Suchintan Singh

    Dispatches from the browser frontier

    Suchintan Singh

    200 posts by Suchintan Singh.

    Stories and ideas from the Skyvern team.

    March

    • 10 min read

      How to Automate EMR/EHR Data Extraction for Healthcare Practices (Updated July 2026)

      Healthcare teams lose 10 to 15 hours per week pulling data from EHR systems through manual portal clicking. Automating EHR data extraction removes that bottleneck by working through Epic, Cerner, Athena Health, and eClinicalWorks the way staff do, but without the repetitive errors or time cost. API access to most EHR systems can cost between $50,000 to $200,000 annually, and even practices that pay for it find those integrations cover only basic demographics and appointment data. Staff still log

    • 8 min read

      How to Automate Insurance Carrier Portal Workflows: Quotes, Downloads, and Endorsements (March 2026)

      Picture this: a client calls Monday morning needing quotes from 15 carriers. You start logging into Hartford, filling their form, waiting for results. Then you repeat the entire process for Travelers. Then Progressive. Four hours later, you've finally gathered everything, but your client already chose a competitor who responded faster. Insurance carrier portal automation that runs all 15 carriers at once turns that four-hour process into 10 minutes, letting you promise same-day quotes every time

    • 9 min read

      Automating Probate and Estate Filing Submissions on Court Portals (March 2026)

      Court e-filing mandates sound simple until you're juggling different portal credentials across three counties, tracking which documents go electronically and which require physical delivery. Missing a hybrid deadline because the paper portion arrived late delays hearings by months. Probate filing automation handles both electronic submissions and flags physical requirements in one workflow. The real benefit appears when you scale across multiple jurisdictions without multiplying administrative o

    • 11 min read

      How to Automate Affiliate and Partner Account Health Checks at Scale (March 2026)

      When you're checking partner accounts manually, partner portal monitoring automation becomes the only viable path forward once you pass 100 active partners. The math is simple: one person handles maybe 20-30 portals daily if everything works perfectly, which means you'd need a team of five just to keep up with 100 accounts. But portals don't cooperate on schedule. MFA resets, sessions expire, interfaces change without warning, and someone's always out sick the week a critical compliance violatio

    • 9 min read

      How to Automate Security Questionnaire Responses from Trust Portals (March 2026)

      Every enterprise deal hits the same wall when procurement sends over a security questionnaire through a trust portal. You know the answers because you've typed them 50 times already, but this customer uses a different portal with different authentication, different field formats, and different file upload requirements. Learning how to speed up security questionnaires means handling the portal complexity that breaks most automation. When you're filling out 40 questionnaires monthly at 15 hours ea

    • 9 min read

      How to Automate Public Records Retrieval from State and County Databases (March 2026)

      Title companies pull 200 records monthly and spend 150-300 hours on retrieval alone because every county portal works differently. Some require email verification, others enforce SMS-based 2FA, and sessions expire unpredictably mid-search. Automating public records retrieval solves CAPTCHAs, processes authentication codes, manages sessions across multi-page workflows, and recovers when portals time out. The same automation works across all 3,000+ county jurisdictions without customization per si

    • 9 min read

      Automating Credential Verification for Behavioral Health Providers (RBT, BCBA) in March 2026

      Manual BACB verification scales badly. One staff member takes a few minutes, but 30 staff members with quarterly recredentialing cycles means your credentialing coordinator spends 40 hours a week just logging into portals. Then the January 2026 RBT certification changes hit, adding biennial PDU tracking, assessor credential verification, and split renewal schedules that break your spreadsheet-based system. Each verification still touches five separate portals: BACB for certification status, stat

    • 9 min read

      How to Automate Provider Directory Profile Updates and Management (March 2026)

      You finish updating a provider's specialty on Healthgrades, then realize you need to log into Zocdoc, Vitals, and four payer portals to make the same change. Each site has different login requirements, form fields, and validation rules, which means provider directory management automation can't just replay the same script everywhere. Traditional automation relies on CSS selectors that break the moment a site updates its interface, leaving you with more maintenance work than the manual updates yo

