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Bdeo

Bdeo sells what it calls Visual Intelligence, a computer vision system that analyzes photographs and video of damaged vehicles and homes to detect damage, determine its severity and support the decisions that follow. The founding premise, stated by its chief executive, is that roughly 70 percent of claims are minor and can be assessed with technology rather than by sending a person, and the product is built to capture that band remotely.

The estate spans both ends of the policy lifecycle. On claims it handles motor and household damage assessment, checks historical images for pre existing damage, helps repair workshops prepare estimates, and supports authorization by validating a repairer's estimate against the image evidence. On underwriting it performs inspections of used vehicles before a policy is written, which is its dominant use in the Spanish market. A fleet product provides visual status of vehicle fleets for leasing, rental and rent a car operators. Regional deployments differ in emphasis: United Kingdom operations concentrate on claims, Spain on underwriting inspection, Mexico on rapid customer response, and Germany on integration with local telematics providers so that an incident is detected automatically and visual capture begins immediately.

Scale is stated as more than 50 insurers across more than 25 countries in Europe and Latin America, with presence in Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, the Nordics, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Colombia and Argentina, and a South African client. The company reported in mid 2023 that it handled more than half of motor insurance underwriting in Spain and worked with 8 of the 10 leading Spanish motor insurers. Named customers include Reale, Mapfre and Generali in Spain, Ageas and Fidelidade in Portugal, Zurich, Allianz and BBVA in Latin America, Hollard in South Africa, and Mutua Madrileña, with whom it built a system to automate policy underwriting.

Founded in 2017 in Madrid by Julio Pernía and Manuel Moreno, both from the insurance industry, the company employs roughly 63 people and states that 65 percent of the team works on the technology itself. It has raised approximately $15.2 million across seed, Series A and Series B rounds from BlackFin, K Fund, Armilar, Big Sur Ventures, the Spanish industrial technology development center, Íope Ventures and the South African insurer Hollard, which is both an investor and a named client, alongside regional grants and a European Innovation Council Seal of Excellence.

Last VerifiedAugust 26, 2026
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Founded
2017
Headquarters
Madrid, Spain
Website
bdeo.io
Categories
insurance-ai, fraud-and-transaction-risk
Assessment

Capability Axes

Capability grades

15 of 15 axes rated · 4 graded A or B

AI Capability
AI Centrality
AA on AI CentralityThe artificial intelligence is the product. Remove the models and there is nothing left to sell.
Vendor Published

Without the computer vision there is no product, only a photo upload form. Underwriting inspection and claims triage run on the same detection and severity models, so a weakness there carries into both.

Autonomy and Oversight Model
CC on Autonomy and Oversight ModelAutonomy is claimed and oversight is asserted without a mechanism, or full automation is presented as the entire disclosure. Human in the loop appears as a phrase rather than a described control.
Vendor Published

UK material calls the product an added layer of visual verification, while the founding thesis rests on assessing about 70 percent of minor claims without a person. What the system decides alone, what routes to an assessor and who reviews a severity figure before settlement are never stated.

Model Risk Management and Transparency
CC on Model Risk Management and TransparencyTransparency is claimed in general terms with no mechanism a model validator could interrogate.
Vendor Published

Damage detection and severity have a measurable accuracy against expert assessment, and none is published, nor any false positive rate or benchmark against adjusters. Drift as vehicle models and capture devices change is unaddressed, and investor remarks on reliability are not measurement.

Operational and Outcome Evidence
BB on Operational and Outcome EvidenceVendor aggregate claims with real figures, or audited scale disclosures from a publicly listed company.
Vendor Published

Reale, Mapfre and Generali are among named carriers across more than 50 insurers in 25 countries, and Mutua Madrileña co created an underwriting automation system. No automation rate, accuracy or cost saving is published, and the Spanish motor penetration figures date from mid 2023.

AI Safety and Data Stewardship
CC on AI Safety and Data StewardshipGeneral assurances that do not answer the question this axis asks, which is whether one customer’s data trains models serving its competitors. Unbounded cross client learning stated with no boundary grades here too.
Vendor Published

Vision models learn from labeled damage imagery, and nothing published says whether client claim images train models or inform capability sold to other insurers. Pre existing damage checks re query images captured for earlier claims, a repurposing no published document bounds.

Regulatory and Compliance
GLBA and Data Privacy Posture
CC on GLBA and Data Privacy PostureA standard privacy policy that covers the website rather than the service, or silence on a product that touches limited consumer data.
Vendor Published

Scene photos and video routinely capture plates, home interiors and people, personal data under European law by any reading. No privacy policy content, retention schedule or subprocessor list says how long images are kept or what is redacted.

Security Certifications and Trust Center
CC on Security Certifications and Trust CenterA single footer line, or certifications asserted without being enumerated, which is weaker than naming them because it invites an assumption a buyer cannot check.
Third Party Estimated

Security goes undocumented: no trust center, attestation report or certification appears on the site or in press coverage. A smaller vendor gives a buyer less public corroboration before a confidentiality agreement.

Regulatory Status and Licensure
CC on Regulatory Status and LicensureThe regulatory position is unstated. Most vendors in this index are technology suppliers and being unlicensed is the correct posture, so this grade records silence about the posture, not a missing license.
Vendor Published

A European Innovation Council Seal of Excellence and public grants recognize innovation, not supervision of outputs. How the product supports carriers' claims handling obligations across more than 25 jurisdictions is not addressed, and the company claims no insurance license.

