What happens when you bring self-driving car technology to workplace safety and what does it mean for the future of insurance?
In the latest episode of The Leadership in Insurance Podcast, host Alex Bond sits down with Josh Butler, Founder & CEO of CompScience, to explore how AI and computer vision are fundamentally reshaping workers' compensation underwriting and loss control.
Josh shares how CompScience was born from a personal moment — a family member's construction site accident — and how the same technology that powers autonomous vehicles is now helping carriers finally understand workplace risk at a level that was never before possible.
The results speak for themselves. Customers are seeing injury rates drop by 20-30% — not by replacing loss control professionals, but by giving them the data and authority to act as true consultants rather than just salespeople.
On what's driving CompScience's success, Butler is clear:
\"Leaders need to get hands-on with AI to understand the challenges and opportunities. You can't just watch from the sidelines.\"
Josh and Alex also dig into the wider market landscape: how advances in LLMs and agentic AI have transformed who can build software, why problem-solvers are now more valuable than coders, and the regulatory risks that keep him up at night.
A fascinating conversation for anyone at the intersection of AI, safety, and insurance.
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