The problem
Business owners look for insurance in the evening, when the office is shut, and a contact form feels slow. If 10 visitors a week leave your site with a question unanswered and 1 a month would have become a client worth $399£300€357A$576C$564 in commission and fees, that's $399£300€357A$576C$564 a month going elsewhere.
What the AI does
Tidio puts a chat window on your website. Its AI agent, Lyro, answers from the FAQs and website content you give it and hands the chat to a person when needed. Give it process answers only: what you insure, what information a quote needs, office hours and how to reach you. Tell it not to discuss prices, cover or claims decisions and to take the visitor's name, business and number for a broker to call back, then test that it sticks to that.
A worked example
A brokerage in Harrogate for trades and small shops adds Tidio's free live chat plus a Lyro quota of 50 AI conversations a month. Out of hours, Lyro answers from the brokerage's FAQ page and collects contact details, and a broker calls back the next morning.
Before
About 10 evening visitors a week leave without asking anything
After
Questions answered and details taken, worth about 1 extra client a month at $399£300€357A$576C$564
What it's worth
About $239£180€214A$346C$338 a month in profit, at an assumed 60% margin on $399£300€357A$576C$564 of commission and fees from 1 extra client a month. That is against €32.50 to €39 (about $37£28€33A$54C$53 to $45£34€40A$65C$64) a month for 50 Lyro conversations, billed annually or monthly, on top of Tidio's free chat plan.
How to set it up
- Write a short FAQ page: what you insure, what a quote needs, office hours and how to contact you.
- Sign up for Tidio's free plan, add the chat to your website and give Lyro the FAQ page.
- Add guidance that Lyro must not discuss prices, cover or claims decisions and must offer a call back instead.
- Test it with 20 awkward questions, such as 'am I covered for flood', and fix any answer that goes beyond your FAQ.
- Call back every lead the next working morning and read the chat transcripts weekly.
What goes wrong
- An AI agent can answer a cover question confidently and wrongly. What it tells a visitor is your communication under FCA rules and Consumer Duty, so test it and read transcripts.
- Tidio's pricing page shows local currency; it showed euros when checked, so the sterling cost may differ.
- Lyro's free allowance is 50 conversations once only; after that you need a paid quota, from 50 conversations a month.
- Chats contain personal data. Add the chat to your privacy notice and check Tidio's data processing terms for UK GDPR.