    • 10 min read

      How to Automate Construction Permit Applications and Inspection Forms (March 2026)

      The US has roughly 30,000 local jurisdictions that issue building permits, and every one runs its own portal with different forms and workflows. Permit automation uses AI to work through these portals by reading labels and layout instead of hard-coded selectors that break when cities update their systems. Your coordinators currently spend 2-4 hours per day entering the same contractor details across different portals, and automation handles this by defining project data once and adapting to each

    • 14 min read

      How to Automate Healthcare Prior Authorization on Insurance Portals (March 2026)

      When your team logs into 30+ different payer portals each week, every interface change breaks your automation. Building separate scripts for UnitedHealthcare, Cigna, Aetna, and Humana means managing dozens of workflows that need constant maintenance when portals update. Prior authorization software solves this by using LLMs to interpret portal layouts visually, so your authorizations keep running across every payer without breaking when UIs change or new MFA requirements appear. TLDR: * Prior

    • 11 min read

      Automating KYC/KYB Verification Across Government and Sanctions Databases (March 2026)

      Your compliance team burns hours logging into government portals one at a time because the KYC verification automation you built six months ago broke when OFAC updated their search interface. This happens constantly. Secretary of State registries redesign their pages, sanctions databases add new form fields, and suddenly you're back to manual checking across 50 states. What you need is automation that adapts to interface changes without custom code updates every few weeks. The shift is already u

    February

    • 11 min read

      Best RPA Software: Complete Buyer's Guide and Expert Comparison (Updated June 2026)

      You're comparing RPA tools and they all promise the same thing: automate repetitive tasks, save time, reduce errors. But, the demos don't show you everything, like how each tool handles website layout changes, authentication updates, and unexpected form variations that break traditional bots. This guide cuts through the marketing and shows you which solutions actually keep working after deployment, beyond the proof of concept. TLDR: * RPA software automates repetitive browser tasks but tradit

    • 8 min read

      10 Insurance Carrier Workflows You Can Automate in February 2026

      You're burning hours on repetitive insurance workflows that should run themselves. Policy renewals need data pulled from multiple portals, claims processing starts with manual FNOL entry, and compliance reports require aggregating information across systems that refuse to integrate. Every automation script you've tried breaks when websites change their layouts, leaving your team back at square one with manual data entry. The solution isn't better scripts but automation that reads screens like a

    • 10 min read

      What Is Agentic AI? A Complete Guide for February 2026

      Most explanations of what is agentic AI focus on theory while you're trying to understand if it solves your actual workflow problems. Here's what matters: agentic AI takes a goal, breaks it into steps, executes those steps across different systems, and adjusts when something doesn't go as planned. That's not generative AI waiting for prompts or robotic process automation following rigid scripts. It's closer to having an assistant who checks your supplier portals, compares pricing, places orders,

    • 11 min read

      What Is AI Automation? Full Guide Updated for July 2026

      Everyone talks about automating workflows, but your reality involves vendor portals without APIs, insurance forms that look different each time, and supplier sites that redesign without warning. Traditional scripts can't handle that variability. AI automation tools adapt to these changes by understanding what elements do instead of where they're located. We'll cover how this works in practice and which workflows benefit most from visual interpretation. TLDR: * AI automation uses LLMs and comp

    • 8 min read

      How to Automate Immigration and Visa Applications on Government Portals (February 2026)

      Government portals change their layouts constantly, breaking any automation that relies on fixed HTML selectors. Your team wastes hours rewriting Selenium scripts every time USCIS or UK Home Office updates their forms. The solution to reliably automate visa application forms isn't better XPath expressions but computer vision that reads forms like a human would, finding fields by their visible labels and context instead of code that breaks with every portal redesign. TLDR: * Manual visa proces

    • 7 min read

      Automating Healthcare Claims, EOB Processing, and Billing on Payer Portals in February 2026

