From fragmented relationship data to actionable network intelligence.
A lightweight product prototype exploring how AI-assisted workflows can turn opportunity requirements, network relationships, and engagement context into explainable recommendations and next actions.
This prototype is an anonymized, synthetic reconstruction created for portfolio purposes. It demonstrates the product concepts and workflow thinking without exposing proprietary data or implementation details.
Networks contain intelligence. Most tools return a list.
Professional networks contain valuable information about skills, relationships, past engagement, and expertise — but that context is often fragmented across tools and difficult to act on.
When a new opportunity appears, users need to quickly answer:
- Who is relevant?
- Why are they relevant?
- Who has the strongest relationship?
- What should we do next?
Traditional search surfaces people. The product opportunity is to surface actionable relationship intelligence.
Network Intelligence Agent
Edit the opportunity, analyze, explore the network graph, review evidence, shortlist candidates, and draft outreach — all client-side with synthetic data.
Intake & requirements
Relationship map
Click a node to see relationship path and evidence. Dashed edges are second-degree connections.
Audit trail
No activity yet. Analyze an opportunity to begin the trail.
A workflow, not an agent free-for-all.
Each step is labeled by its role: AI-assisted interpretation and explanation, deterministic logic for search and ranking, and human decisions at the moments that matter.
- 01Opportunity
- 02Interpret
- 03Search network
- 04Rank relevance
- 05Explain
- 06Human review
- 07Next action
Four decisions that shaped the surface.
- 01
Rank with evidence, not just a score.
Users need to understand why someone is being recommended, not just be handed a number they can't audit.
- 02
Relationships matter alongside capability fit.
The best candidate is not always the most actionable connection — the shortlist should weigh both.
- 03
Keep humans in control of outreach.
Relationship actions carry reputational context that should not be automated blindly.
- 04
Make the network path visible.
Understanding who can make the strongest introduction is often more valuable than finding another name.
Where automation should stop.
Potential risks
- Incorrect relationship inference
- Stale interaction data
- Overweighting network strength
- Missing relevant candidates
- Sensitive communication context
- Automation acting without approval
Controls
- Human review before outreach
- Visible evidence for every recommendation
- Synthetic / structured reasons instead of opaque scores
- Manual override on every step
- Activity logging and audit trail
- No autonomous sending
- Clear source and context labeling
What good would look like.
Proposed product metrics — not claimed historical outcomes. The goal is a signal loop that surfaces where the product creates leverage and where humans still have to work around it.
- Time to useful shortlist
- Recommendation acceptance rate
- Shortlist-to-introduction rate
- User override / dismissal rate
- Percentage of recommendations with usable evidence
- Time from opportunity intake to outreach
- Repeat usage
Increase autonomy only after users trust the recommendations.
- Phase 1
Recommendation assistant
- — Opportunity interpretation
- — Network search
- — Evidence
- — Human shortlist
- Phase 2
Action assistance
- — Warm-intro suggestions
- — Draft outreach
- — Relationship-owner routing
- Phase 3
Workflow automation
- — Follow-up reminders
- — Task creation
- — Approved integrations
Where I was involved.
- Shaped workflow concepts around skills and agents
- Worked on agency / opportunity intake
- Explored network and engagement signals
- Worked around relationship intelligence concepts
- Contributed to Gmail integration–related product thinking
- Translated ambiguous workflow ideas into product requirements and user experiences
Cross-functional collaboration
- Product
- Design
- Engineering
- Stakeholders