Clonvara Insurance Services / BG-Demo – Discovery
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Clonvara Insurance Services · 7 Aug 2025 09:15
Siobhán Dunne and Brendan Moran described broker, policy and claims data split across three systems. Lewis Kerr pointed to the Growth tier and gave an indicative £54k working figure. A demo on Clonvara's own sample data was agreed as the next step.
What was said
What this says
As at Fri 9 Oct 2026Siobhán Dunne and Brendan Moran described broker, policy and claims data split across three systems. Lewis Kerr pointed to the Growth tier and gave an indicative £54k working figure. A demo on Clonvara's own sample data was agreed as the next step.
What happened: Lewis Kerr ran a listening-led discovery call. Siobhán described three disconnected systems, stitched together mostly by her team in the evenings.
Customer view: Brendan wants brokers served well and a controlled answer when the regulator asks how Clonvara knows what it knows. Siobhán asked to keep the brokers first, because if they do not feel it nobody uses it.
Commercial: Lewis placed the need at Growth, since several teams are involved but not the whole company. He gave a working figure of £54k including implementation and before VAT, which Brendan accepted as indicative only.
Watch: Brendan asked twice about pricing version and data location, and wants the data-location answer in writing. He does not want to be rushed to a decision.
Themes
As at Fri 9 Oct 2026Theme
Discovery, broker data consolidation
Importance
neutral
Sentiment
positive
Voice
decision-maker
Who was there
BG-Demo
CRMmade from
Them
CRMmade from
Follow-up
Next steps
As at Fri 9 Oct 2026- Lewis Kerr sends a short summary of the call and a written note on where the data lives.
- Lewis and the BG-Demo solutions engineer set up a demo on Clonvara's sample data with Siobhán, her data engineer and Cian.
- Lewis aims to send an itemised, dated proposal by 12 Aug 2025 if the demo goes well.
Risks
As at Fri 9 Oct 2026- Brendan Moran does not want to be rushed to a decision for anyone's quarter end.
- The £53,800 figure is only an indicative working figure, not a proposal, and pricing version was a stated concern.
- The compliance questions on where the data sits and on security review must be answered carefully and in writing.
Opportunities
As at Fri 9 Oct 2026- Growth tier fits several teams: analytics, underwriters, broker managers and claims.
- Clonvara already has a Snowflake account, which suits a brain built inside the customer's own account.
Transcript
Lewis KerrGood morning, Siobhán, good morning Brendan. Can you both hear me?
Siobhán DunneMorning, Lewis. Loud and clear. Brendan, you're on mute, I think.
Brendan MoranApologies. Good morning, both. Can you hear me now?- Lewis KerrYes, perfect. Thanks for making the time, I know it's a busy week. Siobhán, you mentioned Dublin is still half on holiday.
- Siobhán DunneHalf the city and most of the brokers, grand. So the quiet is welcome, honestly.
- Lewis KerrGood. So what I'd like to do today is mostly listen. I want to understand what you're trying to see, where it lives at the moment, and what a good outcome looks like. Then I can tell you honestly whether we're a fit, and what the next step would be. Does that work?
- Brendan MoranThat works well. I would only add that from a compliance point of view I will want to understand where the data sits, but perhaps that comes later.
- Lewis KerrIt comes in a moment, actually, because it's a good place to start. Short version, the brain is built and runs inside your own Snowflake account. Your data doesn't go to us. I'll have our solutions engineer take you through that properly, but I wanted you to hear it first.
- Brendan MoranThat is helpful. Thank you. Please do put that in writing at some stage.
- Lewis KerrWill do. Siobhán, can I start with you? What's the problem you're trying to fix?
- Siobhán DunneGrand, so. We have broker activity in one place, policy queries in another, and claims tickets in a third. Each of them is fine on its own. But when a broker rings and says, you've had three queries from me this month and a claim that's been sitting, nobody on my side can answer without opening three systems and a spreadsheet.
