Algolia
Product DesignerStrategicAug 6, 2026

Surface planning gaps before workflow implementation

Teams can begin building before they have a shared model of what they are building.

Early momentum often competes with the need to make assumptions visible enough to discuss.

We agree in the meeting, then discover we meant different things once the workflow exists.

Solveig Larsson · Engineering Lead, Internal Automation

Coordinates developers and operations specialists building an agent for employee IT requests.

What pulls against what

  • early momentum vs. shared intent
  • lightweight guidance vs. documentation burden
  • reusable defaults vs. contextual judgment
  • stated needs vs. observed rework

What is at stake

The question is not whether teams need more planning, but which uncertainty is worth making visible before it becomes rework

Why Algolia

For Algolia, this may shape how consistently enterprise teams translate intent into dependable agent behavior.

Written for

Discovery-oriented product designersSystems thinkersExperiment-led UX strategists

This is the setup. The work is inside.

Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.