Design Ops & Research Operations

I build private AI for regulated organizations, and I help teams fix how they design and decide.

I am Fryderyk Pryjma, founder and CEO of CortexMine, private AI for regulated and high-trust industries: sovereign, in-perimeter, operated for you. Alongside CortexMine, I advise product and IT teams on design ops, research ops, and knowledge transfer.

Fryderyk Pryjma – Design Ops Consultant
What I build

CortexMine: private AI for regulated organizations

CortexMine is managed private AI for regulated and high-trust industries. It is deployed and run inside the customer perimeter, on-prem or private cloud, with source-grounded answers and a full audit trail. The customer needs no internal AI team, because we operate it end to end. Manufacturing is the first vertical, with adjacent regulated sectors next.

Knowledge transfer, knowledge management, design ops and research ops for software and IT teams.

Is this you?

If your team designs a lot but ships unclear decisions, this is for you.

Unclear design roles and responsibilities

Design work slows down when ownership is blurry and decisions do not have clear owners.

Weak connection between design and engineering

Good ideas lose value when handoff, documentation, and delivery collaboration are inconsistent.

Research is ad hoc or underused

Teams often collect insight, but do not turn it into repeatable learning or better product decisions.

Too much design activity, not enough impact

When workflows are unclear, design output grows, but business value and decision quality do not.

Selected work

Real improvements in how teams design and decide

A few examples of how better structure, stronger research, and clearer processes can improve product work in practice.

Design OpsDesign ProcessSoftware HouseUXDelivery

Design Process Improvement for a Software House

A software house lacked a structured design and pre-implementation process. Design work was not well aligned with technical delivery, documentation quality was inconsistent, and teams struggled to make informed product decisions early enough.

The team gained a clearer design-to-development process, better alignment between design and engineering, and stronger documentation quality. Product decisions became easier to validate within technical and budget constraints.

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Design OpsBlockchainTeam ProcessesUXProduct Delivery

Design Ops Setup for a Blockchain Development Team

A blockchain-focused development company needed a clearer design process and stronger collaboration model between product, design, and technical stakeholders. The existing way of working lacked structure and created friction in delivery.

The company gained a more structured design workflow, clearer collaboration between functions, and a stronger foundation for scaling product design work in a technically demanding environment.

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Research OperationsUX ResearchHR TechProduct DiscoveryValidation

Research Validation That Prevented Costly HR Feature Delivery

An HR-related company planned to build a new feature, but there was not enough evidence that users would find it valuable or use it in practice. The risk of investing in the wrong product direction was high.

The research showed that the planned feature would likely not gain enough user adoption, which helped the company avoid unnecessary implementation costs and redirect investment toward better opportunities.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Most often with founders, CTOs, CPOs, product leaders, software houses, and product teams that want stronger design and research processes.

No. Smaller teams often benefit even more from structured workflows and clearer decision-making, especially when roles are still evolving.

No. Research Operations can help teams that do not have dedicated researchers but still need a better way to learn about users and support product discovery.

Not exactly. My role is advisory and process-focused. I help diagnose issues, improve workflows, and support better operating conditions across design, product, and engineering.

Yes. Many collaborations start with a focused consultation, audit, workshop, or short advisory engagement before moving into broader support.

Fryderyk Pryjma

Let's make how your team designs and decides clearer.

30 minutes, no strings. You will leave with two to three concrete improvements.