How Akraya Runs Embedded UX Research Teams

The useful part

The biggest worry with bringing in outside research help is that you will end up with another contractor to manage on top of everything else. You get a dedicated researcher who works inside your product team, while Akraya handles the management, continuity, and delivery behind them. This guide explains what that looks like in practice and what Akraya manages so the extra capacity doesn't create extra work for you.

How it works

• What an embedded UX research team looks like at Akraya Akraya gives you a dedicated researcher who joins your product team and works closely with it over time.
• They attend your team's meetings, learn your product, users, stakeholders, and roadmap, and help work out which questions need research.
• The same researcher stays with your team across multiple studies, so their knowledge keeps building.
• They do not have to relearn your product every time a new research question comes up.
• We find the researcher, manage the engagement, keep delivery on track, provide coverage when needed, and stay accountable for the work.

What to take from it

So you get the continuity of having a researcher embedded in your team without having to hire, manage, or replace that person yourself. Put simply: you get a dedicated researcher inside your team, and we manage everything behind them.

Example or evidence

• Akraya's embedded UX research model is built to avoid that.

Details worth keeping

Then they plan and run those studies as the needs come up.