Index InsureHow it works & how to use it

Turning satellite drought data into parametric livestock insurance, from earth-observation signals to a priced product, a quote, and a payout.

What is Index Insure?

The journey, data to payout

Glossary

Understand the product

What Index Insure is, the problem it solves, and how index-based livestock insurance works end to end.

Learn how it works

The drought signals, how they become an index, how cover triggers and pays, and how the risk is priced.

Use the platform

Practical guides for every task, set up a project, manage data, run analyses, price products, and issue quotes.

Look things up

A plain-language glossary of the drought, geography, and insurance terms used across the product.

About this documentation

Index Insure is a platform for index-based (parametric) livestock insurance. It watches satellite measurements of drought across pastoral areas, turns them into an objective drought index, prices the risk, and produces the quotes, term sheets, and payouts that protect herders when a season fails.

This documentation describes Index Insure as one product, what it does and how to operate it, without assuming any technical background. It is organised in four layers:

Section	Answers
Understanding Index Insure	What is this, and who is it for?
How it works	How does the drought-to-payout model actually work?
Using Index Insure	How do I carry out each task?
Reference	What does this term mean?

TIP

New here? Start with What is Index Insure?, then read The journey: data to payout to see how the whole product fits together.

See the documentation roadmap for how these docs are organised and maintained.