About the Brand

A legacy built on reach. A reputation built on response.

Agilus Diagnostics is India’s largest diagnostics company, carrying forward a legacy of trust. Not a lab chain that grew louder. One that grew wherever patients needed it, across cities, towns, and more than a thousand pin codes, until reach stopped being the question.

Behind that reach is a nationwide network of laboratories and patient touchpoints, supported by thousands of scientific and medical professionals and a test menu spanning routine diagnostics, genomics, and rare disease testing. But patients rarely experience a brand through its scale. They experience it through whether someone answers, how quickly they respond, and how that response makes them feel.

Between February and April 2026, every digital conversation across Google Business Profile, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X, and the Agilus app became another opportunity to reinforce the trust Agilus had spent years building.

The Brief

Trust Was Already Earned. Every Reply Needed to Prove It Again.

The brief was simple to state and far harder to sustain: keep pace with a patient base that was searching, asking, and reaching out faster with every month that passed, without a single one of those queries sitting long enough to curdle into worry. Reach was never the problem, Agilus already had it, across cities, across six platforms, across every hour of the day and night.

What the brand needed was a reputation built to move at that same restless pace, not one assembled from scratch, but one carried forward fast enough to never fall a step behind the volume chasing it. Every query, wherever it landed, needed to meet a reply that felt like Agilus got there first, not one that arrived after the worry already had room to grow.

Challenges

Six Platforms.

One Anxious Patient. Zero Room to Fall Behind.

Healthcare ORM carries a different kind of pressure than most categories. An unanswered query here isn’t a missed lead, it’s a patient left waiting on a result, a location, a diagnosis. The challenge sat in three places at once, and none of them gave any ground:

  • Six Platforms, One Relentless Pace: Query volume never arrived on a schedule, it came from every direction at once, GMB one hour, Instagram the next, the app right behind it. Chasing that down meant tracking six-plus channels simultaneously, in real time, without ever letting one queue build up quietly while attention sat somewhere else.
  • The Clock That Never Paused: A patient asking about a test result at 11 pm doesn’t wait for business hours, and neither could the reply. Holding response time to minutes, not hours, meant staying in motion around the clock, closing every gap before the wait itself became the story a patient told.
  • Every Reply Had to Sound Human, Every Single Time: Speed alone was never going to be enough. A fast reply that reads like a script quietly undoes the very trust it’s supposed to build. Whether the query behind it was a worried question or a simple thank you, every response had to carry real empathy and unmistakable Agilus tone, never templated, never robotic, no matter how many queries were stacking up behind it.

Our ORM Approach

Not Routine Response Management. Real-Time Reputation, Built in Public.

Four pillars carried the work:

01. Racing Every Query Before the Worry Lands

This is Quick Response Management in motion: speed treated not as a scoreboard to chase, but as ground to hold and defend, query after query. Most replies landed inside five minutes, and the four-hour ceiling wasn’t a target quietly missed here and there, across three full months, not a single query crossed it. That’s what happens when response time stops being an average to manage and starts being a line nothing is allowed to cross.

02. Answering Like Agilus, Not Like a Queue

Empathetic, brand-aligned communication meant every one of those fast replies still had to sound like Agilus, never like a queue being cleared. Whether the message behind it was gratitude or genuine worry, the tone stayed exactly the same: careful, accurate, and unmistakably human. Speed and warmth rarely get asked to move at the same pace, this pillar made sure neither one ever waited on the other.

03. Catching the Fall Before It Ever Goes Public

Strategic escalation started with knowing which query could never be settled in the reply itself, and moving on that difference in the moment. Complaints and critical concerns were caught early and pushed down pre-built resolution paths immediately, before frustration had the chance to harden into something public. That’s exactly why negative sentiment never crossed 3.1%, even as total volume kept climbing month over month.

04. Turning Every Question Into Ground Gained

Lead and enquiry management ran alongside all of it. Not every conversation was a complaint waiting to happen, plenty were simply a patient asking where to go, what a test costs, or when to walk in. Those queries got captured and nurtured with the same urgency as everything else in the inbox, so the same system built to protect Agilus’ reputation was quietly feeding its funnel too, one enquiry at a time, without ever being asked to choose between the two jobs.

The Results

The Chase, In Numbers

Headline Results January to April 2026

  • +52.1%
    Total Queries (April) 2,555 since Jan
  • +58.7%
    Avg Queries/Day (April) 66 since Jan
  • 61.88%
    Positive Sentiment (April) up from 54.74% in Feb
  • 61.88%
    Complaint Rate (April) of all interactions
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