PhilippinesBankingLaunch · $50K
Security Bank

Growing retail without a mega-bank's service machine: agentic banking service for Security Bank

Give Security Bank a packaged agentic service layer — retail onboarding rescue, cards and loan servicing, and MSME support in Taglish — that lets a challenger's balance sheet grow a mass-market base with a fraction of a mega-bank's service cost.

Entry use case
Retail onboarding & early-lifecycle service
Expected outcome
Lift account-activation completion and deflect early-lifecycle service contacts, measured on onboarding funnels the bank already tracks
Recommended next step
Baseline the onboarding funnel's drop-off points with the retail team and scope a Launch pilot on activation rescue.
What we understand

Security Bank's operating reality

Security Bank is a mid-sized Philippine universal bank with MUFG holding roughly a 20% strategic stake since 2016, and has publicly prioritized retail and MSME growth alongside its corporate franchise.

Public fact

Retail expansion for a mid-tier bank means acquiring customers who generate service contacts immediately — onboarding, card activation, first-loan questions — before their balances justify branch-level attention.

Reasoned inference

The bank cannot outspend BDO or BPI on contact-center scale; its viable path is service automation that makes a smaller operation feel responsive on the channels Filipinos use (Messenger, Viber).

Reasoned inference

BSP consumer-protection and fraud-management expectations apply with full weight regardless of bank size — compliance-grade logging is proportionally more expensive for a mid-tier bank to build alone.

Reasoned inference

MUFG's regional playbook includes technology partnerships across its Asian investees; a proven platform with regional references travels well into that governance.

Seller hypothesis — validate

Validate with the account team before outreach: Onboarding-platform API accessibility and current funnel metrics · Retail-growth targets and the service-capacity plan behind them · MUFG governance requirements for third-party AI platforms

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 mid-sized bank with a corporate-franchise heritage has no internal conversational-AI capability and no scale case for building one; its digital investments are app-front-end, not platform. Packaged capability with partner delivery is the only version of this that fits its engineering reality.

Why they won't build the full stack: Building would mean competing for scarce engineering talent against banks three times its size, for infrastructure that isn't its differentiator. Buying converts the retail strategy's service problem into a quarterly-measurable funnel project.

What management is signalling

Management has emphasized retail and MSME expansion as strategic priorities, with investments in technology and client experience recurring themes in results commentary.

Inferencerecent investor communications (validate) · 2025

GTM implication: The strategy creates a service-capacity gap the bank cannot hire its way through — enter on the onboarding funnel where ROI is cleanest.

What already exists (don't pitch this)
  • Security Bank mobile app and online banking
  • MUFG strategic partnership and governance
  • Branch network and contact center
  • Growing cards and consumer-loan book
What customers still can't do end-to-end (pitch this)
  • →Onboarding drop-off rescue
  • →In-channel card and loan actions
  • →24/7 MSME servicing
  • →Taglish voice automation
  • →Compliance-grade interaction logging at scale
Opportunity map

Where agentic communications pays off first

WorkflowWhy it matters hereValueComplexitySpeedChannels
Onboarding & activation rescue
Guided completion in-channel, documents validated in-flow, proactive status, drop-off reasons instrumented weekly.
Every acquired-but-inactive account is wasted acquisition spend; activation completion is the growth metric.
Friction today: eKYC and funding-step drop-offs go unrescued; status questions route to a hotline sized for yesterday's customer base.
In-app chatMessengerSMSVoice
Cards & loan servicing
Grounded billing and installment answers, payment links in-channel, disputes intaken conversationally with documented handling.
Consumer-lending growth generates billing, installment, and payoff questions that must not consume the branch network.
Friction today: Servicing questions queue behind everything else; context is lost between channels.
MessengerViberVoice
MSME service desk
24/7 grounded MSME servicing with RM escalation carrying full context; RM time returned to origination.
MSME is a stated growth pillar; small-business owners need answers outside banking hours.
Friction today: Account, payments, and loan-status questions from business owners route through relationship officers' mobile phones.
ViberMessengerVoiceEmail
Watch the change

Retail onboarding & early-lifecycle service: today vs the agentic model

Scenario: A new customer stalls at the funding step of account opening on a Sunday night; the agent guides her through it on Messenger, and her first credit-card activation question the following week resolves in the same thread.
Today
same interaction, two worlds
Agentic layer
Onboarding drop-off
unmeasured leaks
instrumented end-to-end
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
  • · Onboarding drop-off: Process design; completion lift 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
In-app chatMessengerSMSVoiceViberEmail

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 · Security Bank
Onboarding/eKYC platformCore bankingCard managementLoan servicingPayment gatewayLoan origination

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

Trust & languages
Filipino/TagalogEnglishCebuano

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 interactions700K
Seller assumption — replace in discovery
Current cost per interaction ($)$1.1
Industry benchmark scale — validate
Automation / assistance rate (%)55%
Seller assumption — pilot proves this
$770K
Current operating cost / mo
$3.5M
Modelled gross benefit / yr
0.2 mo
Payback on Launch
211%
3-yr ROI (modelled)
Automated/assisted interactions per month385K
Modelled AI run-cost per month (usage + cloud, system estimate)$135K
New monthly operating cost$481K

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 Security 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 Security Bank: A focused onboarding-and-early-lifecycle pilot fits a mid-sized bank's risk appetite and proves unit economics before extending into collections and cards workflows.

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: Onboarding/eKYC platform, Core banking, Card management
  • · A named business owner for retail onboarding & early-lifecycle service
  • · Security review counterpart and policy sign-off (Onboarding/eKYC platform scope)
  • · Baseline metrics for the pilot's success thresholds
Executive messages

What to say to whom

CEO / President

“The retail push only works if a mid-sized bank can serve a mass-market base without mass-market cost. This is the capability that makes the strategy's math work — packaged, fast, and provable on the onboarding funnel.”

CIO / CTO

“A bounded integration into onboarding, core, and card systems — partner-delivered in weeks, not a platform program competing with your modernization backlog.”

COO

“Service volume from new-customer growth stops arriving as hotline pressure; your smaller team works exceptions with context instead of triaging activation questions.”

Head of Retail Banking

“Activation completion is your acquisition ROI lever: rescued drop-offs are measured directly, and early-lifecycle service quality shows up in balance build and card usage.”

Chief Risk / Compliance Officer

“BSP consumer-protection compliance arrives as configuration — documented handling, consent-governed outreach, 100% logged — without building a compliance-logging stack internally.”

CFO / Procurement

“Launch-package economics fit a mid-tier bank: a fixed implementation fee, usage-based running cost, and a funnel-metric business case you can audit inside one quarter.”

Outreach

Pre-built offer emails for Security Bank

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 3 — longer-term / partner-led

Why this tier

Mid-sized universal bank with MUFG as a ~20% strategic partner, publicly pushing a retail and MSME expansion it must service without a top-3 bank's contact-center scale — a classic buy-led candidate where packaged capability substitutes for infrastructure it doesn't have.

Recommended next step

Baseline the onboarding funnel's drop-off points with the retail team and scope a Launch pilot on activation rescue.

Entry: Retail onboarding & early-lifecycle service · Launch package · 8–10 weeks to a live, measured pilot. Human fallback throughout; success thresholds agreed before build.

Start the pursuit

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