RHS 103 - Why Obie Risk Is Changing the Way We Insure Rental Properties

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Speaker 7 Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the show. Today, we have an absolutely tremendous episode for you.

Speaker 7 We have an interview with Matt Sudica, the founder, former founder and CEO of Skylight Insurance, who just recently came out with an announcement that Skylight was merging with OB.

Speaker 7 And as we would have it, we have the co-founder of OB, Ryan Letzeiser, on on the show as well. And Ryan and Matt, I wanted to talk about a few different things.
Why,

Speaker 7 you know, what was it about OB that made it different? Why did they choose

Speaker 7 kind of this investment property, rental property market as a target? Where did they see the opportunity there? What did OB actually do? What was their value proposition?

Speaker 7 And then I wanted to get into a little bit about the partnership of pulling two companies like this together and having it be successful, how it was successful, and just tremendous conversation.

Speaker 7 Ryan and Matt are both tremendous guys. This was actually the first time I had ever spoken to Ryan, but Matt and I have talked many, many times over the course of the last few years,

Speaker 7 have tremendous respect for everything Sudica does.

Speaker 7 And just think OB is onto it. You know,

Speaker 7 I think they are dialed into a solution that is going to be part of the insurance ecosystem for a while. And just pumped to have them on the show, pumped to share their story with you.

Speaker 7 And I know you're going to learn a lot from this episode. Before we get there, I want to give a big shout out to today's sponsor, Tarmica.

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Speaker 7 So with that, let's get on to Matthew Soudica, the Sudica, as he's known on the socials, and Ryan Letzeiser from ob-risk here we go

Speaker 9 what's up dude hey what's going on not much man

Speaker 9 hold on i'm just getting this is ryan

Speaker 2 letzer you know that guy yeah he's jumping on he's our uh our ceo so he was gonna uh answer some of the product uh side stuff and uh figured uh give your give your listeners uh

Speaker 2 a different voice than just just mine and uh he's and you'll find out real cool that ryan's about 10 times smarter and cooler than me.

Speaker 9 You mean you want to, you don't want them to just hear the dulcet tones of Matthew Sudica coming through the coming through the airwaves? They didn't, yeah, you know,

Speaker 2 everyone's probably, you know, everyone's going to get that nice Memorial Day nap in anyways this weekend. So I don't really need them to necessarily hear my voice and go to nap early.

Speaker 2 You know, Ryan, Ryan will get them rocking and rolling. And then you always, you always bring the hype.

Speaker 9 So I could see, Ryan, I could see, I could see Suduka like 2 a.m.

Speaker 9 pack of cigarettes, like, and here is the latest jazz hits from, you know,

Speaker 9 he's just taking, he's got that, that voice for, you know, 2 a.m. jazz radio.

Speaker 2 You know, I've always said I got the face for radio, but it's nice to know I have the voice for it.

Speaker 9 Ryan, nice to meet you, man.

Speaker 10 Hey, Ryan, also nice to meet you.

Speaker 9 Yeah, thanks for coming on the show.

Speaker 10 Hey, no problem.

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 2 Ryan

Speaker 2 H is like the coolest guy in insurance. I love this guy.
He's done everything. He's now rocking out his own brokerage.

Speaker 2 And so when I knew we were doing our announcement, I, well, it was even before I knew it was coming out officially, I was texting him saying, hey, you know, want to get on, you know, want you to be the guy that kind of, you know, asks the questions, delivers it.

Speaker 2 He's like the.

Speaker 2 I don't know who's, who's the big talk show host nowadays, like in the world. It used to be like Oprah or whatever.
I guess you're like, like, you know, the Jimmy Fallon of insurance, maybe.

Speaker 2 I don't know.

Speaker 9 Jimmy Fallon actually went to college in Albany, New York.

Speaker 9 He went to St. Rose College.
So he's got like a little cult following up here because

Speaker 9 of his college connection. But no, man, it's awesome to meet you.
I've been following along with.

Speaker 9 the success you guys are having and all the announcements and obviously talking to Matt every once in a while and getting the low down on on you on you know kind of I think we we we started having regular conversations before

Speaker 9 uh before the partnership and then you know kind of you hinted at some things and then you know all that and i think it's awesome it's uh it i it's been cool to watch and see the rollout and very fun so i'm excited that you guys came on here and that we can talk about this yeah absolutely absolutely yeah we're excited to be on and uh you know it it it's been about a year in the making you know uh

Speaker 2 the uh Roni Rona uh didn't help some situations and uh anytime you form and merge and have acquisitions, and then you're also trying to

Speaker 2 do a Series A and everything like that, it just

Speaker 2 if Ryan looks like, you know, he could use a nap due to my voice, it's, it's because he's been putting in 100 hour weeks for, you know, I believe

Speaker 2 you're straight.

Speaker 9 So, so Ryan,

Speaker 9 so it was one, I'd love to get uh the

Speaker 9 the backstory as far as you're willing to go on on OB and

Speaker 9 all that, and just talk a little bit about it. And then I want to talk through, I have some questions

Speaker 9 around

Speaker 9 how do you merge companies and do a funding round at the same exact time, pretty much. And then I want to talk a little bit about the future and where you guys, because I feel like,

Speaker 9 you know, for Rogue, I kind of look at what you guys are doing.

Speaker 9 have our own version, but I very much look at you guys as

Speaker 9 kind of plowing the road for companies like my own to play in the space and the way that you're doing it.

Speaker 9 So, so as far as you're willing to go back, I'd love to hear a little bit about you and just share a little bit about the company itself.

Speaker 10 Sure. So, I'll be the first to say that I'm not by trade or training an insurance guy.

Speaker 10 Matt,

Speaker 10 you know, we're fortunate to have him here and he slowly

Speaker 10 was able to download some of his tribal knowledge that he's acquired through obviously generations of

Speaker 10 insurance agency ownership into my brain over the period and I guess the last 18 months.

Speaker 10 But my journey begins in the real estate investment world. So

Speaker 10 I came out of grad school with a degree in architecture, but immediately shifted gears. to what's known as the dark side in architecture.
Everybody

Speaker 10 kind of goes into school thinking that there's this happy path, that you get to design whatever you want. The reality is, is that a real estate developer kind of dictates the terms.

