Woody Kim

Product Designer · UX Strategist · NYC

I design AI-native
products for complex,
regulated systems.

Since leaving the DoD, I've studied how intelligent systems work — from non-linear regression at MIT to machine learning in Tokyo — and now build AI-native products and agents in New York City.

Selected Work

Newsroom Discovery

Independent / Self-directed

Rebuilt a decade-old open-source research technique into a working, self-hosted product for investigative journalists — one that finds documents about a topic using AI similarity search, including the ones a keyword search would completely miss.

AI ToolingData DiscoveryJournalism

Autonomous Health Tracker Agent

Independent / Self-directed

Consolidated a fragmented health-tracking routine — smart scale, wearable, and progress photos — into one silent system. No new habits, no new apps to check: the tools I already used just started talking to each other.

AI ToolingPersonal HealthAutomation

AI Writing Tools at Scale

Kessel Run × MIT AI Accelerator

Drove 70% adoption of a net-new enterprise AI product. Partnered with the MIT AI Accelerator to design human-in-the-loop writing workflows now used across 16+ product teams.

AI/ML UXEnterpriseDefense

Zero-to-Stable Field Deployment

Dept. of Defense · JB Hickam, HI

Forward-deployed to operators to stabilize mission-critical software. Redesigned case management workflows that cut per-case reporting overhead by 90+ minutes — then led policy revisions to standardize the change.

Mission-CriticalGov SoftwareField UX

Series A Product & Compliance UX

a.Team — multiple startups

Led end-to-end product design across multiple pre-Series A teams. Delivered compliance-adjacent tooling and investor-facing materials that contributed to successful fundraising outcomes.

FintechCompliance UXStartup