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Gives the people following a marathon swim more than a dot: the story of the crossing, with sponsors and the swimmer’s cause beside it.
watchmyultra.com →Northern Agentic is an applied AI studio exploring how intelligent systems, products and organizations work together.
Applied AI studioProducts · Research · TransformationCanadaOctober 2026
Most organizations approach AI transformation through technology, data and governance. The underdeveloped capability is redesigning the organization around the technology.
Northern Agentic works on both sides of that problem: changing how the organization works, and building the systems it works with.
Methods from service design, systems design and organizational design, used to create alignment through participation rather than imposing transformation centrally.
Finding where AI can materially change a system rather than simply automate individual tasks.
Helping groups understand what AI changes for their roles, processes and operating model.
Creating alignment by involving the people who actually hold the organization’s distributed knowledge.
Working software, early. Agentic workflows, prototypes and products that people inside the organization actually use.
Redesigning workflows around humans, agents and existing software.
Building working systems early enough that organizations can learn from reality rather than PowerPoint.
Taking what works from prototype to a product that runs, and keeps running.
Gives the people following a marathon swim more than a dot: the story of the crossing, with sponsors and the swimmer’s cause beside it.
watchmyultra.com →An AI-facilitated workshop platform that runs structured group sessions end to end, from idea capture to a finished, fully editable PowerPoint deck.
ideate.live →A survey tool for a research group at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. Experts rate how well image models depict their own culture: 5,248 images from four models, across nine cultures and three domains.
Each participant gets 60 items, 20 per domain, drawn from the full set. A Latin square rotates the models, so different participants see the same prompt from different models. The order is seeded per participant, so it comes back the same after a reload. Cohorts, invite links, progress tracking and per-link QA reports are built in.
Writing, diagrams and research. Longer pieces link out.
Agentic organizations
AI transformation
Organizational knowledge
Human-agent collaboration
Systems thinking
Service design
Coordination
Complex adaptive systems
Northern Agentic is founded by Francis Szakacs, a service designer, researcher and product builder working at the intersection of technology and organizational systems. francis.systems
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