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CISCO / AI PLATFORM & CONFIGURATION STRATEGY

AI platform &
configuration strategy.

Leading AI configuration across developer and admin experiences, from CX settings to MCP, A2A, bring-your-own-LLM, and reusable authentication.

MY ROLE

Agentic Apps Lead / previously CX Lead Admin Designer

SCOPE

Developer Portal / App Hub / Control Hub

STATUS

Ongoing strategy and design / navigation change merged

01 / MY SCOPE

Three products.
One connected journey.

I lead Agentic Apps design across Developer Portal, App Hub, and Collaboration Control Hub.

The journey spans developer registration, app discovery and distribution, and administrator configuration and governance. My work includes MCP, agent-to-agent (A2A), and bring-your-own-LLM workflows.

I inherited the original MCP experience rather than designing it from scratch. My contribution is leading its evolution, grounding improvements in research, and helping introduce shared authentication across capability types and surfaces.

02 / END-TO-END RESEARCH

Start with the workflow.
Not the protocol.

An April 2026 study with four participants examined the end-to-end Developer Portal and Control Hub experience.

Three of four participants struggled with the MCP/A2A choice and connection direction. They wanted guidance based on what they were trying to accomplish. All four questioned the role of secrets in Control Hub.

Clarify the mental model

Explain who exposes capabilities, who consumes them, and where an app will be used.

Make governance explicit

Help admins understand scope, permissions, changes, and the handoff from registration to approval.

These are directional findings from a small qualitative study, rather than population-level measures.

03 / CX AI CONFIGURATION

Bring AI settings
into one experience.

As Lead UX Manager for CX, I led two designers and advocated for a dedicated AI management area that brought settings together.

The existing model repeated setup across agents and queues, separated global and local controls, and interrupted tasks with page and modal transitions.

I proposed organizing configuration around agents, queues, and global settings. The design makes scope visible, groups relevant capabilities, and connects feature controls with configuration.

Stakeholders questioned whether bringing AI features into one section would make a meaningful difference. I advocated for the unified area and the team’s design direction. We also included help content so customers could understand features before enabling them.

When we showed the unified experience to customers, they expressed enthusiasm about using it. That response supported the direction, but it does not yet establish a measured improvement in adoption or configuration time. Quantitative follow-up is pending.

The CX pitch identified repeated configuration across agents and queues.
The CX pitch identified repeated configuration across agents and queues. Select the image to view at full size.
The CX pitch identified context switches and disconnected global and local controls.
The CX pitch identified context switches and disconnected global and local controls. Select the image to view at full size.
CX proposal: a dedicated AI area organized around configuration scope.
CX proposal: a dedicated AI area organized around configuration scope. Select the image to view at full size.
Proposed phased rollout of the unified CX AI configuration area.
Proposed phased rollout of the unified CX AI configuration area. Select the image to view at full size.
Detailed agent settings design, including inherited global settings and agent-level configuration.
Detailed agent settings design, including inherited global settings and agent-level configuration. Select the image to view at full size.
Queue settings design showing feature scope, filters, and configuration states.
Queue settings design showing feature scope, filters, and configuration states. Select the image to view at full size.
04 / CENTRAL AUTHENTICATION

Create a profile.
Reuse it across AI.

I helped introduce a central area for reusable authentication profiles across AI capabilities, surfaces, and types.

The current design labels this area Authorization profiles, within Security & Privacy. It brings profile source, method, usage, and access status into one management view.

The goal is to separate managing a reusable profile from repeatedly configuring credentials within individual AI app workflows. This shared experience is in development.

Central authorization profile design showing authentication methods, usage across products, and access status.
Central authorization profile design showing authentication methods, usage across products, and access status. Select the image to view at full size.
05 / PLATFORM DIRECTION

From an app list
to AI management.

I’m shaping a broader Agentic Apps direction: an AI management area in Control Hub that supports understanding, configuration, governance, and adoption.

The CX work provides a related pattern: give AI capabilities a coherent home while retaining the context and scope admins need. This is a product direction in progress, rather than a claim of delivered adoption gains.

I also implemented a navigation change moving Agentic Apps earlier in the Apps tab order and took it through merge. See the code contributions

06 / REACH & IMPACT

A growing space
for AI administration.

The Agentic Apps experience we’ve created serves 172 daily active admins configuring and managing their agentic apps.

Growing adoption of Webex MCP

Webex MCP daily active users increased from 108 on July 1 to 931 on September 15. Monthly users rose from approximately 13,000 in July to 14,000 in August, reaching 15,000 through September 26.

This growing use reinforces the need for clear configuration, reusable authentication, and governance. These figures describe platform reach and adoption; they do not establish growth caused by my design work.

Webex MCP daily active users

Two reported snapshots

July 1108
September 15931
Daily active users grew from 108 to 931 between the two reported dates.

Webex MCP monthly users

Monthly user trend · approximate counts

July13,000
August14,000
September · through Sept. 2615,000
September is a partial month through September 26. Monthly counts are approximate.

Delivered work & next measures

  • Leadership across three product surfaces.
  • Four-participant end-to-end research informing configuration strategy.
  • CX AI configuration pitch and detailed interaction designs.
  • Central authorization profile design in development.
  • Agentic Apps navigation code contribution merged.

Next measures to establish: configuration completion rate and time, successful reuse of profiles across apps, and discovery-to-configuration progression. These are proposed measures, not reported results.

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