Three million homes are damaged by natural disasters in the US every year — and with a billion-dollar storm hitting roughly every ten days, that number is only growing. But the system for repairing affected homes is stuck in the past, with mountains of paperwork, fragmented funding, and rampant fraud leaving vulnerable homeowners stranded.

This week on Everybody in the Pool, Molly sits down with Susan Hunt Stevens, the founder and CEO of Tessi, a platform working to fix what she calls the “broken post-disaster home repair system.” Tessi brings homeowners, vetted contractors, insurers, government programs, and other funders onto a single platform that uses AI-driven damage assessments to quickly evaluate a home in the wake of a disaster.

• How Tessi uses AI and aerial imagery to generate damage assessments within 24 hours
• How the surge in natural disasters has made homeowners increasingly vulnerable to contractor fraud
• Why only 4% of homeowners affected by flooding and hurricanes are actually covered by insurance
• How homeowners can use disaster repair as an opportunity to implement climate-adaptive upgrades
• Tessi’s role in a complicated ecosystem where any repair might be funded by a patchwork of insurance, personal savings, home equity loans, government aid, and even GoFundMe
• How Tessi is partnering with volunteer disaster relief organizations to serve socially vulnerable homeowners who fall outside the paid system
• Tessi’s goal of serving 1 million homes within 5 years

• Tessi: https://tessi.ai/
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The impacts of climate change are hitting the world everywhere, all at once — making climate adaptation more urgent than ever before.

This week on Everybody in the Pool, we’re flipping the script on climate adaption; no longer viewing it as a funding gap, but as an investment opportunity that could bring lots of types of finance to the table for returns and impact. Niall Murphy, co-founder and managing partner of Morphosis, sits down with Molly to discuss how the world can scale solutions for an already-changing climate, and why the private sector needs to get involved in the new “adaptation economy.”

• What living beyond 1.5 degrees means for adaptation
• How 90% of adaptation funding is currently public money, and why that can’t scale to meet the demand
• The case for viewing climate impacts as emerging markets and investment opportunities
• Why insurers’ panic is actually the tipping point we’ve been waiting for
• Real examples of commercially viable adaptation solutions, from solar-filtering polymers to micro-scale desalination
• The policy gaps that are holding back deployment
• How Morphosis aggregates capital to deploy solutions where they're needed most

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This week on Everybody in the Pool, another sexy gadget that doubles as a grid asset! We take a field trip to the Berkeley headquarters of Copper, which is reimagining the humble stove as a powerful tool for decarbonization. Their flagship product, Charlie, is a 30-inch induction range with a built-in battery that allows for plug-and-play installation, precise cooking, and the potential to support grid stability.

• How a battery in a stove can reduce the need for electrical infrastructure upgrades
• The magic of induction cooking - safety, precision, and efficiency
• Incentive programs making electrification more accessible
• The potential for appliances to become grid interactive assets
• Copper’s vision for scaling electrification across housing
• Bonus: their in-house chef loves it, too.

• Copper: https://www.copper.com/
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