By Candelario Lopez
Director of Learning Management
Berkley Design Professional, a Berkley Company
June 4, 2026
Are you looking for a way to stand out from the competition and deliver more value to your architect and engineer (A&E) clients—before a policy is even bound?
Berkley Design Professional’s BDP Risk® Early Access Program is built with exactly that goal in mind. It gives your clients early entry to our risk management education platform and provides an opportunity to qualify for an upfront premium credit that would otherwise only be available at renewal. The result: a stronger submission, a more informed client, and a meaningful advantage in a competitive quoting situation.
What is Early Access?
Early Access program gives your quoted prospects an exclusive preview of Berkley Design Professional’s award-winning risk management education platform—BDP Risk®—which offers a range of association registered eLearning courses, tools and templates designed to improve risk management practices and enhance business performance.
Here’s the best part: When a prospect completes a BDP Risk® course before binding, they are eligible for a 15% premium credit.* This early risk management engagement and associated cost savings have proven to be decisive factors in helping brokers close new business.
How does Early Access work?
The process is simple and broker-friendly:
- Request access. Contact your Berkley Design Professional underwriter to request Early Access for your quoted prospect.
- Platform orientation. Our Risk Management team will schedule a short online tour of the BDP Risk® platform, so your client quickly understands what’s available and how to use it.
- Course completion. We keep an eye on the effective date and proactively guide the prospect through completion of a qualifying eLearning course prior to binding.
- Upfront credit. Upon course completion, the Risk Management team notifies your underwriter so that a credit can be applied, helping to reduce the first-year premium.
There is no additional paperwork, no complex tracking, and no administrative burden for you or your client—just a streamlined way to introduce proactive risk management from day one.
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