Helio

Inspiration

Helio is helping new and existing homebuyers find and compare policies that are right for them without having to work through agents and brokers.

What is does

Helio uses intelligent analytics to quickly assess a consumers risk profile, comparing personal information to various macro and market data. Our tool then recommends coverages that optimize a users expected utility. This information is passed on to insurers who craft policies around these parameters.

Helio then leverages Watson's Trade Analytics and Retrieve & Rank tools to help the consumer pick the policy that is best for them.

How we built it

We leveraged 3rd party data sources, Bluemix platform, and blood sweat and tears.

Challenges we ran into

We wanted to build all kinds of features in at different points in the process, though did not have enough time to implement everything we wanted.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We feel that we have identified a very real pain point for consumers, and our solution solves these everyday issues.

What we learned

Building out a full-scale app takes much more than 24 hours.

What's next for Helio

We hope to develop a more detailed data set and test the product with the consumer.

Built With

• bluemix
• java