What Maximum Information does

Maximum Information is a London-based catastrophe risk analytics company founded in 2020 that builds vendor-agnostic middleware and decision-support tools for insurers, reinsurers, and financial institutions managing natural catastrophe and climate exposure. Its flagship product, MagniPhi, is positioned as the first vendor-agnostic catastrophe modelling middleware, connecting to input and output data from any licensed cat model provider and reducing model evaluation workflows that previously took months down to minutes across US hurricane, earthquake, severe convective storm, and wildfire perils. The company launched PsiClone in June 2026 as a live event monitoring platform that overlays live ECMWF ensemble tropical cyclone forecasts onto insurer portfolios up to 15 days ahead of potential landfall, with portfolio exposure analytics, automated reporting, and support for claims mobilisation.

The technology stack rests on open-source scientific foundations (SAFE for global sensitivity analysis, STORM for stochastic tropical cyclone hazard generation, Oasis LMF for loss modelling), augmented by a peer-reviewed decision-theoretic framework (Confidence Approach) co-developed with philosophers at the London School of Economics. Maximum Information also operates a Consultancy arm led by the Chief Commercial Officer for bespoke model evaluation, validation, and advisory work, and an Innovation arm publishing open-access research in collaboration with the Lighthill Risk Network, University of Reading, University of Bristol, VU Amsterdam, and the Insurance Development Forum. The firm monetises primarily through B2B SaaS subscriptions to MagniPhi and PsiClone on a sales-led basis, targeting enterprise re/insurers and capital providers via direct outreach and demo-led engagement, with no public pricing. Customers cited include Ariel Re (reinsurance). The company closed a £2.3 million seed round in December 2025 led by Insurtech Gateway, with participation from Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, Convex, and Portfolio Ventures.

Name

Maximum Information

Legal name

Maximum Information Ltd.

Website

https://maxinfo.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Maximum Information is a London-based vendor-agnostic catastrophe risk analytics firm whose MagniPhi middleware and PsiClone live-event platform help insurers, reinsurers, and financial institutions evaluate, compare, and monitor cat model outputs and tropical cyclone portfolio exposure.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Catastrophe Risk Analytics Software

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Other Computer Related Services (541519)

SIC

Investment Advice (6282)

akta.pro primary industry

Catastrophe Risk Modeling & Analytics Services (FSAOACAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Catastrophe Modeling & Exposure Management (FSAOAIAB), Climate Hazard & Catastrophe Modeling (Flood, Wind, Wildfire, Heat, Sea-Level Rise) (EUABALAA), Risk Scoring, Hazard & Geospatial Analytics (FSAOAIAE)

Keywords

• Catastrophe risk analytics
• Vendor-agnostic middleware
• Reinsurance technology
• Tropical cyclone monitoring
• Catastrophe modelling software

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. B2B SaaS Platform Subscriptions: Maximum Information operates as a B2B SaaS company offering software platforms (MagniPhi, PsiClone) to insurers, reinsurers, and financial institutions on a subscription basis. Products automate catastrophe risk management workflows and provide decision-support analytics.
2. Consultancy Services: The company operates a consultancy arm led by CCO Dr. John Wardman, providing bespoke thought leadership studies, catastrophe model evaluation and validation projects, and advisory services spanning multiple peril-regions.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Maximum Information provides B2B SaaS platforms for catastrophe risk analytics. Its flagship product, MagniPhi, is a vendor-agnostic catastrophe modelling middleware that connects to input and output data from licensed cat models and automates model evaluation, comparison, adjustment, and reporting across four US perils (Hurricane, Earthquake, Severe Convective Storm, Wildfire). PsiClone is a live event monitoring platform that continuously analyses evolving tropical cyclone ensemble forecasts against insurance portfolios up to 15 days ahead of potential landfall. The company also offers Risk Explorer, an open-access catastrophe modelling application developed with the Insurance Development Forum.

