Case Study: Felix Vendor Portal

Insurance Document Intelligence

Vendors submitting insurance certificates had to manually transcribe every field from a PDF. We automated the extraction and turned a seven step form into a four step confirmation.

Product Designer Acting PM B2B SaaS
Background

Seven steps to upload one document.

Felix is an enterprise procurement platform. Before suppliers can work on a project they have to submit insurance certificates proving they carry adequate coverage.

The certificates are dense, inconsistently formatted PDFs. And before this project shipped, vendors had to read each one and manually transcribe every field: insurer name, coverage value, effective date, expiry date. Then upload the PDF. Then submit.

The same errors kept repeating. Dates in the wrong field, values misread, formats inconsistent. Each mistake triggered a resubmission request.

The Shift

From data entry to simple confirmation.

Before
1Select document type
2Enter name of insurer
3Enter coverage value
4Enter insurance effective date
5Enter insurance expiry date
6Upload PDF
7Submit
After
1Select document type
2Upload PDF
3Review auto filled fields
4Confirm and submit
My Role

Sole designer.
Acting PM.

Our PM had resigned and our Head of Product was on parental leave. I stepped into both roles, owning the problem completely from end to end. Discovery, specification, UX design, integration management and QA all sat with me.

Approach

Let the system do the heavy lifting.

01
Research the failure pattern
Observed vendors live, analysed error rates in submitted data, spoke to customers about friction points.
02
Scope the extraction opportunity
Partnered with a document intelligence API provider. Determined what could be reliably extracted and designed graceful fallbacks for low confidence reads.
03
Design for transparency
The temptation was to make extraction invisible: upload and done. But vendors needed to trust the system before they could rely on it. We surfaced every extracted field for explicit review before submission. Not hidden magic; visible assistance.
04
Spec, build, ship
Wrote the full product specification, managed the integration partner, and contributed to QA at launch across real world document formats.
Outcome

Manual data entry became simple confirmation.

Completion time dropped by 50%. Vendors stopped transcribing and started confirming. The compliance task that used to generate errors and resubmission requests became something people could complete without thinking hard.

Back to work
50%
Reduction in avg. completion time
7→4
Upload steps, from data entry to confirmation