OpenDesign

Demo Day · Batch W26

The design tool
built for the agent era.

One local workspace where any coding agent — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor — designs, prototypes, and ships real files. Open-source, BYOK, already inside 64,000+ repos.

Alex Rivera · Founder
01

PROBLEM

Every design tool assumes
a human moves the mouse.

Closed by default

Figma, Sketch, and Claude Design are closed-source and cloud-locked. No agent can open the file, let alone edit it.

$500/seat, one vendor

Claude Design costs $500 a seat a month, locks you to one model, and can't be self-hosted.

The handoff still breaks

Designers export to Figma, developers rebuild it by hand. The agent revolution stops at the design tool's front door.

02

SOLUTION

OpenDesign is one spine
for agent-native design.

Point any coding agent at OpenDesign and it designs like a senior product designer — reading real files, writing real code, on your own machine.

Prototyping Slides Web pages HTML video Design systems
03

WHY NOW

The wedge: agents are already on the desktop.

Zero install friction

21 coding agents already run on developer machines. OpenDesign activates the moment it's installed — no new login, no new seat to sell against.

Plug in, don't rebuild

Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor already reason and code. We only build the design-native runtime around them.

Community distribution

220+ plugins shipped by the community since launch — templates, decks, prototypes. Each one is a free acquisition channel.

Compounding memory

Every project writes to local design-system memory, so switching cost rises the longer a team stays.

04

MARKET

A massive, underserved wedge.

41M
developers worldwide who use an AI coding agent daily
$92B
TAM · design + prototyping software spend
38%
YoY growth in AI-assisted software teams

Every one of those 41M developers is currently locked out of AI design tooling. OpenDesign is the only agent-native, open-source alternative.

05

MOAT

BYOK makes our moat structural.

Community

$0
local install, community plugins, BYOK

Pro

$79
/ month · design memory, priority plugins, team sync

Cloud

0.6%
orchestration fee on hosted agent-minutes processed

Blended gross margin 78% · Apache-2.0 licensed. The moat is the agent integrations and design memory, not the code.

06

TRACTION

6 months, growing 34% MoM.

$8kOct
$15kNov
$23kDec
$36kJan
$55kFeb
$81kMar

340 paying teams · NPS 74 · Net revenue retention 121%

07

TEAM

Shipped agent-native tools before.

AR

Alex Rivera

CEO · ex-GitHub Copilot PM. Shipped agent tooling to 2M+ developers.

JM

Jordan Ma

CTO · ex-Figma infra. Built the plugin runtime powering 220+ community plugins.

SO

Sam Okafor

Head of Growth · ex-Vercel DX. Took open-source dev tools from 0 to 60K GitHub stars.

THE ASK

Raising $2.5M seed.

18 months of runway to take OpenDesign Cloud from $81K to $500K MRR while the agent-native design category is still undefined.

$2.5M
SAFE · post-money cap $18M
18 mo
runway to Series A
$500K
MRR target by close
Thanks.

alex@opendesign.dev · github.com/nexu-io/open-design

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