing capacity, and spotting material changes across a portfolio.
The launch takes place in the Old Library at Lloyd's from 11:30 to 13:30, with around 120 guests from across the Lloyd's market and wider risk community. It will include a discussion of the current geopolitical and security environment, a live demonstration and a Q&A. Journalists who would like to attend should contact Omar Acid (details below) by Friday 30 October.
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About ISARR
ISARR develops intelligence and operational technology for security, risk and resilience. It helps organisations understand how change affects what they protect, insure and operate, and turn that understanding into action. Established in 2003 and based in the Lloyd's building in London, ISARR has two connected capabilities. CORTEX, its intelligence infrastructure for geopolitical and security risk, and the Operations Platform, its operational technology for putting intelligence, decisions and professional advice into practice, and can be used with CORTEX or independently. [www.isarr.com]
About the Lloyd's Lab
Established in 2018, the Lloyd's Lab is the innovation hub for the Lloyd's market. Its ten-week InsurTech accelerator programme helps new products and solutions gain traction in the market. It gives participating companies coworking space in the Lloyd's building and direct access to underwriters, brokers and other market participants.