Product overview

Maximum Information provides a platform of standalone SaaS tools for catastrophe risk analytics, built around a core portfolio of three named products. MagniPhi is the flagship vendor-agnostic middleware that sits atop licensed catastrophe models, enabling rapid evaluation, comparison, and adjustment of model outputs across multiple providers. PsiClone is a live event monitoring platform for real-time tropical cyclone exposure tracking and portfolio analytics during active events. Risk Explorer is an open-source educational tool built in partnership with the Insurance Development Forum and Oasis LMF, demonstrating parametric catastrophe modelling for tropical cyclone and earthquake perils. Together, these tools address the full catastrophe risk lifecycle from model evaluation through to live event response and decision-making under uncertainty.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• MagniPhi: Vendor-agnostic catastrophe modelling middleware platform that enables risk carriers, brokers and financial institutions to compare, evaluate, adjust and report on cat models. Provides end-to-end hazard-to-loss assessment across US perils including hurricane, earthquake, severe convective storm, and wildfire.
• PsiClone

Products and services

• MagniPhi Vendor-agnostic catastrophe modelling middleware that connects to input and output data from vendor-licensed catastrophe models, enabling re/insurers and financial institutions to evaluate, compare, adjust, and report on cat models rapidly across four US perils (Hurricane, Earthquake, Severe Convective Storm, Wildfire). Automates model evaluation workflows that previously took months, reducing them to minutes. For re/insurers, brokers, and financial institutions.
• PsiClone Live event monitoring platform for insurers and reinsurers that continuously analyses evolving tropical cyclone forecasts against insurance portfolios in real time, enabling exposure hotspot identification and prioritisation of high-risk accounts up to 15 days before potential landfall. For insurers, reinsurers, and underwriting teams.
• Risk Explorer Open-access catastrophe modelling application that demonstrates how to estimate losses using hazard, exposure, and vulnerability components applied to parametric insurance use-cases for worldwide tropical cyclone and earthquake perils. Developed in partnership with the Insurance Development Forum and supported by Oasis LMF. For developing nation insurers, humanitarian organisations, and educational users.
• Consultancy Services Bespoke thought leadership studies, catastrophe model evaluation and validation projects, and advisory services spanning multiple peril-regions, delivered by the company's consultancy arm under the Chief Commercial Officer. For re/insurers and financial institutions requiring custom cat risk analysis.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduces catastrophe model evaluation processes from months to minutes
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability3 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core academic partner, key consortium partner, funding body, technology partner, open-source partner, funding and strategic partner, academic partner and advisory/consortium partner.

