IndiaAutomotive — two-wheeler OEMScale · $100K
Hero MotoCorp

Five million bikes a year, six thousand touchpoints — every service reminder and dealer query answered in the buyer's language

Give Hero MotoCorp an agentic layer across its dealer and service network: service-due reminders that actually convert, dealer support on parts and warranty, and VIDA EV inquiry handling — protecting the service-revenue annuity and dealer experience its scale depends on.

Entry use case
Service-due reminders & booking conversations
Expected outcome
Higher service retention into authorized workshops; measurable booking conversion from reminders; reduced dealer-staff phone load.
Recommended next step
Pilot in one zone: automated vernacular service reminders with in-thread booking across 50 dealers, measured on booking conversion and service retention vs control dealers.
What we understand

Hero MotoCorp's operating reality

World's largest two-wheeler maker by volume with dominant share in the Indian commuter segment; distribution and service span ~6,000 touchpoints reaching deep into semi-urban and rural India.

Public fact

Launched the VIDA brand for electric scooters and is publicly investing in EV product and charging partnerships while defending its ICE commuter core.

Public fact

Hero FinCorp, its financing associate, finances a large share of purchases — creating adjacent EMI and loan-servicing conversations tied to the same customer.

Public fact

After the free-service period, service retention likely leaks heavily to roadside mechanics; a two-wheeler serviced outside the network is lost parts and accessory revenue and a weaker trade-in relationship.

Reasoned inference

Dealer staff likely spend hours daily on phone work — service reminders, booking calls, parts queries — in whatever language the town speaks, with no instrumentation.

Reasoned inference

Validate with the account team before outreach: DMS landscape across the dealer network and API readiness for slot booking · Who owns service-retention economics (OEM vs dealer) and how a shared pilot is structured · Hero FinCorp adjacency — whether financing conversations can ride the same rails

Build vs buy

Why we have a right to win here

Buy-led target

Limited internal ability or appetite to build the core platform — strong candidate for the packaged solution

Evidence: A manufacturing and distribution giant whose IT is enterprise-standard and vendor-delivered; digital initiatives (app, VIDA) are built with partners, and there is no internal conversational-AI platform capability.

Why they won't build the full stack: OEM engineering belongs in product and manufacturing; a conversational stack spanning telephony, vernacular speech, and DMS integration across 6,000 touchpoints is a bought platform by any rational make-buy test.

What management is signalling

Management commentary emphasizes premiumization, EV scale-up (VIDA), and rural-demand recovery as volume drivers

Reported factFY25 earnings commentary · mid 2025

GTM implication: Service retention and EV-funnel conversion are the two conversation-dependent levers inside that story

Parts and accessories highlighted as a growing revenue stream

Inferencerecent investor communications (validate) · late 2025

GTM implication: Service-retention automation directly defends the parts annuity — quantifiable per retained visit

What already exists (don't pitch this)
  • Hero app and web presence
  • VIDA EV app ecosystem
  • Dealer DMS estate
  • SMS service-reminder blasts via dealers
What customers still can't do end-to-end (pitch this)
  • →Reminders one-way and unmeasured
  • →No vernacular conversational booking
  • →Dealer support ad hoc via area offices
  • →EV inquiry handling uneven across network
Opportunity map

Where agentic communications pays off first

WorkflowWhy it matters hereValueComplexitySpeedChannels
Service-due reminders & booking conversion
Two-way vernacular reminders with slot booking in-conversation; service retention and reminder conversion measured per dealer.
The service annuity across a ~100M-vehicle parc is enormous; every retained service visit is parts revenue plus relationship continuity.
Friction today: Dealers send SMS blasts or dial manually; conversion is unmeasured; customers drift to roadside mechanics silently after free services end.
WhatsAppVoiceSMS
Dealer network support line (parts, warranty, schemes)
Instant grounded answers on parts, warranty procedure, and current schemes in the dealer's language; claims guided in-flow.
~6,000 touchpoints generate constant parts-availability, warranty-claim, and scheme-clarification queries that field teams answer ad hoc.
Friction today: Dealer staff wait on area-office callbacks; warranty claims bounce on format errors; scheme details reach the network unevenly.
WhatsAppVoice
VIDA EV inquiry & test-ride conversion
Minutes-fast, grounded EV answers with test-ride booking at the nearest touchpoint; funnel instrumented.
EV consideration is question-heavy (range, charging, subsidies); slow or thin answers lose buyers to Ola and Ather's direct-to-consumer polish.
Friction today: EV questions hit dealers unevenly trained on the new products; leads decay between inquiry and test ride.
WhatsAppVoiceWeb chat
Watch the change

