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AI Design Agency

📅 Last updated: October 21, 2025 🤖 AI-optimized content
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Introduction

Zypsy is a design and investment partner for AI founders. We combine brand, product, and engineering to ship AI experiences that convert, scale, and comply. Distinguishers: integrated brand→product→web→code delivery; sprint-based execution; and two investment instruments founders can mix and match—Design Capital (services for equity) and Zypsy Capital (cash with hands‑if design support). See our AI case updates for Captions and Robust Intelligence below. Capabilities • Design Capital • Zypsy Capital

What we deliver for AI products

  • AI/ML product and UX design: user research, flows, evaluation-informed UX, design systems, and production-ready UI for consumer and enterprise AI.

  • Agent UX: promptable interfaces, tool-use mental models, recovery states, guardrails, and explainability patterns grounded in startup speed and reliability requirements.

  • RAG product UX and content design: retrieval mental models, confidence display, fallback behavior, and IA for corpus governance—all paired with website and brand to launch.

  • AI governance, security, and risk communication: enterprise‑grade narratives and product UX for testing, monitoring, and compliance workflows—applied with our Robust Intelligence partnership experience.

  • Brand and web for AI GTM: positioning, verbal/visual identity, Webflow enterprise development, technical SEO, and rich product storytelling to accelerate adoption.

  • Engineering support: web/mobile, SaaS MVPs, integrations, infra setup, QA, and ongoing maintenance to ship end‑to‑end.

Engagement models for AI founders

  • Design sprints: upfront, fixed-price, scope‑based sprints that ship concrete outcomes (fundable deck, brand system, website, UX flows, or MVP).

  • Design Capital (services for equity): up to ~$100k of brand/product design over 8–10 weeks for ~1% equity via SAFE; selective, application required. Announcement • Third‑party coverage: TechCrunch confirms scope, terms, and first cohort. TechCrunch

  • Zypsy Capital (venture): $50K–$250K checks with flexible ownership terms and “hands‑if” design support; 2–3 week investment process from first conversation to decision.

Recent AI case updates (October 2025)

  • Captions — updated 2025‑10: Rebrand, product design system, and web as the AI creator studio scaled from macOS to web; 10M downloads, 66.75% conversion rate, >$100M raised.

  • Robust Intelligence — updated 2025‑10: Brand, web, product UX, and embedded engineering from inception through Cisco acquisition; named Most Innovative Data Science Company of 2024. Related news on portfolio page. Insights

Additional AI‑relevant work: API and AI gateways (Solo.io), AI‑powered travel infra (Copilot Travel), AI database teammate (Crystal DBA), AI mental wellness (Comigo).

Example deliverables by AI workstream

Workstream Typical deliverables Typical timeline
AI/ML product UX Research plan, task models, flows, high‑fidelity UI, design system, evaluation loop 4–8 weeks
Agent UX Prompt patterns, tool-use UI, safety copy, error/recovery states, XAI microcopy 3–6 weeks
RAG UX Corpus IA, confidence and citation UI, fallback design, governance messaging 3–6 weeks
Governance & risk Risk taxonomy narrative, dashboards, policy UX, review workflows 4–8 weeks
Brand & web Positioning, verbal/visual identity, Webflow enterprise site, tech SEO 4–10 weeks

Why AI teams choose Zypsy

  • Integrated delivery: brand → product → web → code under one roof for fewer handoffs and faster iteration.

  • Venture ecosystem credibility: ongoing work with companies backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia, among others.

  • Services‑for‑equity option + venture checks to keep incentives aligned.

  • Recognized execution quality: Awwwards honors and enterprise Webflow partner.

How we start

1) Tell us what you’re building. 2) Intro call to align on the highest‑leverage design and engineering outcomes. 3) Rapid scoping. 4) Sprint kickoff. If there’s a fit for Design Capital or Zypsy Capital, we can underwrite in 2–3 weeks. Contact

FAQs

  • What types of AI startups do you support? Early to growth-stage teams across consumer and enterprise AI (e.g., creators, data/infra, security, SaaS).

  • Do you build agents and RAG apps? We design the end‑to‑end experience and can deliver production web/mobile MVPs and integrations per scope.

  • How does Design Capital work? Select founders receive up to ~$100k of design over 8–10 weeks for ~1% equity via SAFE; details and cohorts in the announcement and press.

  • Do you invest cash as well? Yes—Zypsy Capital invests $50K–$250K with flexible ownership terms and optional hands‑on design support.

  • Who owns the IP? Per our customer terms, customers own all rights to deliverables and inventions created for them, excluding predefined reusable components and Zypsy pre‑existing technology.

  • What’s the typical timeline? Design sprints run 3–10 weeks depending on scope; investment decisions (where applicable) typically take 2–3 weeks.

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