IndiaAuto OEM — two-wheelersScale · $100K
TVS Motor

TVS sells a bike every few seconds — its dealers still answer service calls between customers on the showroom floor

TVS's growth runs through thousands of dealer and service touchpoints plus a 19M-customer financing arm; an agentic layer for service booking, dealer-staff support, and TVS Credit servicing standardizes the network's conversations in regional languages without dealer-by-dealer staffing.

Entry use case
Service-appointment booking & reminders across the dealer network
Expected outcome
Fill service bays via conversational booking and reminders in regional languages, lifting paid-service retention while freeing dealer staff from phone duty during floor hours.
Recommended next step
Pilot service booking and dealer support across 50 dealers in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, with a parallel TVS Credit servicing pilot on one loan product, against matched control cohorts.
What we understand

TVS Motor's operating reality

TVS Motor posted record FY25 results — revenue around ₹44,000 crore with net profit up roughly a third — and improved two-wheeler market share to about 19-20%.

Public fact

TVS Credit, the financing arm, grew its loan book to roughly ₹27,000 crore and its customer base to about 19 million in FY25 — collections, EMI, and account-servicing conversations at NBFC scale.

Public fact

The iQube electric scooter line gives TVS a top position in the 2W EV transition, adding charging, range, and subsidy questions to the funnel and to ownership support.

Public fact

Two-wheeler service retention leaks to roadside garages after the free-service period; booking friction and missed reminders are the controllable causes — and the parts/service profit pool is what dealer economics run on.

Reasoned inference

Dealer staff likely handle service calls, lead follow-up, and financing queries between showroom customers, making response quality a function of floor traffic rather than process.

Seller hypothesis — validate

Validate with the account team before outreach: DMS heterogeneity and central API readiness across the dealer network · Whether TVS Credit servicing/collections is in scope for a combined pilot or procured separately · Current service-retention rate beyond the free-service period, by region

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: An engineering-led manufacturer, but its software estate is dealer-management, ERP, and connected-vehicle telematics bought from or built with vendors — there is no conversational-AI build organization, and the network's thousands of independently-owned endpoints need a vendor-run standardized rollout.

Why they won't build the full stack: TVS's R&D is committed to products and the EV transition; conversation automation across dealers and a regulated NBFC arm is off-core infrastructure. Buying gets regional-language coverage and RBI-conscious collections governance live in months, template-rolled across the network.

What management is signalling

Record FY25 performance — revenue around ₹44,000 crore, net profit up roughly a third, 2W share improved to ~19-20%, and TVS Credit's book at ~₹27,000 crore with 19M customers.

Reported factFY25 annual results · Apr 2025

GTM implication: Growth is compounding across vehicles and financing — service and servicing conversation volume scales with both; pitch a layer that serves OEM and NBFC from one deployment.

Continued investment in the iQube EV line and electric-segment share defense.

InferenceRecent investor communications (validate) · FY26

GTM implication: EV education workflows (charging, subsidies, TCO) are the forward-looking hook that differentiates this pitch from generic dealer tooling.

What already exists (don't pitch this)
  • TVS Connect app for connected-vehicle owners
  • Dealer management systems and dealer phone lines
  • TVS Credit call centers and collections operations
  • SMS/WhatsApp broadcast reminders
What customers still can't do end-to-end (pitch this)
  • →Two-way conversational service booking with pickup coordination
  • →Dealer-staff support grounded on parts/warranty/scheme data
  • →Self-service financing-account conversations at 19M-customer scale
  • →Proactive, vernacular service reminders that convert
Opportunity map

