Engineering at CyberCube with Richard Ford

CYBERCUBE 2026 ENGINEERING PRIORITIES
Yvette Essen, Head of Communications and Market Engagement
Richard Ford, VP of Engineering

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YVETTE ESSEN:
It's an exciting year for CyberCube with regards to product and engineering development. I'm Yvette Essen, head of communications and market engagement for CyberCube. And joining me is Richard Ford, VP of Engineering. Richard, thank you very much for your time. I'd love to hear a little bit about what your priorities are for 2026.

RICHARD FORD:
Sure. Thanks. I'm pretty excited about this year. We're doing a lot. There's a lot going on and it keeps me young, I think. We've got a lot of roadmap work. We're going to make a lot of improvements to signals and single risk. So, that impacts our AM and BM products. But what I'm most excited about is some of the work we're doing on the underlying platform that supports all of CyberCube, helping make us more consistent, more reliable, and more flexible. And that's pretty exciting stuff.

YVETTE ESSEN:
So what does that mean? What does that entail in terms of platform development?

RICHARD FORD:
So a lot of the work we've done has been about getting products to market. And when you do that, you take the shortest distance between two points. You still build great products, but you build them in a way that perhaps the integration isn't as tight as it could be. As we take on more of the insurance value chain and more of the different slices of insurance, having a really consistent view of the truth—what the world looks like and how the risk in that world exists—becomes increasingly important to our customers. Also, uptime and reliability are paramount as our customers build things into their workflows more. So what that means is we'll have one consistent view of data across our entire ecosystem and we'll have models that are more modular, allowing us to make model updates and changes in ways that don't impact our customers until they're ready. Change management will happen on their time scales and less on our time scale. And I think from what I hear from our customers, that'll be a big win for them.

YVETTE ESSEN:
And you've touched on it a bit there, but what else do we expect this to mean for our customers and our clients?

RICHARD FORD:
I think we're moving into a season of volatility, especially when it comes around to single risk that has knock-on effects to cat risk. And so what we need to do is build a platform that's capable of moving at effectively the speed of the cyber threat without requiring the rest of the world to move with us. So for our customers, the really big win that I see is it gives them a really agile platform that they can build their business around without having to deal with the volatility that makes the insurance world hard. I think it's the best of both worlds and I'll be excited to roll it out.

YVETTE ESSEN:
Brilliant. And rolling it out, how long is this going to take? What's the rough timeline?

RICHARD FORD:
Right, so everyone asks that question, and this is a heavy engineering lift, but what we're doing is piece by piece. It's not some big bang where we wait for two years and then poof, there it is. Thank goodness. What we're doing is rolling out each part of it as it becomes available. So, we've already got parts of our data access layer running in production. When we relaunch ALM in the fall, we should be looking at having that fully platformed. So, what you'll see is this year it's all about single risk. Next year it'll be all about cat risk.

YVETTE ESSEN:
Brilliant. Thank you very much for your time, Richard. For CyberCube, I'm Yvette Essen.