Service-due reminders & booking conversations: today vs the agentic model

Scenario: A Splendor owner in Meerut gets a Hindi WhatsApp reminder that his third service is due, books Saturday 11 am at his dealer in the same thread, and the workshop's day is planned around confirmed slots
Today
same interaction, two worlds
Agentic layer
Dealer query resolution
next-day via email
in-conversation
Platform capability
Cost per contact
$13.50 median assisted
$1.84 median self-service
Benchmark
QA coverage
1–2% sampled
100% scored
Platform capability
Sources & assumptions
  • · Dealer query resolution: Process design: live ERP grounding
  • · Cost per contact: Gartner customer service cost benchmarks, 2024
  • · QA coverage: Platform capability: every interaction logged and evaluated
  • · Gartner, customer service cost benchmarks (2024): $13.50 median assisted vs $1.84 self-service per contact
  • · McKinsey, digital-first collections research: 20–25% NPL reduction among leaders; up to 40% opex reduction with gen AI
  • · Baymard Institute: ~70% average cart abandonment (meta-analysis)
  • · IAMAI–Kantar via IBEF (2025): 900M+ Indian internet users; 98% consume Indic-language content
  • · LeadSquared and vendor funnel studies: 78% of students choose the first institution to respond (directional, vendor data)
  • · HDI / ITSM operator benchmarks: $15–25 per L1 ticket; 40–60% of L1 volume is resets/status (validate per customer)
  • · Conventional-flow wait times and volumes are typical operator patterns — assumptions to replace with the customer's own baseline
  • · Agentic-flow behaviors (context retention, 100% logging, in-line policy checks) are platform capabilities, not projections
Recommended solution

One integrated stack, opinionated for this account

Channels · Tilicho Labs
WhatsAppVoiceSMSWeb chat

Voice & channel orchestration, telephony, conversational execution, session/state, routing, integration build. Capability coverage validated during implementation.

Intelligence · Google Cloud
Gemini reasoningEnterprise groundingWorkflow agentsMulti-agent orchestrationGoverned actionsEvaluation & analytics
Systems · Hero MotoCorp
DMSService schedulingVehicle parc databaseERP / parts systemWarranty workflowScheme databaseLead CRMTest-ride schedulingSubsidy/price database

API access to these systems is the critical-path dependency.

Trust & languages
HindiEnglishTamilTeluguMarathiBengaliGujaratiKannada

Identity-bound sessions, policy-bounded actions, 100% audit logging, human approvals at defined points, in-tenant intelligence.

Business case

The economics, with your numbers

Addressable monthly interactions2.5M
Seller assumption — replace in discovery
Current cost per interaction ($)$0.9
Industry benchmark scale — validate
Automation / assistance rate (%)55%
Seller assumption — pilot proves this
$2.3M
Current operating cost / mo
$9.1M
Modelled gross benefit / yr
0.1 mo
Payback on Scale
156%
3-yr ROI (modelled)
Automated/assisted interactions per month1.4M
Modelled AI run-cost per month (usage + cloud, system estimate)$481K
New monthly operating cost$1.5M

All figures are modelling estimates from the labeled inputs above — nothing here is customer-provided yet. The pilot's first job is replacing these assumptions with Hero MotoCorp's measured baseline. Package price covers implementation only; recurring usage billed separately.

