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Meltwater:
Mira – GenAI MVP Features

Responsibilities:  I was brought in to lead the design efforts to lead the GenAI features from the MVP phase to a fully live customer-facing product.

Role:
Senior Design Manager
Business Impact:
The mission objectives were ambitious: unlock new AI analysis capabilities, completely overhaul the Design System, and conquer both the Web Platform and Microsoft Teams environments.
Company:
Meltwater
Skills:
– Interaction & Visual Design
– Design Systems
– Developer Handoff

Project Overview

Context and Challenge: Before Mira arrived in 2024, the land of Meltwater was difficult to navigate. Users faced steep mountains of learning curves to effectively harness the platform’s power. They had to cast complex Boolean spells and spend hours configuring dashboards just to glimpse the truth hidden in the data. This created a fortress that locked out new users and slowed down teams who needed quick, actionable intelligence. We saw a chance to tear down these walls and reimagine how insights could be delivered.

Approach: Our quest was to forge Meltwater’s first AI MVP—an intelligent agent that would open the gates of media intelligence to everyone. I led the design of Mira, envisioning not just a chatbot, but a true teammate. We wanted natural conversation to replace the tedious workflows of the past. By building a Prompt Library, Templated Reports, and an ever-present Companion, we ensured that both newcomers and veterans could wield the power of the platform with ease.

Outcome: When Mira finally launched, it was met with excitement. The landscape changed overnight; tasks that once took hours now took seconds through simple conversation. Teams began to share their knowledge through custom libraries, and new users skipped the hard training entirely. We hadn’t just made things faster; we had placed Meltwater at the vanguard of a new era, delivering executive-ready insights to all.

Theme

Mira is a game-changing AI teammate marking the next evolution in Meltwater’s AI-powered product suite. Combining the power of AI agents and GenAI, Mira delivers instant insights through an intuitive chat-based interface, streamlining time-consuming workflows such as news briefings, brand monitoring, competitive intelligence and much more. She acts as a game-changing teammate, weaving together the threads of AI agents and GenAI to deliver instant clarity. Where there was once the drudgery of routine work—news briefings, brand monitoring—Mira brings the light of intelligent automation.

Northstar Prototype (Rough) – Homepage, Companion, & Reports

This vision—a “Northstar”—depicts a future Meltwater 2.0. Here, the interface has shed its armor for elegance, and the AI is no longer a separate entity but a heartbeat within the system. It transforms the platform from a cold monitoring tool into a warm, intelligent partner that knows what you need before you ask, seamlessly adapting to your unique way of working.

Hightlights:
  • Elegant, Adaptive UI
  • AI Companion Integration
  • Predictive Intelligence
  • Seamless Workflow Integration
  • Multi-Modal Communication

Prompt to Response – Thread & Canvas Optionality

Mira serves as your fast-track to actionable insights—designed to simplify how you access brand, competitor, and industry intelligence. No more building complex Boolean searches, setting up dashboards, or requiring deep Meltwater expertise. Simply start with a prompt, and Mira Studio delivers executive-ready overviews, identifies key themes, and even suggests next steps—so users can move from question to answer in seconds.

Initial Diagram for Mira Relationships within Meltwater

When I began the Mira initiative, my first step was to establish a clear understanding of our starting point. I carefully mapped out each of the existing AI-powered features and components that were already live within Meltwater’s platform. With this foundation in place, I then incorporated the Mira Studio core section into the map, creating a comprehensive visualization that showed how our new AI capabilities would complement and enhance what we’d already built.

Grounding Context

The intelligence starts personalized. To build reports in Mira Studio, Mira leverages Meltwater’s deep understanding of your brand, industry, and existing data to provide relevant insights from day one. You can also enhance Mira’s understanding by adding your own grounding information—whether it’s campaign details, specific objectives, or internal context—ensuring every response is tailored to your unique needs without having to repeatedly explain information Meltwater already knows about your organization.

Prompt Library

To accelerate common workflows, you can customize built-in prompt templates and save frequently used prompts to launch targeted reports in minutes. The customizable prompt templates help you or your team build a bespoke library that caters to your research needs.

Generative Reports

Not only can you create and save your own prompts, Mira Studio has templated reports that allow you to get the most popular report formats at the click of a button.

Mira Companion

Beyond the Studio experience, Mira is available within Meltwater, ready to help experienced users work faster to effortlessly achieve their goals, and make it much easier for new users to get the results they need. It’s like having a Meltwater expert always on hand to assist with whatever you’re working on.

Companion in Use

The Mira Companion is contextually aware, serving up user prompts that directly relate to the content that is being displayed, sometime producing documents, sometimes providing follow-on insights within the companion itself

Josh Butler: Designer. Made in NYC. Always a Work in Progress.