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B2B SAAS / ONBOARDING AND ACTIVATION · 2026

Turn2C

From prospect to partner through mutual qualification.

I redesigned B2B partner onboarding around three goals: reduce registration time, maintain high conversion where the journey needs to flow, and control drop-offs at strategic qualification stages. New partner registration went from up to 45 days to a maximum of 2 days. Progression through intermediate stages ranged from 93.4% to 97.8%, with each rate based on the preceding stage.

SHORTER REGISTRATION TIME

45 → 2

days

From up to 45 days to a maximum of 2 days

New partner registration

HIGH CONVERSION

93.4–97.8

%

Progression through fluid intermediate stages

Hotjar · Jul–Sep 2026 · base: previous stage

CONTROLLED DROP-OFF

Qualification

At strategic stages of the journey

Fluid intermediate steps; qualification at decision points

IN 30 SECONDS / WHAT CHANGED

The account already exists; the demo is available before full approval.

FIG. 00 / The account already exists; the demo is available before full approval.

< 01 > PROBLEM AND CONTEXT

Before asking for commitment, we needed to show value.

The sequence demanded effort and trust before making the platform’s value clear.

PREVIOUS JOURNEY / CONTEXT

70

%

Did not complete document submission

Leads who started pre-registration · historical context

Registration front-loaded company details, contacts, address, digital presence and documents. Individuals also entered a journey intended for businesses; the mismatch surfaced late.

The order of eligibility, effort and value made every field more costly.

Original interface / Turn2C

Previous partner registration form

1

2

3

1

Too much effort before value was clear

2

Documents required at first contact

3

Business eligibility was not clearly stated

FIG. 01 / Previous experience in a partner operation. The screen shows effort concentrated at the start.

Who goes through this journey

Owners, salespeople and operations staff at businesses interested in selling Brazilian consórcio products, a group-based purchasing model. They arrive mainly through acquisition campaigns, usually on mobile, with limited attention and documents not always at hand.

GOAL

Understand the platform’s value, assess its fit for the business and access simulation and sales tools.

CONDITION

The person starting registration may not be the company’s legal representative.

SCOPE

This journey is for partner businesses; consumer registration follows a different path.

< 02 > WHAT CHANGED OUR DIRECTION

The diagnosis changed the order of the journey.

I combined behavioral signals, team knowledge and business rules to identify the conflicts shaping the journey.

The shift that guided the product

BEFORE

Registration and documents before value. Late qualification and little clarity about what came next.

NEW DIRECTION

Eligibility first. A demo before full commitment. Documents in context and visible status through activation.

“The user moves forward with uncertainty, and the human team becomes the glue holding the process together.”

Author’s synthesis · discovery diagnosis recorded on Jan 30, 2026.

Research approach and limitations

The research connected registration behaviour with the needs of the teams supporting the operation.

APPROACH

Multi-method discovery: behaviour, experience and business rules.

METHODS

Internal interviews, Hotjar, journey analysis and benchmarking.

SYNTHESIS

Marketing, Sales, Legal and Support: four perspectives on the same journey.

TYPE

Qualitative + behavioural

SOURCE

Internal teams + Hotjar

SCOPE

Diagnosis dated Jan 30, 2026

Diagnosis of the journey before the redesign. Usage signals were cross-referenced with team accounts; this evidence explains design decisions rather than measuring the new experience’s results.

FROM EVIDENCE TO DECISION

Around 94% of registrations captured in Hotjar took place on mobile. Requesting documents and explaining ownership roles at the start demanded effort before the value proposition was clear. In interviews, Support reported uncertainty about pending requirements and access; Sales, repeated lead qualification work; Marketing, a mismatch between acquisition promises and the next steps.

Legal provided the counterpoint: documents and checks protected the operation and could not simply disappear. The direction was to organise the journey around intent, status and potential: qualify early, demonstrate value before full commitment, and make documents, pending requirements and next steps explicit. Smooth progression, with clear qualification criteria.

