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Suchintan Singh
272 posts by Suchintan Singh.
Stories and ideas from the Skyvern team.
April
10 min readAutomating Mortgage and Lending Workflows on Lender Portals (March 2026)
Origination costs dropped to $3,200 per loan when digital tools took over, but underneath that number sits a processor manually logging into warehouse lender portals, copying borrower data across five different field structures, and waiting for 2FA codes. Your LOS handles internal pipeline work, but it doesn't touch the external portals where your team spends hours working through systems built without APIs. Mortgage portal automation fills that gap by replacing manual sessions with workflows th
Finance & Insurance Automation
12 min readHow to Automate Travel Booking with Browser Agents (August 2026)
Booking travel at scale means your team is stuck toggling between portals that look easy from the outside but turn into a mess the moment you need to process volume. Travel booking automation software solves this with browser agents that automate the full workflow, log into portals you've never configured them for, and keep running when sites update their UI, because they read pages by meaning instead of fragile code selectors that break constantly. TLDR: * Browser agents automate travel book
Business Operations Automation
12 min readGetting Claude to QA Its Own Frontend Work | Updated July 2026
Just a brief recap: people use Skyvern to automate the repetitive browser work nobody wants to do: pulling invoices from vendor portals, filling out healthcare forms, extracting data from sites that don’t have APIs. You can try it out here: https://github.com/Skyvern-AI/Skyvern We’ve been using Claude code a lot and kept running into the same failure mode: the code looks kinda right, type checks pass, but when you go to test the changes, something’s off: button doesn’t fire, form overflows or t
Engineering & Research
7 min readNew Month, New Docs (Updated for July 2026)
We just shipped something we should have shipped a long time ago: real documentation. If you've ever tried to use Skyvern and found yourself digging through GitHub issues, Discord threads, or old blog posts to figure out how something works, that's on us. We had the classic startup problem: we were shipping features faster than we could explain them. So we built skyvern.com/docs from the ground up. Not a README with some curl examples. Actual, structured documentation that covers everything fr
Product Updates
March
9 min readAutomating Employee Onboarding and Benefits Enrollment Across HR Portals (March 2026)
You log into ADP for payroll, then Blue Cross for medical, then VSP for vision, then your 401(k) provider, then two state tax portals. Automating employee onboarding consolidates that into one workflow where you pass employee data once and automation handles every portal in parallel. The entire onboarding sequence across disconnected systems completes in minutes instead of consuming 40 hours of your team's time re-entering the same information with different login credentials and form structures
Business Operations Automation
10 min readHow to Automate Legal and Court Filing Submissions on E-Filing Portals (March 2026)
Court portals moved online, but they didn't get easier to use. Your team manages credentials for 20+ jurisdictions, fills jurisdiction-specific forms that reject submissions for technical reasons you can't predict, and loses progress when sessions time out mid-filing. Court e-filing automation tackles these problems, but only if it can handle authentication complexity and adapt when courts change their interfaces without breaking your workflows. TLDR: * Court e-filing automation cuts 10-15 ho
Legal & Compliance Automation
10 min readHow to Automate Logistics and Freight Broker Portal Interactions (March 2026)
Processing 500 loads weekly means your team touches 2,000 carrier and shipper portals. Freight broker portal automation can handle that volume, but only if it runs without constant maintenance. The problem is that most automation relies on fragile selectors that break when a carrier moves a button or renames a field. Your developers spend more time fixing scripts than your dispatchers spent on manual entry. What makes automation work long term is using computer vision to identify elements by app
Business Operations Automation
11 min readHow to Automate Regulatory and Compliance Monitoring on Government Websites in March 2026
Compliance teams spend hours each week checking SEC EDGAR, FDA databases, and state regulatory portals for rule changes. Automated regulatory change monitoring has cut compliance delays in half for companies using it, but most organizations still rely on calendar reminders and manual portal checks. Government websites don't offer notification APIs or structured data feeds, so you're left logging into each portal, scanning for new filings, and downloading documents to check if anything changed. I
Legal & Compliance Automation
11 min readAutomating E-commerce Checkout Testing and Purchase Flows Across Geographies (March 2026)
Traditional ecommerce checkout testing falls apart when you expand beyond your home market. A checkout flow that works perfectly with US locations and Stripe payments hits failures in the Netherlands because iDEAL authentication redirects differently, or in Japan because postal validation expects prefecture structures your forms don't support. Selenium scripts break when developers update button IDs during A/B tests, and manual testing across eight currencies and twelve shipping zones takes days
Business Operations Automation
10 min readHow to Automate State Tax Filings and Withholding Across Multiple Portals (March 2026)
Managing withholding tax filings across 15 or 20 states means dealing with portals that all have different 2FA methods, filing schedules tied to revenue thresholds, and forms that get redesigned without warning. You set up state tax filing automation scripts using Selenium or Puppeteer, and they work great until California updates its Employment Development Department portal or Illinois switches the dropdown IDs between quarterly and annual returns. Traditional automation relies on element selec
Finance & Insurance Automation
9 min readAutomating Payroll Registration Across All 50 States: Complete Guide for March 2026
Your payroll system handles everything except the one step that blocks new hires from getting paid: multi state payroll registration automation. Each state requires manual portal navigation, form completion, and document submission before you can process payroll there. With 50 different portals and no standardized API, companies either spend hours on manual registration or outsource the work. Browser automation that interprets pages by meaning instead of structure eliminates this bottleneck, pro
Finance & Insurance Automation
9 min readAutomating 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
Legal & Compliance Automation
11 min readHow 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
Business Operations Automation
9 min readHow 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
Legal & Compliance Automation
9 min readHow 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
Healthcare Automation
10 min readHow 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
Legal & Compliance Automation
February
11 min readBest 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
Comparisons
8 min read10 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
Finance & Insurance Automation
10 min readWhat 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,
Agentic Process Automation & RPA
11 min readWhat 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
Agentic Process Automation & RPA
8 min readHow 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
Legal & Compliance Automation
9 min readBest 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
Comparisons
8 min readBrowser 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
Comparisons
9 min readBrowser 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
Comparisons
7 min readBrowserbase 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.
Comparisons