Anne Davis — CEO and co-founder of PulsePoint — presented Building and Training Your Own AI at Mond(ai)y Coffee on Monday, August 24.

Anne’s company builds the system insurance agencies and brokerages run on: policies, commissions, underwriting, client relationships. It’s a deep, unglamorous domain with a lot of its own vocabulary — exactly the kind of place where a general-purpose model starts to show its edges.

She talked through what it actually takes to build and train your own: how you get there, what it costs, and when owning the thing beats renting somebody else’s.

The conversation carried a practical lesson for any industry: lead with value, then back it up with the security discipline required to earn trust.