How Open Design puts local-first, BYOK AI agents to work —
with the risk controls, ROI case, and rollout plan a CIO can actually sign off on.
Employees are already pasting confidential briefs into consumer AI apps, with zero audit trail.
The choice in front of leadership isn't "AI or no AI" — it's "sanctioned agent or shadow IT."
Marketing and product teams already use consumer AI tools —
• Pastes go through personal accounts, no company log
• Briefs, brand assets, and customer data leave the network
• IT has no visibility into which model saw what
The same work, brought inside the perimeter —
• Runs on the employee's machine; nothing uploaded by default
• BYOK routes every model call through IT-approved keys
• Full agent transcript stored locally for audit
Pick a single high-friction workflow (e.g. marketing deck production) and a 6-10 person pilot cohort.
IT provisions BYOK credentials once; no new vendor contract, no data-processing addendum for a local-first tool.
Track cycle time, review rounds, and spend per deliverable against the team's last quarter.
Present the pilot's ROI and risk-control readout to leadership before any wider rollout commitment.
// .od/ — all of Open Design's runtime data lives in this local directory .od/ ├── app.sqlite // local SQLite: sessions & design memory ├── projects/ // per-project agent working directories ├── artifacts/ // generated briefs / decks / prototypes └── media-config.json // BYOK credentials, API keys never leave the machine
No sign-up, no cloud sync, no third-party retention — enforced by where the data lives, not by a policy PDF. Security review becomes a one-time architecture check, not a per-project exception.
faster brief-to-first-draft cycle, pilot team average
added SaaS spend — BYOK reuses existing model contracts
estimated per-deliverable cost vs a closed cloud design tool
Approve the pilot, not the platform.
Every gate after that is a data-backed decision.
Prepared for the AI steering committee — pilot scope, risk-control architecture, and ROI model available on request.
Next step: schedule the 90-day pilot kickoff.