MillerKnoll AI
Customer Care · one design, two brands

DJ & Oscar

ProductionHerman Miller RetailDesign Within Reach

One agent design, two brands. DJ serves Herman Miller Retail Customer Care; Oscar serves Design Within Reach — the same grounded, brand-voice copilot, skinned per brand.

DJ

Herman Miller Retail

Business owner · Stephanie Zwagerman

The Customer Care copilot for Herman Miller Retail reps — SOPs, policies, and product specs, with email drafting in Herman Miller brand voice.

Oscar

Design Within Reach

Business owner · Molly Foulds

The Customer Care copilot for Design Within Reach reps — the same capabilities, with email drafting in DWR brand voice.

The shared design

The same copilot, twice

DJ and Oscar are Customer Care copilots for reps: instant, cited access to SOPs, policies, and product specs, plus email drafting in the right brand voice. They’re built on the same pipeline TracE established — grounded, cite-or-abstain, source-linked — which is exactly why two brand deployments could ship without rebuilding the agent twice.

01

SOPs & policies

Instant, cited answers from the brand’s standard operating procedures and policy knowledge — no digging through documents mid-call.

02

Product specs

Surfaces product specifications and details so a rep can answer confidently without leaving the conversation.

03

Brand-voice email drafting

Drafts customer-facing emails in the correct brand voice — the one capability that genuinely differs between the two.

04

Grounded & cited

Every answer is grounded in vetted knowledge and links its source — the same cite-or-abstain doctrine the whole portfolio runs on.

What differs

Where DJ and Oscar diverge

Not much — which is the point. Same architecture, different brand skin.

DJ
Oscar
Brand
Herman Miller Retail
Design Within Reach
Brand voice
Herman Miller tone in drafted emails
DWR tone in drafted emails
Knowledge base
HM Retail SOPs, policies & product specs
DWR SOPs, policies & product specs
Business owner
Stephanie Zwagerman
Molly Foulds
Everything else
Same grounded, cite-or-abstain agent design
Same grounded, cite-or-abstain agent design
Collaborators

Built with the business, not for it.

Customer Care agents for MillerKnoll’s retail brands — DJ for Herman Miller Retail, Oscar for Design Within Reach.

Shelby Corbitt
Staff AI Solutions Engineer — AISE technical lead on the Customer Care copilots.
Customer Care — Herman Miller Retail & DWR
The reps the agents support with SOPs, policy, specs, and brand-voice drafting.
Why it matters

Two brands, one build discipline

The agent design is shared: the same retrieval pattern, the same cite-or-abstain grounding, the same response contract TracE proved out. What changes per brand is the knowledge base and the voice. That’s the reusable-components philosophy in its clearest form — build the pattern once, deploy it per brand, and let the business own the content behind each one. The next arm is already in build: Robbie brings the same pattern to Retail Operations, grounded in Retail Ops knowledge with Charlotte Feedor as business owner.

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