October 2022

Table of Contents:

Why look up vendor insurance coverage?
How to verify vendor coverage in three clicks
How to understand vendor profiles

Why look up vendor insurance coverage?

The main benefit of using The Jones Network is instant access to insurance data. Knowing how likely a vendor is to be compliant allows you to make informed decisions:

—Inform tenants that approving their ad-hoc vendors might take several days because the quality of their insurance coverage presents a risk to the building

—Vet vendors in advance and hire the ones most likely to be compliant for time-sensitive projects

—Plan your week in advance, knowing that vendors can quickly be approved and start working as early as the following day

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How to look up a vendor’s insurance coverage in three clicks

Step 1: Go to your Jones account and use the network search bar to find the vendor or a subcontractor you seeking to approve.

Step 2: Select the set of insurance requirements you want to audit this vendor against (e.g. High, Moderate, or Low):

Step 3: Click “Add Vendor” and voila! You’ll see the vendor’s insurance coverage profile at a glance. For instance, Smith Contracting has great insurance coverage—they are very likely to be compliant with your requirements:

How does The Jones Profile work?

Currently, The Jones Network has hundreds of thousands of vendor COIs on file, and this number is growing daily. Each of these vendors has a Jones Profile—an insurance coverage summary alongside key insurance contact information and predictive analytics on the probability of becoming compliant on your property or project.

In addition to the basic info (such as the company’s name and address), you will be able to see:

— Insurance coverage details
— Predicted compliance status
— Verified insurance contacts

Insurance Coverage Details

This section details coverage details and limits for all key policies.

Predicted Compliance Status

Predicted compliance status is based on insurance coverage data and calculated against the unique insurance requirements of a property or a construction project.

Vendors are assigned one of the three compliance statuses:

— Less likely to be compliant
— Likely to be compliant
— Very likely to be compliant.

Verified Insurance Contacts

Verified Insurance Contacts are the correct points of contact for any vendor. You will see the main contact, additional contacts, and insurance broker contact details. All contact details have been confirmed by Jones so that you don’t have to waste time reaching out to the wrong people.

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Jones, an insurance compliance solution for real estate and construction, has launched The Jones Network, redefining the way tenant, vendor, and subcontractor insurance compliance is currently managed.

Today, commercial real estate portfolios and construction firms have to deal with outdated, analog insurance compliance management. Property managers spend hundreds (sometimes thousands) of hours collecting and reviewing insurance certificates, endorsements and documents from the same vendors multiple times over.

It causes project and payment delays, increases operational costs, and fails to fully protect companies from claims.

The Jones Network provides the industry with a single source of truth for verified insurance data, eliminating the need to collect and review every insurance document from scratch.

Instead of focusing on collecting insurance data for every tenant, vendor, and subcontractor multiple times over, property management and construction teams get instant access to any insurance data they need, allowing them to manage compliance in a much smarter way.

“The idea of data democratization is not exactly new. The rest of the world moved in that direction a long time ago,” says Omri Stern, CEO and Co-Founder of Jones.

“We no longer chase job seeker resumes—we have LinkedIn. We no longer research contacts for decision makers in the sales process—we just go to Zoominfo. Yet, the real estate industry continues chasing every single insurance certificate again and again. We asked ourselves – why isn’t there a database for insurance data? So, we went ahead and built one. That way, insurance compliance will finally stop being a roadblock to transactions and projects.”

The Jones Network is already live in hundreds of New York City properties.

“We were managing insurance compliance with Jones for years and recently implemented The Jones Network in our properties. We already see cost optimization and even higher service standards for our tenants.” says Jonathan Kaufman Iger, the President & CEO of Sage.

“We also finally have visibility and control over such areas as vendor procurement. Jones tells the team how likely a vendor is to be compliant in seconds, so they can make truly informed decisions and plan accordingly.

The idea of building a network of vendors and insurance data has a huge potential to enable our managers to operate more intelligently. It will allow us, as an industry, to provide a level of service that commercial tenants expect and be smarter about focusing on more meaningful tasks instead of reviewing insurance certificates. This is what modern-day CRE standards require, and what modern-day PropTech solutions should look like.”

Today, The Jones Network is available for NYC-based properties and construction projects. In 2023, the company will expand access nationwide and continue adding new functionalities and capabilities to technology stack.

Key Features:

The Vendor Profile: an insurance coverage profile for each vendor alongside predictive analytics on the probability of achieving compliance.

In-Network Vendor Discovery: If a vendor’s COI has ever been collected by anybody at your company, no need to request it again. Access a vendor’s COI in one click.

Features Available Today:

— Access over 30,000 vendor profiles that include verified insurance documents, contacts, and broker emails

— Predict insurance compliance status based on insurance coverage data and calculated against a property or a construction project’s unique insurance requirements

— Share insurance certificates within your company’s properties and projects, eliminating the need to collect the same document twice

— Activate automated software workflows to achieve compliance with vendors, subcontractors and tenants.

Features Available by EoY 2022:

— Access to insurance coverage data will be expanded nationwide

— Jones will add tenant insurance coverage data

About Jones:

Jones is a B2B network that connects real estate managers, construction companies, and commercial tenants with pre-approved vendors for hassle-free procurement. This is made possible by streamlining insurance compliance through AI-driven software and open APIs. Instead of initiating an insurance compliance process that lasts days (sometimes weeks), Jones customers can find, check and verify compliance instantaneously through Jones Network.

For media inquiries contact:

Nathalie Nayman
nathalie@getjones.com

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Month: October 2022

How to Look Up Insurance Coverage For Any Vendor Or Subcontractor On The Jones Network