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Company Announcements
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Shepherd Ranked No. 139 on the 2026 Inc. 5000 With 2,234% Three-Year Growth
The AI-native commercial insurance platform underwriting commercial construction and energy clients behind the AI build-out recognized for 2,234% three-year revenue growth, placing in the top 3% of the list that recognizes the nation’s fastest-growing private businesses
Julian Clarke
Head of Marketing
August 11, 2026
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Engineering & Product
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Back to the Monolith: AI Cost, Context, and our Changing Priorities
Most of Shepherd's architecture existed to compensate for our coordination limits, but AI-driven development removed that need to compensate. We merged our polyrepo into a monorepo, collapsed it into a single Next.js monolith, and cut our development cycle from nearly an hour to under 10 minutes.
Eli Kirmayer
Software Engineer
July 30, 2026
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Insurance
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Insurtech’s first real win and the emerging industry realignment behind it
Allianz just handed its global cyber book to a technology company because their technology meaningfully improves underwriting results. That is the milestone insurtech has been promising for a decade, and it’s finally arrived.
Justin Levine
Co-Founder & CEO
July 22, 2026
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Insurance
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Press
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ENR: Insurers Offer Discounts for Using Site Monitoring Tech to Reduce Risk
Direct attempt to tie project economics to proven risk control methods
June 25, 2026
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Insurance
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Company Announcements
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Engineering & Product
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The case for autonomous underwriting
Automation asks: how do we make this faster? Autonomy asks: what authority has the system earned?
Justin Levine
Co-Founder & CEO
April 8, 2026
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Engineering & Product
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The Evolution of Shepherd’s Rules Engine
Inside Shepherd's Generative Rules Engine
Sierra Costanza
Software Engineer
April 2, 2026
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Press
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Axios: Construction insurtech Shepherd raises $42M
Infrastructure spending tied to AI is creating new demand for faster underwriting.
March 24, 2026
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Engineering & Product
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Behind Our Series B: The Road to Autonomous Underwriting
Our vision for fully agentic underwriting and the road to get there.
Mo Mahallawy
Co-Founder & CTO
March 24, 2026
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Company Announcements
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Behind Our Series B: AI's Physical Layer, and Why We Just Raised $42M to Insure It
Read more from Shepherd's CEO about what's behind our $42M Series B led by Intact.
Justin Levine
Co-Founder & CEO
March 24, 2026
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Designing Nova: Shepherd's AI Engine
Esme Nava
Software Engineer
March 18, 2026
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