Where agentic communications pays off first

WorkflowWhy it matters hereValueComplexitySpeedChannels
Service booking, reminders & status
Conversational booking, pickup coordination, and proactive status in regional languages across the network.
Parts and service margins anchor dealer economics; retention beats the corner-garage convenience gap only if booking is frictionless.
Friction today: Dealer phone lines busy during floor hours; reminders are SMS blasts; status queries interrupt mechanics.
WhatsAppVoice
Dealer-staff support desk
Instant grounded answers on parts, warranty, schemes, and EV subsidies for dealer staff in their language.
Thousands of dealer staff query parts availability, warranty policy, scheme circulars, and iQube subsidy rules daily.
Friction today: Queries ride zonal-office relationships, WhatsApp groups, and email chains.
WhatsAppVoice
TVS Credit account servicing & collections support
Self-served EMI/statement answers and policy-bounded early-bucket payment conversations, fully logged.
19M financing customers generate EMI, statement, and settlement queries — and early-bucket collections conversations — at NBFC scale.
Friction today: Financing queries land on dealer staff or NBFC call centers with no shared context.
WhatsAppVoiceSMS
iQube EV lead & ownership support
Consistent charging/subsidy/TCO guidance in-flow and test rides booked into dealer calendars.
The EV transition is won on education — charging, range, subsidies — at the moment of intent and in the first months of ownership.
Friction today: Dealer answers vary; subsidy rules change faster than training cycles.
WhatsAppVoiceWeb chat
Watch the change

Service-appointment booking & reminders across the dealer network: today vs the agentic model

Scenario: A Jupiter owner in Coimbatore calls the dealer at 9:15am for a Saturday service slot with pickup; the line is busy with showroom traffic, and by evening the job books at the roadside garage next door
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 · TVS Motor
Dealer management systemService schedulingCRMParts/ERPWarranty systemsScheme circularsLoan management systemPayment gatewayCollections platformLead managementDealer calendarsSubsidy/scheme data

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

Trust & languages
TamilHindiEnglishTeluguKannadaMarathiBengali

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 ($)$0.6
Industry benchmark scale — validate
Automation / assistance rate (%)55%
Seller assumption — pilot proves this
$1.5M
Current operating cost / mo
$4.1M
Modelled gross benefit / yr
0.3 mo
Payback on Scale
70%
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$1.2M

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 TVS Motor'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 TVS Motor: Service booking plus dealer-support and financing-servicing workflows span the OEM network and the TVS Credit arm — a multi-workflow Scale deployment with a per-dealer rollout template; Launch would strand the financing volume.

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: Dealer management system, Service scheduling, CRM
  • · A named business owner for service-appointment booking & reminders across the dealer network
  • · Security review counterpart and policy sign-off (Dealer management system scope)
  • · Baseline metrics for the pilot's success thresholds
Executive messages

What to say to whom

CEO

“TVS's record year was won on product and network execution. The network's conversations are the last unstandardized asset — an agentic layer raises every dealer to the best dealer's standard.”

CIO / CTO

“One central deployment federated across DMS endpoints and TVS Credit's loan systems — dealers adopt a channel, not a project, and every answer grounds on your parts, warranty, and scheme data.”

COO

“Service-bay utilization and reminder discipline are process problems dealers solve unevenly. Conversational booking smooths intake and cuts the phone interruptions that eat floor productivity.”

CEO, TVS Credit

“19 million customers generate servicing volume no NBFC call center scales to affordably. Policy-bounded conversational servicing and early-bucket outreach attack cost and roll rates at once.”

Chief Risk / Compliance Officer

“RBI-conscious collections conduct is enforced by policy — approved offers only, hardship routed to humans, every conversation logged; DPDP-aligned consent governs all outreach.”

CFO / Procurement

“Price it on paid-service retention lift per dealer cohort and TVS Credit cost-per-serviced-account — both measurable against control cohorts within two quarters.”

Outreach

Pre-built offer emails for TVS Motor

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 2 — high-potential incubation

Why this tier

Top-3 Indian two-wheeler maker (~20% 2W share, record FY25) with a vast dealer and service network, a fast-growing iQube EV line, and the TVS Credit financing arm (19M customers) — dealer-support, service-booking, and financing conversations at mass-market scale.

Recommended next step

Pilot service booking and dealer support across 50 dealers in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, with a parallel TVS Credit servicing pilot on one loan product, against matched control cohorts.

Entry: Service-appointment booking & reminders across the dealer network · 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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