The Vendor Compliance Academy is your starting point. Course-style lessons take you from the fundamentals of Certificates of Insurance and ACORD forms through advanced contract review, gap analysis, and broker coordination. Written for real-world vendors, brokers, and compliance teams — no jargon, no gatekeeping.
Vendor compliance is the discipline of verifying that every third party a business hires meets the insurance, contractual, and operational requirements that protect the business from third-party risk. Here is what it looks like in practice.
Insurance requirements in commercial contracts follow patterns. Once you can see the patterns, you can read them faster, negotiate them intelligently, and avoid the common failures.
A Certificate of Insurance is not the coverage — it is a reference document that summarizes coverage. Understanding what it does and does not prove is fundamental to vendor compliance.
AI contract analysis is not magic. It is a specific set of extraction, comparison, and verification techniques applied to insurance requirements. Here is how it actually works and where human review still matters.
COIs, ACORD forms, and how commercial insurance actually works.
Reading MSAs, SOWs, and amendments for insurance obligations.
Reviewing COIs, closing gaps, and coordinating with brokers.
The definitive reference for commercial insurance terminology. Plain-English definitions for every coverage, endorsement, ACORD form, and contract requirement — Additional Insured, Waiver of Subrogation, Primary & Non-Contributory, Completed Operations, and more.
Every common contract insurance clause — Additional Insured, Waiver, Primary & Non-Contributory, Indemnification, Hold Harmless, Insurance Requirements — explained in plain English with real-world sample language.
Industry-specific insurance and compliance requirements for HVAC, janitorial, electrical, landscaping, roofing, plumbing, security, and every other commercial service trade.
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