AI Product Design Executive

Building the products institutions run on.

I build complex, data intensive enterprise software: the operational systems where people, AI agents, data and decisions meet. I learned the craft on the platforms Fortune 50 finance runs on (AT&T, TCS, GE, now BlackRock, where I direct AI product design for Aladdin Studio). Working software comes before the specification, and I still design, prototype and implement myself.

View the work Career at a glance
Elenchus, a live adversarial tribunal: six AI agents deliberating a payroll anomaly. Designed and built solo, 2026.
$16TAUM, the platform scale of BlackRock's Aladdin
311K+lines of production code at Elenchus, designed and built solo
115+AI prototypes shipped in 90 days at Aladdin Studio
GE Innovator of the Year+ 7 national UX awards · 1st place, GA product design championship

“The ability to look deeply is the root of creativity.”

Rick Rubin
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2022 to present

BlackRock · Director, AI Product Design, Aladdin Studio

Recruited to Data & AI · promoted to UX Director in nine months · now directing AI product design

Inside the product building layer of Aladdin, the platform behind the world's largest asset manager: 115+ working AI prototypes in 90 days, built as executable software so agent behavior and feasibility get tested before requirements harden; an AI Response Framework governed by 73 specifications; 60+ reusable human and AI interaction patterns. I set direction and I still design, prototype and implement.

2026 to present

Elenchus · Founder, Independent AI Product R&D

AI native financial investigation, built as a proving ground

A financial investigation platform built around a domain model of entities, transactions, relationships, forensic signals, evidence and actions. Six agents (Skeptic, Advocate, Forensic Quant, Regulatory Eye, Orchestrator, Polymath) investigate and challenge each finding before a human adjudicates. 600+ forensic markers, about 311K lines of production code and 10,100+ tests, designed and built by one person with AI agents as the implementation layer.

2018 to 2022

GE · Global Head of Experience Design

Finance Data Lake product suite · FP&A & reporting

Led experience design for GE's Finance Data Lake and FP&A products, turning complex financial data, planning models and reporting workflows into operational software used across GE's industrial businesses, through the company's most intense period of financial transformation.

2015 to 2018

TCS · Global Head of Emerging Technologies & Fintech

Atlanta · NYC · London · Pune · Hong Kong · UAE

Entered ambiguous Fortune 50 problem spaces and turned them into working prototypes: 90+ engagements applying AI/ML, computer vision, AR/VR and IoT, $12M+ won, including a computer vision and AI loan processing solution servicing $1.2T in annual contracts. Led 18 UX principals backed by a 50+ person innovation team.

2009 to 2015

The foundation years

AT&T · Turner Broadcasting · Bridge2 Solutions · The Home Depot

Lead IA for AT&T's largest online revenue area ($2B+ a month, $35M saved annually in call deflection); platform IA for Turner's web and mobile portfolio, seven national UX awards; UX architecture for a global master data core adopted by Home Depot, Best Buy, Target and Sony.

Selected work

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Elenchus adversarial tribunal, live

Elenchus: adversarial AI forensics

Six AI agents deliberate a payroll anomaly, live, with sealed evidence chains.

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 CFO Cockpit voice-driven simulation

The CFO who talked to software

Voice driven savings simulation initiating $3.1M policy changes. Designed 2017.

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 MyFDL dashboard

GE's Finance Data Lake

A widget standards system that let GE's global finance organization self serve its analytics.

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 Data Visualization: the live catalog, the 62 form radial constellation, and chart cards

Data Visualization

62 chart forms, when to use each and when not to. A living field study with a selection wizard.

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Off hours

The geometry practice

Hand drawn polyhedral compounds, snub dodecahedron derivations and classical constructions: compass, straightedge, ink and proof. The oldest design system there is, kept alive by hand.

Enter the gallery
Compound of six icosidodecahedra in UV ink Snub dodecahedron derivation plate Tridecagram, a thirteen pointed star

About

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Arondale Withers, black and white portrait at the studio desk
At the desk. 2026.

The through line is trust: making a machine's findings worth a human's signature.

I'm an AI product design executive. I learned the craft on the platforms Fortune 50 finance runs on (AT&T, TCS, GE, BlackRock). Today I direct AI product design for Aladdin Studio at BlackRock, and I run Elenchus, an independent AI product R&D lab where I test the next generation of human and AI interaction patterns (agentic orchestration, AI memory architectures, human control over autonomous agents) ahead of enterprise practice.

I build with AI agent teams, I codify what works into laws and frameworks, and I teach organizations to do the same. I also draw geometry by hand. Every practice is the same discipline: nothing arbitrary, every line earned.

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Product leadership, advisory, Elenchus, or the geometry. No public inbox, just ring.

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