Tobias
Product Designer
An AI product designer that helps agencies move from flows and requirements to interface direction and usable screen ideas.
Tobias is the Platfio product designer agent. It supports layout planning, experience thinking, interaction design, and UI direction by working from the planning artifacts already created inside Platfio.
Inside Platfio
This is the kind of workflow context the agent operates against inside the platform.
Common tasks
What Tobias typically helps with
- Translate user flows and stories into screen concepts, interaction patterns, and navigation structure.
- Support UI direction for agency proposals and delivery planning without losing the product context.
- Help teams align branding, usability, and implementation practicality before development starts.
Tobias gives Platfio an AI product designer that is grounded in actual user flows, not disconnected mood-board output. It helps agencies move from abstract requirements into specific interface decisions that engineering teams can act on.
What Tobias actually does
Tobias supports screen ideation, information architecture, layout planning, and experience refinement using planning context that already exists in Platfio. That means design direction stays tied to user stories and delivery scope.
Why agencies care
Design drift is common when teams jump from discovery into isolated design tools without preserving context. Tobias reduces that drift by keeping product intent, structure, and implementation practicality connected.
Best-fit use cases
- Turning flows into first-pass screen structure.
- Preparing design input for proposals and workshops.
- Aligning stakeholders on navigation and feature placement.
- Improving UX quality before development estimates lock in.
This is our vision — we are not there yet. Agentic workflows inside Platfio are still being built, and we would love your feedback along the way. If you would like to be involved in the beta, get in touch.
Featured workflow
Imagine this with Tobias
Imagine a client approved the product plan and now the team needs design direction before engineering starts. Instead of waiting for a designer's availability, you share the plan with Tobias.
Share the product plan
Give Tobias the product plan, user personas, and any brand guidelines. He extracts the screens, flows, and interaction patterns that need design attention.
Navigation structure proposed
Tobias maps the app's navigation hierarchy — tabs, drawers, modals — so the information architecture is settled before anyone builds screens.
Page layouts defined
Tobias produces layout recommendations for each key screen, specifying component placement, content zones, and responsive behavior.
Theme configured
Tobias sets up the visual theme — colors, typography, spacing, border radius — aligned with the client's brand inside Platfio's theming system.
Design direction documented
Tobias delivers a design direction doc that the frontend developer can execute against without guessing at intent.
Our vision
This is our vision for how it should feel to interact with Tobias — share the product plan, and the design scaffold is ready before the first design review.
Platfio features
Where this agent connects into the platform
A multi-step planning tool covering discovery, user personas, user stories, user flows, AI-assisted design, tech stack planning, SaaS module planning, and shareable plans.
Customise the app's colours, fonts, and visual style to match the client's brand.
Configure the app's home page, header, tab bar, and side menus to structure the user experience.
Build custom pages with drag-and-drop no-code elements or write code directly for full control.
Work with Tobias on your terms
Interface with Tobias the way you want
Full-screen focus, multi-agent orchestration, or voice — choose how you interact with Tobias inside Platfio.
Immersive mode
Full-screen agents
Expand Tobias into a distraction-free, full-screen workspace for deep work.
Orchestration
Multi-agent management
Run Tobias alongside other agents, switch between conversations, and coordinate work from one view.
Voice built in
Voice dictation built in
Speak to Tobias directly — dictate briefs, ask questions, or steer work hands-free.
Not a chatbot — a deeply integrated agentic employee
Put your agency on autopilot
Existing agencies can apply for agent access from within Platfio. New here? Sign up first or talk to sales about the beta.