đź’ˇ Product Circle â• Chat - Accelerated Workflows with Product Trio owning the Thinking and Decision-making with Justin Hevey
​Welcome to 💡 Product Circle ╠Chat on
đź•” Wednesday 9 September 2026 at 6pm (AEST - Sydney)
​🕔 Wednesday 9 September 2026 at 8pm (NZ)
​🕕 Wednesday 9 September 2026 at 9am (UK)
​Topic: Accelerated Workflows with Product Trio owning the Thinking and Decision-making
​Workflows got fast. Deciding what's worth building didn't. đź§
​AI made workflows fast. You can go from an idea to a rich prototype in an afternoon, and engineering is no longer the bottleneck it was twelve months ago.
​But something didn't speed up. Deciding what's worth building. Discovery, empathy, validating with real people. Choosing the path forward. That thinking, and the deciding that comes with it, is now the hard part, and it has landed squarely on product, design and engineering to own.
​Justin Hevey and Irene Liakos have been circling the same idea from different angles: the team of the future isn't people replaced by AI. It's three human experts, each supported by their own agents. A product brain, a design brain, an engineering brain. Not generic tools you download and copy-paste, but a second brain each person codifies from the way they actually work, contextual to their business, their market, their customer.
​Because your way of validating isn't someone else's.
The value isn't in borrowing a framework off the shelf. It's in capturing how you and your team think, and turning that into agents that carry the grunt work, so you stay on the higher-level calls.
​In this Product Circle Chat, Justin Hevey will explore what the product trio looks like when each discipline is supported by its own domain agents and why faster execution makes shared judgement more important than ever.
This is honest, experimental territory, not a tidy playbook. Expect around 20 to 30 minutes from Justin, then an open discussion about how you're using agents in your own workflow, what a product trio looks like when everyone's a builder, and how you start codifying your own second brain.
​What we’ll cover
​✅ Why workflows got fast and discovery didn't, and where the real bottleneck in product development has quietly moved.
​✅ What a product trio looks like when everyone's a builder. Product, design and engineering bleeding into each other, and everyone turning up to the room with a prototype.
​✅ Human experts sitting on top of specialised agents. A researcher, a validator, a spec writer, a product brain, a design brain, carrying the load so people stay on the higher-level calls.
​✅ Owning the thinking and the decision-making. Not just can we build it, but should we?
​✅ How you start codifying your own second brain, contextual to your business, market and customer.
​Perfect for: Product Managers, Product Designers, Engineers and Product Leaders shaping how human teams will work alongside specialised AI agents.
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​About Justin Hevey
​Justin Hevey is a design craft leader, product innovator and AI-focussed designer with over 20 years of experience creating business impact where digital is mission critical. His expertise spans design research, interaction design, design systems, and end-to-end product design, with a focus on lifting product and design value through deep craft knowledge and cross-functional collaboration.
​Justin has held design leadership roles at McKinsey & Company, Isobar Australia, Telstra, 3 Mobile and many more. He is passionate about exploring the convergence of AI and design, sharing his insights through his podcast Designing for Humans in the Loop and his writing on Medium.
​Find more from Justin at jstnh.me, on Substack, via Designing for Humans in the Loop, or connect on LinkedIn.
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​Irene
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​Irene Liakos
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irene@phronesisadvisory.com
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