How Kin Insurance increased qualified call outcomes by 18.7%

+18.7%
Improvement in transfer rate

The AI handles top-of-funnel perfectly. Our team focuses on closing.

James Park

Head of Growth, Kin Insurance

The Challenge

Kin's operations team faced three key challenges:

  • High BPO costs from outsourced service teams.
  • Mixed performance from prior automation vendors that required months to reach production quality.
  • Limited bandwidth to manage rising volumes of customer inquiries, leading to slower response times and missed opportunities.

The company needed a way to automate routine conversations, provide timely responses, and route only complex cases to human representatives, all without compromising experience or compliance.

The Solution

Kin ran a paid proof of concept with Bland AI, leveraging its next-generation Voice AI platform to handle high-volume, repetitive customer interactions.

Bland's system enabled Kin to build, test, and optimize multiple agent variants, each designed for specific conversation types and customer needs across both English and Spanish-speaking audiences.

Key features included:

  • Intelligent routing that passed high-priority interactions directly to human agents with full conversational context.
  • Rapid deployment, achieving production-level performance within 3-4 weeks compared to over six months with another AI vendor.
  • Multilingual support, with Spanish-language agents launched within hours.
  • Omnichannel expansion, adding SMS capabilities for proactive reminders and follow-ups.
  • Real-time transcript analytics that delivered faster, more accurate insight into customer needs and agent effectiveness.

The Outcome

The POC exceeded expectations across efficiency and experience metrics, resulting in the Kin team saying this:

"Bland reached human-level performance in under a month, surpassing both prior AI and human benchmarks while maintaining excellent customer-experience ratings."
MetricHuman AgentsAnother AI VendorBland AI
Total customer interactions99,6707,9057,802
Connection rate per attempt10.3%11.5%12.2%
Transfer rate per conversation59.6%70.5%70.5%
Improvement in transfer rate+2.8%+6.3%+18.7%

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