A transformative web application designed to digitise, centralise, and simplify the complex process of legal compliance globally.

Understanding the problem space

William Grant & Sons’ legal team have ultimate responsibility for the company’s compliance and due diligence for functions such as new supplier onboarding, data protection, and anti-bribery and corruption. The team approached us as they were struggling to rationalise the processes that facilitated these important checks across spreadsheet forms, email, Sharepoint sites, and face to face conversations, to name a few.

The Single Entry Access Centre, or SEAC portal, would bring together the disparate processes and resolve some of the core pain points felt across the business including a lack of instruction, uncertainty over legal requirements, confusion around review cycles, and general negative perceptions about the effort and length of time these business-critical processes required.

Supporting compliance through design

The solution design had to reflect William Grant & Sons’ recent corporate brand refresh. As the primary brand colours were fairly deep, we maintained a modernity in the interface design by retaining the deeper coppers and purples in the header and footer areas while keeping the primary interface light. We utilised the brighter secondary palette in our form tagging and status indicators to try and draw the user’s eye to vital pieces of information.

From a UX point of view, we addressed many of the pain points uncovered through discovery via a personalised homepage, improved search and filter, a dynamic form generator workflow, and streamlined form data entry.

Results

Following on from successful prototype and beta testing during development, the portal was launched internally and continues to be a core part of the compliance ecosystem. Our working relationship with William Grant & Sons has expanded beyond the SEAC portal, into further areas of business support including data visualisation, reporting, and BI functions.