Speaker 10 And most architects coming out of school are stuck designing stairwells and AutoCAD for the first few years of their career prior to getting their exams and testing done, getting their licensing.

Speaker 10 So I immediately switched gears.

Speaker 10 I went to work for a real estate development group in South Florida, pretty substantial in size, everything under one roof and we had access to you know the aeons the willises the hubs of the world um because the the volume and the the amount of premium that we were uh basically paying for on an annual basis um and subsequently uh kind of saw the downturn of the retail markets um and i switched gears and moved over to multifamily

Speaker 10 there in which uh i was introduced to the independent agents of the world um

Speaker 10 And just the smaller mom and pop real estate owners or investment shops or hobbyist investors all are kind of plagued with a similar situation in which

Speaker 10 there's limited product availability and I would say

Speaker 10 sometimes limited domain knowledge and placing risk in the right location.

Speaker 10 And sometimes that can get folks

Speaker 10 into challenges when it comes time to acquire a premium and get a deal closed, et cetera, et cetera. So

Speaker 10 I just saw a lot of third-party providers associated with the real estate assets

Speaker 10 and originally came out with a tech solution to kind of help them manage their assets and those third-party vendors a little better.

Speaker 10 And insurance was going to be our core component for

Speaker 10 monetizing the business. This is when Zenefits was really hot and they were selling

Speaker 10 payroll and benefits and healthcare insurance through their HR platform. We figured we could do the same thing.

Speaker 10 Turns out the real estate market still, I think to this day, is not ready for a tech solution. They're very happy managing things in Excel.
But what

Speaker 10 we had found was that there was this large faction of folks that were really interested in trying to figure out a way to get better pricing, better transparency. So originally we had a

Speaker 10 partnership with Hub International and we were trying to to place business with them and

Speaker 10 none of the buildings that we were getting through were ever big enough for them to handle.

Speaker 10 We started poking around and my brother,

Speaker 10 who has known the Sudica family for going on two decades now,

Speaker 10 reached out to Matt's Uncle Joe and said, hey, we have a problem. Hub is not really able to take care of a lot of this stuff.
Where do we place the premium?

Speaker 10 And our relationship with Matt then was born and really um found that uh the types of customers that we were bringing in were more appropriate for uh i would say the the the the smaller or middle market um independent agencies rather than the super large ones um and frankly matt just moved a million times faster than everybody else um and we we we started off real slow sent matt leads,

Speaker 10 saw what kind of volume we were getting. And then Aaron and I and Matt, I think together all collectively decided that

Speaker 10 the small hab market was just

Speaker 10 missing some product availability and started poking around that space. And

Speaker 10 now with the news of the Series A and some of the public stuff.

Speaker 10 You know, we have a product finally coming to market that I think is going to be

Speaker 10 sufficient for what I think a lot of folks are asking for, especially in the independent agency space, which is something very fast and cost effective and easy to place for

Speaker 10 small habitational risk, these smaller investors or hobbyist investors.

Speaker 9 So, and I appreciate that very much. I actually have a few different questions that are going to come out of that, but the first one is, are you,

Speaker 9 just so I'm clear, are you guys

Speaker 9 carrier mga retail some version of all three

Speaker 10 uh so yeah at the end of the day it's uh it's retail uh because we have a limited risk appetite for our internal product um and then we are uh we are an mga so uh product availability um coming live uh towards the end of q2 beginning of q3 of this year with a very large tech tech-focused reinsurer

Speaker 10 that operates internationally. So you could probably take a wild guess who that might be.

Speaker 10 We can't disclose that right now, but there is a product that we have developed internally in concert with Matt, myself,

Speaker 10 actuarial team, and then

Speaker 10 just outlaying kind of the problems that plague the market,

Speaker 10 you know, with folks either getting themselves into HO3 policies or an inflexible DP3 policy and really wanted to create something

Speaker 10 that had tons of flexibility and kind of was a jack of all trades type of policy for, you know, 99% of the folks out there.

Speaker 9 Yeah, I love that.

Speaker 9 I, you know, it's, it's so interesting because, and this is one of the things that when I really uh when you really get nerdy into an insurance and i'm sure you're starting to realize this ryan that like

Speaker 9 it at face value insurance insurance is the worst it's so boring

Speaker 9 like it just is and then you start to get into it right and you start to you know if you have that disposition and i would have never thought this of myself in my younger days um right like every every little boy's dream like all of ours is to be be an insurance professional when you're growing up but um

Speaker 9 uh and and little girl i get you know whatever um

Speaker 9 but uh you know you start to get into the nuances of the idea like you don't live in that home but you have an HO3.

Speaker 9 So, what you don't realize is even though you're paying premiums on that, you just open the door wide open for the carrier to completely deny that claim. And your agent

Speaker 9 may have the best intentions, but doesn't have the capabilities to stay on top of whether you live there or don't live there anymore and how much you live there.

Speaker 9 And, you know, what, and all of a sudden, that policy that was perfectly fine for the two years you lived there, you didn't notify when you moved out, you know, like that, that kind of inflexibility, rigidity, and lack of, I'd say, widespread, um,

Speaker 9 widespread

Speaker 9 attention to these types of policies, especially because, you know, on a one-to-one basis, it's not like anyone's getting rich off any of these things, right? A

Speaker 9 $1,500 homeowner's policy or renter's insurance, renters, you know, you know, DP3 or whatever you say, like it's no one's getting rich off of it.

Speaker 9 So, so it's not like you're waking up every day going, geez, I wonder if Tom Jones moved out of his house this week, you know, like, you know, I got a little idea that he was, but, you know, so

Speaker 9 that's really cool.

Speaker 2 You know,

Speaker 9 I'll be super interested in, and I don't know what you can say, like, or what you can't, but,

Speaker 9 you know, when you, what is it like to see a problem like that, an inflexibility in policy form and in language? And now you're going to craft it.

Speaker 9 I don't, I don't necessarily want to say from scratch, but you, you're essentially building your own possibly and I've never done that. Um, I'm just what is that process like?

