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Technical Deep Dive

The technology Actually Works

The technology behind AI-powered enrollment — from Monte Carlo simulations to real-time voice counseling.

PlanMatch AI

Monte Carlo plan scoring

We run 1,000 simulated healthcare years for each plan, using your employee's actual claims data, family composition, age, and the answers they give during enrollment. Every simulation produces a cost distribution — not a single estimate.

$1,200$5,270 median predicted cost$14,800

Distribution of 1,000 simulated healthcare-year costs for Silver PPO

Five scoring factors

30%

Cost Efficiency

Total expected cost across all scenarios (premium + OOP)

30%

Plan-Profile Fit

How well plan design matches this person's specific utilization pattern

20%

Predictability

Variance of outcomes — low deductible plans score higher for risk-averse employees

10%

Coverage Adequacy

Does the plan cover the services this person actually needs?

10%

Network

Provider access, specialist availability, and geographic match

Worked example

Sarah, age 34

Sarah is enrolled as Employee + Spouse. During the discovery questionnaire, she indicates she's planning back surgery this year. The simulation immediately reruns 1,000 scenarios that include a major surgical event — hospital stay, anesthesia, surgeon fees, physical therapy, and post-op imaging.

The Gold PPO scores 94 because the $500 deductible and $3,000 out-of-pocket max cap the damage. The Bronze HSA drops to 45 because the $6,000 family deductible hits before insurance kicks in — and the simulation shows Sarah paying $8,200+ out-of-pocket in 73% of scenarios.

Try it: toggle a life event

Scores update in real-time as employees answer questions. Every answer changes the math.

Live scoring demo

Toggle the scenario and watch scores recalculate

Silver PPO 1500
88
Bronze HSA 3000
82
Gold PPO 500
71

For a healthy year, the Silver PPO balances cost and coverage. The Bronze HSA's low premium and tax-advantaged savings make it competitive.

Ben Voice AI

An AI coach that acts, not just talks

Ben is a real-time AI voice coach that doesn't just answer questions — he navigates the enrollment UI, selects plans, and completes elections on screen while the employee watches.

Architecture

Employeespeaks naturallyVoice-to-Textinstant transcriptionAI Engineanalyzes & decidesEnrollment Screenupdates in real-timeVoice Responsespeaks back naturallyAI controls the screen — selects plans, navigates steps

The pipeline

1

Employee speaks

Natural voice input captured via microphone

2

Speech converted

Voice-to-text transcription in ~200ms

3

AI analyzes

Decision engine processes with full plan context and employee profile

4

UI navigated

AI calls tools to control the enrollment screen in real time

5

Response spoken

Text-to-speech delivers a natural voice reply as the UI updates

How the coach, AI, and screen work together

This is what makes Ben different. The voice coach, the AI decision engine, and the enrollment screen aren't separate tools — they're one integrated experience. Here's what it looks like in practice:

1

Employee says: "I'm ready"

The coach greets them by name, verifies their identity, and moves the screen to the verification step. The employee sees the screen change in real time — the AI is driving.

2

Coach asks discovery questions

"Are you taking any regular medications?" "Anything big coming up — surgery, having a baby?" Each answer feeds into the AI scoring engine. The employee just talks naturally.

3

AI runs 1,000 simulations

Based on the employee's age, family, salary, claims history, and discovery answers, the AI simulates a thousand different healthcare years for each plan. Scores update in real time on screen.

4

Coach makes a recommendation

"Based on everything you've told me, I'd go with the Silver PPO. Here's why..." The coach eliminates the worst-fit plan first, then compares the remaining two using a scenario with the employee's actual family members.

5

Employee agrees — AI selects the plan on screen

The employee says "yeah, let's go with that." The AI selects the plan on the enrollment screen, and the employee watches it happen. No clicking required.

6

This repeats for dental, vision, and voluntary benefits

The coach walks through each benefit line — educating along the way. "Accident insurance pays you cash directly if someone breaks a bone — four bucks a paycheck."

7

Review with paycheck impact

The coach walks through the final summary: what they chose, how it hits their paycheck, what their employer pays, and how it compares to last year. The employee signs electronically.

What the AI controls on screen

The AI doesn't just talk — it takes action. It has direct control over the enrollment interface, so the employee never has to click a button.

Navigate between steps

Moves from medical → dental → vision → review automatically as the conversation progresses. The screen follows the conversation.

Select plans

When the employee agrees to a recommendation, the AI selects it on screen immediately. The employee watches the plan highlight in real time.

Enroll in voluntary benefits

"Want to add accident insurance?" "Yeah." Done — toggled on screen instantly. Premium updates automatically.

Show the running total

After every selection, the AI calculates the per-paycheck cost and tells the employee: "So far you're at about two thirty-two per paycheck."

Coach methodology

Ben's conversational approach is modeled on how the best human benefits coachs actually work — informed by pioneering research in behavioral decision support.

Eliminate, then compare

Remove plans that are clearly wrong before diving into details. Reduces cognitive load from 5 plans to 2-3 finalists.

Personalized scenarios

Uses first names and real family details. "If Michael needs his asthma inhaler refilled 12 times this year..."

Two numbers max

Never presents more than 2 financial figures in a single response. Complex comparisons are broken into digestible pieces.

