Your Annual Policy Review Agent Preps Every Household Before the Call
The AgentWorks Annual Policy Review Agent makes sure every account gets its review, and the people it frees are your account managers. Today reviews happen when a client asks or when a producer remembers, because preparing one means pulling policies from several carriers and reading every line of coverage. The Annual Policy Review Agent books the review, gathers the policies, spots the gaps and hands the account manager a prepared package before she picks up the phone.
What it takes off your plate
Ask an account manager about annual reviews and you hear the same thing: the review is worth it, the prep is where the day goes. For one household, she logs into the auto carrier, the home carrier, the umbrella carrier, maybe a flood policy through another market. She compares limits, checks for exclusions, and tries to recall whether the client mentioned a new driver or a home business last spring.
So reviews slide. The client who never calls in never gets one. Then comes the claim that reveals a gap, or the renewal notice that sends the client shopping. The cost is lost policies, missed cross-sell for the coverage the household actually needs, and account managers who spend hours on prep they could spend talking with policyholders.
What the Annual Policy Review Agent does, step by step
The Annual Policy Review Agent starts with the client conversation, then does the preparation behind it.
- Reaches out to schedule. Ahead of each client's review date, the agent emails or texts the policyholder to offer times for a review call or meeting with their account manager, and books the one they choose.
- Asks about life changes. With the invitation, it sends a short questionnaire: new drivers, a move, a renovation, a new business, a marriage, a new boat. It follows up if there is no reply.
- Pulls every policy. The agent gathers the household's policies from your agency management system and the carrier portals: declarations, endorsements, limits and deductibles.
- Checks for gaps. It compares coverage across all lines, flags gaps such as liability limits below the umbrella's underlying requirements, missing coverages, or exposures the client mentioned but no policy covers.
- Benchmarks limits. It compares limits against the standards your agency uses for households of that profile.
- Prepares the package. The agent builds a review package: a coverage summary by line, the gaps found, the life-event triggers, and recommended changes with the reasoning.
- Reminds before the meeting. The client gets a reminder ahead of the call, and the account manager gets the package in time to read it.
- Follows up afterward. After the review, the agent sends the client a summary of what was discussed and the next steps, and tracks any quotes or endorsements the account manager requested.
Where the work is recorded
Every invitation, questionnaire answer, reminder and follow-up lands on the household's record in the CRM your agency already uses, so anyone in the agency can see where the review stands and what the client said.
The review package and any resulting activity go into your agency management system, such as Applied Epic or HawkSoft: the review note, the recommended changes, and the service requests that follow.
What your account manager sees the next morning: the reviews booked for the week, each with its prepared package, the questionnaire answers that came in overnight, and a list of households that have not responded yet, with the follow-ups already sent.
What your people do instead
With the Annual Policy Review Agent carrying the scheduling and the prep, your account managers spend their time in the review itself: listening to the household, explaining coverage in plain language, and recommending changes the client understands. That conversation is where trust is built and where policies stay on the books.
Your producers benefit too, because the recommended changes often become new policies, and a well-served household is the one that sends referrals.
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One next step
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