Case studies

What changed, and what it took.

Contextual advertising, research workflows, insurance operations, and wildlife classification. Different domains, with a consistent approach: understand the work, test the assumptions, and follow through on what changes for the people using the product.

Product leadership at scale

Pixability

Scaling a pipeline to deliver a $2M annual contract

A nearly full pipeline scaled to deliver a $2M annual contract, lowering operating costs and enabling revenue recognition a quarter ahead of plan.

$2M

Annual contract value

25M

Videos harvested daily

~100M

ML predictions processed daily

~25%

Estimated reduction in pipeline operating costs

AI operations & workflow design

Confidential

From two days to under ten minutes for case evaluations

A Slack workflow freed operations from an engineering queue, while user feedback shaped a prototype for the broader policy lifecycle.

2 days → <10 min

Production case-evaluation turnaround

20+

Engineering hours freed per week

Human approval retained on every case.

Discovery & roadmap

ARInsights

How customer research changed the platform roadmap

A build-or-buy question became a question about who the platform was for, and research shifted the roadmap from a social-network concept toward efficient content creation, customization, and curation.

150

Users surveyed to ground the roadmap

20–25%

Projected content-setup time reduction

AI adoption & change management

Pixability

Increasing adoption by preserving campaign control

Adoption research led to simpler automation that preserved campaign choices, eliminated daily budget adjustments, and increased adoption by 25 percentage points after the first release.

+25 points

Adoption increase after the first release

60–90 min → ~15 min

Observed campaign stopping time

AI automation

ArtLifting

Unblocking a catalog migration with 94% automatic image matching

Automated reconciliation of approximately 20,000 artwork images unblocked the catalog migration onto ArtLifting's new ERP, turning a weeks-long manual audit into days.

94%

Matched automatically

~20K

Archival images reconciled

Weeks → days

Audit time

AI evaluation & discovery

Audubon Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary

Before you can trust the AI, find out if your humans agree

Evaluating existing wildlife tools and correcting reference labels led to a platform the sanctuary adopted to clear its image backlog.

63%

Agreement between two human-labeled datasets

90K+

Images the recommended platform went on to classify

6

Platforms researched

AI product leadership under constraint

Pixability

Classifying four million CTV videos in 30 days

With no CTV models available and 30 days to deliver, the team used GPT-3.5 to classify four million additional videos and meet a deadline the other partners missed.

4M

Additional videos classified

30 days

End-to-end delivery

1M → 5M

Classified CTV library

Discovery & workflow design

Pixability

Adoption looked healthy. Two teams had quietly stopped trusting the data.

Two major client teams had routed around Looker and were collating reports by hand. Following the workaround instead of building another dashboard cut sixteen to twenty hours of manual collation per cycle to thirty minutes of QA, while protecting the insight work that was the actual value.

16–20 hrs → 30 min

Manual collation per report cycle, largest teams

48 hours

Intervention that tested the path before scaling

1 hour

Of human insight work deliberately preserved