The conceptual foundation for every course on this platform. Covers what cat modelling is, how the four-component model works, what the outputs mean, and where professional judgement begins. No prior background required.
Start here. This module establishes what is catastrophe modelling, where it came from, and why the insurance market depends on it, the professional context that everything else in the course builds on.
Every commercial cat model builds the mental architecture you need to understand what each component does, what can go wrong, and why the components interact the way they do.
The model produces numbers. This module teaches you what each number is, how it is constructed, and which decisions it informs.
This module plants the two ideas that the Intermediate course builds into professional practice: that every model has a scope boundary, and crossing that boundary requires practitioner judgement.
The map of the territory. These two lessons show how everything in Modules 01–04 fits into a real working day, and where you fit into the market that uses cat modelling.