Roadside Protect

Roadside Protect saves
US$2.7m a year.

A Bosch company and NeonNow's first US customer, Roadside Protect kept its platform, moved every call to new carriers before switch-off, and now saves US$2.7 million a year.

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A driver on the phone to roadside assistance beside a broken-down pickup truck on a US interstate
US$2.7m

a year in savings from automated case management

Results at a glance

Millions saved,
and not one call dropped.

US$2.7m
Annual savings

Up from US$1.7m at go-live, based on hours reduced and labour rates

40
Full-time roles of manual work removed

Case handling now runs automatically

100+
Client brands automated

Each with its own numbers, rules and call handling

3 to 1
Contracts consolidated

One partner accountable for the whole system

At a glance

Company
Roadside Protect, a Bosch company
Industry
White-label roadside assistance
Headquarters
Itasca, Illinois, USA
Operating
North America and US territories since 2001
Use case
Migration, case automation and AI-powered call evaluations
AWS services
Amazon Connect
Contact Lens
Amazon Connect contact flows
Amazon Quick
Amazon Transcribe

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01
The challenge

A hundred brands, three contracts and a deadline.

Roadside Protect, a Bosch company, is a national white-label roadside assistance provider operating across North America and US territories since 2001. It was NeonNow's first US customer.

Roadside Protect runs roadside assistance for over 100 client brands, each with its own phone numbers, rules and call handling. A live agent opened, updated and closed every case by hand, because automating that many configurations takes engineering resources Roadside Protect did not hold in-house.

Its contact centre platform, the specialist firm paid to configure and maintain it, and its phone carriers sat across three separate contracts, with no single party accountable for the whole system. Then that partner stopped responding when the engineer who knew the account left and the owner became uncontactable.

At the same time, the carrier handling Roadside Protect's long-distance calls was sold, and the new owner set a date to switch that technology off. Every inbound call had to move to another carrier before that date, or the lines would stop working. Roadside Protect had to decide whether to abandon Amazon Connect and rebuild all 100 client set-ups on a different platform, or bring in NeonNow.

02
The solution

Take over, migrate, then automate.

NeonNow took over the Amazon Connect account from the previous partner, so Roadside Protect did not have to change platform or rebuild 100 client set-ups.

NeonNow then moved all long-distance and text messaging traffic to new carriers ahead of the switch-off date, took over management of those carrier contracts, and rebuilt the automated phone menus that greet and route callers inside Amazon Connect, where they had previously run on the old carrier's technology.

Finally, NeonNow automated case management across all 100 client configurations, orchestrating AWS CX AI services inside Amazon Connect to transcribe and analyse every call, score agent performance without a supervisor listening back, and carry out the case handling steps agents had been doing by hand.

03
The impact

US$2.7 million a year, and one partner accountable.

Case management now runs automatically, removing the equivalent of 40 full-time roles from manual case handling. Those savings began at US$1.7 million at go-live and now run at US$2.7 million a year, based on hours reduced and current labour rates.

Roadside Protect stayed on Amazon Connect instead of facing the slow, risky job of rebuilding 100 client set-ups, and even recovered service credits from AWS that funded further technical work.

Every call moved to new carriers before the old technology was switched off, with no interruption to service. The phone menus now sit inside Amazon Connect, so NeonNow can change routing for any of the 100 clients without going through a carrier.

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“Every line stayed live through the switch-off, and the case handling that used to take a room of people now just happens. One partner owns the whole thing.”

Randy Stern
Operational Excellence, Roadside Protect
What changed

From three contracts
to one accountable partner.

Before NeonNow
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Live agents opened, updated and closed every case by hand

✕

Platform, partner and carriers on three separate contracts

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An unresponsive partner, and a carrier switch-off date approaching

✕

Phone menus ran on the old carrier's technology

With NeonNow
✓

Case management runs automatically across 100+ client set-ups

✓

NeonNow holds the platform work and the carrier contracts

✓

Every call moved to new carriers with no interruption to service

✓

Menus live inside Amazon Connect, changeable for any client

Where it stands

One partner,
accountable for all of it.

NeonNow now holds both the platform work and the carrier contracts, so Roadside Protect has one party accountable for the whole system rather than three.

What NeonNow now runs

✓

The Amazon Connect account and all 100+ client set-ups

✓

Long-distance and text messaging carrier contracts

✓

Phone menus and routing inside Amazon Connect

✓

Automated case handling and AI-powered call evaluations

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