Kodo is an AI design tool that generates fully editable posters, slides, menus and social graphics from a simple prompt. Unlike other AI design tools that output flat images, Kodo creates structured, layered designs you can edit instantly - text, colors, layouts, spacing, everything. You can generate, refine, and export in minutes - no templates, no locked layouts.
Hey Product Hunt 👋 I’m Michael, the founder of Kodo.
I built Kodo because I was frustrated with AI design tools that generate beautiful images… but you can’t actually use them. They’re flat, locked, and impossible to edit properly.
As someone building projects constantly, I needed something that could generate real posters and slides I could tweak, refine, and export - not just admire.
So we built Kodo differently.
Instead of outputting images, Kodo generates structured, layered designs. That means everything is editable - text, spacing, colors, layout. You can even draw a region on the canvas and tell the AI exactly where to make changes.
The first versions were rough. Designs looked generic. Layouts broke. The AI didn’t “understand” the canvas. Over the past few months we rebuilt the engine, improved parsing, optimized prompts, and focused heavily on making outputs production-ready.
This launch is the result of me locking in.
Would love your feedback - what works, what doesn’t, and what you’d want next 🙌
Love this direction. A lot of AI design tools look impressive at first, but the moment you want to actually edit the output, things fall apart. Generating structured, editable designs makes a lot more sense for real workflows. Curious to try Kodo and see how the canvas editing feels in practice.
This is really cool! Btw what's happening under the hood when it generates the design structure? Is it creating something closer to Figma-style layers/components, or more like editable SVG groups?
Congrats on the launch, Michael! The biggest pain point with current AI tools is definitely that 'wall' between generation and editing. Being able to manipulate layers and real text is a total game-changer for those of us who need speed without losing control. Do you have any plans to add direct export to Figma
A lot of teams care less about one-off generations and more about brand consistency. How does Kodo use a brand kit (fonts/colors/logos) during generation and iteration—and what’s your approach when the prompt conflicts with brand rules?
Brilliant! I've been looking for a UI that I can use to just edit directly rather than type it out on a chat interface
Thanks for building a platform that can actually generate a structured design (plus, it's editable). Congrats on the launch@mg272011!
To have built a platform like Kodo is a huge achievement in and of itself!
To have done it as 14 is beyond me.
You will go on to do great things Michael, well done!!
When someone changes text length or moves elements around how does Kodo keep the spacing and alignment from breaking?
Hey @mg272011 , I tried Kodo and I love the fact that you can generate layers. Great work! As a suggestion: I think the elements design would be better on the left, like Canva, so it's less out of the way of the design itself
The 'fully editable layers' angle is what sets this apart, every other AI design tool gives you a pretty image you can't touch. Kodo actually respects the designer's workflow.
As a founder prepping launch assets for my own product (Fillix - a job application Chrome extension), I've been manually tweaking Canva exports forever. This could genuinely replace that. Adding to my stack. Congrats on the launch!
Hey Michael, congrats on your launch! How do you plan to compete with big players that have sort of unlimited budgets and teams and offer similar tools, for example Nano Banana? P.S- I find the editing bar on top of the image convenient and also the UI looks familiar to what we are used to use on a daily basis which is a good thing
