Maxine Zhou About

Analyser

AI-Augmented Contract documents Analysis Platform

Owned end-to-end design of an AI-assisted contract analysis platform, bringing workflows scattered across 5+ tools into one product. The product has since been white-labelled and sold as a service by the AI development partner.

Context

Overview

My Role

Product Designer

Key Outcomes

  • Streamlined contract review during critical renewal periods
  • Designed Continuous AI Training in workflow that felt natural to users
  • Built user trust through transparent AI verification design

Additional Complexity

  • Remote collaboration with a dev team in France
  • Tech constraints: LLM latency and inability to build a specific layout
  • Ecosystem consistency: aligned with two products and fed insights into a core product

The Product

AI-assisted contract analysis platform, bringing workflows scattered across 5+ tools into one product.

The Problem

Fragmented, High-Stakes Workflows

During busy renewal periods, underwriters analyse hundreds of reinsurance and insurance contracts under tight deadlines. Their workflow is chaotic—constantly switching between:

Need a solution that could

How might we accelerate contract analysis without compromising thoroughness, accuracy, or user confidence in AI-generated insights?

Research

Research and Discovery

I conducted stakeholder interviews with underwriters and product managers to understand their workflows, pain points, and needs during high-pressure renewal periods.

Key Insights that shaped design

Design Evolution

I went through three distinct layout approaches, testing each with PMs and users to land on the optimal information hierarchy that also fit within the dev team's technical constraints.

  1. The early prototype layout for the contract analysis screen, before the redesign
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    Early Prototype

    This is what the UI looked like when I first joined the project.
    #Christmas tree #Unclear IA #Long scroll #Content gets lost
  2. The explored modal-based details layout, consolidating information in a modal
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    Explored Modal-Based Details (users’ fav)

    Rebalanced the information hierarchy across multiple layers of detail
    Consolidated all detailed information in a modal to minimise visual noise
    (blocked by dev team due to tech constrains)
  3. The final hybrid tabs and accordion layout, organised by document section
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    Hybrid Tabs + Accordion (final)

    Parent accordions organised by document section (mirroring contract order)
    Enable users to do side-by-side comparison with one click
Design

Design Decision

Detected wording is compared against preferred language in a clear side-by-side view with concise risk summaries, enabling decisions in seconds.

AI-Powered Comparison with Source Verification

Human-in-the-Loop Machine Training

Underwriters can quickly verify or relink AI-detected text within the “Text” view, embedding feedback directly into their normal review workflow.

The relink empty state, prompting the underwriter to select text from the PDF to teach the system

Natural Review Workflow

Key validation actions are surfaced at the point of review, enabling one-step decisions and preserving underwriters’ analytical flow.

Action List for Faster Collaboration

Instead of jumping between components to recall what needs discussion, underwriters get a consolidated view of every flagged item, suggested alternative, and comment at a glance. When everything checks out, a single 'Finish Validation' click closes the loop.

Action List showing every flagged clause with its suggested replacement, and a single Finish Validation action to close out the review
Impact

Impact

Contract review was streamlined through the critical renewal periods, when volume peaks and turnaround is tightest. Continuous AI training was built into the workflow itself, so every correction an underwriter made improved the model without interrupting their review.

The product has since been white-labelled and sold as a service by the AI development partner.