How-to5 min read
AI for enterprise DesignOps: start with the operational bottleneck
Where should a design organization start with AI? Choose one operational bottleneck and measure whether the work actually gets easier.
Private Beta
Enterprise design operations made effortless with AI.
Plan design capacity, govern your design system, and keep repeatable processes moving so your team can focus on building exceptional products.
Interactive Demo
Q4 2026 · Enterprise onboarding launch
Turn competing commitments into a capacity plan.
Ask Sentient to connect the launch, people, and capacity behind the decision.
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Records for this review
For design leaders
Modern design teams. Decade-old operations.
Enterprise design teams still run staffing, design-system governance, and reporting through spreadsheets, disconnected tools, and manual follow-ups. Design leaders spend their time holding it all together instead of improving how the organization runs.
Sentia enables the transition to AI-powered design operations. Purpose-built for enterprise design organizations, it connects your people, tools, and context to automate recurring workflows, with your team in control of priorities and approvals.
The platform
Introducing Sentient, the agent to run the work behind design.
Give recurring work a reliable path to completion. Sentient uses your organization’s context to move tasks forward and asks you when a decision needs approval.
A launch needs two more designers, but headcount is fixed. See design-team capacity against each priority, then review Sentient’s reallocation plan before approving changes to team structure or the staffing budget.
Staffing coverage & budget
Design organization · Q4 2026Allocated capacity24 FTE4 product streams
Q4 forecast$1.008mStaffing cost
Approved budget$1.05m$42k remaining
| Product stream | Demand / capacity | Load | Q4 allocation |
|---|---|---|---|
10 / 10 FTE | 100% | $420k+2 FTE | |
5 / 5 FTE | 100% | $210k−1 FTE | |
5 / 5 FTE | 100% | $210k−1 FTE | |
4 / 4 FTE | 100% | $168k |
Sentient
Commerce is fully staffed. All four streams are covered, with no added headcount or forecast cost.
Core + PlatformCommerce · +2 FTE
Detached tokens and one-off components create repair work before handoff. Sentient tracks adoption of the shared system, flags departures from the standard, and prepares a fix for the design-system owner to review.
Paid seats sit idle while other teams wait for access. Keep teams on a consistent toolset, reassign unused seats with owner approval, and give low-adoption teams training and a playbook with a follow-up.
Figma files and tickets rarely show who shaped a decision. Bring project outcomes, collaborator feedback, and source evidence into a contribution record that supports career paths and promotion cases. Managers make the assessment.
Leadership asks what design delivered for the budget. Attribute KPI changes to the product areas and initiatives that moved them, weight each by the strength of its evidence, and share a sourced ROI review with the business.
Built to run enterprise design operations.
Sentient AgentAI tooling · Investment review
60-day follow-up$460k/ yearApproved annual budget
80%Active licenses · 160 / 200
Prioritized workstreamsActive licenses
Review adoption after onboarding
Active use rose from 55% to 80% after 60 days.
Compare with the usage baseline
ROI Visibility
Make your next investment earn its place.
See where spend outpaces usage. Shift budget toward teams putting it to work, then check whether adoption improves.
Connecting design to business impactPrepare Monday’s capacity review for the launch.
Enterprise onboarding · v3
Capacity check · Maya & Nora
Monday capacity review
Sentient Agent
Monday’s review is ready. I checked launch scope, requested manager availability, and drafted the staffing plan. Proposed team changes await your approval.
Review staffing plan
Sentient Agent
Take operational work off your plate.
Sentient plans tasks, coordinates with teammates, and executes work across your tools with your organization’s context. It tracks progress, follows up, and brings decisions back to you when approval is needed.
Figma
Slack
Jira
Confluence
Internal Tooling
Teams
Organization modelContext shaped by work
Decisions & outcomes
Organizational knowledge
A knowledge graph that learns your organization.
Your organization changes faster than its documentation. We’re building a living model that learns how your teams work, so context carries forward when ownership changes.
onboarding.mdSkill attached
Tools 3 connected
Designer onboardingWorkflow assembled
Manager approvalBefore tool access changes
Custom agent workflows
Custom agents for your recurring workflows.
Recurring work should not depend on one person remembering every step. Build an agent around your process and let it follow through within your permissions and approval rules.
Need to scale user research?
VisitSynthetic UXR
Recover the hours spent coordinating design.
Every hour spent chasing updates is an hour your team cannot spend designing. See how much operating time you could put back into the work that matters.
Request a demo~$4M+
in estimated annual labor value recovered with Sentia, giving your team more time for design, leadership, and craft.
Integrations
Stop chasing context across tools.
When work moves from a design file to a delivery ticket, the context should move with it. Sentia connects the records behind the next step, so your team can pick up the work without piecing it together.
- Amplitude
- Mixpanel
- PostHog
- Dovetail
- Google Drive
- Miro
- Intercom
- Zendesk
- Figma
- Linear
- Slack
- Jira
- Notion
- Confluence
- ProductBoard
- Zoom
- GitHub
- Power BI
- Statsig
Work with the Sentia MCP
Bring approved standards into the build.
Give Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex the current component library, accessibility guidance, and design-system owner. Retrieve the rules before building; route exceptions for review.
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Sentia MCP · Connected
Which standards apply to this onboarding flow?
Standards for this build
01Use Foundations v3.2 components.
02Preserve keyboard and error states.
03Bring changes to the design-system owner.
Grounded in 2 linked sources
design.md Read accessibility.md Read
Claude CodeCursorCodex
Sentia Labs is an applied HCI research lab building tools for designing and evaluating human-agent interaction. Our mission is to help designers shape how intelligent systems behave, and how people work with them. Its products are Synthetic UXR, which builds digital twins of a company’s users from its own first-party research and behavioral data and simulates how they respond to a design, flow, or price before it ships, and DesignOps, AI agents for the staffing, governance, and review work behind enterprise design.
DesignOps (design operations) is the orchestration and optimization of people, processes, and craft to amplify design’s value and impact at scale, in Nielsen Norman Group’s widely used definition. It covers how design teams work together (structure, rituals, hiring, and growth), how they get work done (process, tools, design systems, and prioritization), and how their work creates impact (measuring and sharing design’s value). Sentia builds AI agents for that operating work.
Sentia DesignOps is built for design leaders, including VPs of Design, Heads of Design, and Directors coordinating distributed teams. It supports staffing and capacity, design-system governance, tool enablement, career growth, and measuring design’s impact.
Each initiative gets a KPI with a baseline, target, source, and owner. Sentia attributes changes to the product areas that moved them, weights each by the strength of its evidence (an A/B holdout counts for more than a before-and-after comparison), and compares the attributed value with the design investment. Leaders see ROI without treating every change as proof of causation.
Yes. Sentia connects with tools including Figma, Jira, Linear, Slack, Notion, and Google Drive. Use staffing records, design files, delivery tickets, and decision threads as the basis for planning and review. Available connections are shown in the product.
No. Sentient prepares the work; people decide. Every proposed staffing transfer or standards fix arrives with supporting evidence and a named approver: leaders approve commitments, design-system owners review changes, and managers assess performance.
About Us
“Design leaders should have the time to shape what comes next and the evidence to show why it matters.”
Your organization. Your priorities.
Start with the workflow slowing your team down.
Show us where work gets stuck. We’ll walk through how Sentia could help your team move it forward and what a rollout would involve.
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