IndiaPrivate bank — vehicle finance & microfinance heritageLaunch · $50K
IndusInd Bank

Steady the franchise where it is strongest: every vehicle-finance EMI and microfinance customer reached with disciplined, documented outreach

While the new leadership rebuilds confidence, give IndusInd a contained, audit-friendly win: agentic collections and servicing on the vehicle-finance book, where conversation coverage converts directly to asset quality.

Entry use case
Vehicle-finance EMI reminders & early-bucket outreach
Expected outcome
Improved early-bucket performance on the vehicle book with fully documented, conduct-clean outreach.
Recommended next step
Offer a 90-day vehicle-finance bucket-1 pilot in two states with a written measurement plan the risk office co-signs upfront.
What we understand

IndusInd Bank's operating reality

Disclosed accounting discrepancies in its derivatives book in March 2025 (around 2.3% of net worth), followed by senior leadership exits and the appointment of a new CEO — a widely reported governance reset.

Public fact

Holds long-standing franchises in vehicle finance and, via Bharat Financial Inclusion, microfinance — books that are collections- and field-intensive by nature.

Public fact

Microfinance stress across the industry in FY25 likely pressured the inclusive-banking book, raising the value of disciplined early outreach.

Public fact

New leadership likely favors initiatives that improve controls and asset quality with modest, easily governed spend — not enterprise transformation programs.

Reasoned inference

Vehicle-finance collections likely retain a heavy field component whose cost and conduct variability a conversational first line can reduce.

Seller hypothesis — validate

Validate with the account team before outreach: New leadership's technology-spend posture and decision path · Vehicle-finance collections baselines and field-cost per visit · Whether BFIL operations are in scope for group technology decisions

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 capable mid-size bank, but the 2025 governance reset redirected leadership attention to controls and asset quality; technology is vendor-delivered and large discretionary internal builds are off the table.

Why they won't build the full stack: Under a rebuild mandate the bank will buy bounded, auditable capability with vendor accountability — an internal conversational-AI build is neither fundable nor governable in the current climate.

What management is signalling

The derivatives-accounting discrepancy and leadership transition dominated FY25–26 disclosures, alongside industry-wide microfinance stress

Reported factFY25 earnings commentary · mid 2025

GTM implication: Small, audit-friendly, control-strengthening pilots fit the spend climate — frame collections coverage as an asset-quality and evidence win, not transformation

What already exists (don't pitch this)
  • IndusMobile app and web banking
  • WhatsApp banking
  • Vehicle-finance dialer and field collections estate
  • BFIL field network for microfinance
What customers still can't do end-to-end (pitch this)
  • →Contact-attempt documentation uneven across dialer and field
  • →No vernacular voice coverage on the vehicle book
  • →Service bots are informational
  • →Microfinance reminders consume field-officer hours
Opportunity map

Where agentic communications pays off first

WorkflowWhy it matters hereValueComplexitySpeedChannels
Vehicle-finance EMI reminders & early-bucket outreach
Full due-date coverage in the borrower's language with timestamped, transcribed attempts — asset-quality and audit wins together.
The vehicle book is the franchise crown jewel; protecting its asset quality is uncontroversial under any leadership.
Friction today: Dialer and field capacity limit due-date coverage; documentation of contact attempts is uneven.
VoiceWhatsAppSMS
Microfinance center-meeting reminders & repayment support
Vernacular voice reminders for meetings and dues, freeing field officers for genuine delinquency work.
BFIL's group-lending model depends on meeting attendance and on-time weekly repayment discipline.
Friction today: Field officers carry reminder burden across hundreds of centers; industry stress raises missed-meeting rates.
VoiceSMS
Retail service deflection
Grounded self-service on top intents; measured FCR lift reportable to the board.
A steady service-quality improvement supports the confidence-rebuilding narrative without large program risk.
Friction today: Standard IVR-and-queue service model with re-authentication.
VoiceWhatsApp
Watch the change

Vehicle-finance EMI reminders & early-bucket outreach: today vs the agentic model

