Product Development Consumer Goods B2B Portal

Diageo —
DiageoLink:
Digital distributor relationships.

Diageo's distributor sales process ran on emails and calls. Redesign took full product ownership — UX design, frontend, API integration — and launched DiageoLink in a single 100-day engagement.

The Challenge

A billion-dollar distributor network
running on email threads.

Diageo manages a large and complex network of distributors across multiple markets. The commercial relationship was almost entirely analog: orders placed by email, promotions communicated as PDFs, inventory updates via phone call. There was no shared system, no digital audit trail, and no visibility into distributor activity at scale.

Sales reps were spending the majority of their time on coordination and follow-up — chasing confirmations, reconciling orders, and answering the same questions repeatedly. The distributor relationship itself was frictionless in one direction (Diageo asking distributors to do things) and opaque in the other (Diageo seeing what distributors were actually doing).

The opportunity was clear: digitize the relationship layer without disrupting the commercial model. The solution needed to work for distributors with varying levels of technical sophistication, integrate with Diageo's existing ERP systems, and be live in a time frame that matched Diageo's planning cycle.

How We Worked

Full product ownership,
start to launch.

Redesign took end-to-end product responsibility for DiageoLink — from architecture through to production launch — within a single 100-day sprint.

01
Discovery + architecture — Design before build
System architecture defined before writing a line of code: data model, API structure, integration points with Diageo's ERP and distributor data systems. Distributor research conducted in parallel — understanding what reps and distributors actually needed in a tool, not what the internal brief assumed they needed.
02
UX + frontend — Built for two audiences
End-to-end UX design for two distinct user groups: the distributor-facing portal (designed for ease of adoption with minimal training) and the Diageo commercial team dashboard (designed for activity visibility and exception management). Frontend development owned by Redesign — production-quality, not a prototype.
03
Integration + launch — Live to the network
API integrations with Diageo's ERP and distributor data systems completed, tested, and validated. QA run across distributor use cases and edge cases. DiageoLink launched to Diageo's distributor network at the close of the sprint — not handed over as a prototype, but live in production.
The Outcome

From email threads to
digital dashboards.

100
Days from kick-off to live production launch
1
Team owning UX, frontend, and API integration end-to-end
0
Handoff failures — code delivered ready for internal ownership

DiageoLink launched to the distributor network at the close of the 100-day engagement. Sales reps moved from managing email threads to monitoring digital activity dashboards. Distributor onboarding moved from manual briefing to self-serve portal access.

The engagement was handed over production-ready — code the internal engineering team could own and extend without needing Redesign to remain involved. That was the design intent from day one: a product built to be internally owned, not a consulting dependency.

Need a product built and
launched without the rework?

Redesign takes full product ownership — UX, frontend, API — and delivers production code your team can own. One team, no handoff failures.

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