The 2026 Tearsheet AI Innovation Awards: Recognizing the Builders of AI-Powered Finance
Tearsheet named Carpe the 2026 Best Alternative Data Provider for AI-driven small commercial insurance intelligence.
Originally published by Tearsheet on August 5, 2026.
Tearsheet named Carpe the Best Alternative Data Provider in its 2026 AI Innovation Awards. The awards recognize financial services companies applying AI to solve practical business problems.
Carpe earned the award for helping small commercial insurers make faster, more informed underwriting decisions. Its AI-driven intelligence continuously analyzes signals from company websites, review platforms, social media, and commercial sources to build a real-time view of more than 50 million businesses, covering roughly 90% of insurable U.S. small businesses.
Tearsheet highlighted measurable results from insurers using Carpe. Carriers have reduced underwriting touches by 20%, cut review times by 15-30 minutes per application, lowered adverse selection by 40%, and improved loss ratios by 1.5 points.
The 2026 winners also included Fifth Third Bank, Plaid, Titan, Casap, Intuit, Cascading AI, and SEON. Carpe and Plaid were additionally recognized in the Best AI Fraud & Risk Management Solution category.
Read the full article at Tearsheet.
Originally published at Tearsheet.
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