Leo, the chatbot at the Generali Česká pojišt'ovna insurance agency, has been helping clients since April 2020. In that time, he has successfully handled 150,000 chats, accounting for 62.5% of all chats that take place on the site. It’s yet another confirmation of the benefits of smart chatbots in any environment with repetitive queries. These can range from forgotten passwords to insurance claim reporting to order statuses in retail or e-commerce. A virtual coworker frees up operators’ hands
About 530 people open the chat window on the Generali Česká pojišt'ovna website every day, andthey each want to solve a very specific situation. To ensure operators aren’t “stuck” with routine and repetitive questions and can focus on specific situations, a virtual colleague named Leo – a conversational artificial intelligence from the Coworkers team – began helping them last spring.
We first worked with Generali to identify recurring situations – where a chatbot would help the most. Using a sample of tens of thousands of chat discussions, we identified the following cases:
We set up individual intents and as many user inputs as possible accordingly.
These are an asker’s intentions. For example they can involve a mood, in which case we’ll include phrases like:
How are you?
Are you doing OK?
Or the intent might be insurance payment. We then flesh it out with inputs, such as:
How can I pay?
How much will the insurance cost?
These are queries a site visitor uses to acquire specific information. The more user inputs for each intent, the more accurately the chatbot or voicebot can respond. The minimum is around ten; the ideal is around 20–30.
The end of July 2021 marked 15 months of Leo’s operation, and thus enough data to properly evaluate his benefits.
Chats in total | Chats with the chatbot | Chatbot utilisation |
240,000 | 150,000 | 62.5% |
Intent | Total queries | Chatbot utilisation |
Document attachment | 13,400 | 94% |
Insurance claim reporting | 14,000 | 92% |
Arranging insurance | 7,600 | 95% |
Login to the client area | 58,600 | 80% |
Insurance payments | 15,900 | 63% |
The remaining people (about 40,000 conversations) needed help with a more distinctive request, most often one related to personal or business insurance. These people used the chatbot primarily as an intermediary on the way to a human operator.
Leo is a superbly conceived and crafted chatbot. This has been confirmed by not only Generali Česká pojišt'ovna’s clients, but also the professional public. What honours has Leo already earned?
It turns out that a conversational chatbot equipped with artificial intelligence is not just a high-quality assistant – it also strongly advances the company’s PR and its image as a technology leader.
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