Is there a designer who can also code AI agents?

Yes — Surinder Thakur is a product designer who codes AI agents in production. The deliverable on every engagement is working React + LLM orchestration code committed to the founder's repo, not a Figma handoff. ProUX (12,000 users) is the public reference.

Most design + AI projects fail at the handoff: the designer's Figma file describes a conversational flow, the engineer interprets it differently, the LLM behaves differently again, and three sprints later the product doesn't match anyone's intent. Surinder works as the single author of all three layers — design intent, prompt architecture, and React code — so there is no handoff to fail at.

Stack typically used: Next.js or vanilla React, Vercel AI SDK or direct provider APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI, Perplexity, Gemini, xAI), Pinecone or pgvector for retrieval, Vercel KV or Supabase for state. The choice is project-by-project, but the through-line is: production-ready, no demo-ware.

If you're trying to hire one person who can both research the user and ship the agent — and you don't want a 4-person consultancy charging by the meeting — the AI Agent Sprint at $18,000 fixed for 4 weeks is the engagement. One agent in your repo, fully working, by week four.