Pitot Index · Insurance · Week 46 · 2026

InsuranceNEW

How the machines currently read insurance.

Every week, 10 insurance brands are put to the major AI systems and the answers are scored on the same instrument. This is the sector's standing reading — 73.8, band AA — and what it means.

PeriodWeek 46 · 2026
Brands tracked10
BandAA
Spread5.0 pts
Series6 weeks
InstrumentARES-C 2.3
Insurance · category average · ARES-C composite 73.8 AA +0.9 Week 46 · 2026 · 10 brands · 8th of 19

6 weeks · 2026-W41 → 2026-W46

Insurance · top 10Week 46 · 2026
  1. 1st Berkshire Hathaway 82.4 AA
  2. 2nd Munich Re 82.3 AA
  3. 3rd Chubb 75.7 AA
  4. 4th Allianz 74.7 AA
  5. 5th Ping An 72.8 AA
  6. 6th Zurich Insurance Group 72.5 AA
  7. 7th AXA 72.1 AA
  8. 8th Generali 70.2 AA
  9. 9th MetLife 68.8 A
  10. 10th AIG 66.0 A
The reading

What 73.8 means for insurance

A score is a position. The shape around it is the information.

A sector average tells you what the machines have settled on. The spread tells you whether anyone inside it is winning.

Band AA · 70+
Typically described correctly and named reliably, though not yet the first answer to the category question. That places the sector 8th of 19 sectors tracked, 1.5 points above the index average of 72.3.
Movement
The reading is up 0.9 points on the week — a real move, though a single week is not yet a direction. The series behind this page runs to 6 weekly readings, beginning 2026-W41 — long enough that a trend can be separated from a week.
Trial window note
These weeks were measured before this sector was published, as a pre-publication trial window. The brand-name groupings used from the first public week have been applied to them.
Dispersion
A spread of 5.0 points across the tracked cohort is moderate. There is visible separation between the top and the middle of insurance, but no brand is running away with the category.
The sector

Why insurance reads this way

The instrument produces the figure. A person writes the reading.

Sector leader · Week 46 · 2026
Berkshire Hathaway leads insurance at 82.4, band AA — 8.6 points clear of the category average. The full ranked board sits above; the nineteen-sector view is on the Pitot Index.
How this is measured
Readings are produced by ARES-C, a composite instrument that puts a standardised prompt set to nine pinned AI models each week and scores the answers automatically across five dimensions — authority, reputation, expertise visibility, signal consistency and context. We check model versions every cycle and log any change we find, with the date we found it.
  • Same prompts, same cohort, same scoring, every week
  • Nine systems across three spheres, so no single model's opinion carries the reading
  • Every sweep recorded and retained, so a figure can be traced back
See the methodology
What this page does not claim

The honest limits, stated first.

  • This is perception, not performance. The figure describes how AI systems currently represent insurance. It is not a measure of revenue, quality, or standing with customers, and should never be read as one.
  • The cohort is defined, not exhaustive. 10 brands are tracked in this sector. A brand's absence from the cohort is a scoping decision, not a judgement.
  • A week is not a direction. Model providers update continuously and answers move for reasons that have nothing to do with a brand. Read the series; treat any single week with suspicion.
  • Aggregates conceal. A category average can hold steady while individual brands move sharply in opposite directions. The sector figure is the beginning of the question, not the answer.

An instrument that admits what it cannot see is the only kind whose readings can be relied on where it can.

Instrument ARES-C 2.3 · Insurance · Week 46 · 2026 · 10 brands
Insurance

A sector reading tells you where the category stands. It does not tell you where you stand in it.

The Index ranks the category unprompted. To examine one brand by name, Pulse gives a quick health check. Delivered by email within 48 hours, excluding weekends and UK bank holidays. It may arrive sooner. A Signal Audit takes it through the instrument at depth — every dimension, every model, with the evidence attached and the interpretation written by someone who has sat on your side of the table. Brand pages and full history for insurance are on pitotindex.com.