ASD '26

The Agentic
Service Designer

How AI agent teams, service blueprints-as-code, and autonomous tooling are transforming service design from insight to operations

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By Sam Mozaffari · August 2026

An Inflection Point

In 2025, service designers were experimenting with AI. In 2026, they’re running agent teams that turn evidence into living blueprints.

The Agentic Service Designer cover artwork: service blueprint circuitry

25

Chapters covering the full agentic service design practice

74

Methods compiled as executable code

About the Book

The Agentic Service Designer covers the entire service design discipline through an AI-first lens: agent teams, service blueprints-as-code, content-addressed evidence registers, and autonomous operations.

Written with AI assistance using an agentic publishing pipeline. The author directed, reviewed, and approved all content. Second edition, August 2026. Free for personal and noncommercial use under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0; commercial and organizational use requires a separate license.

The book includes 25 chapters and 3 appendices: one canonical practice compiled to twelve surfaces, a 10-role agent harness, 74 methods as code, case studies on eight fictional organisations, and a full mastercase engagement run end to end, from discovery to operations.

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“The blueprint is no longer a slide. One canonical practice, compiled to every surface, executed by agent teams under human phase gates.”

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What the book covers:

  • One canonical practice compiled to twelve surfaces →
  • The 10-role agent topology & the shared loop →
  • Service blueprints-as-code: five lanes plus the sixth →
  • Evidence registers & deterministic fact-checking →
  • The ASD MCP server, host packs & the Claude Code plugin →
  • BUZZ: multi-agent service design on the open agent network →
  • SOPs-as-code & frontline enablement →
  • Mastercase: Meridian Bay Ferries, end to end →
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AI agent teams now run the loop from evidence to blueprint to operations, with humans deciding at every phase gate.

Part I · Foundations

The AI-first operating system

Before agents touch a workshop wall, the discipline needs an operating system: one canonical practice contract compiled to twelve surfaces, an evidence-first shared loop, and a ten-role team. These four chapters establish the mental model for everything that follows.

In this section:

  • Ch 01: The AI-First Service Design Operating System
  • Ch 02: The ASD Platform Architecture
  • Ch 03: Service-Dominant Logic & Value Co-Creation
  • Ch 04: The Role Contract, Evidence Registers & Fact-Checking
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Part II · Discovery & Research

Evidence before artifacts

Transcript mining at scale, mixed methods, evidence-backed segmentation, mental models, ecosystem maps, and living journey maps: research ops that produce evidence an agent can cite, not anecdotes it must guess at.

In this section:

  • Ch 05: Research Ops at Scale
  • Ch 06: Mixed Methods & Evidence-Backed Segmentation
  • Ch 07: Mental Models, Alignment & Opportunity Mapping
  • Ch 08: Ecosystem Value Mapping & Stakeholder Topologies
  • Ch 09: Living Journey Maps
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Part III · Blueprints & Design

The craft, rebuilt as code

Five-lane master blueprints with a line of visibility, the sixth agentic lane of autonomous workflows, cross-channel orchestration, machine-speed ideation, prototyping, recovery engineering, and CX maturity governance.

In this section:

  • Ch 10: The Master Blueprint: Five-Lane Architecture
  • Ch 11: Agentic Service Blueprinting: The Sixth Lane
  • Ch 12: Cross-Channel Orchestration & Story Mapping
  • Ch 13: Structured Ideation & HMW at Machine Speed
  • Ch 14: Prototyping Services
  • Ch 15: Transformative Services & Recovery Engineering
  • Ch 16: Service Quality Management & CX Maturity
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Part IV · Platform & Tooling

The machinery underneath

Chapter 17

The ASD MCP Server

The 29-tool server that exposes the whole practice to any agent

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Chapter 18

Plugins & Host Packs

The Claude Code plugin and coding-agent host packs

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Chapter 19

BUZZ: Multi-Agent Service Design

Multi-agent service design on the open agent network

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Chapter 20

DeepSeek Harness Studio

The integrated workbench for the agentic practice

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Part V · Operations & Outlook

From blueprint to business-as-usual

SOPs-as-code, frontline enablement and employee experience, the 15 principles of good public services, a complete mastercase engagement at Meridian Bay Ferries, and the agentic practice ahead.

In this section:

  • Ch 21: SOPs-as-Code: The AI Execution Playbook
  • Ch 22: Frontline Enablement & Employee Experience
  • Ch 23: The 15 Principles of Good Public Services
  • Ch 24: Mastercase: Meridian Bay Ferries
  • Ch 25: The Future of Service Design
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Appendices

Reference materials

Appendix A

The ASD Method & Artifact Catalog

Every method and artifact in the canon

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A

Appendix B

CLI & MCP Tool Specification

The complete tool surface, specified

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B

Appendix C

The 20-Book Canonical Cross-Reference

Where this book sits in the 20-book canon

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C
ASD '26

The Agentic Service Designer

How AI agent teams, service blueprints-as-code, and autonomous tooling are transforming service design from insight to operations. By Sam Mozaffari. Second Edition, August 2026.

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