Portrait of Abdel Oueryemchi Abdel Oueryemchi Product Builder · 20 Years Experience

Protect Group · Case Study

Refund Protect & AI Dynamic Pricing

Hassle-free ticket refunds for unforeseen events — reimagined as a revenue engine.

At a glance

The problem

400+ partners had no consistent way to implement, price, or measure a high-value refund product.

What I built

A revenue-optimised refund product + AI dynamic pricing engine + partner-facing reporting layer.

The result

13.5% YoY revenue growth, 400+ partners, millions of customers, 4.8 Trustpilot score.

The problem

Refund Protect gives customers the option to upgrade to a refundable ticket at checkout — flights, events, anything bookable. It already worked. But it wasn't performing.

Implementation was inconsistent across partners. Partner data was incomplete, which blurred reporting. There were no UX guidelines for how the widget should be placed to maximise conversion. Sales pitches went out without any real study of where or how the product would perform best. And partnership decisions were being made without data to back them.

The product had proven demand. It didn't have a system behind it.

What I built

1 Discover

I audited how Refund Protect was actually performing across partner sites — UX placement, conversion patterns, data completeness — to find where value was leaking. One finding stood out: pricing was static. The same price applied regardless of demand, seasonality, route, or event type, which meant we were leaving revenue on the table every time demand spiked and pricing didn't move with it. I dug into the transactional data to quantify the gap — modelling what revenue would look like if price flexed with real-time criteria instead of sitting fixed — and used that analysis to build the case for a dynamic pricing initiative.

2 Scope

With the opportunity quantified, I scoped what an AI dynamic pricing model would need: training on large volumes of historical transactional data to learn the criteria that actually move conversion and revenue — demand, seasonality, route/event type, and more. I worked through how the model should weigh those criteria, and scoped an internal UI that let the team tweak and tune the model's parameters directly, rather than pricing logic being a black box only engineers could touch.

3 Build

I drove the AI Dynamic Pricing initiative end-to-end — from the trained model through to the partner-facing product — paired with a UX placement guide and a repeatable conversion audit process, so implementation quality stopped depending on which partner happened to build the integration. I also redesigned the refund application journey itself, cutting friction out of the form users hit when something actually went wrong.

4 Validate & Launch

Every change — pricing, placement, the new refund form — went out against real partner traffic, not a lab test. The refund form redesign shows up directly in the numbers: fewer people abandoning mid-form.

5 Iterate

I built the reporting layer needed to keep improving: the Pulse Reporting Dashboard turns partner data into a live feedback loop for pricing, placement, and commercial conversations — instead of one-off bespoke reports built on demand.

The result

13.5%

Year-on-year revenue growth (2023→2024)

400+

Partners, millions of customers, international reach

4.8

Trustpilot score — trust the refund experience itself had to earn

Growth driven by the combination of AI dynamic pricing and better-audited placement — and a refund experience customers rate highly when it matters most.

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