Warranty Risk Brief

The automotive developments that deserve your warranty team’s attention, prioritized, explained, and delivered weekly.

Not another newsletter to skim. A recurring intelligence brief that reduces the volume of automotive information into the developments most likely to matter to warranty operations.

What It Does

Intelligence first. Technology quietly in the background.

WarrantyAutomation continuously reviews automotive information, identifies developments that may deserve attention from warranty operations, and organizes the findings into a recurring brief. What reaches you is the short list: developments worth reviewing.

The customer is buying prioritization, editorial context, customization, and recurring delivery, not access to software or a dashboard.

Every finding is reviewed by a person before it ships. If it isn’t worth your team’s time, it doesn’t make the brief.

Built for warranty operations teams

  • Warranty operations
  • Claims teams
  • Product teams
  • Warranty company leadership
Example Report

What a week looks like

Each edition opens with the week at a glance, then walks through the findings that earned their place.

Warranty Risk Brief Global Edition · Week 33

Reporting Period: August 10–16, 2026

3 Major Warranty Developments
2 Coverage / Campaign Changes
1 Claims & Repair Update
4 Relevant Recalls
5 Watchlist Items

GM Extends Engine Failure Coverage

Coverage & Campaign Change

Cadillac / Chevrolet / GMC

Certain affected vehicles have been provided special coverage for qualifying engine failures involving connecting-rod or crankshaft defects.

Why we’re flagging it
  • High-cost engine exposure
  • OEM special coverage
  • Potential reimbursement overlap
  • Relevant warranty labor / claim coding
Operational context

Manufacturer coverage may apply under the identified program. Eligibility, reimbursement terms, and potential overlap with service-contract claims may warrant review by the appropriate warranty team.

Source: Manufacturer / regulatory record reference  ·  Illustrative example

View a complete sample edition →

Two Layers of Intelligence

Global brief + custom portfolio brief

Every customer receives the global weekly report. One custom profile is included during the founding pilot.

Global

Global Warranty Risk Brief

The flagship weekly report. Every customer receives it.

What deserves attention across the broader warranty market this week, noteworthy developments industry-wide that may warrant professional review.

Custom

Custom Portfolio Brief

Your company-specific layer. Included during the founding pilot.

What deserves attention specifically for the vehicles and coverage areas relevant to your operation:

  • Ford + Lincoln
  • 2019+
  • Powertrain / Drivetrain

Monitoring configured around the manufacturers, vehicles, components, and developments relevant to your operation.

The custom report supplements the global report. It does not replace it.

Coverage

What the brief covers

The brief may surface any development worth reviewing for warranty operations, including:

  • Significant engine and powertrain developments
  • Transmission and drivetrain issues
  • EV / hybrid developments
  • Warranty extensions
  • Special coverage programs
  • Service campaigns
  • Repair-procedure changes
  • Relevant recalls
  • OEM-funded remedies
  • Emerging issues worth monitoring

Reviewed before it reaches you

WarrantyAutomation identifies developments that may deserve attention, then a human reviews every finding before delivery.

That is all we will say about how it works. The findings are the proof.

How It Works

From your portfolio to your inbox in four steps

01

Tell us what matters

We establish the manufacturers, vehicles, components, and developments most relevant to your operation.

02

Configure the intelligence

Monitoring and prioritization are configured around your operating focus.

03

Monitor and prioritize

WarrantyAutomation reviews relevant manufacturer and regulatory information and identifies developments worth bringing to your attention.

04

Receive the Brief

Your team receives recurring intelligence highlighting developments, operational context, and items worth monitoring.

Reporting Cadence

The intelligence comes to you

No portal to remember. No alerts to triage. Reports arrive on a fixed rhythm.

Weekly, Monday

Global Warranty Risk Brief plus your Custom Portfolio Brief, delivered by email.

Monthly

A consolidated summary of the month’s developments and what changed for your portfolio.

Quarterly / Pilot-End

A pilot-end or quarterly summary consolidating the bigger picture across the period.

Professional Boundary

Intelligence for your team. Decisions remain with your team.

Warranty Risk Brief surfaces external developments that qualified warranty professionals may want to investigate. It does not replace professional judgment:

  • Does not approve or deny claims
  • Does not set reserves
  • Does not set pricing
  • Does not predict exact losses
  • Does not provide actuarial opinions
  • Does not replace contract adjudication
  • Does not replace compliance systems

WarrantyAutomation does not determine whether any vehicle, component, repair, claim, service contract, or customer should be covered, excluded, approved, denied, priced, underwritten, or otherwise treated. Customers remain responsible for independently reviewing source documentation, contract terms, eligibility requirements, and their business and operational decisions.

Founding Pilot

$250 / month

90-day initial pilot

$750 total initial commitment

You receive

  • Weekly Global Warranty Risk Brief
  • Weekly Custom Portfolio Brief configured around your operation
  • One company-specific intelligence profile
  • Monthly Summary
  • Pilot-End / Quarterly Summary
  • Human-reviewed findings
  • Initial portfolio and priorities discovery
  • Profile refinement during the pilot

Founding pilot pricing is available while WarrantyAutomation validates the product with a limited number of early warranty partners. Founding pilot pricing applies to the initial 90-day pilot. Future commercial pricing and packaging may differ.

See the Product

See what Warranty Risk Brief looks like.

Review a sample to see how manufacturer developments, coverage activity, repair information, recalls, and watchlist items are organized for warranty operations.

Ready to discuss the pilot?

A short conversation is usually enough to determine whether Warranty Risk Brief fits your operation.

Book a 15-Minute Fit Call