# Metacarbon > Humans & Agents Design Company. Design direction, experience strategy, and design engineering for companies building with AI. Designers who ship production-grade UI at engineering speed. Metacarbon is a human + agent design company — the design partner for AI-accelerated product teams and fast-paced companies. We believe design should compound: we set and hold the design direction across brand, web, and product, build the design infrastructure to run it on, and then serve as the ongoing design partner. Human craft, agentic workflows, and product thinking work as one, so design becomes a driver instead of a bottleneck. Our designers ship production-ready UI: they prototype in code, maintain component systems, and work inside your repository. Our method is steering between synthetic and organic: direction is human, infrastructure is engineered. Repetitive patterns and token systems are generated; onboarding flows, retention strategy, and brand moments are human craft. Ideation happens in heads, code, and canvases — Figma when it's right, code when it's faster, generative UI for exploration, agents for ongoing builds. Design context (tokens, components, usage rules) is served to humans and agents alike via MCP, and code stays linked to Figma through a bidirectional pipeline. The team is small and feisty — around 21 people, growing in quality, not headcount — spanning design managers, product designers and design engineers, brand and graphic designers, and full-stack engineers (API, performance, integrations), paired with agent teammates (Claude, Copilot, Codex) under human direction. Canonical site: https://metacarbon.com · Contact: hello@metacarbon.com · Book an intro call: https://metacarbon.com/?book=1 Full site content in one file: https://metacarbon.com/llms-full.txt Last updated: 2026-07-06 ## Core pages - [Home](https://metacarbon.com/): Services (Design Direction, Design Engineering, Visual Things), featured and selected work, the Dynamic Process (AI-accelerated; owned, directed, and steered by human designers), client testimonials, and team. - [Methodology](https://metacarbon.com/methodology): How we design AI-native products. Disciplines: system design, user experience, UI design, design engineering, rapid building, design-agents orchestration, visual design, motion. Contextual toolset: Figma when it's right, code when it's faster, MCP for context, generative UI for exploration, agents for ongoing builds. Design is treated as infrastructure that ships with every feature. - [Design Engineering](https://metacarbon.com/design-engineering): Design infra and orchestration for teams moving fast. Three layers: Token Studio — our proprietary multi-axis token system (color, typography, spacing, motion) compiling to CSS, Tailwind, Figma variables, and native iOS/Android; components built in your codebase, documented in Storybook, visually tested with Chromatic, kept in parity with Figma via Code Connect; and rules agents can follow — usage rules and component specs served to humans and machines through MCP or API. When to hire it: slow fragmented iterations, design context scattered across tools, engineers shipping without designers, Figma diverging from production, components nobody uses, features rebuilt from scratch, AI copilots breaking team conventions. What it ships (over 3–6 months): a production-grade design system with AI-ready annotations, UI/UX delivered in code, a single source of truth across design and engineering, shorter decision-to-production cycles, and a Figma ↔ code loop that removes handoff friction. - [Career](https://metacarbon.com/career): Always hiring two roles — Product Designers (set the direction) and Design Engineers (ship it in code and orchestrate the interfaces). We hire for attitude and vision. Apply: hello@metacarbon.com. ## Selected work - [Cortex](https://metacarbon.com/cases/cortex): Engineering operations platform (cortex.io). Ongoing partnership since 2024 — deep UX revamp of a data-heavy product to prepare it for scale, redesigned dashboards that surface insights faster for engineering leaders, design system, and from 2025 a brand identity and marketing visual language across marketing, employer branding, and community conferences. Cortex runs in 97+ countries with 41,000+ engineering teams onboarded. Featured case. - [ApplyPass](https://metacarbon.com/cases/applypass): AI-powered job search that auto-applies to software engineering jobs (400+ jobs per user per week). Full platform revamp: product design, design engineering, front-end