< 03 > ARCHITECTURE AND DECISIONS

A clearer journey that still handles complexity.

Eight internal states support two qualification gates. For the partner, the journey appears as four clear milestones.

WHAT THE PARTNER SEES

01

Pre-registration

Account + demo unlocked.

02

Company

Details and documents in context.

03

Review

Timelines and pending items visible.

04

Signature

Formalization and activation.

WHAT THE PRODUCT COORDINATES

01

Pre-registration

Gate 1 · business eligibility (CNPJ)

02

Screening

Company and profile qualification

03

Account creation

Explore before committing

04

Demo

Gate 2 · product fit through the demo

05

Company registration

Business details

06

Review

Internal review

07

Awaiting signature

Digital contract

08

Completed

Active partner

FIG. 04 / Real navigation: from pre-registration to the demo before approval.

FIVE DECISIONS / FROM DIAGNOSIS TO INTERFACE

DECISION 01 / 05

Confirm the business before asking for commitment.

EVIDENCE / CONTEXT

Individuals were entering a journey designed for businesses. Sales identified the mismatch late, creating requalification and extra effort on both sides.

DECISION

Use the CNPJ business ID as the only initial field at Gate 1, before screening. This keeps entry short and makes the intended audience clear.

TRADE-OFF

Typing, lookup or comprehension errors can block eligible businesses before they see value.

I connected Sales criteria to the entry flow and defined the eligibility gate and the instrumentation needed to investigate it.

Screening dimensions and logic

SCREENING / MATURITY, FIT AND POTENTIAL

Two paths, Specialist and Standard, organize questions about context and potential.

FIG. 07 / Two paths, Specialist and Standard, organize questions about context and potential.

FAMILIARITY

Knowledge of consórcio products informs how much context is needed.

FIT

Business segment and its connection to consórcio sales.

CAPACITY

Monthly volume and the share of revenue from consórcio products.

Additional questions complete the commercial and operational profile. The aim is to tailor follow-up without relying on a single indicator or requiring full registration first.

DECISION 02 / 05

Let prospects try the product before full registration.

EVIDENCE / CONTEXT

Prospects had to complete most of the process before understanding the product.

DECISION

Create the account and unlock demo modules before full company registration and approval. Turn2C assesses the business; the prospect assesses product fit.

TRADE-OFF

Early access may create expectations of full activation or expose restricted features.

DECISION 03 / 05

Move complexity to the right moment.

EVIDENCE / CONTEXT

Documents and checks were necessary, but were concentrated before users could see value.

DECISION

Distribute data collection across the journey and use OCR and autofill to reduce manual typing.

TRADE-OFF

Incorrect extraction can create false confidence, discrepancies and rework.

DECISION 04 / 05

Replace silent waiting with status and direction.

EVIDENCE / CONTEXT

Partners did not know where they stood, what was missing or what would happen after submission.

DECISION

Show four main milestones, status, timelines, pending items and the next action. The experience continues during review.

TRADE-OFF

Visual simplicity must remain consistent with internal states and the timelines communicated.

DECISION 05 / 05

Give every team the same operational view.

EVIDENCE / CONTEXT

Teams tracked different parts of the same lead, without clear continuity across source, status and history.

DECISION

Integrate the journey with the CRM and create a shared view of the eight registration states.

TRADE-OFF

Synchronization failures can produce conflicting versions of the partner’s status.

I mapped shared states, connected milestones to CRM operations and aligned responsibilities across Product, Engineering, Sales, Legal and Support.

Original interface / Turn2C

Eight partner registration states in the CRM

1

1

An 8-stage pipeline, with status and progress visible in real time

FIG. 14 / Sanitized pipeline: eight stages, source, status and history.

The same journey, from both sides

Sales, Legal and Support can follow the same state model as Product and Engineering.

