Shipped
Crafting the future of agentic design at Sweetgreen
March 2026 — Present
Katie Kim
Design Lead
Wes Chiang
AI Principal

Overview
I pioneered an agentic workflow that empowers the design team to create and ship to sweetgreen.com, with ownership from end to end.
I turned a bottleneck into a publishing capability that the business now runs on — from a crisis op-ed shipped in a weekend to a repeatable launch engine.
Since July we've shipped five pages across five different use cases.
The Challenge
How might we enable designers to ship search-ready pages at the speed of the moment?
Contentful covered templated content, but one-off work — SEO pages, campaigns, timely moments — followed the usual design-to-eng handoff: sized, queued, and shipped in sprints instead of days.
Solution
From July, I led and owned a project to enable non-engineers to publish web pages agentically. Collaborating with our AI Transformation & Data Principal, I designed a path connecting tools we already use — Claude Code, Figma, GitHub — from design to a live page, with no engineering required to stand it up. For lower-stakes pages, design could go concept to production on its own.

Proven Under Fire
When the 2026 cyclospora outbreak hit, leadership needed to make a public statement within a single weekend — this workflow is what made "yes, by Monday" possible.
Sweetgreen wasn't linked to the outbreak, but trust in fresh produce dropped and consumers pulled back. With intentional sourcing as a real differentiator, leadership moved to elevate that story: OOH billboards ("Fight for Fresh") pointing to an op-ed from our co-founder and CEO.
The ask landed Thursday: get the op-ed page live by Monday. Because the workflow already existed, I could commit on the spot — no eng to scope, no queue — and launched the page in the window we had.


Expanding the Capability
Since July, the workflow has shipped five live pages — and their range is the point. Each does a distinct job, which is what proves this is a repeatable capability, not a one-off.
Next: discoverability. I'm partnering with Tech and Creative to pair back-end sitemapping with SEO-optimized copy, so these pages get indexed and capture organic search demand — instead of relying on us to route traffic to them.
Also next: an intake form. As demand grows, I'm building a request intake to field these asks consistently — capturing scope and priority up front, and setting the guardrails that protect both our bandwidth and the quality of what we ship.

Impact
The capability I’d built quietly over a month became the reason the company could move at the speed its most urgent moment demanded — turning “we’d need engineering for that” into “design can ship this now.”
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