The proof, itemized.

Winners first. As is traditional.

^There’s also a 2013 “Most Innovative” award from McKinsey. It was internal, so there’s nothing to link to — which is why it lives here in a footnote instead of up in the table.

Granted, numbered, framed somewhere.

Four granted U.S. patents with Mike as a named inventor, all from the ZestyAI years — teaching machines to see hail, storms, and rooftops. More applications are pending.

^Yes, three of them are about hail. When you finally teach a computer to understand hail, you write it all down.