Normalize confusion

"Most people find this part confusing — let me explain coinsurance in plain terms." Reduces anxiety and increases engagement.

HIPAA-safe by design

Voice AI never touches PHI. Social Security numbers are entered on encrypted screen fields only — never spoken aloud or transmitted through the voice pipeline.

The Living Agent

Your benefits platform
that learns.

Most platforms ship and stop. Ben ships and starts learning — from every conversation, every pause, every question.

Ben

core

Every conversation

captured

Nightly AI

extraction

Lessons reviewed

& approved

Future Ben

smarter

“Most platforms ship and stop.
Ben ships and starts learning.

The difference · every single day

Nightly

runs

Zero

prompts

100%

automatic

ClaimsIQ

Predictions from actual utilization

When claims data is available, predictions are parameterized from actual utilization history — not generic assumptions. The simulation uses real PCP visit frequency, specialist counts, Rx fills, ER visits, and inpatient days.

Data pipeline

Claims Import

EDI 837 / CSV

Utilization Profile

Per-member

Monte Carlo Params

Distribution fitting

Cost Distribution

1,000 scenarios

Plan Score

0-100

With claims data

Real PCP visit frequency (e.g., 4.2 visits/year)

Actual specialist utilization by type

Prescription fill counts and drug tiers

ER visit history and inpatient days

Historical out-of-pocket spending

Chronic condition continuity patterns

FB

Without claims (fallback)

Questionnaire-derived utilization estimates

Age/sex demographic benchmarks (MEPS data)

Self-reported chronic conditions

Planned procedures and life events

Family size and dependent age factors

Conservative confidence intervals

Enrollment Flow

10 adaptive steps

Every step adapts. If there's only one dental plan, we skip the comparison. If the employee is a 55-year-old male, we don't ask about pregnancy. The flow is driven by plan configuration, employee demographics, and prior answers.

Average completion time: 8 minutes with Ben's voice guidance

01

Verify

Confirm identity, employment status, and eligibility window

02

Dependents

Add/remove dependents with SSN enforcement and relationship validation

03

Discovery

Adaptive health questionnaire that adjusts based on age, sex, and family composition

04

Claims Review

When ClaimsIQ data is available, review prior-year utilization and confirm major events

05

Medical

Eliminate obvious mismatches, compare 2-3 finalists side-by-side, recommend with rationale

06

Dental

Skip comparison if only one plan. Score based on orthodontic needs and expected procedures

07

Vision

Factor in contact lens usage, eye exam frequency, and dependent vision needs

08

Ancillary

Educate on life, disability, accident, critical illness. Show paycheck impact

09

Review

Complete summary with e-signature. SHA-256 hash of elections for tamper-evident audit

10

Complete

Generate ID cards, trigger EDI 834 carrier files, and confirm next steps

Prior Year Intelligence

Context that changes decisions

Ben shows employees what they had last year, what it cost, and why this year's recommendation might be different. Anchoring to familiar data builds trust and speeds decisions.

Prior year vs. recommendation

2025 election

Silver PPO 1500

Employee + Spouse

$210/paycheck

$5,460/year premium

2026 recommendation

Gold PPO 500

Employee + Spouse + Child

$310/paycheck

$8,060/year premium

Why the change:With a new baby, the Gold PPO's lower deductible and pediatric coverage saves an estimated $2,400 in out-of-pocket costs — more than offsetting the $100/paycheck premium increase.

HSA Intelligence

The account that changes the math

If an employee has an existing HSA balance, Ben factors that into the recommendation. A $5,000 HSA balance changes the calculus — the Bronze HSA deductible is less scary when you already have funds to cover it.

The triple tax advantage — tax-free contributions, tax-free growth, tax-free withdrawals for medical expenses — makes HSAs the most powerful savings vehicle in the tax code. Ben quantifies this for every employee.

HSA growth calculator

See the triple tax advantage in action

Projected HSA value

$20,563

Your contributions$15,000
Employer match+$2,500
Est. investment growth (7%)+$3,063
Annual tax savings$750/yr
Tax-free inTax-free growthTax-free out*

*Tax-free withdrawals for qualified medical expenses. After age 65, non-medical withdrawals taxed as income (no penalty).

Security & Compliance

Enterprise-grade from day one

Benefits data is some of the most sensitive information in an organization. Ben AI is built with healthcare-grade security at every layer.

Built to HIPAA standards · BAAs in progress

PHI encrypted at rest and in transit

Voice AI isolated from PHI pipeline

Minimum necessary access principle

BAAs being signed with covered subprocessors

AES-256 encryption

Data encrypted at rest (AES-256-GCM)

TLS 1.3 in transit

Field-level encryption for SSNs

Key rotation every 90 days

ESIGN Act compliance

Legally binding e-signatures

SHA-256 hash of election data

Tamper-evident audit trail

Complete consent documentation

SOC 2 readiness in progress

Control framework being implemented

Continuous monitoring

Incident response playbook

Penetration testing planned

50-state compliance

State-specific mandate tracking

Automatic plan design validation

Regulatory change monitoring

Multi-jurisdiction support

Audit logging

Every PHI access logged

Immutable audit trail

User action attribution

90-day retention minimum

See it in action

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