IndiaGeneral insuranceScale · $100K
ICICI Lombard

From FNOL at the roadside to settlement notice: every ICICI Lombard motor and health claim narrated proactively, in the claimant's language

Wrap ICICI Lombard's claims machinery in an agentic communication layer that takes structured FNOL any hour, pushes every status change, and chases documents — so status calls stop dominating the claims line.

Entry use case
Motor claims FNOL & proactive status
Expected outcome
Suppression of status-call volume and faster document completion on motor claims; measured cycle-time improvement.
Recommended next step
Scope a motor-claims pilot in two zones: any-hour FNOL and proactive status for 90 days, status-call volume and TAT deltas reported to the claims head.
What we understand

ICICI Lombard's operating reality

India's largest private-sector general insurer, with leading motor and retail health portfolios and a publicly emphasized digital-claims capability (IL TakeCare app).

Public fact

IRDAI has pushed the industry toward cashless-everywhere health claims and tighter turnaround norms — communication load per claim is rising with expectations.

Public fact

Motor claims coordination spans customers, garages, and surveyors; each handoff likely triggers claimant status calls that agents answer by reading the claim screen.

Reasoned inference

Claim-status inquiries likely form the single largest inbound category on the claims line, most of them answerable verbatim from the claims system.

Reasoned inference

Renewal-date motor and health outreach is likely blast-driven, with conversion constrained by follow-up capacity.

Seller hypothesis — validate

Validate with the account team before outreach: Share of claims-line volume that is pure status inquiry · Claims-system and garage-network API readiness · How IL TakeCare chat support is staffed today and by whom

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 digitally credible insurer (IL TakeCare app, RIA chatbot) whose digital assets are nonetheless vendor-assembled; Indian general insurers buy claims and communication platforms rather than build AI infrastructure internally.

Why they won't build the full stack: Speech, multilingual voice, and claims-communication orchestration sit outside an insurer's engineering scope; the right to win is a packaged layer grounded on the claims platform already behind IL TakeCare.

What management is signalling

Combined-ratio and expense discipline are standing features of results commentary in a price-competitive general-insurance market

Reported factrecent earnings calls · late 2025

GTM implication: Claims-line deflection and cycle-time cuts touch both the expense ratio and loss-adjustment cost — two lines the street tracks

What already exists (don't pitch this)
  • IL TakeCare app with digital-claims features
  • RIA chatbot for policy FAQs
  • Garage and hospital network digital interfaces
  • SMS/email claim notifications
What customers still can't do end-to-end (pitch this)
  • →Status updates are one-way; claimants still call for narration
  • →Document-deficiency handling remains letter-grade
  • →No vernacular voice claims intake
  • →Customer, agent, and garage channels lack shared context
Opportunity map

Where agentic communications pays off first

WorkflowWhy it matters hereValueComplexitySpeedChannels
Motor FNOL any-hour intake & status push
24/7 structured FNOL with photo capture; every stage change pushed proactively; status calls suppressed.
Accidents do not keep business hours; structured intake with photos accelerates survey assignment and cuts downstream calls.
Friction today: FNOL queues behind service calls; claimants then call weekly for status that exists in the system.
WhatsAppVoiceApp
Health claim document chase & pre-auth guidance
Checklist-tracked, in-chat document guidance with validation; deficiency cycles shortened measurably.
Cashless pre-auth and reimbursement journeys stall on missing documents; each stall generates calls and TAT breaches under IRDAI norms.
Friction today: Document deficiencies communicated by letter or one SMS; re-uploads bounce on format.
WhatsAppVoice
Motor & health renewal reminders
Two-way renewal conversations with grounded premium explanations and in-channel payment.
Renewal retention on motor and health books compounds; lapsed motor policies also lapse into uninsured driving the brand cannot help.
Friction today: Renewal blasts with weak follow-up; price-comparison questions go unanswered until the customer has churned.
WhatsAppVoiceSMS
Watch the change

Motor claims FNOL & proactive status: today vs the agentic model

Scenario: A hatchback owner in Bengaluru files a fender-bender claim at 11 pm and wants to know when the surveyor will come
Today
same interaction, two worlds
Agentic layer
Status-call volume
dominant inbound driver
suppressed by proactive updates
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
  • · Status-call volume: Process design; measured in pilot
  • · 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
WhatsAppVoiceAppSMS

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 · ICICI Lombard
Claims management systemGarage network platformSurveyor workflowHealth claims platformTPA/hospital interfacesDocument managementPolicy administrationPayment gateway

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

Trust & languages
HindiEnglishMarathiGujaratiTamilTeluguKannada

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 interactions900K
Seller assumption — replace in discovery
Current cost per interaction ($)$1.6
Industry benchmark scale — validate
Automation / assistance rate (%)55%
Seller assumption — pilot proves this
$1.4M
Current operating cost / mo
$7.4M
Modelled gross benefit / yr
0.2 mo
Payback on Scale
350%
3-yr ROI (modelled)
Automated/assisted interactions per month495K
Modelled AI run-cost per month (usage + cloud, system estimate)$173K
New monthly operating cost$821K

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 ICICI Lombard'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 ICICI Lombard: Motor FNOL/status plus health pre-auth support and renewal reminders make two-three workflows over claims-system integrations — squarely the scale scope.

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: Claims management system, Garage network platform, Surveyor workflow
  • · A named business owner for motor claims fnol & proactive status
  • · Security review counterpart and policy sign-off (Claims management system scope)
  • · Baseline metrics for the pilot's success thresholds
Executive messages

What to say to whom

CEO

“Claims experience is the moat you cite against commoditized pricing; proactive claim narration makes that moat something every claimant feels weekly.”

CIO / CTO

“The agent grounds on the claims platform behind IL TakeCare — extending your digital-claims investment to the customers who still call.”

COO

“Status calls dominating the claims line is capacity you can reclaim this quarter; proactive push plus grounded self-service removes the cause, not just the queue.”

Head of Claims

“FNOL completeness at intake, automated document chasing, and stage-change pushes shorten cycle times your IRDAI TAT reporting already measures.”

Chief Risk / Compliance Officer

“Every claimant communication is logged and consistent with policy wording — reducing dispute and ombudsman exposure from ad-hoc verbal explanations.”

CFO / Procurement

“Claims-line deflection plus cycle-time reduction touches both expense ratio and loss-adjustment cost; the pilot will quantify each separately.”

Outreach

Pre-built offer emails for ICICI Lombard

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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 2 — high-potential incubation

Why this tier

India's largest private general insurer with motor and health books that generate claim-status and garage/hospital-coordination volume daily — claims experience is its stated competitive differentiator.

Recommended next step

Scope a motor-claims pilot in two zones: any-hour FNOL and proactive status for 90 days, status-call volume and TAT deltas reported to the claims head.

Entry: Motor claims FNOL & proactive status · Scale package · 10–14 weeks to production across priority workflows. Human fallback throughout; success thresholds agreed before build.

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