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Corgi

Insurance for AI Startups, Protecting the Future of Intelligence

Innovation moves fast. Ensure your coverage keeps up with the risks that come with model outputs, data privacy, and intellectual property as you scale.

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Why AI startups need more than "standard" tech E&O

AI companies don’t just ship software—they ship outputs. That changes how claims show up, especially as customers embed your models in high-impact workflows.

Model Performance & Hallucination

Liability for when an LLM provides false, defamatory, or harmful information that causes a third party loss.

Algorithmic Bias

Protection against claims of discriminatory outcomes in hiring, lending, or healthcare AI.

Training Data Disputes

Legal defense for intellectual property disputes related to the data used to train your proprietary models.

Common risk triggers for AI companies

The 'AI safety' audit

Enterprise buyers increasingly require proof of AI risk management and cyber coverage before integrating your API.

VC due diligence, series A

Investors audit “data provenance” and IP posture—coverage helps you demonstrate mature risk controls.

EU AI act & global regulation

As regulations tighten, a robust insurance program helps signal governance and readiness to customers and partners.

Our Packages That Protect Your AI Company

Pre-Seed & Seed

Pre-Seed & Seed

Core protection for you and your product

What's included

  • General third-party claims (CGL)
  • Protects you and leadership decisions (D&O)
  • Protects you if your tech fails or causes a claim (Tech E&O)
  • Protects you if data is exposed or systems are breached (Cyber)
Series A

Series A

Protect you, your board, and help you close bigger deals

What's included

  • Protects you and leadership decisions (D&O)
  • Protects you if your tech fails or causes a claim (Tech E&O)
  • Protects you for general third-party claims (CGL)
  • Protects you for marketing/content claims (Media)
  • Protects you from employee-related claims (EPLI)
  • Protects you if data is exposed or systems are breached (Cyber)
Growth Stage

Growth Stage

Protection for leadership risk, transactions, and scale

What's included

  • Everything in Series A, with stage appropriate limits
  • Protects you for benefit plan responsibilities (Fiduciary)

Critical Coverages for the AI Stack

Technology errors & omissions

Technology errors & omissions

Covers professional liability arising from technology products or services.

Cyber

Cyber

Covers hacking, ransomware, and data privacy claims.

Media liability

Media liability

Covers content, advertising, and intellectual property risks.

Directors & officers

Directors & officers

Covers claims related to management decisions and corporate governance.

AI Claims Scenarios

The Bias Lawsuit

A fintech startup’s credit-scoring model is alleged to produce discriminatory outcomes. The startup faces a class-action lawsuit for discrimination.

The Hallucination Loss

A legal-tech AI provides a “fictional” case citation in a filing. The law firm is sanctioned and brings a claim against the AI startup.

The Training Data Claim

A publisher sues an AI company, alleging their model was trained on copyrighted works without a license.

Explore our services

AI insurance

AI insurance

Stay ahead with AI liability coverage, model risk protection, and IP defense.

Fintech

Fintech

Explore the crossroads of fintech with focused insights on money transfer, regulation, and digital asset security.

Marketplace

Marketplace

Insurance for Marketplaces & Platforms. Safeguard your platform and users while navigating the gig economy's risks.

Health-tech

Health-tech

HIPAA-compliant insurance to protect your business against data breaches and regulatory fines.

SaaS

SaaS

Scale confidently with coverage tailored for software companies, from E&O to cyber liability.

FAQ

AI startups typically need Technology Errors & Omissions (E&O) for claims related to AI output accuracy, Cyber Liability for data breach protection, Directors & Officers (D&O) for leadership protection, and General Liability. With Corgi, you can bundle the full AI stack in one package as regulations evolve.
Yes. Technology E&O insurance protects AI companies when their software produces incorrect outputs, causes financial harm to clients, or fails to perform as promised. As AI systems make more autonomous decisions, the liability exposure for errors grows significantly — Corgi's E&O is built for that risk profile.
AI liability insurance covers claims arising from the use of artificial intelligence products and services. With Corgi, this includes E&O claims from AI errors, cyber claims from data breaches in AI training data, and general liability from physical or financial harm caused by AI systems.
Cyber insurance covers AI companies for data breaches involving training data, model theft, unauthorized access to AI systems, and regulatory fines under data protection laws. AI companies often handle large datasets of sensitive information, making Corgi's cyber coverage essential.
Investors typically require Directors & Officers (D&O) insurance before closing a round. Tech E&O and Cyber Liability are also expected by most institutional investors. Having comprehensive Corgi coverage in place signals maturity and risk awareness to potential investors.
Coverage typically sits at the intersection of Technology E&O and Media Liability. Claims involving training data licensing, scraped or unlicensed content, and fair-use disputes are an emerging exposure that standard policies often exclude or sublimit, so the wording matters more than the headline coverage. Corgi structures AI E&O with affirmative language for these training-data and IP claims rather than relying on silent coverage.
Affirmative AI coverage inside Technology E&O is what responds when a model hallucinates, produces biased outputs, or causes downstream financial harm to a customer. Generic Tech E&O policies written before generative AI often have ambiguous or silent treatment of model outputs, which is exactly where claims are now being filed. Look for explicit AI-output language and avoid blanket "algorithmic bias" exclusions.
Defense costs for regulatory inquiries under the EU AI Act, Colorado's AI law, and similar emerging state-level rules typically sit inside Technology E&O and Cyber Liability where regulatory defense endorsements apply. Fines and penalties are often uninsurable by statute, but the legal cost of responding to an investigation is where most of the spend actually lands. The compliance landscape is shifting fast, so your policy needs broad enough wording to keep up.
Yes — if you build on top of a foundational model from OpenAI, Anthropic, or another provider, your Technology E&O responds when a customer sues you for harm caused by that upstream model's behavior, even though the underlying error came from a third party. The same applies to open-source dependencies you ship inside your product. Indemnity language in your vendor contracts matters, but you typically can't rely on it alone — your own policy is what defends you when you're named.

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