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For Heads of Product & Heads of Design

Ways of Working with AI for Product Organisations

When everyone can prototype, understanding reality becomes the differentiator.

A bundle of four offerings for senior product & design leaders who want to embed AI inside how their org actually thinks, decides, and ships — not just inside the tools they use.

What we offer

Four ways to bring AI into how your organisation works.

01 · Leadership Agents

AI Agents for Heads of UX & Product

Confidential, fine-tuned agents that sit beside senior leaders. We build them with you — from your operating context, your team's writing, your strategy docs — so they think the way your org actually thinks. Plus a coaching loop to evolve them every month.

Private agent built from your org's context
Strategy, narrative & decision sparring
Calendar, comms & artefact drafting
Monthly coaching loop to keep it sharp

02 · Workshops & Team Building

Sense & Make — an AI Immersive for Product & Design Teams

An in-house version of our Auroville Discovery Weekend. Two days where your team practices the work that AI cannot do for them: observing, listening, judging, sensing tension. Then they pair it with AI to prototype faster than they thought possible.

Online or in-house at your studio
Based on the Auroville Discovery Weekend lineup
Otto Scharmer's four levels of listening
Ladder of inference + AI prototyping practice

03 · Services

Embedded help when you need it

Fractional support to put the new rituals into practice — without hiring. We plug in for a sprint, a launch, or a season of change, and leave your team running the system.

AI ritual & workflow design for product orgs
Design-system × AI integration
Discovery research & sensemaking sprints
Vision prototypes & narrative artefacts

04 · 4-Session Pack

The New Head of UX Work

Four working sessions for Product & Design leaders who want to level up their AI game — not by learning tools, but by reshaping what senior leadership actually does in an AI-native org.

Session 1 — Team Operating Systems
Session 2 — Product Discovery in the field
Session 3 — Quality-of-life fixes & narrative
Session 4 — Future vision prototypes
Inside the Workshop · 02

Sense & Make — an immersive for the AI era.

The in-house edition of our Auroville Discovery Weekend. Two days where teams retrain their eyes to see reality, then pair sensing with AI to prototype at the speed of conversation.

Day 1 · Sense

"The prototype is no longer the answer. It becomes the beginning of the conversation."

Day 2 · Make

"AI generates possibilities. Humans judge direction."

The 4-Session Pack · 04

The New Head of UX Work.

As AI accelerates execution, senior UX leadership shifts. Less time coordinating delivery. More time shaping direction, systems, and meaning. The new hands-on work happens across five layers.

01

Team Operating Systems

Building internal tools, prompts, rituals, AI workflows, research systems, onboarding flows, design agents. Not design as artefact — design as organisational leverage.

02

Product Discovery

Going back to the field. Observing users. Running immersive research. Making sense of weak signals before competitors do. The differentiator is no longer 'can we prototype?' — it's 'do we understand what matters?'

03

Quality-of-Life Fixes

Senior leaders fixing friction directly instead of waiting for roadmap prioritisation. Small improvements. High emotional impact. Usually invisible. But deeply cultural.

04

Narrative & Energy

Creating vision videos, prototypes, storytelling artefacts, strategic narratives. The new UX leader doesn't only align interfaces. They align belief.

05

Future Vision Prototypes

Not polished roadmaps. Provocations. Things that make teams say: 'Wait… we could actually work like this?' Where UX leadership starts merging with speculative design, systems thinking, and AI-native product strategy.

Who leads this

Paula Mariani Mazzoni

Product & UX leader who has shaped products at scale — from N26, a $9B digital bank with 7M customers across 25 countries, to Paysafe, a publicly listed payments platform processing $98B in volume, to M-KOPA, an African fintech that has deployed over $2B in credit to 7M+ customers.

Across these companies she led teams of 300+ product managers, designers, and directors — including through an IPO.

Founder of The UX Team. Co-founder of WEDOAI.