Will Murphy

AI Product Manager · Innovation Leader · Emerging Technology

Will Murphy is a Silicon Valley innovation and product leader who has spent 10+ years shipping AI at companies like Intuit and Data.ai, founding startups, and pushing the frontier of what’s possible.

10+ Years in AI Product Management 10+ Years in Corporate Innovation 3+ Startups 6+ Patents
Will Murphy

About

At Intuit's Futures Group, I led teams to build our 0-to-1 vision of next-generation AI product bets. Before that, I led AI new product development at Data.ai Labs (formerly App Annie) where we launched a prolific set of 0-to-1 data and AI products over a multi-year period.

I founded MessagePath, a top-5 AI Writing Assistant on G2.com, and was the founding Head of Product at Talla, an early enterprise AI chatbot startup that was acquired. Earlier, as a founding team member, of FedEx Innovation Labs, I co-founded SenseAware, a pioneering IoT analytics venture for FedEx, and led new product missions where I created a partnership and co-developed a service with eBay. I also founded the EPICenter Logistics Innovation Startup Accelerator and pitched/spearheaded the concept that became FedEx DataWorks, FedEx's division tasked with utilizing FedEx's vast dataset to launch new, high-margin, data-driven services.

I pioneered the concept of the "probabilistic product" in 2016 to describe the unique design and product management challenges of AI-driven software. I'm an OnDeck Fellow (Founder & Corporate Innovation Fellow) and hold multiple patents in AI, intelligent agents, knowledge graphs, and IoT. I speak on AI and innovation at venues including Stanford, MIT VLAB, and the Global AI Conference.

Projects I'm Building

AI · Research · Automation
Signals

An automated daily trend briefing covering social, technological, and economic domains. AI-researched and published each morning to surface the signals that matter.

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Probabilistic Products

A deep dive into the unique design, philosophies, and product management challenges of building AI-driven software.

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Symbolic AI · Heuristic Search
AI Chess

A fully self-contained chess engine running inside a single HTML page. Play against an AI opponent. Built with vibe coding.

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Generative AI · Prompts
PromptHub

A platform to share, discover, and run GenAI prompts. Making prompt engineering accessible and collaborative for everyone working with large language models.

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AI Agents
GenHub

Use natural language prompts to create and deploy simple AI agents. Democratizing agent creation for non-technical builders and teams who want AI to work for them.

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Social · Search
IdeaFeed

Social bookmarking and search reimagined. Save, organize, and discover ideas across the web with a community-driven approach to curation and knowledge sharing.

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Projects I'm Thinking About

Simulation · Decision-Making
Business World Model

An interactive simulation sandbox where small business owners and enterprise leaders can "play out" scenarios like product launches, pricing changes, or market shifts in a generative environment. Moves beyond static dashboards into dynamic, explorable world models for business decision-making.

UX · LLM · Adaptive UI
Context-Aware UI Wrapper

An adaptive interface layer for LLM outputs that morphs based on the intent of the response and the user's cognitive context. Instead of uniform chat bubbles, the UI automatically generates the right interaction pattern, a decision tree, a comparison table, a guided flow, based on what the AI is helping the user accomplish.

Research · Critical Thinking
Counter-Authority Engine

A research tool that goes beyond fact synthesis to specifically surface counter-arguments, anomalies, and dissenting evidence in any body of knowledge. Designed to prevent groupthink by mapping opposing viewpoints with full provenance, helping researchers move from "answers" to genuine understanding.

AI Agents · Debugging
Self-Refining Agent Debugger

A tool that visualizes why an AI agent failed during complex, multi-step web tasks and allows a human to "steer" it back on track. Focuses on making agentic workflows more reliable in messy, real-world environments through human-in-the-loop debugging and probabilistic design principles.

Augmented Intelligence · Wearables
Cognitive Exoskeleton

A focus-management agent that uses live signals from browser activity and wearable sensor data (heart rate, movement patterns) to proactively suggest breaks, deep work modes, or task switching. Combines edge AI processing with augmented intelligence principles to optimize cognitive performance throughout the workday.

Writing

Speaking & Videos

Previous Speaking Engagements

Stanford University MediaX Stanford Leadership Garage MIT VLAB Global AI Conference The AI Conference General Assembly World Crypto Economic Forum MoNage Conference SVI Academy

Patents

1

Graph Augmentation for New Applications using Machine Learning Techniques (Pending)

2

State Machine Methods and Apparatus Executing Natural Language Communications and AI Agents Monitoring Status and Triggering Transitions

3

Sensor-Based Logistics System

4

Systems and Methods for Creating and Delivering Digital Assets

5

Systems and Methods for Creating and Delivering Digital Advertisements in a Delivery Ad Network

6

Systems and Methods for Trip Management