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AI x Design: Founders, Tools, and the New Creative Stack

<div>This isn’t a talk on theory. It’s a conversation among builders.<br><br></div><div>Join fellow founders, designers, and product thinkers in Surat to explore how AI is reshaping the way we design — from smarter workflows to faster MVPs and entirely new creative stacks.<br><br></div><div>We’ll talk tools, share real-world experiments, and dive into how AI is shifting product thinking, design processes, and team collaboration.<br><br></div><div>Whether you're building with Figma, prompting with Midjourney, or exploring how AI fits into your startup — this is where the real conversations happen.</div>

This isn’t a talk on theory. It’s a conversation among builders.
Join fellow founders, designers, and product thinkers in Surat to explore how AI is reshaping the way we design — from smarter workflows to faster MVPs and entirely new creative stacks.
We’ll talk tools, share real-world experiments, and dive into how AI is shifting product thinking, design processes, and team collaboration.
Whether you're building with Figma, prompting with Midjourney, or exploring how AI fits into your startup — this is where the real conversations happen.

Himanshu Patel Neel Patel 🦕 Jigar Patel Ankesh, Himanshu + 8 others went See who came

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AI Which AI coding tool do you build with?
Brijesh Patel Siddhant Trivedi Jatin Chaudhary Pragnesh Shah Rushabh Shah
Claude Code 4 votes · 50%
Cursor 1 vote · 13%
OpenAI Codex 1 vote · 13%
Replit 1 vote · 13%
Lovable 1 vote · 13%
GitHub Copilot 0 votes · 0%
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Operations What do you get documents signed with?
Sharib Sultan Manan Maheshwari Amish Trivedi Yash Shah Ritwik Joshi Viraj Rajani
DocuSign 3 votes · 50%
Adobe Acrobat Sign 1 vote · 17%
PandaDoc 1 vote · 17%
Others 1 vote · 17%
Zoho Sign 0 votes · 0%
Dropbox Sign 0 votes · 0%
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Money & Legal How have you funded your business so far?
Jay Dobariya Harsh Luhar Anuj Dalal Akshay Solanki Tushar Prajapati Jatin Chaudhary Rahul Sharma Pragnesh Shah +7
Bootstrapped 14 votes · 88%
Angel investors 1 vote · 6%
A VC firm 1 vote · 6%
AngelList or LetsVenture syndicate 0 votes · 0%
Venture Catalysts or 100X.VC 0 votes · 0%
An accelerator 0 votes · 0%
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Money & Legal Which bank do you use and recommend for your startup?
Jay Dobariya Ahesan Ali Hirva Bhatt Akshay Solanki Kishan Parekh Harsha Bhurani Ayyan Karmakar Brijesh Tekrawala +25
ICICI Bank 14 votes · 37%
HDFC Bank 9 votes · 24%
Kotak Mahindra Bank 9 votes · 24%
IDFC First Bank 2 votes · 5%
State Bank of India 1 vote · 3%
Yes Bank 1 vote · 3%
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People & Hiring How do you run payroll and HR?
Sharib Sultan Amish Trivedi Manan Maheshwari
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RazorpayX Payroll 1 vote · 33%
GreytHR 0 votes · 0%
Zoho Payroll 0 votes · 0%
Kredily 0 votes · 0%
Darwinbox 0 votes · 0%
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Sales & Marketing What do you use for forms and surveys?
Ahesan Ali Harsh Luhar Sharib Sultan Akshay Solanki Anmol Parimoo Haripriya Epuri Rohit Jain Yash Shah +5
Google Forms 10 votes · 63%
Microsoft Forms 2 votes · 13%
Typeform 1 vote · 6%
Zoho Forms 1 vote · 6%
Others 1 vote · 6%
Youform 1 vote · 6%
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Operations Which cloud telephony runs your business calls?
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People & Hiring Which accelerator or incubator were you part of?
Akshay Solanki Nandan Shukla Ritwik Joshi Rushabh Shah Kush Prajapati
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A state or govt incubator 3 votes · 43%
i-Hub 1 vote · 14%
Y Combinator 0 votes · 0%
Techstars 0 votes · 0%
Antler 0 votes · 0%
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AI Which AI image or video tool do you create with?
Manan Maheshwari Satish Kumar Pabbathi Anmol Parimoo Harry Rajput Jatin Chaudhary Bhavesh Patel Ritwik Joshi Viraj Rajani
Google Veo 5 votes · 38%
DALL-E 2 votes · 15%
Adobe Firefly 2 votes · 15%
Midjourney 1 vote · 8%
Ideogram 1 vote · 8%
Leonardo AI 1 vote · 8%
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AI Which AI assistant do you reach for first?
Aryan Panchal Jatin Chaudhary Kush Prajapati Rushabh Shah
Claude 3 votes · 60%
ChatGPT 1 vote · 20%
Gemini 1 vote · 20%
Perplexity 0 votes · 0%
Grok 0 votes · 0%
Microsoft Copilot 0 votes · 0%
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