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Enterprise · Insurance·2022
Star Health Insurance

A high-friction customer journey, rebuilt for conversion.

A rebuild of the customer acquisition and servicing journey. Intake simplified. Underwriting modernised. Claims visibility restored.

Engagement
Duration
11 months
Squad
Delivery partner · 5 engineers · 2 product designers · 2 data engineers
Status
Live in production
Redesigned
Core journeys
↑ NPS
Customer sat.
Cloud-native
Architecture
Digital-first
Operating model
The problem

What we walked into.

A major health insurer's customer journey had been built in the paper era and ported forward. Intake took a week. Underwriting was opaque. Claims status was a phone call. Every new product launch added a layer of glue rather than a layer of capability. Something had to break.

Our approach

What Safemode did.

  1. 01

    Redesigned the top five customer journeys (quote, intake, policy issuance, claims, servicing) against a fixed 'time to value' budget per journey.

  2. 02

    Modernised the underwriting stack onto a cloud-native platform with a clean separation between policy logic, data and workflow.

  3. 03

    Built a claims visibility layer that gives the customer and the servicing agent the same view of where a claim is, in real time.

  4. 04

    Wrapped the whole programme in a delivery cadence that trained the insurer's own teams to keep shipping after we left.

Outcome

What moved.

  • The five customer journeys moved to a cloud-native, digital-first operating model.

  • Customer satisfaction and NPS improved meaningfully against baseline across each journey.

  • Underwriting turnaround times fell and were made visible to the operating team for the first time.

  • The insurer now ships new products on the platform it owns, not the platform it inherited.

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