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Click-baity title aside, my assessment is that industry classification is a broken process at best. The concept of gathering an entire population of businesses, then determining a set of limited categories for that entire population is a task monumental at best, and impossible at worst. But there are solutions (or workarounds). As always, we start with the problems, then offer up a few helpful suggestions to navigate. Here we go...

Relativity6's paper entitled "Maximizing Customer Lifetime Value using Stacked Neural Networks: An Insurance Industry Application" proposes a two-stage neural network architecture: Stage-I uses a self-attention mechanism and collaborative metric learning to generate product recommendations, and Stage-II uses a neural network-based survival analysis to infer insurance product recommendations that maximize customer lifetime. The full paper may be accessed here.

Jason brings both significant insurance and business-to-business technology marketing experience to his role. As Founder and CEO of Agency Insurtech, Jason bridges the divide between agents, insurtechs and carriers to eliminate “business as usual” and deliver simple growth strategies and solutions to the market. Prior to his consultancy, Jason was a co-founder of several startups, most notably Smart Harbor which provided digital marketing SaaS solutions to insurance agents before ITC (now part of Zywave) acquired the company in 2019.