< 04 > RESULTS AND INTERPRETATION

What changed, and what the journey began to reveal.

Results span three areas: new partner registration went from up to 45 days to a maximum of 2; progression reached 93.4%–97.8% in smooth intermediate steps; and controlled drop-off occurred at strategic qualification stages. The July–September Hotjar aggregate shows how progression is distributed across the journey.

HOTJAR / JUL–SEP 2026 / AGGREGATE SEQUENCE

How progression varies across the stages.

Entry

100%

Starting reference

Gate 1 · CNPJ and eligibility

46.1%

First progression after eligibility

Contact

93.4%

Base: previous eligibility step

Questions

97.8%

Base: previous contact step

Login

96.2%

Base: previous questions step

Gate 2 · Continuation after the demo

49.2%

Continuing registration after trying the tool

HOW TO READ THIS SAMPLE

Scale: 0–100%. Each rate uses the immediately preceding stage as its denominator. This is neither a cumulative funnel nor a monthly series. Stage volumes and a comparable baseline were not provided.

The next step is to understand the two qualification gates, rather than maximize raw completion.

Operational impact

Structured rules and automation reduced recurring manual Legal review in parts of qualification. Operational effort was not instrumented; the case does not quantify hours saved or attribute staffing changes to the redesign.

Methodological note · operational attribution

Before the redesign, part of qualification depended on manual Legal review. This statement describes less recurring review in part of the flow; it does not quantify hours saved or attribute staffing changes to the redesign.

Journey events and instrumentation

Six product events in Mixpanel began tracking progression from pre-registration to contract. Hotjar later added an aggregate sequence covering three months.

01

Pre-registration

pre_cadastro_iniciado

02

Screening

triagem_iniciada

03

Company

cadastro_empresa_iniciado

04

Submitted

cadastro_enviado_para_analise

05

Approved

cadastro_aprovado

06

Contract

contrato_assinado

Historical view of the six milestones instrumented in Mixpanel.

FIG. 15 / Historical view of the six milestones instrumented in Mixpanel.

TYPE

Instrumentation delivered

SOURCE

Mixpanel

SCOPE

Active since June 18, 2026

This dashboard documents the instrumented events. The case’s results use the July–September Hotjar aggregate, with rates calculated against the previous step.

< 05 > DELIVERY AND LEADERSHIP

Sustaining direction during and after delivery.

My role was to preserve a coherent vision across discovery, architecture, detailed UI, Engineering, CRM, QA and launch.

Launch a significantly better journey without waiting for the whole organization to be ready for a new governance model.

What the next projects could build on

A formal cross-functional initiative, teams involved from start to finish, clear roles, a controlled launch and post-release measurement. The retrospective became an action plan and a model for future projects.

Delivery records and the 4Ls retrospective
Internal UX Wall record: a synthesis built across teams.

FIG. 16 / Internal UX Wall record: a synthesis built across teams.

The 4Ls retrospective: liked, learned, lacked and longed for.

FIG. 17 / The 4Ls retrospective: liked, learned, lacked and longed for.

01

Diverge

Record perceptions without assigning blame.

02

Consolidate

Turn accounts into patterns.

03

Prioritize

Separate the immediate response from future cycles.

04

Assign ownership

Make explicit who decides, validates, executes and communicates.

< 06 > NEXT CYCLE

The next decisions start with three questions.

The next cycle focuses on eligibility, perceived value and technical friction while preserving meaningful business qualification.

ELIGIBILITY

Who stops because of a business rule, and who encounters avoidable friction?

DEMO VALUE

What does the partner understand, try and consider before continuing?

CONDITIONS OF USE

Which failures and technical contexts need intervention?

Proposed measures
  • Time to activation
  • Operational effort
  • Rework
  • SLA
  • Conversion by channel
  • Activation quality
  • Business impact

Research, direction, solution, measurement and learning: continuity was design’s central responsibility.

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