Nagisa Ikeda

Nagisa Ikeda is an AI design engineer building ambitious agentic products.

AI Design Engineer @ FedEx Dataworks

Founder @ Nara Labs

2nd Place — YC AI Growth Hackathon

2nd Place — YC AI Growth Hackathon · Shipped ReadyLead · Built ProbeIQ · Built Local PM OS · Shipped Ahead iOS · Building Ahead Agent

Enterprise Product Design → AI Product Design → AI Systems → Design Engineering → Founder

Agent session

Design a growth intelligence agent that identifies high-value leads and turns fragmented buyer signals into prioritized action.

I'll map the lead-scoring workflow, enrichment layer, decision logic, and outreach handoff.

readylead/agent.ts+142

growth/signals.ts+88

Currently Building

AI systems for growth, decision-making, and product workflows.

I prototype AI-native products across agents, memory, retrieval, local workflows, and decision systems — moving quickly from problem framing to working software.

Featured

Featured AI Products

AI-native products, systems, and design engineering — from agentic workflows to the infrastructure that powers them.

Product Design

Selected Product Design

Selected product experiences across fintech, healthcare, enterprise platforms, and consumer applications.

Shipping

Build log

I build continuously — products, agents, and systems.

2026

  • 2nd Place — YC AI Growth Hackathon
  • Shipped ReadyLead
  • Built ProbeIQ
  • Built Local PM OS
  • Shipped Ahead iOS
  • Building Ahead Agent
  • Kaggle Agentic Engineering

Capabilities

Building AI-native productsfrom strategy to production.

Product

Designing AI-native experiences from product strategy through interaction design.

  • Product Strategy
  • AI UX
  • Systems Design
  • Design Systems

AI Systems

Designing intelligent workflows with agents, retrieval, memory, and reasoning.

  • Agents
  • RAG
  • Memory
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • Evals
  • Prompt Engineering

Engineering

Building production-ready prototypes with modern web technologies.

  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • React
  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • REST APIs
  • Vercel

Shipping

Moving quickly from idea to working software through rapid iteration.

  • Rapid Prototyping
  • 0→1 Products
  • Hackathons
  • Customer Discovery
  • Product Thinking

AI Stack

Models

  • OpenAI
  • Claude
  • Gemini
  • Qwen
  • MiniMax
  • DeepSeek

Engineering

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • Convex
  • Vercel

AI Systems

  • Agents
  • MCP
  • RAG
  • Memory
  • Vector Databases
  • Vapi
  • LiveKit
  • Evals

Workflow

  • Cursor
  • Claude Code
  • GitHub
  • Figma