Speaker 9 What do you have to think through? What are the questions that you have to ask yourself to come to put something together like that?

Speaker 10 Well, I think I'll let Matt kind of take over, and um, you know, this is where he can allude to you know what folks are really asking for.

Speaker 10 So, Matt, yeah, can you start there and then I can give you the rest of the journey?

Speaker 2 Yeah, so actually, first, I don't, I want it on record that Ryan stated matt sudica and his team better than hub international yeah no

Speaker 2 time stamp it yeah if anyone's making if anyone's uh if anyone's doing a little video uh widget capture you know now's the time hit record yeah like whatever minutes we are into this like yeah just fast forward to that section of ryan thing you're better than half or than hub and that's that's all i need but you know uh i i everyone that knows me i'm not like a the details guy and ryan you know deferred to me on the the high end of the insurance, but we have people that we've hired on the consulting side that are putting together the actual policy language.

Speaker 2 I'm sure that there's people like

Speaker 2 our buddy James, you know, that's in the space that can read a policy back and forth and everything like that.

Speaker 2 What I was really concerned with was a couple of things when we were putting this product together. One, you know, fixing a need that my own brokerage had had, right? Which is like this weird space.

Speaker 2 You mentioned a little bit, like going from home to rental, but really there's not anybody in the rental space in the country that's not vacant sometimes. Sometimes they have a tenant.

Speaker 2 Sometimes they're remodeling it. Sometimes they're major remodeling it.
Sometimes they don't know what they're going to do with it. They're going to put it up for sale.

Speaker 2 And so we know we needed flexibility in the space. You know, the other thing here with this, you know, the big holiday weekend coming up is that I was always the tech forward guy.

Speaker 2 You know, Ryan, you see it in the Facebook groups. I'm always post-tech and everyone doesn't like it, but now they're kind of starting to like it.
Right.

Speaker 2 And so I wanted to get involved with a company that was in the insured tech space that could be like the

Speaker 2 company that's like for the people, right? So there's all these insured techs that are getting into auto and getting into home. And that's great.

Speaker 2 You know, I like a lot of them, but there's major competition and they're not a fit for every brokerage.

Speaker 2 out there, you know, where I felt like in the rental space, you know, we really are a fit for every brokerage in the country, right?

Speaker 2 Because there's really not a good carrier in the space, you know, anyone will tell you that and so i even though there's less rentals than there is homes or less rentals than there are auto like i wanted obi to be in every brokerage i wanted everybody to have us as a carrier even if they only use us once or twice a year at least it'll be fast easy and it'll be nice right some of the bigger brokerages that love the have space too will use us you know day in and out so that's really what we focused on is you know, and for me being a captive guy, then an independent guy, and now getting into insure tech space, like I felt like I was kind of carrying a torch that way, too, of like allowing people to see that, like, you can go from state farm to independent to the insured tech space.

Speaker 2 It's not that bad. And it's actually, there is a lot of, you know, good in it.
I know, Ryan, you and I are big crypto guys, or at least in our Facebook chat. And it kind of feels the same way, right?

Speaker 2 I, you know, we might be still a little early, but we are building some really good stuff that we're going to see down the line everyone kind of eventually adopt.

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 9 I'm big on solana right now there you go solana summer man

Speaker 2 yeah i'm all over it um

Speaker 9 so uh we won't go down the crypto rabbit hole right this second so you said a couple things in there that that make me um that i'm super interested in uh

Speaker 2 one

Speaker 9 um

Speaker 9 what was the idea so so i guess i'll go backwards um i think i think you're

Speaker 9 This is one of the things that I've been thinking about as my own company, Rogue, evolves, because the things that you and I were talking about back in whatever, over a year ago,

Speaker 9 I'm not going to say we're nowhere near that today, but we're way different.

Speaker 9 The way that Rogue is moving and operating is much, much more like an insure tech.

Speaker 9 And to be honest with you, some of the things that you're doing and saying are on our roadmap today.

Speaker 9 And,

Speaker 2 you know, because

Speaker 9 we're on the path to going out and potentially doing a,

Speaker 9 like, I don't know if you'd call it a seed or an A. I get lost and all that crap.
Going out and finding someone who's going to give us money to throw gasoline on the fire, right?

Speaker 9 So I think backwards into

Speaker 9 what, you know, what, what's going to make us successful? Who are the type of people that we want to involve in this project?

Speaker 9 And when I think about, you know, and I'm sure Ryan is aware of this and is why he wanted to partner with you, but when I see somebody like you who've lived all these different lives,

Speaker 9 you said it's not that bad. To me, it's a positive on a positive on a positive because what it shows is that you're one, you're flexible, two, you're adaptable.

Speaker 9 And three, man, all that history of being able to,

Speaker 9 what's the right word, like kind of boil down the best pieces of a captive and then the best pieces of an independent, and then always having your hand and all these insurtechs and working with the hippos and the clear covers and the open leases and all these people.

Speaker 9 And then that to me is like a superpower in our space because the tribalism that

Speaker 9 happens is so, it's so,

Speaker 9 it's such a handcuff to so many really smart people that limit their upside because they have this tribalistic nature to one set of, one structure or another.

Speaker 9 And it's just not the world we live in anymore. Certainly not where we're going.
And again,

Speaker 9 a lot of people think you and I are nuts because, because like you see an advertisement for hippo and you and I are like, oh, that shit looks cool.

Speaker 9 And everyone else is like, F them, you know, they went direct, whatever first. And

Speaker 9 then obviously we nerd out on crypto all the time. So I think I see that as a positive.
And really,

Speaker 9 if I could advise anyone, having different iterations of your career, I think is tremendously positive.

Speaker 10 Yeah. And I think to Matt's point,

Speaker 10 designing the policy from the consumer side first

Speaker 10 allows you to alleviate a bunch of mistakes that you're going to make that that i think folks don't really see behind you know behind the scenes of the the policy administration system door and the rating tables and the filings with the state departments of insurance and all the regulatory factors that if you make tweaks

Speaker 10 Guess what? You're going back to the state. You need new approvals.
You need new rates. You need new forms.

