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A North Group operating brief, for anyone about to sign a renewal

The price looked the same,
so nobody read it

The change is almost never in the price. The price is the part everybody checks, because it is the part that is easy to check. What moves quietly is a definition, an exclusion, a notice period, a cap, and a policy can arrive at the same premium and cover less than it did last year without the summary page saying so. Paste this brief into whichever assistant you already use, give it this year and last year, and it finds what moved and writes the questions to ask before you sign.

The premium was up two percent, which felt fair, so it got signed on a Friday afternoon. The claim came in March. Water damage had been redefined over the winter to exclude anything originating below ground level, which was where the stockroom was, and had been for eleven years. Nothing on the front page had changed at all.
What it usually says

“The terms and conditions have been updated.”

Nobody can act on this
What comes out

Water damage now excludes anything originating below ground level, which is where the stockroom is.

Somebody can act on this
What changed

Reading two long documents side by side to find one changed word is exactly the work people are worst at and assistants are good at. What was missing was the discipline around it: comparing section by section rather than page by page, checking the definitions rather than the clauses, and refusing to say what anything means legally. That is a method, not a feature, and it fits on one page.

What half an hour before signing looks like
Before the file
It asks what this is meant to protect you from and what would actually hurt
Still before the file
It asks what changed in your business this year, which nobody checks
Then
It lines the two documents up section by section, never page by page
The four places
Definitions, exclusions, limits and deductibles, dates and notice
What you get
Each change quoted both years, and the question to ask about it
Get the brief
One page, written to be pasted into whichever assistant you already use. No course and no call booking.
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If you have not used Claude before

It is an ordinary chat. You paste the brief, answer a few questions about what you are renewing, then attach both documents. If your assistant cannot take a file, it tells you which four sections to paste instead. Nothing gets installed.

What it does not do. It finds differences and writes questions. It does not tell you what a clause means legally and it does not tell you whether to sign, because that is your broker's job or your lawyer's. It also only sees what you give it, so a section you leave out is a section it will say it never read.

Written for
Owners and operators who sign the renewal themselves
What you need
This year's document and last year's, and an assistant that can read a file
Time to first run
About thirty minutes, well before the deadline
What is in it
Asked what it is meant to protect against, the answer is the building and the stock. Asked what changed this year, the stockroom moved downstairs in August. Only then does it open the files, and it works through the definitions before the clauses, because that is where a single word reaches everything. The finding it hands back quotes both years and ends in a question for the broker, not an opinion about whether to sign.
Half an hour before the deadline, a short list of what actually moved, and the questions worth asking while there is still time to ask them.
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