Garden / Product Design & Strategy

Evidence-backed strategy, before the pitch.

Garden turns briefs, research, notes and competitor context into strategic recommendations that can be traced back to proof. The redesign brings the value forward: one command center, one proof trail, one hardening loop.

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Role

Solo product strategist and designer

Problem

Siloed strategy work diluted information during handoffs

Move

Reframe the product around lineage, not tabs

System modelEvidence-first
Garden workflow

Brief to proof to strategy

Garden turns raw client material into a recommendation path where inputs, reasoning and final output stay connected.

Lineage

Evidence, decisions and QA remain attached before the strategy reaches the pitch.

01 / InputBriefs, sources, transcripts, and client context enter once.
02 / ReasoningAgents build evidence, shape the Diamond, and challenge the logic.
03 / OutputThe recommendation ships with proof, decisions, and QA attached.
23+agents across research, synthesis and validation
12guided stages from brief to output package
6hsaved each week on brief understanding and competitor analysis

Overview

A faster path from raw inputs to strategic confidence.

Garden gives strategists a guided place to scope the work, build evidence, challenge the logic and package recommendations with their proof trail intact.

01 / Entry From scattered setup to one action queue.

The Command Center shows the next best action, status, blockers and destination instead of asking strategists to navigate a field of tabs.

02 / Trust Every claim keeps its source attached.

Garden's core advantage is lineage: source, evidence, reasoning, decision, version and human review stay connected.

03 / Quality The strategy gets challenged before the client does.

A Socratic QA loop looks for weak logic, unsupported assumptions and competitor overlap before recommendations ship.

Visual walkthrough

Three product moments carry the system.

Command Center

Start with the workbench, not the system diagram.

The redesigned front door translates a complex multi-agent backend into a guided queue that tells strategists where they are, what is blocked and what to do next.

Evidence Bank

Make trust visible at the claim level.

Evidence is not an appendix. It is part of the interface, so the strategist can move from recommendation to source, extraction, confidence and rationale.

Garden Evidence Bank interface showing citation-ready evidence items

Strategy Hardening

Turn AI from answer machine into sparring partner.

The Socratic QA agent probes assumptions, flags weak claims and creates a response path for evidence needed, validation action and strategic decision.

Garden Strategy Hardening interface with Socratic questions

What is differentiated

Lineage is the product.

The strongest positioning is not "AI helps with brand strategy." It is "Garden makes strategic recommendations auditable." Every recommendation can move back through the evidence, reasoning, decision and review history that produced it.

Source
Client brief, meeting transcript, competitor page, trend report or validation input
Evidence
Extracted claim with confidence, citation and duplicate handling
Reasoning
Tension, white space, territory or rejected path with rationale
Decision
Human-reviewed recommendation, version history and review status

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