Speaker 10 And if you don't design it the way it should be at the outset,

Speaker 10 you're putting yourself in a position where you might have a product that doesn't sell because it doesn't meet the needs of the consumer.

Speaker 10 Or, you know, you're putting yourself in a weird position where you might be looking at attritional losses that are extreme.

Speaker 10 And I think just having Matt's background has allowed us to work in the right direction,

Speaker 10 basically from from the bottom up rather than the top down and yeah you know i think that's a that's a huge differentiator in making sure that we at least have a product that we know we can sell right out of the gate and then we can fine tune and make adjustments on the pricing and the rates and the structures over time

Speaker 10 that don't require us to have to go back to refile with the states every time I think that's a tremendous point.

Speaker 9 I think that's, I really do. I think that that is

Speaker 9 a lot of the policies that we sell today were built the other way. Almost all the policies we sell today were built the other way, right?

Speaker 9 You know, maybe, maybe, maybe some of the new cyber companies like Corvus Coalition, Evolve MGA have have built some of their products that way, maybe a few of the insurtechs, like a clear cover or openly, but

Speaker 7 but very, very few.

Speaker 9 And it's, and it, to me, it's exciting to think that

Speaker 9 habit, you know, habitational rentals, multifamilies, that, that type of product is going to, to be able to get that in the hands of an agent force and your own direct, and I'm sure partner channels as you, as, you know, where you go look for volume.

Speaker 9 I mean, that's, I mean, thinking that way from the outset is going to be a huge win.

Speaker 9 So, my, my, my question, my next question for you is, you know, you, you mentioned a whole bunch of things that disqualify people from writing with certain carriers, right?

Speaker 9 You said there's not really a good, solid, consistent product. Well, I would, I think that's probably on a on a macro basis, that's probably a very fair statement.

Speaker 9 On a micro basis, probably unfair, right? Because

Speaker 9 there are carriers in Western New York who are awesome at habitational that doesn't have a wood stove, right? They just crush that market. So

Speaker 9 understanding all those different factors that you just discussed, how do you

Speaker 9 or what how what did you consider? What were your thoughts around the ideas of the consistency of pricing and of ultimately being profitable,

Speaker 9 managing all those variables that traditionally have been disqualifiers for rental property carriers.

Speaker 10 So the great thing about admitted products with the state is that you can go and rip through what everybody else has done that is basically par for the course right now.

Speaker 10 So if you like a little bit of this travelers policy, okay, I grabbed the surf filing for them. If I like this Erie, you know, DP3 policy for Ohio, okay, I'll grab little tidbits here.

Speaker 10 And basically, you know,

Speaker 10 kind of going back to the original point, you grab the things you know you need ahead of time. And then you're able to kind of boil that down and do a comp survey or a rating comp survey of how

Speaker 10 those products are competitive and how they are not. And you start to move the dials in ways that make sense for everybody.

Speaker 10 And then from that point, you can take probably your most comprehensive filing at that point and take the majority or the bulk from there and then make your adjustments that you need to make from that point forward.

Speaker 10 So, really, at the end of the day,

Speaker 10 you know, your program efficiency comes out of somebody that's kind of been there, done that. And then you exclude the things that you don't really like about their program.

Speaker 10 And you hopefully you can supplement with things that you do like from other programs to make it more comprehensive.

Speaker 9 Okay. And I'm just going to ask you a follow-up question only because I'm a little ignorant on this particular topic.

Speaker 9 So when you, let's say you're building it out for Ohio, just because you mentioned Ohio and

Speaker 9 with the admitted products, the carriers who have admitted paper in that state, you can actually go in and because you have their filings and you know that they've already been approved by the state in the way that they're currently written, you can almost

Speaker 9 kind of like a buffet.

Speaker 9 choose and place together as as maybe like a baseline as a starting point for what you like.

Speaker 9 You can kind of take some of this, some of that, piece it together, and then start to have someone work through

Speaker 9 how all those pieces work together. Is that just so I'm clear?

Speaker 10 Correct. So, you know, for us, I won't tell you who we grabbed, but we had a boilerplate, and that's called a Me Too filing.
Okay.

Speaker 10 So generally, when you have a bunch of things inside the forms or inside the rates that have already been approved by the state, the departments of insurance and the actuarial teams there tend to not give you nearly as much kickback of, hey, this might be,

Speaker 10 you know,

Speaker 10 a rate that we would deem borderline inadmissible, or it seems too low.

Speaker 10 We're not going to back this filing for one reason or another, or this particular thing that you are rating on might be prejudicial, or you know, there's a million factors.

Speaker 10 And, you know, the roots of the world have done this with telematics and using your cell phone as an indicator of how you drive.

Speaker 10 So they had to go through and basically prove to the state that, hey, the way this person takes a turn or accelerates actually is a component of risk. And here's what happens.

Speaker 10 Well, if you take some of the larger carriers that have already done this, you can utilize their information and their rates in order to say, hey, this was good enough for Erie or Travelers or, you know, CNA.

Speaker 10 You've already approved this for this particular policy.

Speaker 10 You should just approve it for us. And they they basically give you an opportunity to push a bunch of things forward and only have to fight or make amendments on very small things.

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 2 That's because we're really, you know, and Ryan is way more in the weeds on this stuff than, you know, me. I get the cliff notes of this stuff from Ryan, but my take on it is, you know,

Speaker 2 And we, and I said we want to highlight some sections. If this next section, we want to remove if Ryan doesn't like it.
But, you know, we're not trying to rewrite policies, right?

Speaker 2 Like there's been smart lawyers and everything like that and carriers that have wrote these policies.

Speaker 2 And as we all know, they all come from this like almost like boilerplate type of, you know, coverages, right? What we cared more about is,

Speaker 2 you know, combining these things that are already out there, these endorsements for vacant, these endorsements for builders risk, they're already a thing, right?

Speaker 2 So we cared more about making sure that we had those available and that we had this all-encompassing offering.

Speaker 2 And really, you know, I think, and, you know, I guess comment below or whatever, maybe I've been watching too much YouTube here, but

Speaker 2 if you disagree, but

Speaker 2 really for the space, especially the rental for a broker, you know, you want it just to be easier to provide this policy to a client faster, easier.