      Traditional automation breaks the moment a payer portal gets a redesign. Your team either maintains brittle scripts for each of the dozen portals you work with, or you stick with manual downloads. Automating EOB processing with computer vision removes this maintenance burden entirely by recognizing interface elements visually instead of through fragile XPath selectors that need constant updating. TLDR: * Healthcare teams waste 15-20 minutes per EOB on manual portal logins and data entry * AI

    • 9 min read

      How to Automate Healthcare Credentialing on State Medical Boards, CAQH, and NPPES (February 2026)

      State medical boards redesigned their portals again and your automation scripts stopped working. You've spent the morning manually submitting applications to California, Texas, and New York because each state requires different document formats and your team can't keep up with the changes. Healthcare credentialing automation handles these browser-based workflows across state boards, CAQH ProView, and NPPES without breaking when interfaces change, using computer vision instead of brittle selector

    • 9 min read

      Best Layout-Resistant Browser Automation Tools for Dynamic Websites (February 2026)

      You've built automation workflows that work beautifully until the target website pushes an update. Then you're spending hours debugging selector failures and remapping element IDs across multiple sites. Layout-resistant automation solves this by treating web pages the way humans do, understanding visual context instead of relying on brittle technical identifiers. We tested eight tools to find which ones genuinely handle dynamic websites without constant maintenance. TLDR: * Layout-resistant t

    • 8 min read

      Browser Use vs Airtop: Which Tool Works Better? (February 2026)

      The browser automation space keeps adding new tools, and Browser Use versus Airtop is the latest comparison everyone's asking about. Here's what actually matters: Browser Use gives you a self-hosted Python library with more control over deployment, while Airtop removes infrastructure headaches with managed cloud browsers. The choice seems simple until you run into authentication challenges, need to handle CAPTCHAs reliably, or scale past the point where manual session management becomes a daily

    • 9 min read

      Browser Use vs UiPath: Which is Better? (February 2026)

      You've narrowed your automation solution search to Browser Use or UiPath. One gives you AI flexibility with Python required, the other offers visual builders with enterprise licensing costs. The real difference shows up three months in when your automated workflows start breaking because a vendor changed their form layout. We're walking through how each tool handles website updates, what breaks, and what keeps working. TLDR: * Browser Use uses AI to adapt to website changes automatically, whi

    • 7 min read

      Browserbase vs Airtop: Which Browser Automation Tool is Better? (February 2026)

      When you're scaling browser automation, the infrastructure question eventually hits: build it yourself or use a managed service. Browserbase and Airtop both handle the headless browser complexity, but they solve different problems. One lets you migrate existing scripts with minimal changes, the other asks you to rethink your entire workflow around natural language commands. The choice depends on whether you need framework flexibility or you're willing to bet everything on AI-driven interactions.

    • 8 min read

      Browserbase vs UiPath: Which Is Better for Automation? (February 2026)

      Your automation breaks every time a website changes, and you're trying to figure out which platform will reduce that maintenance burden. Browserbase offers cloud browser infrastructure with natural language methods through Stagehand. UiPath provides enterprise RPA with visual workflow design. The reality is that both still depend on selectors and UI descriptors that need manual updates when websites change their structure. TLDR: * Browserbase provides cloud browser infrastructure while UiPath

    January

    • 3 min read

      Launch Week - Day 5 - Simpler Pricing Model

      Automation pricing is usually optimized for the vendor, not the user. You pay per step, per action, per minute, or per obscure unit that only makes sense if you already understand the internals of the system. The result is predictable: people under-automate, over-optimize prematurely, or stop experimenting altogether because they don’t trust the bill. We’re changing that. Today we’re launching a new pricing model for Skyvern, designed around a single goal: make it obvious what automation cost

    • 2 min read

      Launch Week - Day 4 - SOP Upload to build new Workflows

      Most companies already know how their work gets done. It’s written down somewhere: * internal SOPs * runbooks * onboarding docs * Notion pages no one wants to maintain The problem isn’t lack of documentation. It’s that documentation doesn’t run. Today we’re shipping SOP Upload, a way to turn existing process documentation directly into executable browser automation. The gap between “written” and “working” Traditional automation tools assume you’ll start from scratch: * re-specify t