- Before
- “Every team is green in its own report. Then a customer calls about a car that was never added.”
- Now
- Sees every queue every 15 minutes, the misses three days ahead, and accuracy measured on every transaction — then signs the weekly report.
One Monday morning, from the river to a signed report
Ashcombe Mutual runs its service work across two in-house teams and two outsourcers. It is Mon 12 Oct 2026, 08:10. Here is what the head of policy services sees and decides, screen by screen, in the working solution.
- 0108:10
All service work, as one river
Dana Whitcombe · Head of Policy ServicesDana opens the service river: one stream per team, ten working days back and three forecast days ahead. 6,842 items are open — Selwyn 1,454, Harrowfield 2,618, Columbus 1,964, Dayton 806 — and 731 will miss their promise by Thu 15 Oct. Harrowfield’s stream carries 418 of them. The side rail shows how this morning’s picture was made, from 06:00.
“Source checker · 1,912 weekend transactions checked — 1,889 match their request · 23 differ”
- 02One switch
Count rework where it started
Dana Whitcombe · Head of Policy ServicesDana turns on “Count rework where it started”. Every in-house item that exists only because a vendor’s transaction was wrong moves to that vendor’s stream. Harrowfield swells by 614 items: 181 transactions redone in Columbus in 10 working days, and 433 more items they caused — customer calls, reprints, billing fixes and lienholder notices. Its badge turns from 99.2% reported to 95.7% measured.
“Columbus’s own work is 1,232 open items, not 1,964.”
- 03One click
Harrowfield, on one strip
Dana Whitcombe · Head of Policy ServicesClicking the stream opens the team beneath the river: Harrowfield Solutions, Pune, lead Rohan Mehta. 2,618 open, up 778 since Tue 29 Sep. 418 will miss — 88 on Tuesday, 154 on Wednesday, 176 on Thursday. 1,858 of the open items are endorsements.
- 04Why
Accuracy, measured on every finished transaction
Source checker15,077 transactions from 29 Sep to 12 Oct, each checked against its request and against what was redone afterwards. Harrowfield endorsements are at 94.1% — 147 of 2,486 redone. The floor is missed by the new starters, not the team: the 14 processors who started Mon 28 Sep are at 82.2%; the 32 tenured processors are at 98.0%.
“Harrowfield’s sample took 220 endorsements across the month and found 2.”
- 05One of the 181
Lena Hargrove’s new car
Rework finderOn Mon 28 Sep Lena Hargrove emailed to add a 2024 Honda CR-V effective that day, financed through Larkmoor Community Credit Union. Harrowfield keyed it effective 1 Oct with no lienholder. She was rear-ended on 29 Sep, and the claim was held: vehicle not on the policy on the date of loss. On Thu 1 Oct Jamal Reyes in Columbus keyed a new endorsement effective 28 Sep, with the credit union as loss payee, and the hold was released after 27 hours.
Before charging it, the Rework finder looks for a new customer request in between: “None. The Wed 30 Sep call asked why the claim was held; it did not ask for a change.”
- 06This morning
Wrong transactions, sent back with the evidence
Correction drafter41 corrections are open, 23 new this morning. Each shows what differs from the request — a permit holder rated as licensed, an effective date of 5 Oct when 2 Oct was asked for, a refund at short-rate where pro-rata applies — its impact, and who fixes it under the contract.
“Anything touching a claim, a lienholder or a cancellation date is corrected in-house the same day and charged to the vendor.”
- 07The contract
A service credit on your measure, not theirs
Tomás Ferreira · Vendor managerHarrowfield’s MSA says Ashcombe measures accuracy, and a transaction Ashcombe must redo within 10 business days is not accurate. At 95.7% against a 98.0% floor, that is 2 full points, 4% of the $186,400 monthly fee a point: $14,912 if October closes here. The accuracy notice to Rohan Mehta is drafted in Tomás’s voice and waits for Dana’s approval.
“Against the vendor’s own figure (99.2%) nothing would be owed.”
- 08Three days ahead
Which items will miss, and why
Promise forecasterEach open item’s finish is forecast from arrivals, the roster and handle time: 184 misses on Tue 13 Oct, 258 on Wednesday, 289 on Thursday. Endorsement arrivals rose to 548 a day after 1 Oct renewals; Harrowfield finishes 471. The list shows each item — an add-driver, a vehicle replacement waiting on a lienholder letter, a refund against its state limit.
- 09One click
A rebalance, tested before anyone moves
Dana Whitcombe · Head of Policy Services“Suggest a plan” sets 12 Columbus staff on Saturday overtime and 6 Harrowfield billing processors moved to endorsements — billing keeps its 3-day promise. Harrowfield endorsements that miss fall from 418 to 46, for $4,536 of overtime. Dana sends the plan to Grace Oyelaran, who approves rebalancing.
The Promise forecaster never moves work — the workforce planner decides.
- 10Signed · 08:41
The weekly report, every number linked
Dana Whitcombe · Head of Policy ServicesThe Report writer drafted the weekly service report at 06:14 from the queue, accuracy and rework ledgers — 38 numbers, each linked to the screen it came from. Dana reads it and signs. It goes to the COO, vendor management and workforce planning, and every number behind it is kept for the vendor review on Thu 22 Oct.