Mobile App Dev

Paira matches founders, builders and collaborators through an AI assistant instead of a swipe deck. The team came to us with a vision and an early concept.

We handled the end-to-end design of this product, from initial architecture to final execution, working closely with the startup’s in-house designers to ensure a seamless workflow from start to finish.

The core interaction is a request typed in plain language, answered with real people and matching opportunities. That had to feel fast and trustworthy, while profiles, requests and networking flows stayed coherent around it.

The audience is Gen Z. The interface had to look like something they would actually open twice.

We mapped the product before drawing it: the request-to-match loop, profiles, networking requests and the assistant that ties them together. Only then did we design the screens, so the AI conversation, the people cards and the follow-up actions share one logic.

The visual system is dark by default with a single accent, built as components so the in-house team could extend it. We iterated with the founders in short cycles until the app was ready for engineering.

Paira left with a complete product architecture, a polished interface and a design system its own team keeps building on. The app is live on the App Store, with the core experience validated before a line of production code was written.