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Ardavan Mir

Research & Strategy · Public collection

Research folios R.01—03 · Adaptive edition

AI-native product strategy · Operating models

Operating models for AI-native design

Public-safe research and frameworks exploring how design teams can collaborate, prototype, and govern AI-native product work.

Stage 02 · Structure

Research is another way of making the system legible.

Across product strategy, team collaboration, and trustworthy AI patterns, the work looks for the operating model beneath the interface: what the system understands, what evidence it exposes, where judgment lives, and how action stays governed.

Stage 03 · Prototype

Architectures of Intent

An AI-native strategy guide for enterprise software as an operating model

This public research artifact explores what enterprise software becomes when AI is no longer treated as a feature layer and instead becomes part of the product operating model.

The work frames AI-native strategy around intent, infrastructure, workflow, and the systems that help people understand, evaluate, and act with confidence.

What it covers

01

AI as operating model

02

Intelligence as infrastructure

03

Enterprise product transformation

04

Strategic product framing

05

Systems thinking

06

Architectures of intent

What it demonstrates

D.1

AI-native product strategy

D.2

Research synthesis

D.3

Executive-ready narrative framing

D.4

Systems-level product thinking

Research exhibit R.01

Architectures of Intent model

A public-safe diagram showing the shift from AI as feature layer to AI as operating model.

Feature layerOperating modelTrust patternsAction systems

Stage 04 · Evidence

GitHub-Based Design Collaboration

A design operating model for integrated, AI-ready prototype work

This research explored how design teams can use GitHub workflows, shared foundations, team-owned slices, generated route registries, pull-request review, and validation to bring multiple product workstreams into one coherent prototype or release model.

The focus was not on making every designer an engineer. It was on making collaboration more structured, reviewable, and automation-ready — so teams could contribute to a shared product story without fragmenting the experience.

What it covers

01

Shared shell and navigation ownership

02

Team-owned slices or workstreams

03

Reusable foundations

04

Generated route registry

05

Pull-request-based contribution

06

CODEOWNERS and review paths

07

Static review artifacts

08

AI-ready contribution rails

What it demonstrates

D.1

Systems thinking

D.2

Design engineering fluency

D.3

Workflow design

D.4

Governance

D.5

Prototype strategy

D.6

Cross-team alignment

Research exhibit R.02

GitHub collaboration operating model

How multiple product workstreams can move through shared foundations, pull-request review, review artifacts, and an integrated prototype.

Stage 05 · Story

AI-Native Platform Patterns

Research patterns for trustworthy AI-native product experiences

This research synthesized recurring patterns across AI-native product experiences: how systems gather context, ground recommendations, expose reasoning, support review, respect permissions, and move from suggestion to action.

The strongest AI-native products do not rely on intelligence alone. They make the system understandable, keep people in control, and create clear moments for review, correction, approval, and recovery.

What it covers

01

Observe → Act → Build modes

02

Context and memory

03

Grounding and source evidence

04

Permissions and governance

05

Review and editing

06

Human control

07

Uncertainty handling

08

Suggestion-to-action workflows

09

Feedback and recovery loops

10

Decision architecture

What it demonstrates

D.1

AI product strategy

D.2

Research synthesis

D.3

Pattern recognition

D.4

Trust and governance thinking

D.5

Platform-level design judgment

Research exhibit R.03

AI-native platform pattern loop

Context, grounding, recommendation, review, action, and feedback as a recurring trust pattern for AI-native product experiences.

ContextGroundingRecommendationReviewActionFeedback