Teams bring me in to design
their product’s AI future.


Two decades in New York finance taught me how to pull clarity out of complex systems. That same approach now applies across Fintech, energy, and modern platforms.

Show me your product - and I’ll surface its structure, articulate its purpose in the market, and define the trajectory teams can build toward over the next 3–5 years.

 

The problem is rarely just design. It’s alignment.

 

What You Get

AI Clarity & Direction

BEFORE
New capabilities become a business priority before a strategy exists. Teams make isolated bets, initiatives flounder, and the real gains evaporate.

AFTER
I define where it belongs in the product, how it evolves over the next 3–5 years, and deliver future-state screens teams use to align, secure budget, and move forward.

Decision Intelligence

BEFORE
Analysts assemble briefs by hand—filings, news, risks, exec changes - under tight deadlines. Quality varies, and insights often arrive too late to act on.

AFTER
You type: “2-page brief on [Company] with regulatory concerns and APAC peer comparison.” The system pulls filings, earnings calls, sentiment, and competitors - returning an editable, annotated memo in minutes. Consistent, accurate, and ready before the meeting.

Operational Intelligence

BEFORE
Solar operations teams track hundreds of meters, alerts, logs, and contracts across scattered tools. Reporting is slow, manual, and full of blind spots.

AFTER
A single system ingests operational data, highlights anomalies, predicts issues before they escalate, and recommends actions teams can take. Teams shift from reactive firefighting to proactive, coordinated management on a single source of truth.

 

Where Products Are Heading

The next decade is defined by agent-to-agent ecosystems - systems that automate decisions, anticipate intent, and operate across workflows with minimal human input. Most teams aren’t architected for this. I help organizations reframe their products for it - defining systems where intelligence is embedded directly into workflows, enable real-time decision-making, and reduce reliance on manual input.

Most teams aren’t built for this. They’re still designing screens, not systems; features, not intelligence. I help organizations reframe their products for an an autonomous, agent-driven world - clarifying what stays human, what becomes agent-driven, and how the platform evolves over time.

 


Selected Work

Financial Platform

Financial Platform

Enterprise systems for capital markets and risk-driven decisions.

 Energy & Infrastructure

Energy & Infrastructure

Operational intelligence for distributed solar and asset networks.

 Research & Intelligence

Research & Intelligence

Systems that surface insight, not just data, at institutional scale.

 

 

Fantastic people and teams we’ve been lucky to work with

 

How I Work



I remove ambiguity faster than anyone. Organizations partner with me when they need a clear, defensible future for their product - something they can align around, present to leadership, and use to unlock investment. That may mean preparing a legacy product for what comes next, reframing a platform, or producing future-state screens that explain the way forward better than any pitch deck. What they receive is always the same: a North Star the organization can believe in, and the clarity to move fast.

Strategic Retainer.

$12,000/month

An ongoing partnership for senior teams who want consistent clarity and direction (12–15 hours/week).

I refine product trajectory, guide high-stakes decisions, review work in progress, and produce future-state screens as needed - ensuring the product evolves with structure, momentum, and long-term operational coherence.

Deliverables

Future-state screens

Roadmap refinement

Architecture updates

AI workflow concepts

Weekly decision support

Product narrative updates

Product Clarity Sprint.

$25,000 / 3 weeks

Everything you get in a Retainer, compressed into a focused three-week engagement. The difference is velocity.

This is a full engagement to step back, diagnose the product, define its trajectory, and produce the systems, narrative, and future-state screens leadership needs to make confident decisions.

Deliverables

Future-state flows

Architecture blueprint

Executive sign-off screens

Vision narrative

AI opportunity map

Agent-model concepts

Teams engage in different ways - some start with a Sprint, others bring me in as the product takes shape. I only take on a small number of engagements at a time.

CREATING IN THE AGE OF AI
When creation is a commodity
what matters is what makes a difference.

 

About

I’m Cire - pronounced “sire.” I’ve spent more than twenty years designing products for founders, product leaders, and Fortune-level teams across finance, energy, and emerging tech. I started on Wall Street and later built studios in Hong Kong and Singapore, working at the intersection of design, data, and large-scale platforms.

Most of my work is clarifying complex systems - modernizing existing applications, reshaping platforms already in motion, and helping teams make sense of AI’s impact on their products. Over time, I’ve designed or restructured more than 650 applications, from onboarding systems and trading tools to research platforms, dashboards, and AI-enabled workflows.

I focus on turning complexity into products people immediately understand - and giving teams a clear direction they can build toward. Most clients come in when a product is already in motion, but needs to make sense before it scales.

Cire Gearhart
Instagram A few travel photos

Strategic Product Designer

Cire Gearhart
cire@humaninterface.com

When I’m not working on products, I’m chasing down the remaining 330 countries and territories with my partner (151 so far). I tend to follow things all the way through - whether that’s a country list, a novel, or a product that needs to make sense before it scales.

I’m also into interior and product design, lowbrow art, classic cars, bespoke gin and speakeasies, writing novels, producing electronica, and photography.

-- Health, experience, friendships - not things.