Pete Barlow
Co-Founder & CEO
15+ years in government policy and workflow management. Former FEMA disaster recovery policy official.
Our Story
We've stood in the wreckage. So we built this.
PixFixer AI is led by two co-founders — an AI engineer and a former FEMA disaster-recovery official with 15+ years in federal recovery — and backed by advisors in insurance adjusting, data quality, and self-driving-scale AI. We've lived through disaster firsthand. We know the system. We know where it breaks.
01 / Why Now
In 2024, the United States was hit by 27 separate billion-dollar weather disasters — hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes, floods — totaling $182.7 billion in damage.
That's the second-worst year on record. And it's not the outlier. The five-year average is now 23 billion-dollar disasters a year. In the 1980s, it was fewer than four.
The claims adjustment industry — how insurers assess damage and cut checks — has not kept pace. A single adjuster still walks one house, measures one roof, writes one estimate. Multiply that by tens of thousands of claims in a single storm, and the system grinds to a halt. The result: slow claim payment is the number one consumer complaint in insurance, according to the NAIC.
$2.9T
Total U.S. disaster cost, 1980–2024
403
Billion-dollar disasters tracked since 1980
23×
Increase in disaster frequency since 1980
"The claims system was built for a world that had three billion-dollar disasters a year. We have twenty-three."
02 / The Team
The people behind it.
Nari
Co-Founder & CTO
Two-time founder with a Master's in AI. Leads AI engineering and model architecture.
Nathaniel Fairfield
Strategic Technical Advisor
Ex-Waymo, ex-Google engineer advising on AI architecture and technical strategy.
Jeremy Thompson
Advisor — Insurance Adjuster
20 years of field experience as an insurance adjuster; lead reviewer in PixFixer's blind evaluation study.
Yudy Fundora
Advisor — Data QC / Labeling Lead
10 years of experience; oversees data quality control and labeling standards behind the model.
03 / Our Promise
We are builders and first responders. We've been through a disaster ourselves. We know the phone calls, the delays, the helplessness of waiting while your life sits on hold. That experience is why we're building this — and why we won't stop until a claim assessment takes days instead of months.