Syntheus — Product leadership & design

Turning complexityinto meaningfulprogress.

Syntheus partners with leaders to bring AI into the way their teams think, decide, and build. We create the product systems and workflows that turn busy work into forward motion.

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Fig. 01 — Human intelligence, amplified
(01) — What we do

Product. Design. AI. Working together.

Product & Design Leadership

Add senior leadership without waiting for the perfect hire.

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Brand Transformation

Make the brand ready for the company you are becoming.

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(02) — How we work

A disciplined process for building better systems.

  1. 01

    Discover

    Understand the people, pressures, and signals behind the request.

  2. 02

    Define

    Name the problem, the decision, and what a meaningful win looks like.

  3. 03

    Design

    Make the strategy tangible enough to examine, challenge, and improve.

  4. 04

    Build

    Create the product, system, or capability and put it into real use.

  5. 05

    Evolve

    Learn from the work, strengthen the system, and compound what succeeds.

Fig. 03 — The recordSelected engagements2024–2026
(03) — Selected work

Real problems. Meaningful progress.

The BARS Program

Brand transformation · Product development

Signals become decisions
Signal
Context
Choice
Shape
Build
Learn

Diana Health

AI orchestration · Product operations

Frequency

Product and design leadership

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(04) — Why it matters

Human intelligence amplified by technology.

Technology should expand human judgment, not bury it under more tools. Better systems give people more time to make decisions, solve problems, and create value.

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Fig. 05 — The work, in the field
“Syntheus brought structure to a problem we had circled for years. The thinking was rigorous, the work was precise, and the system they left behind still runs.”
— Director of innovation, healthcare organization
(05) — Founder

A practice, not a product company.

Syntheus was founded by Andrew Lee, a product leader, designer, and systems thinker. The firm takes a small number of engagements at a time, and every engagement gets the founder.

The work spans fractional product leadership, AI orchestration, design strategy, and brand transformation. One belief governs all of it: progress emerges through interaction.

— Andrew Lee, founder & principal
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(06) — Contact

Let’s build what’s next.

If you have a hard problem at the intersection of product, design, and AI, we should talk.

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For new engagements and partnership inquiries.