Major · Computer vision programme · NDA
Material discovery where adoption beat the model
A six-figure material library and a design team that had looked things up by hand for years. Model accuracy was necessary. Habit change was the real programme.
Lead outcome
3 hrs → 3 sec
discovery time we had to beat
Focus
What I owned
I owned the delivery runway: scope gates, stakeholder sequencing, and the definition of done that forced the tool to beat old habits — not just beat a benchmark.
Narrative
Under NDA for a global luxury fashion house. The engineering problem was indexing and retrieval. The programme problem was convincing craftspeople that a search result was safer than muscle memory.
My contribution sat in the seams: sequencing demos against real workflows, holding the bar that 'done' meant adopted — not just deployed — and keeping legal/commercial constraints visible in every sprint gate.
I do not claim the architecture. I claim the runway that let architecture land inside an organization that could not afford a clever tool nobody opened twice.
Adoption criteria in the definition of done
A model that wins a bench and loses the design floor is a failed programme.
Protect the craft, measure the minutes
Hours-to-seconds was the shared language between design leadership and engineering.
3 hrs → 3 sec
discovery time we had to beat
95%
detection accuracy at handoff
100K+
materials under the index
Next step
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