Tempo GTM brain

Tempo provides an AI-powered visual React editor for designers, product managers and engineers building software together.

category

AI visual development environment

market profile

  • text: AI app builders compete on speed, control and ability to work with production codebases.
  • text: Design-to-code tools increasingly overlap with AI coding assistants and visual application builders.

personas

  • title: Product designer or design engineer
    pains:
    • Static design handoffs lose detail when translated into React.
    • Fine visual changes depend on engineering availability.
  • title: Frontend engineering lead
    pains:
    • Generated prototypes can be hard to integrate with production code.
    • UI refinement competes with roadmap engineering time.
  • title: Product manager or startup founder
    pains:
    • Iteration stalls between idea, prototype and production handoff.
    • Prompt-only tools can make precise interface changes difficult.

icp

  • text: Software product teams using React and a design-to-development workflow, especially Vite and Tailwind shops.
  • text: Startups and small product teams with designers and engineers who need rapid prototyping and production UI iteration.

message pillars

  • text: Unify design and development around code.
  • text: Give teams precise visual control alongside AI.
  • text: Move designs into working applications.

objections

  • objection: Will this work with our real code rather than only a disposable prototype?
    response: Pilot against a representative React repository and review generated changes with the engineering team.
  • objection: AI cannot produce our exact design system.
    response: Test the visual editor and existing components on a real screen, checking fidelity and maintainability.

competitors

  • name: Builder.io
    why: Visual design-to-code and AI product-building tool.
  • name: v0
    why: AI-generated React interfaces compete for rapid UI creation.
  • name: Lovable
    why: AI application builder competing for fast idea-to-app workflows.

keywords

  • visual React editor
  • AI React app builder
  • Figma to React code
  • design engineer tools
  • visual IDE
  • AI UI builder
  • React design to code

voice

  • builder-oriented
  • direct
  • speed-focused

signals

  • text: A team is adopting React, Vite or Tailwind and adding design engineering capacity.
  • text: A product team is seeking Figma-to-code or faster UI iteration in an existing application.

stack

  • React
  • Vite
  • Tailwind
  • Figma
  • Expo
  • Supabase

hiring

  • Product Designer - Remote
  • Software Engineer, Full Stack
  • Software Engineer, LLMs & AI Agents
  • Founding Product Designer

pricing

model: unknown

motion

hybrid

channels

  • Product Hunt
  • LinkedIn
  • X
  • community

confidence

medium

Founders

  • name: Kevin Michael
    title: Founder
    role: Founder
    bio: Spent the last 5 years as founding engineer and head of product at Perpetua ($150M exit). Previously product fellow at Social Capital and engineer on the Visual Studio team at Microsoft. I've tried every low-code tool on the market and not a single one does a good job integrating with existing production codebases. I'm obsessed with solving this problem at Tempo and using AI to turn anyone into a 10X engineer.
  • name: Peter Gokhshteyn
    title: Founder
    role: Founder
    bio: Passionate about building great products fast. Joined Perpetua ($150M exit) 6 years ago as employee #3 and led the engineering team from idea to PMF. Previous worked as a software developer at Google, Bloomberg & Zynga.

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