Recommended package

Scale — $100K implementation

Scale · $100K · A multi-channel production deployment10–14 weeks to production across priority workflows

Why this package for Hero MotoCorp: Two-three workflows (service reminders, dealer support, EV lead handling) across voice and WhatsApp with DMS integration — scale scope with obvious expansion into financing and roadside-assist journeys.

Included
  • 4–6 channels
  • 2–3 priority workflows
  • Multiple enterprise integrations
  • API credential & security setup
  • Advanced orchestration
  • Multilingual support
  • Agent Assist / human escalation
  • Production analytics
  • Expansion roadmap
Not included
  • ✕Usage & consumption (billed separately)
  • ✕Enterprise-wide governance build-out
  • ✕Multi-BU rollout
Recurring costs (separate from the package)

Packages cover implementation and integration only. Recurring costs are billed separately: Tilicho Labs platform usage (~$0.15/call-min indicative, usage only), Google Cloud consumption, telephony/carrier charges, managed operations, and support & optimization. No package includes unlimited usage.

Customer resources required
  • · API access + credentials for: DMS, Service scheduling, Vehicle parc database
  • · A named business owner for service-due reminders & booking conversations
  • · Security review counterpart and policy sign-off (DMS scope)
  • · Baseline metrics for the pilot's success thresholds
Executive messages

What to say to whom

CEO

“Hero's moat is reach into towns competitors cannot serve; an agent speaking every one of those towns' languages makes that reach a service advantage, not just a sales one.”

CIO / CTO

“One DMS-grounded layer serves customers and 6,000 dealer touchpoints alike — replacing untracked dealer phone work with instrumented conversations.”

COO

“Service-bay utilization improves when bookings arrive confirmed; dealer staff hours move from dialing to wrenching and selling.”

Head of Customer Service & Parts

“Service retention becomes a managed, per-dealer metric with reminder-to-booking attribution — the parts annuity defended with data.”

Chief Risk / Compliance Officer

“Consent-governed, DND-compliant outreach with full logging protects the brand across millions of monthly customer contacts.”

CFO / Procurement

“Reminder-to-booking conversion and parts-revenue retention are directly measurable in a pilot region — a revenue case, with cost deflection as the bonus.”

Outreach

Pre-built offer emails for Hero MotoCorp

Written from this account's own research — the strategic signal, the capability gap, the entry workflow, and the modelled economics — not a mail-merge template. Pick the moment and the persona, edit anything, then copy or open in your mail client.

Moment in the deal
Cold outreach — no prior conversation
Who it's addressed to
Cares about: The workflow itself and its daily failure modes
Register
Length
Draft — edit freely before sending
Open in mail client

Customer-safe by construction: drafts are composed only from customer-facing fields. Account tier, build-vs-buy classification, priority score, internal routing, and partner-commercial detail are not inputs to the composer, so they cannot appear in a draft. Money figures are always framed as modelled from the customer's own volumes. Read before sending — you own what goes out.

The pursuit

Tier 1 — immediate strategic pursuit

Why this tier

The world's largest two-wheeler manufacturer by volume, selling ~5M+ units a year through ~6,000 customer touchpoints into small-town India — service bookings, financing tie-ins, and the VIDA EV push generate mass vernacular conversation volume across the dealer network.

30 / 60 / 90-day plan
  • Day 0–30: Pilot in one zone: automated vernacular service reminders with in-thread booking across 50 dealers, measured on booking conversion and service retention vs control dealers.; confirm sponsor and baseline data access; validate: DMS landscape across the dealer network and API readiness for slot booking
  • Day 31–60: architecture & security review with the platform team; Tilicho Labs scoping on WhatsApp + Voice; pilot scope signed
  • Day 61–90: Scale package kickoff; service-due reminders & booking conversations pilot in build; success thresholds locked with the Head of Customer Service & Parts
Recommended next step

Pilot in one zone: automated vernacular service reminders with in-thread booking across 50 dealers, measured on booking conversion and service retention vs control dealers.

Entry: Service-due reminders & booking conversations · Scale package · 10–14 weeks to production across priority workflows. Human fallback throughout; success thresholds agreed before build.

Start the pursuit

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