Stephen Haney

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Y Combinator Startup Podcast · How To Design In The Agent Era · 7 Aug 2026 podcast

The agents can speed you up and they can save you a lot of work and they can do tasks like translation or resizing for you.

But we're big believers in the human element of design and how important that is.

And so we're trying to create a tool that lets humans work really fast with agents.

It's probably very tempting to use whatever cloud design spits out.

I don't think it helps you stand out from the crowd.

And so I think design is this great differentiator.

And if you look at every great company of the last 10, 20 years, basically all of them have exceptional design.

And so I think if you want to be one of those really great companies, you have to put the care in on design and make sure that you stand out.

Yeah, I'm honored to be here.

I've watched the show a lot, and so it's really nice to be on.

Thank you for having me.

Maybe to start, tell people, what is Paper?

Yeah, well, Paper is a design tool.

It's an agent-native design tool.

And what that means is we use HTML and CSS as the actual rendering engine.

And that makes it very easy for agents to use because they understand HTML and CSS really well.

And historically, a lot of design tools have custom rendering engines.

And those are a lot harder for agents to use.

And so you'll see higher token spend, slower times, lower accuracy.

So what we're building with Paper is basically it's a group of people.

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