With AI coding, product development is moving 10x faster, but executives managing these products simply can’t keep up.
This is the core issue that our startup, Agilow, is solving. I’m so excited to share that Agilow competed in the final round of the esteemed McGinnis Venture Competition with the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University!
Since December 2025, I have worked as Agilow’s Founding Designer to lead the user research process. This included interviews, contextual inquiries with potential customers, affinity diagraming, usability testing, and more. All the while, we networked with individuals and companies relevant to our problem space and worked our way through three rounds of the McGinnis Venture Competition.
After three months of user research and customer discovery, I put my design, vibe-coding, and prompt engineering skills to the test as I used Lovable to build our initial prototype. Our customer research and prototype was enough to secure eight design partners— real companies willing to work with us as we develop our software!
I’m so glad to have been on this journey with our Co-Founders Shiv Panjwani and Antonio Bojorges, Founding Engineer Shaurya Singh, Security Expert Sushrut Kulkarni, and Operations Manager Precious Oluwanifemi . Thank you to Allyson Hince, Jim Berardone, John Zimmerman, and Arshad Sayyad for your support.