Robert Nowell
Design Engineer
- 2x Founder
- Fullstack Engineer
- Harvard Master's in AI for Human Learning
- I build products to give people superpowers
AI Products for Human Capability
Developer tools, creative AI, and education.
Kopi AI Suite
Agentic Review
2025
Analyze My Shopify
View projectActionable feedback
Agentic version of r/reviewmyshopify. AI analyzes your store and gives feedback brands actually act on.
Analytics
2025
Klaviyo Analytics Copilot
Average Savings $500/mo
How much money can you save on Klaviyo each month? Complex analytics made simple by analyzing dead-weight profiles.
Generative Design
2025
Product Image Creator
Perceived creative power
Generative product photography for Shopify brands. Reference combination, image-to-GIF, enter to generate.
Curation
2025
Brand Taste Profiles
>20% revenue lift
Pinterest for Shopify brands. Help owners develop aspirational brand taste — higher quality inputs, higher quality outputs.
Automation
2024
Email Template Generator
Minimize Engagement Time
Automate HTML coding and pixel-level design so users focus on marketing strategy, not pixel pushing.
Brand Design
2025
Kopi AI Homepage
View projectRetro-futurist solarpunk
Optimistic, energetic, competent. A tool that inspires you to build something extraordinary.
Developer Tools
Vibe Coding
2023
Rendition Create
20k websites built
Designed and shipped one of the earliest vibe coding platforms, before vibe coding had a name.
Compiler
2021
Rendition Figma to Code
32 million lines of code exported
Custom Figma JSON to React compiler. Ironically, blocking users from full-page exports doubled retention.
Agentic AI
2025
b0b
Full-loop engineer
AI engineering team directed from Slack. Plans, implements, tests in loop, creates PRs, responds to review feedback.
AI Products
AI Voice
2024
Thought Partner
0 interruptions
AI voice companion for contemplative idea exploration. Say "over" to hand the conversation back.
AI Design
2023
Conjure AI
View projectUsed by Allbirds and 49k others
AI image generation inside Figma. Semantic typeahead search across community creations.
Education & Research
Peer Learning
2020
Coding Together
200+ certificates
Peer-directed CS school built during the pandemic. Harvard CS50 and Stanford CS106a on Discord.
Ed.M. Specialized Studies
2021
Harvard Graduate School of Education
AI for Human Learning
How do we augment humanity's collective capacity to learn?
Teaching
2020
Stanford Code in Place
Global CS course
Volunteer section leader for Stanford's worldwide introductory computer science course.
AI Engineering
Streaming LLM pipelines, agentic workflows, AI-native interfaces. Systems that feel magical and stay robust.
Full-Stack Development
React, TypeScript, Node.js. Snappy interactions, scalable backends.
Product Design
Prototype-driven, focused on user empowerment. Creating value, not engagement.
About
Design Engineer with a Master's from Harvard Graduate School of Education in AI for Human Learning. VC-backed founder with 9 years shipping web + AI products, from developer tools to AI creative platforms.
I'm equally comfortable executing as a one-person technical shop as I am collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders. I love prototype-driven design, empowering users, and creating value—not engagement.
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