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Experience Paradigm v0.1 — define what verified-truth commerce feels like as a consumer experience

A founding designer's first attempt at the question "what does verified-truth commerce feel like for a consumer?" Output is a working v0.1 of the Product.ai experience — chat + verdict surface — that a non-technical shopper can use end-to-end on one product category. Not a deck. Not a Figma file. A shipped surface a stranger can open and shop with.

Project Overview

Discipline

Design — Head of Product Design

Duration

3 weeks

Compensation

Your stated freelance rate

Surface

Product.ai · Consumer experience · Truth Graph

Kernels

productai · consumer-experience · truth-graph

Outcomes

chat-expert · full-journey · multi-surface

Tier

Consequential

Alpha Team

Open to alpha members who want to take this on

Tooling

Claude Code or Co-work

Why we want this done

Paradigm definition is the work AI cannot replicate. Generation collapsed the cost of mockups, drafts, variants. Verification — taste calibration, behavioral instrumentation, paradigm framing — did not collapse. The senior practitioner's job is to define what a category should feel like before AI tools can be pointed at it. Product.ai has a thesis (verified truth, not consensus) and a kernel (productai A-1 Beige Singularity, A-2 Three Knowledge Domains) but does not yet have a v0.1 experience that demonstrates the thesis as a feel. Until one exists, every downstream surface decision floats.

Scope

Pick one product category (skincare is in flight via GTM Beat 1 — that's a candidate; another category is acceptable if argued). Then ship:

The chat experience for that category — a shopper can ask a real question, get a real verdict, see the evidence
The verdict surface — what does the answer look like when it lands, on web and on mobile
The handoff to action — what does the shopper do next, and how does the surface carry trust into that action
A short rationale doc — one page, why this paradigm, what was rejected, what tradeoffs were made

The candidate decides scope inside this — three surfaces or one deeper one is a strategic call we want to see them make.

What success looks like

A non-technical shopper can complete a full research-to-decision arc on the chosen category in under five minutes
The experience is recognizably *not* "ChatGPT with a shopping skin" — verified-truth physics is visible in the surface
Internal team consensus that this is what we want to scale, not "interesting prototype"
One shipped surface in production (or staged with a real review) — not a Figma frame
The rationale doc reads like Karri Saarinen, not like AI marketing

References

references.md

Product.ai kernel — Thesis section, A-1, A-2, A-3
Truth-Graph kernel — verdict primitives and evidence chain
Karri Saarinen, "Output Isn't Design" (April 2026); Andy Budd, "peak designer" (March 2026)
Joel Lewenstein, synchronous co-creation (Config 2025)
Phase 2 Design axiom A3 — Generation cost collapsed; verification did not
Phase 2 Design axiom A6 — Surface-Template Alignment
GTM Beat 1 ("Your Health, Verified") — Elena Madrigal's skincare work as primary context
Truth Card Foundation (locked 2026-04-23)
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Anthropic Claude consumer commerce experiences as anti-references

Constraints

Claude Code or Co-work as primary substrate
Real category, real data — no Lorem ipsum, no fake products, no "imagine a SKU"
Design system tokens required for any production-shippable element
Must touch real Product.ai code, not exclusively Figma
3-week duration is the cap; if the candidate wants 2 weeks instead, that's a strategic call worth weighing

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Read the Codex (10 min)

The operating principles we work by. If they resonate, the rest of this will land. Open the Codex →

12-minute video screen

Hireflix, async. Questions are calibrated to this project specifically.

Chemistry call (30-60 min)

Direct call with the CEO. Strategic alignment and mutual fit. No problem-solving exercise.

Project begins within 2-3 weeks

1099 contractor agreement, NDA, paid at your stated rate. Day 1 in Santa Monica.

Alpha Team members can take this project without the screen-and-call sequence. Reach out via the Alpha Team channel.

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