Speaker 2 As you mentioned, it's very low margin, very low, you know, premiums, et cetera, right?

Speaker 2 And so we really have been focusing on that. We didn't want to spend all of our valuable resources on doing everything from scratch where we'd end up probably

Speaker 2 almost like the same thing as, you know, just what's already been out there. We've been spending a lot of our time making sure that we found the right endorsements.

Speaker 2 We were going to offer the right endorsements. And then really the, you know, the ability, like you mentioned, the one carrier in Upper New York, right?

Speaker 2 Well, if you're up there and you're Upper New York and you're doing habitational with that carrier, you're golden. But if someone calls you from Florida, you know, what do you do?

Speaker 2 So we're, we're kind of, so we might, you know, you could argue we could get on a micro basis and get beat out in an individual small town like I'm from. But in the

Speaker 2 big space across the country, we're going to be able to work with, you know, brokers so that they have a consistent feel, consistent offering, consistent pricing,

Speaker 2 you know, to offer to their clients. And that's really what our main focus is.

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Speaker 9 Well, I think you're right on it.

Speaker 9 And

Speaker 9 there's a

Speaker 9 there's a,

Speaker 9 wow, my, you can tell it's Friday before holiday week in my brain. The words are not coming to the brain today.

Speaker 2 There is a. I thought I had made you do this thing two weeks early.
So I said, no, it's all good.

Speaker 9 Yeah, no, no, it's all good. So, yeah.
Well, hey, when Sudica calls, I answer. You know what I mean?

Speaker 9 You said, hey, man, we're doing it today through the fact that I said the meeting for two weeks from now.

Speaker 2 We're doing it today. I thought it was today.

Speaker 2 I said, looking forward to doing this today at one. You responded with one question mark.
And I was like, oh, man, I got it wrong. But

Speaker 2 it's good we're getting it out there today. We're getting a ton of questions.
And my inbox has been crazy on LinkedIn and Facebook.

Speaker 2 um you know special thanks i got to thank jay uh james jacos he he he was really pushing us out So I know he'll appreciate that. But dude to him also pushing us out the other day.

Speaker 2 I've been just getting bombarded with, you know, when are we starting? Where are we going? You know, what's the direction of our company?

Speaker 2 Can we work with brokers? All these things. So

Speaker 2 either now or before you end, I'll address that. I figure it'd be a good.
No, dude.

Speaker 9 First of all, I'm blessing your chops. It's all good.

Speaker 9 And it is true. When Sudica calls, Hanley answers.
So just, I know how the game is played, man.

Speaker 9 I don't want to disrupt, you know, the ecosystem that you work in, but no, it was all good. It's, it's fun.

Speaker 9 So, um, so I guess, you know, what I was, where my brain was trying to get to is there is a, uh, a macro trend that is happening in our space right now, which is as agents digitize, right?

Speaker 9 Like as they start using social more, using, you know, creating more blogs, YouTube, you know, whatever, email,

Speaker 9 and just. people move and their connections aren't just in their hometown anymore.
Their connections are spread throughout the country.

Speaker 9 The inevitable result of is that you get opportunities in states that you're not licensed in. Like that just happens.

Speaker 9 And you get, or states that you don't have expertise in, that you don't have markets in. So that's why I see like what you're doing with OB.
I see, I look at it and I'm like,

Speaker 9 this is obvious, not obvious in creating the solution, but an obvious answer for agents who are sitting there going, geez, you know, my, this great client I have has a, has a rent, you know, I'm in Kentucky and they're in, they have a rental in Iowa where they grew up.

Speaker 9 I can't ensure that. Well, you know, before what you would do is, you know, maybe just do nothing, say, hey, find someone up there.

Speaker 9 Or you would maybe, maybe you had a buddy or a friend, or you'd go in one of these Facebook groups and say, hey, anyone write rental properties in Iowa?

Speaker 9 And to me, all those solutions, unless it's a good friend and you're referring to a friend, all those solutions don't, aren't aren't aren't real.

Speaker 9 They're not what you should actually be doing because you're the one that has the relationship. Now, with solutions like what you're providing, you can say, I got you.

Speaker 2 No problem.

Speaker 9 You know, we'll get you taken care of. I got the perfect market for you.
And that keeps the boots on the ground agent,

Speaker 9 the connection. It keeps everything right there.
And

Speaker 9 to me, it's, I'm. To me, this seems like an obvious solution for everyone listening.

Speaker 9 It seems like, you know, the next thing you should do is go to whatever website you're about to tell me they should go to and sign up.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I mean, absolutely. So I'm glad you brought up that point.
It's actually, I feel like you might have been a fly on the wall in some of these conversations I've been having with Aaron and Ryan,

Speaker 2 you know, and I'm always a clearly pro-broker. And so you mentioned this Facebook post, and that's what I always see.
The, hey, I have a friend. that has a rental in Missouri.
I don't write there.

Speaker 2 Who can help me? And then you get a thousand posts. You never know who really is good or not good.
Or, and then sometimes you're offending people because you went to the first comment or whatever.

Speaker 2 And so we are working on, you know, we'll have people who are, you know, appointed with us and, you know, that are writing a lot of business, but we're also trying to work on in the background right now of exactly that.

Speaker 2 How do we just create this Facebook post forum, if you will, right?

Speaker 2 Type thing, where instead of going to Facebook, you know, and maybe it's backed by a couple brokers, but it'll be the licenses will be taken care of, right?

Speaker 2 And you're a licensed broker, you'll be able to go. and in some fashion either intro your client right through this portal that allows the quote and you can still be kind of part of the journey.

Speaker 2 And then maybe you're able to see your policies outside of your book type of feature.

Speaker 2 You know, a lot of this, I'm probably making Ryan cringe because he's just thinking about how many engineers he's going to have to hire

Speaker 2 on all these ideas I have. But this will happen in some fashion because once again, the rental market, we know this, is it's not home and auto.

Speaker 2 It's not, you know, a hundred policy a month type of thing. It's onesie, twosie, you know, threes for the average broker, right?