AI Governance and Bias Disclosure
CC on AI Governance and Bias DisclosureResponsible artificial intelligence committed to in policy language with no evaluation behind it, on a product whose bias surface is modest.
Vendor Published

Motor and household damage assessment sits outside the EU AI Act's high risk schedule, which lowers compliance exposure without settling fairness. Vision accuracy varies with image quality, lighting and device, which track claimants' circumstances, and no testing of that is published.

AI Liability and Recourse
DD on AI Liability and RecourseNothing published on who bears the loss when the system is wrong.
Vendor Published

A severity figure sets what a claim is worth, and a pre existing damage finding can defeat a claim outright, acting as an accusation as much as an assessment. No published process gives the policyholder notice or a route to human reassessment, and nothing allocates liability between vendor and insurer for a wrong finding.

Integration and Deployment
Model Supply Chain Disclosure
CC on Model Supply Chain DisclosureThe architecture is described and no provider is named.
Vendor Published

Proprietary vision dating from 2017 and 65 percent of staff on the technology point to internal models, though no statement confirms it. Training data assembly, any third party vision service and change notification are undisclosed.

Core Systems and Integration Depth
BB on Core Systems and Integration DepthNamed systems or a documented public API, with the depth or the production evidence left open.
Vendor Published

Integration reaches insurers, policyholders capturing at the moment of loss and repair workshops whose estimates are validated against image evidence. In Germany, telematics providers detect an incident and start capture automatically, though no interface documentation or partner list appears.

Deployment Model and Data Residency
CC on Deployment Model and Data ResidencyCloud only with nothing stated, which is the category norm.
Vendor Published

Hosting provider, processing location and residency options are undocumented for a customer base spanning Europe, Latin America and South Africa. A historical image library implies persistent storage of claim imagery whose location is undescribed.

Commercial
Commercial Transparency
CC on Commercial TransparencyNo price is published and engagement runs through a demo form, which is the norm in this index.
Vendor Published

A demo request is the only route, and reduced operating cost is claimed repeatedly without a figure or unit. Implementation by use case suggests per inspection charging, but whether images, claims or a subscription set the price is unstated.

Institution and Segment Coverage
BB on Institution and Segment CoverageNamed segments with dedicated material behind part of the coverage.
Vendor Published

Deployments run from Spain and Portugal to Mexico and South Africa, and buyers include fleet operators, leasing and rental firms alongside insurers, with workshops in the workflow. Only motor and household property are covered, leaving commercial, specialty and life lines out.

Tracked Since Listing

Product updates

Material product, regulatory, evidence and commercial changes at Bdeo, each verified against a live source and tagged to the capability axis it bears on. Funding rounds and awards are not product changes and are not logged.

Oct 13, 2026Performance evidence

Bdeo published first production results from its visual AI damage assessment at UK motor claims handler S&G Response, delivered through the Claim Technology platform. After deployment, 69% of claims were processed within 24 hours of notification through digital self service, 98% were routed automatically to the correct repair pathway, and smart repair identification rose 15%. Early indications put potential savings at £250 to £375 per claim.

Bears on: Operational and Outcome EvidenceSource
Our read on this update →Tracked since Oct 2026

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Commercial

Pricing

Vendor-published figures are labeled as such. Figures labeled “Estimated” are derived from third-party sources and have not been confirmed by the vendor.

Entry Price Pricing Basis Data Protection Terms Implementation Source
Not published. No price, unit of billing, tier or contract term appears on any vendor surface for claims assessment, underwriting inspection or the fleet product
Not published on any vendor surface. The product assesses damage from images across motor and household claims, performs underwriting inspection of vehicles, and reports fleet status for leasing and rental operators, and nothing published indicates whether charging follows images or videos processed, claims assessed, inspections completed, vehicles under management or a platform subscription. The modular adoption the company describes, implementing where and at the pace a client needs, points toward per use case commercial terms without confirming them, and nothing indicates whether the claims and underwriting applications are licensed together or separately. No tiered data protection terms are published, and there is no public data processing agreement, retention schedule, subprocessor list or security documentation at any level. The commitments that matter concern imagery rather than records, and none is addressed. Nothing says how long photographs and video of a policyholder's vehicle or home are retained, or whether they are used to train or improve models. Nor is it stated what is redacted from images that incidentally capture people, documents or registration details. Where the historical image library used for pre existing damage checks resides, who may query it, and what happens to all of it on termination are not stated. A European vendor operating across European Union, United Kingdom, Latin American and South African markets carries obligations in each, and nothing published addresses any of them. No implementation or professional services fee is published. The company's stated approach implies a light integration rather than a program, describing implementation of its capability where the client needs it and at the pace the client needs, which indicates phased adoption by use case rather than a single deployment event, and one client is described as a joint build rather than an installation, with Mutua Madrileña named as co creator of a system to automate policy underwriting. Some deployments are evidently deeper than others: the German integration with local telematics providers, so that an incident is detected automatically and visual capture begins immediately, is substantial engineering on both sides. Nothing published states a typical implementation duration, a professional services rate, or what integration into an insurer's existing claims system involves. No self service or trial route is published either, so every adoption appears to begin with a sales conversation. Vendor Published

The company's site, resource library and press archive publish no price, unit or tier, third party coverage adds none, and a demo request is the only route. The company is privately held, founded in 2017 in Madrid, with approximately $15.2 million raised across seed, Series A and Series B rounds and roughly 63 employees, so no financial reporting fills the gap. One relationship bears on how public statements read.

The South African insurer Hollard is both an investor in the company and a named client, so its participation as a reference customer carries a financial interest alongside an operational one. Investor commentary supplies the only public commercial signal, referring to results that immediately affect insurer profitability, which is a claim about value rather than a statement of price.

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