Introduction

Zypsy is a San Francisco–founded design and investment partner for AI-first startups. We design agent experiences, operational dashboards, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows—then ship them to production with integrated brand, web, and engineering support. Headquarters: 100 Broadway, San Francisco, CA 94111. See the listing on Google Maps.

What we do: brand, product, website, and engineering in sprint-based engagements for early- to growth-stage teams.
How we invest: Design Capital (services-for-equity) and Zypsy Capital (cash).
Proof: recognized work and AI case studies across security, travel, creator tools, data infra, and developer platforms.

What we design for AI products

Agent UX (LLM copilots and assistants)

We craft agent experiences that are goal-oriented, tool-using, and safety-aware:

Conversation-to-action flows, structured intents, and confirmation steps
Tool invocation UX (planner and tool output reveals), error recoveries, and human-in-the-loop handoffs
Safety, privacy, and disclosure patterns for trustworthy automation (draws on our transparency guidelines).

Operational dashboards (model and business ops)

We design dashboards that unify signals across product, model, and business:

Model health and drift indicators, evals, guardrail events, and incident controls
Customer analytics, cohort behavior, and funnel instrumentation
Governance, access controls, and auditability for enterprise stakeholders

RAG workflows (search, cite, ground)

We make knowledge-grounded UX that earns trust:

Ingestion UI for sources, schemas, and syncs; content status and error handling
Retrieval UI with facets, filters, semantic previews, and cite-to-source patterns
Answer reveal strategies (quotes, footnotes, and provenance) plus feedback loops for re-ranking and evals

San Francisco 8–10 week AI UX bundles

Zypsy’s sprints compress strategy, interaction, and systems into an 8–10 week push. For qualified SF startups, bundles can be funded via Design Capital (~1% equity via SAFE) or cash.

Bundle	Key outcomes	Typical scope	Duration	Commercial model
Agents Starter	Shippable copilot MVP with guardrails	IA, task/intent model, dialog flows, tool UX, safety patterns, UI kit	8–10 weeks	Design Capital (~1% equity via SAFE) or cash retainer
Ops Dashboard	Unified product+model ops dashboard	KPI schema, alerting model, views, RBAC, data viz components	8–10 weeks	Design Capital or cash
RAG GTM	Trustworthy retrieval experience	Source ingestion UX, retrieval/citation UI, eval loop, empty states, docs	8–10 weeks	Design Capital or cash

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Selected AI work

Robust Intelligence — AI security brand, web, and product from inception through acquisition by Cisco; enterprise trust, governance, and UX at scale.
Copilot Travel — Multi‑audience platform with AI assistants, complex IA, and aviation integrations; brand and product system.
Captions — Rebrand and design system for an AI creator studio spanning web and apps; scaled design system in two months.
Crystal DBA — AI teammate for fleets of PostgreSQL databases; brand, website, and product clarity for ops-heavy users.
Solo.io — API and AI gateways leader; enterprise website system and product design at massive scale.

Process and team

Sprint rhythm: discovery → architecture → flows and prototypes → design system → production build and QA
Integrated delivery: brand → product → site → code, under one team.
Investment options: services-for-equity 8–10 week design program or cash checks ($50K–$250K) with hands‑if support.

Why Zypsy for SF founders

Founded in San Francisco (2018); 40+ launches and $2B+ client valuation gains across venture-backed companies.
Venture ecosystem fluency; ongoing work with companies backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, YC, and others.
Enterprise-grade web delivery as a certified Webflow partner.
Third‑party validation of Design Capital model.

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