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About · Design for AI

Knowing what deserves to be made.

Why we exist

We believe design is an argument. And right now, most products are losing it.

The world is moving at a very fast pace. We are making digital experiences day in day out. It's much easier to make them, but the judgement of what and how is scarce. But someone has to take the responsibility of knowing whether something is clear, trustworthy, useful and worth using.

So here we are, owning it up. With new practices and old.

Design for AI began with a simple observation: people often know when something is wrong with a product, but struggle to explain why. That explanation matters.

Every clarity gap, every broken trust signal, every point of friction in a workflow has a business cost, in conversion, in retention, in the time it takes to close a deal. AI systems introduce another layer to it: uncertainty, autonomy, and decision-making. It makes decisions that carry consequence for the people on the other side of the screen. And where decisions carry financial impact, operational risk, or human consequence — across regulated industries, enterprise platforms, commerce ecosystems, and personal health experiences — intelligence is not an add-on. These costs look invisible until someone names them.

We built KAi to name them.

To make judgment more structured, evidence-based, and legible. To give it the language and form that travels across a team, a conversation, a decision.

At the heart of this is something older than AI: the user. Their needs, expectations, frustrations, and context should not be a final validation step after decisions have already been made. They should shape and inform the decisions, the business strategies and consequences.

So each time we evaluate a product, we create an observation. Every observation becomes evidence. Evidence reveals patterns. Patterns become knowledge. Over time, that knowledge builds into something much bigger. A living reference of a world increasingly created by AI, experienced by humans, and changed at extraordinary speed. We are building that — not a checklist, or opinions or AI generated reports, but intelligence — that observes products, connects evidence with research and human experience, and continuously develops a clearer picture of what makes digital products work.

Because when AI can build almost anything, the next advantage will not be the ability to make more. It will be knowing what deserves to be made.

The team
Arushi Agarwal
Arushi Agarwal
Founder · Lead Researcher

Drives the research and business foundations of KAi. Believes the gap between good design and the boardroom is a communication problem that structured audits can close.

Ashutosh Srivastava
Ashutosh Srivastava
Cofounder · Product Development

Turns audit frameworks into working systems. Focused on the engine that scores, structures, and surfaces the right signal from every product evaluation.

Ayush Goyal
Ayush Goyal
Founding Engineer

Builds the infrastructure that makes KAi run at scale. First engineer on the team — responsible for turning the audit prototype into a product people can rely on.

Reach out

Contribute to the DFAI research or general query

kai@designforai.org