development, design system, UX copy. Moved the product from a Bubble MVP to a repository-based frontend with a typed component library, a Figma ↔ code pipeline, and an LLM-instruction layer — roughly 30% faster feature delivery. Featured case. - [Slash](https://metacarbon.com/cases/slash): Data-driven neobank for high-spend businesses, Y Combinator-backed — a fintech unicorn valued at $1.4B after its 2026 Series C. A full embedded partnership running 36+ months: product, brand, motion, and design engineering across web and mobile. Red Dot Award winner. Featured case. - [Luminai](https://luminai.com): The AI platform for health system operations (Y Combinator-backed, Series B). We built their marketing website — interactive and high-load, shipped with no developers in the process — and continue with ongoing UI/UX and design engineering across their product suite. No case page yet; the live site is the work. - [Koia](https://metacarbon.com/cases/koia): Fractional marketplace for investments into alternative assets — from sneakers to fine wine. Product redesign, UX strategy, design system. - [Metamundo](https://metacarbon.com/cases/metamundo): Marketplace for the 3D web — assets, models, and scenes. Redesigned browsing and purchasing across web and mobile. - [Amnesia](https://metacarbon.com/cases/amnesia): Highlyte by Amnesia — marketing compliance tool for the cannabis industry, checking content against legal and social-media policies. - [Bookis](https://metacarbon.com/cases/bookis): Social marketplace making paper books more sustainable (Schibsted-backed). Product strategy, UX/UI, branding, illustrations. - [Koala](https://metacarbon.com/cases/koala): Student engagement app for iPad and Chromebook. Activation rate +20% after the redesign; Best Virtual Classroom 2023. - [Maekersuite](https://metacarbon.com/cases/maekersuite): Tool for building confidence in front of the camera. Redesigned from dashboard to recording, across web and mobile. - [Glorify](https://metacarbon.com/cases/glorify): Design tool for e-commerce marketing. UI/UX audit and redesign; Product Hunt Product of the Day. - [Pure Vitamins](https://metacarbon.com/cases/pure-vitamins): Conversational interface for ordering vitamins — a guided, story-driven experience replacing the typical checkout. Includes naming and branding. - [Faliam](https://metacarbon.com/cases/faliam): Dental supplies provider transitioning to tech. Product strategy, UX/UI design, and branding from scratch. ## Services - Design Direction — Product thinking, AI-interaction strategy, design intent, aesthetic and visual systems. Shaping how the product feels, how it acts, and where it should be deterministic versus dynamic. - Design Engineering — AI-driven daily design effort: machine-readable design systems, rapid builds and prototyping, iterative product design. Figma where needed, straight to code where possible, with the skills and instruction layer to handle machine intelligence properly. - Visual Things — Brand, marketing, motion. Visuals for product marketers' content engines. Digital, out-of-home, events, print. - Web — Marketing websites, built to be a proper entry point into the brand and product, with an agentic CMS under the hood. We work in two engagement models: embedded (a fully integrated design team, as with Slash and Cortex) or focused scope (a defined revamp or build, as with ApplyPass). ## Clients, investors & recognition - Partners and clients: Schibsted, Deloitte, Antler, Cortex, Creative Europe, Aptos, Y Combinator, Slash, 1st Digital. - We work with product teams backed by leading investors: Goodwater Capital, Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, Initialized. $2B+ funding raised by the companies we work with; 90% of new projects come from referrals. - Red Dot Award Winner (Slash). Rated 5/5 on Clutch across 30+ reviews; Clutch Champion Fall 2023. - "Working with your team is one of the highest ROI decisions we ever made" — Anish Dhar, CEO at Cortex. - "They really don't trade off speed for quality, because they usually do both really well." — Victor Cardenas, CEO at Slash. ## Optional - [Full content](https://metacarbon.com/llms-full.txt): Complete text of every page in one file. - [Sitemap](https://metacarbon.com/sitemap.xml): Full machine-readable sitemap. - [Robots](https://metacarbon.com/robots.txt): Crawl rules. - [Clutch reviews](https://clutch.co/profile/metacarbon): All client reviews. - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/metacarbon) · [Dribbble](https://dribbble.com/metacarbon)