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Designing clarity and trust into early-stage AI products

Product design for founders and teams building AI users actually trust, and use.

  • Currently accepting clients
  • One-week start time
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Teams we’ve worked with

  • Democritus AI
  • Mercura
  • Audrion
  • Metaforms
  • Tensorlake
  • Peggy
  • Revalgo
  • TANK
  • Verge

Democritus AI

Industrial data & AI

2026

  • Branding
  • Product Design
  • Web

Project controllers spend most of the week checking the same numbers across Excel, Primavera and SAP. Democritus reads all of it where it already sits, so nobody has to move the data to ask a question of it.

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“Exceptional work by Likitha and her team. In industrial AI, few designers bridge technical complexity with simple design, and she did exactly that. She grasped our domain constraints quickly and delivered high-quality branding and product design on time. If you're building something complex, hire her.”

Swaroop GururajCEO, Democritus AI

Peggy

AI Parenting App

2025 – now

  • Product Design
  • Web
  • Marketing

Peggy reads the school emails a parent is already getting and turns them into a calendar, a short list of what needs doing, and reminders that arrive in time. The hard part was making it feel like relief instead of one more thing to set up.

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“The whole Peggy design has morphed into something extremely beautiful and the difference is very clear. Sometimes when I compare the old version (when it was just boxes, shapes, and text) to what it is now, I can’t help but smile. You didn’t just redesign screens, you gave the app feeling, personality, color, and intention. You completely transformed the experience. You actually made me understand the relevance of design and the true impact it has on users.”

Ademoye AdejareEngineer, Peggy

Audrion

YC F25

Compliance and Auditing

2025

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Audrion client portal prototype: Welcome
Audrion client portal prototype: Intake
Audrion client portal prototype: Generating
Audrion client portal prototype: Dashboard
Audrion client portal prototype: Requests
Swipe through the screens.
  • Product Design

Auditors have to be able to show their working, so an agent that hides its own is worse than no agent. We put the reasoning next to every action it suggests, and made all of it editable before anyone signs anything off.

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“Generally loved how you really dove into the business and understood what we were doing - that's been a big pain point before with agencies. And obviously the visual style was fantastic”

Chintan ParikhAudrion

Other clients

  • TensorlakeSandboxes
  • MetaformsSurvey Programming
  • RevalgoSales Order Automation
  • Tank PaymentsYC 22Payments for Trucking
  • MercuraYC 25AI Procurement
  • Verge AgAutonomous Farming
  • NuraE-Mobility
  • Your projectCurrently accepting clients

Selected pieces

  • Three Peggy screens on blue: the to-do list, the family calendar, and the family profile with each child's school and grade.
  • A slide from the Democritus brand system: rooted in history, driving tomorrow, drawn as orbits in lime on black.
  • The Revalgo marketing site and product together — a demo booking panel, the RFQ inbox, and the quote screen with margin and pricing.
  • Nura onboarding: the welcome screen, phone verification, and the location permission ask.
  • The Audrion auditor portal home in dark, with daily briefing, engagement status and risk assessment cards above the assistant.
  • Tensorlake screens: the waitlist form, creating a first API key, and the key management dashboard.
  • Nura ride flow: the home screen with an auto two minutes away, and the live map with the driver and share code.
  • Democritus brand in use across four posters, mixing photography, the orbit mark and the lime accent.
  • A marketing feature row: voice agents turning a conversation into a quote, request analytics, and ERP integrations.

How the work actually goes. Four steps, then round again.

  1. Step 01

    Understand the problem

    We read your tickets, sit in your calls, and watch people use what you have now. The brief usually changes by the end of it.

  2. Step 02

    Prototype with Claude

    Claude gets a working version standing up in days. Arguing about a real screen beats arguing about a description of one.

  3. Step 03

    Test and feedback

    It goes in front of the people who will actually use it. We write down where they hesitate, not only what they tell us.

  4. Step 04

    Polish and hand off

    Every state, every edge case, and a file your engineers can build from without asking us what we meant by it.

Most things take two or three passes before they are right.

Seven years of product design. Available from next week.

  • Skip the hiring cycle

    A senior design hire takes three months to find and two more before they are of any use to you. We could start on the work next week.

  • Clickable in days

    You get something real in front of users inside the first fortnight. Better to learn an idea is wrong in week two than defend it for ten more.

  • Brand, with a partner studio

    Branding runs with Public Knowledge Studio, so your identity and your product get made alongside each other, not one after the other.

Start with one project. Stay on as long as it's useful.

Three ways to work with us. Which one fits depends on how much is still undecided — we'll tell you honestly which we'd pick.

Retainer

For teams shipping every week who need design to keep up.

Flat monthly fee

  • Standing weekly time and a fixed review slot
  • Roadmap work designed as it comes, not in batches
  • Priority on anything blocking a release
  • Marketing assets in the same engagement
  • Month to month, cancel with 30 days' notice

Two-week sprint

For one focused problem you want solved and tested.

$1,998 flat

  • One problem statement, agreed before we start
  • Two weeks from kickoff to delivery
  • Figma flows or a clickable prototype, your call
  • Files handed over at the end, yours to build from

Fixed scope

For a defined project with a clear scope and finish line.

Quoted per project

  • Scope agreed in writing before we start
  • Fixed price that doesn't move if the work runs long
  • Weekly deliverables, no big reveal at the end
  • Handover session with your team
  • Private Slack channel

Brand and marketing work runs in partnership with Public Knowledge Studio.

Want a number for the first two?

Tell us what you’re building and we’ll come back with scope and a price — usually within a day.

You’ve got questions? We’ve got answers.

Who's behind Studio Infer?

A small senior team taking one project at a time. Whoever made the thing you're looking at is the person you'll be talking to. There's no account manager in between.

How does onboarding work?

A half-hour call, a short written scope, then we start. Most engagements begin within a week of that call and you see the first real deliverable in the first five days.

What do you actually work on?

Product design and the brand around it, mostly for early-stage AI teams. We're strongest when the shape of the thing is still up for debate. But if you already know exactly what you want built, you probably want a bigger studio than us.

How many clients do you take at a time?

One primary engagement plus a couple of retainers. That cap is the only reason the weekly cadence actually holds.

Do you work with our engineers?

Yes, and we'd rather. Design and build run together so what launches is what was designed. You get tokens and components, not a folder of flat files.

Can I pause or cancel?

Retainers are month to month with 30 days' notice. Fixed-scope work is quoted upfront and the price doesn't move if the work turns out to take us longer than we thought. That risk is ours.

Do you do research?

Before anything gets designed. We talk to your users and read whatever analytics exist. The uncomfortable questions usually surface the actual problem, which is often not the one we were hired to solve.

How does payment work?

Sprints are paid upfront. Fixed-scope splits 40 / 30 / 30 across the project. Retainers bill monthly in advance. Payment is a bank transfer, usually to a US account, or to an Indian one if that is easier for you.