Glue

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The Interface Design Canvas for AI agents

Winter 2026Founded 20262 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA

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AI Agent Design PlatformSaaSSoftware engineering teams, product builders using coding agentsMedium competition

Moat

Real-time design-to-code workflow for agents collapses design and engineering roles; open-source adoption builds moat.

Key risk

Fragmented agent ecosystem; coding agents may eventually inline design capability; adoption requires cultural shift.

Why now

AI coding agents (Claude, Cursor) maturing; teams seek unified design-build workflow vs. mockups + implementation.

Competitors

Figma, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Vercel v0, custom internal tools

↻ Pivot / rename signal

This company has previously operated under “Willow”. A rename frequently marks a pivot in positioning or product — useful raw material for variant ideas.

About

Glue is an open source design editor for AI agents. It gives coding agents an infinite canvas to create new interfaces, iterate on existing ones, and turn those changes into production-ready code all in real time. The rise of coding agents is collapsing EPD into one role: builders. This new paradigm means design and engineering can now converge to a single workflow. Builders no longer want static mockups in one tool, and implementation in another. Glue is a collaborative workspace where builders and agents can create new components, iterate on existing interfaces, and implement as code. The same tight feedback loop that once made Figma powerful for designers is now built for builders and their armies of agents. Being open source allows us to penetrate workflows at zero cost and build trust quickly. Right now there are no design tools with AI as the primary user. Existing tools bolt on copilots as an afterthought. Soon, every company will have AI agents building their interfaces. We are building the surface for this workflow.

Founders · 2

Perbhat KumarFounder

Amazon

Microsoft

ceo at Glue. prev engineer at Amazon and Microsoft. worked on a home launcher redesign for Kindle Fire, and built enterprise-scale rag agents at Microsoft Copilot Studio. now focused on building interface design tools for ai agents.

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