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Visual editor to design in production code

Rivet is a visual AI editor for product designers to make UI changes. Designers ship the changes they make directly to their codebase. The most painful problem for designers today is that their vision doesn't match code. Rivet replaces slow collaboration between designers and engineers by letting designers just do it themselves. Rivet's editor helps turn product designers into design engineers. Design-led companies in YC F25 are Rivet customers. Learn more at rivet.design
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Sam Gorman
Sam Gorman
Founder
Founder of Rivet. Previously led product engineering teams as an early engineer at Snorkel AI. Built an app & grew it to 100,000+ users. Studied Product Design & Computer Science at Stanford.
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Rivet - Burn down your design backlog
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TLDR: Product designers own the look and feel of their app’s interface with Rivet’s visual AI tools. No more waiting for engineers. Point at any element in your live product, change it, and ship it yourself. Rivet translates precise design intent into clean, reviewable code you can merge.

→ Try Rivet today at rivet.design

Watch a customer polish their product with Rivet:

Here’s an example of how Item (a design-first, AI native CRM) used Rivet to refine details in their UI.

  1. Select any element on a web application. Use your styles to change it.

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  1. Refine your UI. Change spacing, colors, layouts. Get it pixel-perfect.

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  1. Ship it. When you’re done, Rivet pushes quality code to your repo just like a frontend engineer on your team would.

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The problem: Design debt piles up, even at the best companies.

Every software company has a growing list of polish issues that never get fixed.

  • Broken loading states
  • Buttons that look wrong on mobile
  • Colors that don't match your app’s styles
  • Spacing that's off by 4px

Product designers live in these details, and they’ve been gated out of making real changes to real apps. Instead, they spend time crafting details that get lost when it comes to implementation.

Rivet helps designers own the quality of their interface, and frees up engineers to do more engineering work.

Why I built Rivet

I’m a repeat founder and former early product engineer at Snorkel AI. I owned AI products for non-technical users as Snorkel scaled to Series D over 3 years. I started my career as a product designer and built at the intersection of design & engineering for the last 7 years.

I built Rivet because I watched the work of brilliant designers get diluted. I think product designers today are like artists without a paintbrush. They have to ask others to paint for them instead. We should just give product designers a brush, and let them paint their masterpiece in code.

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Designers → Start shipping today!

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Are you a product designer?

🎨  Go to rivet.design and sign up

Not a designer? That’s great too!

Send rivet.design to your designer and let them start burning down your polish items

YC startups and design studios are already using Rivet to shortcut design handoffs and fix every UI polish item they can think of. Designers are shipping their own work. And engineers are getting their time back.

🟧 YC deal: We'll fast-track you off the waitlist & apply a YC discount

✏️ Want to just rant about design handoffs or your growing backlog? Send your worst story to sam@rivet.design

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Rivet
Founded:2025
Batch:Fall 2025
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:Aaron Epstein