Design AI for enterprise productivity (docs, meetings, and tasks).
### Signal to interviewer
I can design enterprise AI that closes the gap between collaboration artifacts and execution outcomes.
### Clarify
I would clarify tool stack, workflow ownership models, and where handoff delays currently create the most business drag.
### Approach
Use a cross-surface execution graph: map decisions from docs/meetings to tasks, maintain context links, and automate progress synthesis.
### Metrics & instrumentation
Primary metric: decision-to-action lead time reduction. Secondary metrics: task completion reliability, meeting follow-through rate, and context switch reduction. Guardrails: wrong-owner assignments, stale project states, and notification overload.
### Tradeoffs
Unified orchestration improves throughput but can constrain team-specific practices. High automation reduces admin burden but risks brittle workflow assumptions.
### Risks & mitigations
Risk: integration fragility across tools; mitigate with resilient connectors. Risk: low trust in automated assignments; mitigate with approval controls. Risk: action overload; mitigate with priority-aware batching.
### Example
For product launches, AI maps roadmap docs and launch meetings into owner-tagged tasks, then updates weekly executive status summaries from completed milestones.
### 90-second version
Design enterprise productivity AI as a shared execution graph across docs, meetings, and tasks. Optimize decision-to-action speed while preserving role clarity and workflow flexibility.
- Which handoff point causes the largest execution delay today?
- What level of automation is acceptable for task assignment?
- How would you represent cross-tool context links in a scalable graph model?
- What governance prevents stale or conflicting status updates across surfaces?