Speaker 2 Even like you're running, like, I know it's not your main focus, you know, but you probably are still getting a couple here and there.

Speaker 2 So if you have the ability to just, hey, someone wants a rental in Florida, go to our site, you type in maybe six things of information, it shoots out a quote with an email that you're CC'd on that says, you know, this is our partner at OB.

Speaker 2 They're helping you out with your rental in Florida. You can still see it's going.

Speaker 2 And then, you know, a year down the road after you've been doing this, you can look in your portal and see all that you've done. 30 referrals and how much premium that is.

Speaker 2 And, you know, maybe that'll inspire you to get a license in that state or those states and then then actually be a broker with us or, you know, permanently.

Speaker 2 Or maybe you're just like, you know, I love being able to

Speaker 2 see who I've referred over. I can answer quick questions still from my clients about policy number or whatever.

Speaker 2 And, you know, that is, you know, the core of OB, which will always be there is we were brokerage.

Speaker 2 turn insure tech right or at least a good part of us was right and so everything we built i think will be solving these problems that i'm constantly seeing you're constantly seeing even now i i i consider ryan and aaron uh insure insurtech uh nerds like me too or sure insurance geeks like me so they're seeing so that's also what we get to do with ob is it yeah we're gonna have a product we're in the rental space but ideas like that can be multiplied so like let's say you you get into your space like you talked about with rogue right that same technology for those instant referrals all over the country might be something that you're calling me up like hey matt how do i get the ip for that over at rogue to do workers comp or whatever you know you're going to focus on you know type deal so i think we're ob will start out with one direction in the rental space but i think you'll see our company uh over overall solving a lot of just uh ia channel type problems as well and you know we're able to do that while growing a rental business it's awesome well you know i think i think

Speaker 9 more more solutions in my opinion are is always the answer because you know I'm writing

Speaker 9 like 10 minutes before we jumped on this call, I just got a eight unit quote back from a single state mutual company um who just came in with a ridiculous rate because i wrote them an email and sent them all these pictures for the unit and said look you know i know this isn't your target this super clean great you know i get wrote them this big long story and they come in a thousand dollars less than the next highest quote in the market right so like that's really difficult to beat however that also took me a couple hours right to put all the information together to write the story, to call the underwriter.

Speaker 9 You do the quote in a Excel spreadsheet that you then email them, right? So there's like not, it's not scalable. So, so that's great.
That's a great solution. On the other side, if I have a simple

Speaker 9 two family that flies in and the guy's ready to go.

Speaker 9 Why would I just punch up Obi and go, bubba? Okay, here's your rate. Boom.
How's it sound? Great. Boom.
Closed. Good.
Here's your tailing. Get your payment information.
All right. You have coverage.

Speaker 9 Rock and roll. Right.
Like, so I don't think, I feel like sometimes, and again, this goes back to my comments before about tribalism. I feel like

Speaker 9 we are in this place where there are still, there are still a lot of agents. And it's not a negative.
I understand

Speaker 9 they're riding the horses that got them to where they are. But I guess my only point is like, you can ride the horse and have the motorcycle and the Elon Musk rocket ship.

Speaker 9 Like you can have all those things. And in different situations, they all make sense.

Speaker 9 And that, and that's really, I think, why I love having you guys on here telling these kind of stories, talking about these kinds of solutions and making them tangible for agents is because

Speaker 9 it's, I don't think any one solution is the answer anymore. It's really about finding for this particular moment, this particular client.
what's going to get this person what they need.

Speaker 9 And it's not always a mutual.

Speaker 9 it's not always a national it's not always an insure tech it's not always a captive or whatever it's it's having access to all of them so i think you guys are right on it and the more that you can facilitate that um

Speaker 2 i i think i think the better so yeah absolutely agree yeah and i think ryan you know to your point on having all three you know you you said horse you know motorcycle you know, rocket ship, right?

Speaker 2 Well, a lot of these agents that are maybe listening to this that are like, you know, still a a little anti-insure tech or just maybe they just don't know, right?

Speaker 2 Or whatever is, I want to remind all of them, go back five years, 10 years, 20 years. I don't know how long they've been an agent, right? But there was a time when yellow pages was scary.

Speaker 2 There was a time when Google ads was scary. There was a time when, I don't know, maybe

Speaker 2 using the phone and calling people, right? There's always been, even in everyone's career that's listening to this, like there's been something that was scary as a new marketing or a new tool.

Speaker 2 You know,

Speaker 2 how many people probably listen to this, like were scared the first time they had to go from like the fish film to like a computer and a monitor, right?

Speaker 2 Or, you know, from one monitor to two monitors or let alone like work remote on a laptop, right?

Speaker 2 So I think, you know, what I'll end with here on that subject is that, you know, you're 100% right. Keep what's comfortable for you, but give 5%, give 10% to this new journey, right?

Speaker 2 So you can stay, you know, going down on the same career path that you've always done.

Speaker 2 And I, once again, I think one, as individuals, Ryan, myself, you know, you know, I know you are, Ryan, as well, like, I can also take phone calls and stuff like that about like just insure tech in general, like what's happening, how to like get involved, just as much as talking about being a partner with Obi.

Speaker 2 because we might not be a fit sometimes.

Speaker 2 But really, just, I want to, more than anything, just say that like this insure tech space is not here to take anybody's careers, jobs, like move people out of the way.

Speaker 2 It is just a new tool, a new thing in the woodshed, a new rocket ship. And like

Speaker 2 we, we couldn't be more pro-broker. We couldn't be more pro,

Speaker 2 you know, wanting to be part of the space and not like, and not take over the space. Like we're here to, you know, make all these brokers, these channel partners' lives better, faster, and easier.

Speaker 2 And, you know, and have some, you know, crap ton of fun on the way out, you know? Yeah.

Speaker 10 You know, you said it took you hours to put together stuff for an eight flat. You know, at the end of the day,

Speaker 10 we're trying to to take that burden off your hands um so you could spend that time prospecting and getting more customers i mean you shouldn't be like you know we have data enrichment solutions now that will calculate uh replacement costs on your behalf it'll furnish all of the data we we scrape uh i think 15 different sites now and we have over a thousand data elements that we can plug in to help enrich data and you'll see that starting to go live here in the next 30 to 60 days Well, all you have to do is enter an address and it's going to pump out a quote for you.

