Agencies Keep More Households When Every Account Gets a Yearly Review
Every account gets its yearly review when the Annual Policy Review Agent does the prep. The AgentWorks Annual Policy Review Agent takes review scheduling and preparation off your account managers and producers, the people who know reviews keep households on the books but never have the hours to prepare one for every account. The agent books the review and builds the package. Your account manager has the conversation.
What it takes off your plate
Here is how policy reviews really go at most agencies. They are supposed to happen every year. In practice they happen when a policyholder asks, or when a producer remembers a client they have not heard from. Preparing one means logging into each carrier, pulling the home, auto, umbrella and any business policies, reading the declarations, and looking for gaps. That takes hours per household.
So reviews get skipped. The household that added a teen driver, finished the basement or started a side business never mentions it, and the agency learns about the gap at claim time, or when the policyholder leaves for a competitor who asked the right questions first. The review is valuable, and most account managers know exactly what they would say if they had the file in front of them. The prep is where the time disappears.
What the Annual Policy Review Agent does, step by step
The Annual Policy Review Agent starts with the conversation that gets the review on the calendar.
- Invites the policyholder. Ahead of each account's review date, it texts or emails the household to schedule a call with their account manager and offers open times.
- Asks about life changes. It sends a short questionnaire: new drivers, a move, a renovation, a new business, a marriage, a new child, a big purchase. It follows up once if there is no answer.
- Confirms the appointment. It sends a reminder before the call and reschedules if the policyholder asks.
- Pulls every policy. It gathers all of the household's policies across carriers from your agency management system and carrier downloads.
- Finds the gaps. It compares coverages across lines, checks for life-event triggers from the questionnaire and the file, and benchmarks limits against the standards your agency uses.
- Prepares the review package. It writes a summary of current coverage, the gaps it found and recommended changes, and puts it in front of the account manager before they pick up the phone.
The agent prepares the review. The licensed account manager advises the household and makes any changes.
Where the work is recorded
Every invitation, questionnaire answer and reminder is logged on the household's record in the CRM your agency already uses. When the policyholder calls to move their review, whoever answers sees the whole thread and picks up exactly where the agent left off.
The review package and the recommendations attach to the account in your agency management system, along with the outcome of the call: changes made, quotes requested, next review date. The next morning your account manager sees the day's reviews with packages ready, households that have not answered, and last week's recommendations still waiting on a decision. An agent that could not record that would be a chatbot.
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What your people do instead
Your account managers spend the review hour listening: to the family worried about their teenager on the road, to the owner of the new side business who did not know their homeowners policy excludes it. Producers use the recommendations to round out accounts, and the owner sees reviews happen for every household instead of only the loud ones.
Policyholders stay with the agency that calls them before renewal to ask how life has changed. The Annual Policy Review Agent keeps the scheduling and the prep moving so your people can give each household a review that feels like advice, not paperwork.
One next step
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