Stuart Nixdorff
For three decades Stuart Nixdorff has built things that didn’t exist before — founding four companies and launching breakthrough products in sensors, imaging, wearables, and AI autonomous systems. He serves as a board director at Myrias Optics and Wildlife Acoustics, co-founded Ada IQ, and founded Intervals.ai, a consultancy for deep-tech founders where AI is the operating system, not the buzzword.
The science in Blind Eye is real. The data, algorithms, and AI architectures are the technologies he has spent his career commercializing — which is why the books have the texture they do.
In 2024, three hurricanes hit his Gulf Coast home in 99 days. He lived through the eye of Hurricane Milton, a Category 3 storm — and through the slower, uglier storm that came after it: a two-year fight with insurance carriers whose opening offers ran as low as $23,266 and, claim by claim, closed at 33x that position. He won his own fight. He is still in the larger one. That experience became ClaimRestored, his AI-powered advocacy platform for policyholders — and sharpened a conviction already present in the fiction: the systems we depend on fail in ways the people running them do not want to see.
Blind Eye is about what happens when someone decides to look anyway.
He has completed eighteen Ironman triathlons — which drives his view that anything is possible — and divides his time between the Gulf Coast of Florida and New England.
Where Blind Eye sits on the shelf.
Three titles that orient the book for reviewers, booksellers, and buyers.
- The Firm — John Grisham. She built her career inside the institution. Now she has to destroy it before it destroys her.
- The Big Short — Michael Lewis. One person sees the pattern in the numbers that everyone else misses. Makes invisible systems readable through human cost.
- Dopesick — Beth Macy. Corporation designs a system that kills people and uses complexity as cover. Signals this is more than a thriller.
Advance copies, embargoes, and what we ask in return
Bound and digital advance copies of Blind Eye: Book One are available to credentialed reviewers, producers, and trade media. Limited print runs are also available to selected industry readers (claimants’ attorneys, regulators, climate-risk analysts, insurance reporters) under the same embargo terms.
- On-sale date: June 2026. Embargo lifts on the on-sale date; the exact date is confirmed in writing when we send the advance copy.
- Reviews and commentary may run on or after the embargo date. Any pre-embargo coverage requires written agreement.
- Quoting from the manuscript: short excerpts (under 250 words total, drawn from no more than two scenes) are permitted in reviews without separate clearance. Longer excerpts require written permission.
- We do not pay for reviews and we do not exchange advance copies for promised coverage.
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Assets available on request
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This book is a work of fiction.
CURTAIN, Harwick Insurance, Mara Chen, Rosa Elena Garza, and every other character, carrier, algorithm, and organization depicted in Blind Eye are fictional. They do not represent any real person, company, underwriting system, or claims system. Any resemblance to actual persons, entities, or decision systems is coincidental.