Speaker 10 Spend your time being an advocate for your customers and you don't have to worry about whether or not their relationship's going to go to an insurtech because they love you for going the extra mile, getting them a quote extremely fast, making it competitive, and then being a risk advisor to them rather than, you know,

Speaker 10 just being somebody that sells a commodity because it's occupying so much of your time to have to put all that stuff together. I mean, at the the end of the day, I think that that is what

Speaker 10 we're helping speed up and we're helping empower the agents and the brokers of the worlds and trying to be an advocate for them so they can be an advocate on behalf of their consumer.

Speaker 9 Amen. I completely agree.
I mean, I know this is the first time you and I have ever spoken, but Matt knows this.

Speaker 9 The first two words I wrote down when I started mapping out my agency was human optimized. So, you know, the whole construct or,

Speaker 9 you know, whatever the window,

Speaker 9 the lens that I use to view every decision that we make in our agency is how do we take the best aspects of the traditional model of connection and relationship and compassion and caring and all those things that

Speaker 9 make a traditionally run agency amazing? And

Speaker 9 how do we...

Speaker 9 make sure that they're they're placed into the transaction and into every every interaction with a a customer in the right moments, right?

Speaker 9 So instead of, it's, you know, and this was like my vision: I remember sitting

Speaker 9 in my wife's family agency

Speaker 9 listening to the CSRs, and a phone call would come in, and they would,

Speaker 9 and this isn't a negative because they do a great job, but they would be trying to get that customer off the phone as quickly as possible because they knew whatever that customer was asking them to do was then going to take X amount of time to get done.

Speaker 9 And what my thought was, there has to be a way to make it so that

Speaker 9 that actual transaction processing time can be reduced so that that same 20 minutes, right?

Speaker 9 So instead of, so if I'm going to spend 20 minutes on this particular thing, whatever it is, instead of five minutes on the phone with the customer and 15 minutes transactioning, I can flip that and go 15 minutes on the phone, building relationship connection, finding other things to cross-sell, asking for referrals, making sure everything's okay, double checking, you know, data points in our database, and then only five minutes transacting, right?

Speaker 9 Like, so how do we flip that on its head? And,

Speaker 9 you know, that that's what that's what we're working on every day. And it sounds like you guys are on a similar journey.
So I couldn't be more on that path.

Speaker 9 So, hey, guys, I want to be very respectful of your time. And I have, I have some questions about, and you don't have to get into details.
That's not what I'm looking for.

Speaker 9 But what I'm super interested in is

Speaker 9 just this process, right? Like

Speaker 9 you found each other. We heard a little bit about that and then decided, hey, this is going to be something that makes sense.

Speaker 9 Lighthouse, right?

Speaker 2 Skylight. Skylight.

Speaker 2 It was Skylight, but you know, Skylight, I'm sorry.

Speaker 9 I knew there was a light in it.

Speaker 2 It's just like apartment names. They all have park, light, sky, or something.

Speaker 2 So Skylight.

Speaker 9 and Obi come together and you're going to form this partnership and then and then go out and get uh some capital and there's a whole process just talk me through.

Speaker 9 None of this, I don't care about the details of, you know, this and which part. Just

Speaker 9 how do you manage through that? I mean, that's a moment where there's a lot of moving parts. If you're not on the same page, if you're not communicating, working well together,

Speaker 9 a lot of things can fall apart, right? And I'm sure it wasn't perfect every moment.

Speaker 9 That's not the picture I'm trying to paint.

Speaker 9 But the idea, you know, you obviously have done something right as a group, a leadership group and as an overall company to get get to this point where you've combined, you've raised money, and now it's go time.

Speaker 9 Like, how do you navigate that? Like, what are some of the, did you learn anything? Or is there any advice that you can give people when they make these kind of connections?

Speaker 9 Because I'm sure there's a lot of people listening who either are in the early stages of a partnership or are considering a partnership or a merger or whatever.

Speaker 9 I'm just interested in what you learned from that whole process because there's so much there.

Speaker 10 You said one word that I think will ring true, and it doesn't matter whether it's friendships family your spouse um

Speaker 10 the word was communicate um and i think just ongoing uh matt myself and my brother aaron all had a really good open line um from

Speaker 10 from the the day that we got started and i think matt can probably speak to this as well. But,

Speaker 10 you know,

Speaker 10 we dated, I would say before we got married for for a while um matt proved to us what he was capable of and i i hope we were able to prove to him what we were as well um and at the end of the day i i think your

Speaker 10 your communication your level of integrity um and and doing what you say you are going to do and evaluating that over a period of months and even

Speaker 10 over a year uh allowed us to to form a more meaningful bond and feel a lot more comfortable about the direction we were heading,

Speaker 10 rather than us all feeling like, in some way or another,

Speaker 10 Matt was a cog in our wheel, or we were a cog in his. And, you know,

Speaker 10 and the reality is, is that that wasn't the case at all. I think we formed mutual trust along a period of

Speaker 10 time that I think was paramount in where we're at now.

Speaker 2 Yeah,

Speaker 2 I would agree. I mean, I think communication is always number one in a marriage, you know, everything, right? And for me, I'll just speak like personally on it.

Speaker 2 I've been in quite a few partnerships now.

Speaker 2 And, you know, to be honest to the viewing public, like most of those.

Speaker 2 didn't go as as you first dream it up when you, you know, because everyone meets. It's just like that first night we met, you know, you talk about a relationship.

Speaker 2 Everything's all exciting that first drink and that first date and all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 2 And, and, you know, you tell yourself little fibs and little things, or you, you know, you, you maybe like agree that, oh, I, I like, I like going to the uh, the art museum too, right?

Speaker 2 And, and then when it gets down to it, and kids come, and you know, you're buying a house, and you know, someone loses a job, and all, and when hard stuff happened, then you really see what comes out.

