Typically, product teams still spend weeks fixing a problem that should not exist. Designers work in static files, hand them over to developers, and then wait while mockups are rebuilt in code. By the time changes reach production, the original design intent is often lost.
Here’s where Modeinspect is trying to remove that bottleneck entirely. The Prague and San Francisco-based startup lets designers edit live products directly, much like developers edit code.
Instead of improving prototypes, ModeInspect removes them entirely. Its platform allows designers to edit live products directly in production, much like developers work with code, while ensuring outputs meet engineering standards.
To accelerate this approach, Modeinspect has raised $3.4 million in a seed funding round led by Partech. Credo Ventures and Angelinvest also joined the round, along with several industry operators, including Meta product design lead Michal Vasko, Kiwi.com co-founder Jozef Kepesi, and Grafbase founder Fredrik Bjork.
The latest raise brings Modeinspect’s total funding to $4.2 million.
Letting designers edit live products
Founded by Martin Antos , Denis Laca, Slavo Glinsky, and Adam Pavlisin, Modeinspect lets designers edit live products the way developers edit code.
“We built a new core technology for understanding large enterprise codebases, which enabled high-fidelity code generation on these codebases. One day, we were in talks with an enterprise team about it. They told us that they would love to have their design team ship things instead of just drawing everything in Figma and asked us whether we could use this tech with their codebase and built an interface which would solve this job for their design team,” says Martin Antos to TFN.
By eliminating the handoff between design and development, it’s creating a new era of real-time, production-grade design.
“Design tools have made prototypes look more beautiful. But in large companies, designers and developers struggle to collaborate efficiently. Our solution is simple: designers create directly what they want, and developers make sure the code output fits their standards instead of spending time on the whole implementation with their already packed engineering capacity,” said Martin Antos, co-founder and CEO of Modeinspect.
Modeinspect is already live with Kiwi.com and is now scaling to serve Fortune 500 companies, e-commerce leaders, and consumer software enterprises.
What’s next?
The new funding will be used to accelerate adoption, deepen enterprise partnerships and scale operations, as ModeInspect expands its platform for large product teams.
“Modeinspect is defining a new operating layer between design and engineering. They are tackling one of the most entrenched process inefficiencies in product creation. Their platform finally puts AI into the hands of design teams, transforming them into real-time collaborators, eliminating the endless iterations until a product change goes live,” says Moritz Steinbrecher, Principal at Partech.