Scenario: A used-car-loan customer in Ludhiana is 7 days past due and the field visit that would chase it costs more than the shortfall
Today
same interaction, two worlds
Agentic layer
Day-1 contact coverage
capacity-limited
100% attempted, multi-channel
Platform capability
Roll-rate improvement
—
measured in pilot
Benchmark
Cost per contact
$13.50 median assisted
$1.84 median self-service
Benchmark
QA coverage
1–2% sampled
100% scored
Platform capability
Sources & assumptions
  • · Day-1 contact coverage: Coverage is a platform capability; contact success measured in pilot
  • · Roll-rate improvement: McKinsey: 20–25% NPL reduction among digital-first collections leaders
  • · 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
VoiceWhatsAppSMS

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 · IndusInd Bank
LMSCollections platformPayment gatewayMicrofinance LMSField-force appCore bankingCRM

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

Trust & languages
HindiEnglishMarathiTamilTeluguPunjabi

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 interactions1.5M
Seller assumption — replace in discovery
Current cost per interaction ($)$1.1
Industry benchmark scale — validate
Automation / assistance rate (%)55%
Seller assumption — pilot proves this
$1.7M
Current operating cost / mo
$7.4M
Modelled gross benefit / yr
0.1 mo
Payback on Launch
213%
3-yr ROI (modelled)
Automated/assisted interactions per month825K
Modelled AI run-cost per month (usage + cloud, system estimate)$289K
New monthly operating cost$1.0M

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 IndusInd Bank's measured baseline. Package price covers implementation only; recurring usage billed separately.

Recommended package

Launch — $50K implementation

Launch · $50K · A focused, fast production pilot8–10 weeks to a live, measured pilot

Why this package for IndusInd Bank: A governance-strained environment calls for one bounded, provable workflow with pilot-grade investment — launch scope earns the right to expand as the institution stabilizes.

Included
  • Up to 3 channels
  • One priority workflow
  • Limited enterprise integrations (1–2 systems)
  • API credential & security setup
  • Core conversational + workflow configuration
  • Basic analytics
  • Controlled production pilot with defined success criteria
Not included
  • ✕Usage & consumption (billed separately)
  • ✕Additional workflows
  • ✕Multi-geography rollout
  • ✕Managed operations
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: LMS, Collections platform, Payment gateway
  • · A named business owner for vehicle-finance emi reminders & early-bucket outreach
  • · Security review counterpart and policy sign-off (LMS scope)
  • · Baseline metrics for the pilot's success thresholds
Executive messages

What to say to whom

CEO

“The rebuild story needs early, tangible wins in the franchises the market still trusts; documented, disciplined collections coverage on the vehicle book is exactly that.”

CIO / CTO

“This is a contained integration with complete audit logging — a technology win that strengthens the control narrative rather than complicating it.”

COO

“Field-visit substitution on routine reminders cuts cost per resolved account now, without waiting for any larger transformation decision.”

Head of Consumer Finance (Vehicle)

“Every EMI due date covered in the borrower's language, every attempt transcribed — coverage your dialer roster has never reached.”

Chief Risk / Compliance Officer

“After 2025, evidence is currency: policy-bounded scripts, RBI-compliant windows, and complete transcripts make collections conduct demonstrable, not asserted.”

CFO / Procurement

“Launch-scope pricing with a 90-day measurable gate fits the current spend discipline — no enterprise commitment until the pilot proves the roll-rate delta.”

Outreach

Pre-built offer emails for IndusInd Bank

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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
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Length
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The pursuit

Tier 3 — longer-term / partner-led

Why this tier

Capable mid-size private bank with deep vehicle-finance and inclusive-banking franchises, but 2025's accounting-discrepancy crisis and leadership transition mean large discretionary technology bets face governance headwinds — enter small, enter useful.

Recommended next step

Offer a 90-day vehicle-finance bucket-1 pilot in two states with a written measurement plan the risk office co-signs upfront.

Entry: Vehicle-finance EMI reminders & early-bucket outreach · Launch package · 8–10 weeks to a live, measured pilot. Human fallback throughout; success thresholds agreed before build.

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