Speaker 2 And so, I think to Ryan's point, like, we did get to go through some hard stuff in the dating phase, which helped, but and and really for me, it was when like I had had just an unbelievable, for the first time, like respect for my partners, you know, I've always been the hardworking like guy like that, you know, or felt like, you know, sometimes there was, you know, where I was holding up my end and not there.

Speaker 2 And every turn, you know, Aaron and Ryan were putting in just as much effort, if not more, you know, on things. And the other thing with the partnership was I love for the first time being able to

Speaker 2 get rid of two-thirds of my workload, right?

Speaker 2 Ryan and I are actually really good friends, like outside of work and get along really well and have personal good interests. But from a work standpoint,

Speaker 2 you know, him, Aaron, and I couldn't be more different. I still remember we,

Speaker 2 this was kind of the solidify period. We did this whiteboard activity, right? And it was, and I just knew this was when it was perfect.
We drew these three like columns, right?

Speaker 2 And we wrote up on a spare thing, like all the stuff that like someone as a CEO, right?

Speaker 2 Like Ryan's our CEO, but like, you know, we were trying to, like, what does someone as a business owner have to handle, right?

Speaker 2 And we started going through them of like hands up, hands down, you know, like real simple kindergarten style of like, who likes doing that or who thinks it's good.

Speaker 2 And when every single person almost like kind of took their own third and was like happy with their third and super pumped more less about what the third they got, but super pumped they didn't have to do the other two-thirds of the stuff, right?

Speaker 2 Like,

Speaker 2 I love that, you know, Ryan's brother Aaron handles like the hr legal like like uh you know write-ups and contracts and stuff like that that stuff used to make me sick and so to me that is another strength of a good partnership is that you're all counted on right to do certain aspects and everyone's kind of in their wheelhouse right

Speaker 2 and we've all been entrepreneurs probably 90 of the people listening to this here are probably top of the flagpole right they are the boss and it's tough you know so that is the advantage of having a partnership is that if you get it right with all those other things communication and everything

Speaker 2 you really can be able to work on the things that you are the best at right uh like i see um

Speaker 2 uh gosh what's his name from iaoa is now doing that big like marketing gig for a better agency right and it's like that what yeah

Speaker 2 that was always his wheelhouse right but he had his own brokerage and he was you know probably getting distracted with other things and now the guy's just you know every time i see him he's on fire right because he's in his wheelhouse because he's probably got a couple other partners with that company doing the other couple of things.

Speaker 2 And that's just, you know, to relate to the audience, I guess, and give Nick some props. But

Speaker 2 yeah, I think that was our partnership thing: communication, trust, and trust when things go bad, like, and you know, a little date before you marry.

Speaker 2 And then honestly, being able to get rid of the things you're not the best at and concentrate on the things that you are.

Speaker 2 I mean, so that's probably a longer answer than you wanted, but I actually think partnerships are probably the most important decision you can ever, you know, make.

Speaker 2 They're harder than starting a business scratch.

Speaker 9 Yeah, I get that. I get that.
I, uh, I, I, I fantasize about having a partner sometimes because I've become keenly aware of the aspects of this business that I just adhor.

Speaker 9 You know, I just can't like just to do them makes me like sick a little bit. Like I just don't even like doing them at all.
Um

Speaker 9 and but at the other time, you know, that's the other thing too, then you're counting on someone. You have to hope that they do it.
You have to hope they're as bought in as you are.

Speaker 9 So that's wonderful. I'm very happy for you guys.
I think it's great. I think what you're doing is tremendous.

Speaker 9 I think the product that you're bringing to the market, there's an absolute need. And

Speaker 9 I just wish you guys nothing but success. Where,

Speaker 9 if someone's listening to this, I know, I know you think you said it's not available yet that agents can start writing, but where do you have like a beta list or a place that they can go?

Speaker 9 put their email in so when it does open up, they can get contacted or how do people just find out more

Speaker 9 so that they can be aware of when it does open up?

Speaker 2 Yes,

Speaker 2 glad you asked the guy. Yeah.
So they can reach out to me via my email, which is matthew at obirisk.com.

Speaker 2 And really, this is actually a topic that came up about 30 minutes ago or 40 minutes or right before this call.

Speaker 2 We're going to be doing some social media posts here over the next few months with some, hopefully like some contact type forms that people can fill out.

Speaker 2 Because what we do want to find out right now is, yeah, who's in the states that we're first launching

Speaker 2 with, who's interested in it, create this kind of database.

Speaker 2 So then that way we can have agents start to, as we get closer and closer to launching in their state, maybe get on for a test pilot, you know, or we can start to work with them. So

Speaker 2 one, see social media posts. And then two, if you are super eager, like some have been.

Speaker 2 DM me, I guess is what the cool kids say on slide into the DMs, right? In the social media or email me.

Speaker 9 So the CMO in me says, pay one of this, pay one of these army of engineers that you have to create obirisk.com/slash beta with a simple gravity form that allows people to fill out information and then you can just collect it all right there.

Speaker 9 If you want, just send me your WordPress login and I'll create it for you right now.

Speaker 9 It's like killing me that you don't have a contact form where I can send people. But no, so

Speaker 9 matthew at obirisk.com is the best place or slide into slide into Sudica's DMs, which is just

Speaker 9 the subtle sexuality to that statement. I'll just, I'll never, that'll never get old for me.

Speaker 2 People have stopped listening to, you know, the three of us probably about 15, 20 minutes. That's

Speaker 2 what we're saying now.

Speaker 2 They've already stopped. They're like, they got done with their Peloton ride.

Speaker 2 They're done listening at this point. But no, we're going to have that gravity type form.
Honestly, you're smarter than me, Ryan, as part of the thing.

Speaker 2 I hit up our CTO before this call and I was like, hey, I need, I need a form uh or whatever and i think we have contact form for like regular contact but we're we're trying to build one just for this so you're just uh your questions as always are just uh a little always ahead of the game so uh your your ass we will take care of uh shortly just you know uh by the time you post this video i bet we have something sweet sweet awesome well hey guys i appreciate it i appreciate you spending the time sharing your story um i very much look forward to what's going on and i'm sure the next the next big thing that that comes out love to have you back on and talk about it and share it with the audience so thank you absolutely thank you for having me yeah thank you brian appreciate it

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