- Lewis KerrAnd who's doing that stitching at the moment?
- Siobhán DunneMostly my team, and mostly in the evenings, if I'm honest. I've a data engineer who's brilliant but she's one person. And then the underwriters do their own version of it, which is where it gets messy. What's the source of truth? Depends who you ask.
- Lewis KerrThat's a familiar one. What do the systems look like? Without going into detail, what's the CRM, what's the helpdesk, where do documents live?
- Siobhán DunneThere's a CRM for the brokers, a helpdesk for the claims tickets, and the policy side is partly a core system and partly files. Microsoft 365 for the documents. And we've a Snowflake account already, which is part of why this came up.
- Lewis KerrGood, that makes it simpler. Brendan, from your side, what would make this worth doing?
- Brendan MoranI think there are two things. The first is that the brokers are served well, and I can show that. The second is that when the regulator asks how we know what we know, the answer is a controlled one and not somebody's spreadsheet. Both of those matter, frankly, more than saving a few hours.
- Siobhán DunneLet's keep the brokers front and centre, though. The regulator point is real, but if the brokers don't feel it, nobody uses it.
- Brendan MoranAgreed. Fair challenge.
- Lewis KerrThat's useful, because it tells me what to show you. Can I ask how many people you'd imagine using this in the first instance?
- Siobhán DunneStarting? The analytics team, a few of the underwriters, the broker managers and a couple of people from claims. Not the whole company. Not yet.
- Lewis KerrSeveral teams, but not everyone. That sounds like our Growth tier to me, rather than anything bigger. I wouldn't want to push you onto more than the usage supports.
- Brendan MoranWhich version of the pricing are we looking at, if I may? I would like to be careful about that from the beginning.
- Lewis KerrFair. I'd rather not hold you to a number today, because we haven't scoped it. The working figure on my sheet for Growth is £53,800 as a total, implementation included, and that's before VAT. When I send a proposal it will be itemised and dated, so you'll know exactly which version it is.
- Brendan MoranThank you. That is in the range I had assumed. Let us treat it as indicative.
- Siobhán DunneCan I ask something about the implementation? How long before we see anything? Because I've been burned on that before.
- Lewis KerrHonest answer, for Growth it's around eight weeks from start to being properly live. But what you'd see first is your own data in a demo well before that. That's the next step I'd propose, a demo on your own sample data rather than ours.
- Siobhán DunneI'd like that. My data engineer will want to be on it, and one of the underwriters. Cian, probably. He asks the awkward questions.
- Lewis KerrAwkward questions are the best kind. I'll bring Hannah, our solutions engineer, she'll handle the technical side and the security questions.
- Brendan MoranAnd the security review, will that be needed?
- Lewis KerrHannah will tell you exactly what we do and don't cover and I'll leave the detail to her. She won't overstate anything, that's one thing I can promise.
- Brendan MoranGood. That is how I would prefer it.
- Lewis KerrSo to put a number on the timing, I'd like to be in a position to send you a proposal by 12 Aug 2025, if the demo goes the way we hope. Is that sensible, or too quick?
- Siobhán DunneThat's tight, with the holidays. But if the demo is in the next couple of weeks, it's doable.
- Brendan MoranI would not want to be rushed to a decision for anyone's quarter end, but a proposal to read is perfectly reasonable.
- Lewis KerrUnderstood, and no one's pushing you. Let me recap. I send a short summary of today and the note about where the data lives. Hannah and I set up a demo on your sample data with Siobhán, her engineer and Cian. And we look at a proposal after that.
- Siobhán DunneGrand. I'll find a couple of dates and send them over, and I'll sort out the sample data this week.
- Lewis KerrPerfect. Thanks, both. I'll send that over today.
- Brendan MoranThank you, Lewis. Goodbye for now.
- Siobhán DunneThanks a million, Lewis. Talk soon.
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