• University of Readingcore academic partnerStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 July 2024University of Reading's Department of Meteorology (one of the largest in Europe, hosting the National Centre for Atmospheric Science) partnered with Maximum Information on the Hazard Impact Tracker project, providing expertise in atmospheric science and climate systems.
• Aon plckey consortium partnerStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 July 2024Aon is a core consortium partner in the Innovate UK-funded Hazard Impact Tracker project. Emma Karhan, Head of Public Private Partnerships at Aon, stated that the partnership will build frameworks enabling anticipatory action to be insured for the humanitarian sector.
• Innovate UKfunding bodyOthers · 1 July 2024Innovate UK awarded Maximum Information funding (as part of a consortium with LSE, University of Reading, and Aon) for the Hazard Impact Tracker project to build global resilience to cyclone impacts. This is the UK's Innovation Agency providing grant funding.
• London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)core academic partnerStrategic or Co-development PartnerMaximum Information collaborates deeply with LSE's Philosophy Department. Profs. Roman Frigg and Richard Bradley at LSE co-developed the theoretical foundations of the Confidence Approach decision-theoretic framework. Dr. Tom Philp is a Research Associate at LSE's Philosophy Department. The partnership produced the peer-reviewed paper 'Making Confident Decisions with Model Ensembles'.
• Reasktechnology partnerTechnology or IntegrationReask provides its Tropical Cyclone stochastic set and machine learning TC model data for Maximum Information's Confidence Approach seasonal predictions tool. Reask's Head of Research Dr Nicolas Bruneau co-authored papers with CEO Tom Philp. The tool uses Reask's ECWMF-climate model connected stochastic TC tracksets with over 50k stochastic TC seasons.
• Oasis LMFopen-source partnerTechnology or IntegrationOasis LMF supports the Risk Explorer open-access catastrophe modelling tool funded by the Insurance Development Forum. Oasis LMF provides the underlying open-source loss modelling framework for the Risk Explorer application.
• Insurance Development Forum (IDF)funding and strategic partnerStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe IDF funded the Risk Explorer open-access catastrophe modelling application. The IDF is a public-private partnership working to increase insurance coverage in developing nations, with Maximum Information's Risk Explorer serving as an educational tool for parametric insurance use-cases.
• University of Bristolacademic partnerStrategic or Co-development PartnerMaximum Information collaborated with scientists at University of Bristol to develop the SAFE STORM open-source platform for quantifying uncertainty in stochastic Tropical Cyclone hazard generators. Dr. Valentina Noacco was previously a Senior Research Associate and Knowledge Exchange Fellow at U. Bristol.
• VU Amsterdamacademic partnerStrategic or Co-development PartnerScientists at VU Amsterdam collaborated with Maximum Information on the SAFE STORM project to quantify uncertainty in stochastic Tropical Cyclone hazard generators.
• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)advisory/consortium partnerStrategic or Co-development PartnerRepresentatives from the IFRC participated in the Hazard Impact Tracker consortium alongside Maximum Information, LSE, University of Reading, and Aon, bringing humanitarian sector expertise to cyclone risk management framework development.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Moody's RMS: Moody's RMS is the dominant catastrophe modeling platform serving global re/insurers; it competes with Maximum Information as the incumbent whose models MagniPhi orchestrates. Highly comparable as the primary established vendor in the same cat risk analytics category.
• Verisk (AIR Worldwide): Verisk's AIR Worldwide unit provides catastrophe modeling software and data for property casualty insurers and reinsurers. Directly comparable as one of the three major cat model vendors that MagniPhi integrates with.
• CoreLogic (Cotality): CoreLogic (now branded Cotality) provides catastrophe risk models and property data for insurance clients. Comparable as a major cat modeling vendor whose outputs MagniPhi is designed to integrate and compare alongside RMS and AIR.
• Impact Forecasting (Aon): Aon's Impact Forecasting team develops catastrophe models used internally and offered to clients; Aon is also a Hazard Impact Tracker consortium partner. Comparable as a vertically integrated broker with proprietary cat modeling capabilities.
• Guy Carpenter: Guy Carpenter is a global reinsurance broker with proprietary catastrophe analytics capabilities used across its reinsurance placement business. Comparable as a large, established industry participant with overlapping cat risk analytics offerings.

Direct peers

• JBA Risk Management: JBA provides catastrophe and flood modeling services for the insurance industry with global peril coverage. Comparable as an independent cat modeling vendor competing for similar re/insurer and financial institution customers.
• Fathom: Fathom provides flood and climate risk analytics to insurers, reinsurers, and financial institutions globally. Comparable as an independent, science-led risk analytics firm whose former marketing lead now leads marketing at Maximum Information.
• KatRisk: KatRisk offers catastrophe modeling software focused on flood, hurricane, and earthquake perils for the insurance industry. Comparable as a smaller, independent cat modeling software vendor competing for similar enterprise customers.

Emerging players

• Reask: Reask develops machine-learning-driven tropical cyclone hazard models and is a technology partner of Maximum Information on the Confidence Approach tool. Comparable as an emerging peril-specific analytics provider with overlapping tropical cyclone focus.
• XDI (Cross Dependency Initiative): XDI provides climate and physical risk analytics for infrastructure, government, and financial services. Comparable as an emerging climate risk analytics provider serving insurance-adjacent markets with overlapping science-driven methodology.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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