From Design to Build: The Agentic Workflow
As AI agents become increasingly write code, the bottleneck shifts upstream. The quality of the design specification now determines the quality of the build.
In an agentic workflow, the quality of the design specification increasingly determines the quality of the build.
To better delve into this, we'll cover:
Why design specs are becoming a critical engineering artifact in an AI-native workflow.
How to write specifications that AI agents can reliably execute.
The journey from design intent to working implementation.
Why builds fail to match the original vision and how to recover.
What these changes mean for the future of engineering teams
The discussion will feature:
Ali Benter, a former Microsoft design leader across Copilot, Outlook, and Inclusive Design for Mental Health & Cognition, now helping companies accelerate through independent advisory work and Flexxi Studio, an embedded partner for AI, product, brand, and web.
Ashley Nader, an AI-first product leader and founder with deep experience building 0-to-1 products at the intersection of AI, design, and enterprise software. She has held product leadership roles at companies including Arthur AI, Crayon, PhoneBurner, etc with expertise spanning a broad range of topics. Currently, she is building 0-to-1 AI products, with deep work in agent systems, evals, and voice AI.
Kyle Carriedo, Managing Partner and co-founder of Misfit Labs and former Senior Engineer at Apple who went on to found and scale multiple ventures. Today, he leads Misfit Labs' work in agentic engineering, AI-powered software development, and venture creation, helping startups and enterprises build AI-native products and organizations.
Who should come: Founders, CTOs, engineers, operators, and anyone actively trying to figure out how to build, integrate, or scale with AI.