Alai 2.0 - AI design partner for presentations, social posts, and more
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Alai captures every little detail about your brand in a design system. Use it to create presentations, social assets, ads, or any canvas size, all perfectly on-brand. Make precise edits manually or with AI. And choose your own AI models to balance cost, quality, and latency.
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hi There! Looks like a great product! Are you concerned with other big companies owning this space? I'm thinking Claude Design or Google Pomelli here. What is your differentiator? Thanks!
Alai
@wereframe thanks Neal!
We have 3 main differentiators:
Choice: Big competitors stick with their own models and so it limits to what the best AI can do. For example, we have the freedom to use Flash 3.0 for outlines and nano banana for images, and opus 4.8 for complex layouts etc. We also pass this freedom down to the end user as well so that they can balance cost, quality and latency. This means that you're not locked in with 1 provider.
Brand: Sometimes creating a DS which captures everything perfectly can be hard. Especially for larger orgs where the designs are more complex. In this case, we partner closely with them. This allows us to make their workflows faster and continuously improve the asset quality with every iteration.
Control: The harness matters. Alai gives you a lot more manual and AI control which currently doesn't exist in other big competitors.
Product sounds great! I have few questions - how private it is? I mean - if someone use it for creating presentation for client, using client`s brand book - is it safe to upload brandbook on site?
Also I was thinking - maybe it will be handy in the future to have some standard of uploading materials to make process more effective?
Alai
@julia_shtogren
We don't train on any client's data and have covered this in our ToS.
For enterprise licenses, we also sign a Data Protection Agreement to comply with other specific requirements.
Depending on each use case, the base assets change. However, you're right that as you use the system, you'll know what are the right base assets to use for every client.
Feel free to email us at founders@getalai.com if you're curious how it would for your specific workflows.
@krishna_gupta51 Great, thank you very much!
Alai
Super excited to finally share what we've been working on. We've been building Alai 2.0 for a while now, and it feels great to finally put it out there.
With Alai 2.0, you can create presentations that actually feel like your brand. Upload your templates, website, or existing decks, and Alai builds a design system that you can use across presentations and other visual content.
We wanted to make creating beautiful slides a lot easier without sacrificing quality, and we're really happy to finally put it out! Hope you enjoy it, and thanks for checking us out!
Interesting! QQ, Does exporting to PowerPoint or PDF preserve the responsive, editable vectors, or does it flat-render components into hard-to-edit images?
Alai
@ruvik_milkis Hey!
Yes exporting to power point / PDF does preserve the responsive , editable vectors!
Do give alai a shot and let us know what you think about it :)
Really relevant to us. We lean on multiple AI tools for decks - voice gen, images, content - and brand alignment is the one thing that never actually gets solved.
Where it really breaks down: getting this to work across different teams without templates going off the rails, access/permissions, and edits being a pain every time.
But the worst part for us is tables and dashboards on slides. That's a full-time designer rebuilding charts and re-pasting every number, every single time.
A few questions:
- Does the design system actually hold up across teams, or does it drift once more people start editing?
- How do you handle access so people can create freely but not break brand?
- And the big one - can Alai generate brand-aligned tables and dashboards with real numbers, or is that still manual?
That last one would be a game-changer for us.
Alai
@sanyukta_iyer thanks for the context and the questions.
Templates break because they are too generic and don't capture the use case of the producer. Our design system captures the fundamentals of the brand in a lot more depth. This means that the AI can create for use cases that the producer wants without drifting away from brand.
Some orgs prefer to control the design system centrally and so individuals can duplicate & edit but not edit the central one. This makes sure that it does not drift.
Yes, tables and dashboards are easy for the AI to create on-brand once its captured in the design system properly.
We work closely with our partners to make sure that the design system is working end to end for all their use cases.
Would love to get on a call to learn more about your org. Here's my calendar link: https://calendar.app.google/BKsb62fkoDv8KW3b9
Mailwarm
How do you keep layouts consistent across different canvas sizes, like does it have reusable components or templates?
Alai
@thamibenjelloun thanks for the question Thami!
Usually the layouts for presentations vs social media vs a report are different. The design system captures the fundamentals of the brand and how to do different kinds of elements/patterns etc. It's then smart enough to create the best layout depending on the canvas size.
Users also sometimes use different design systems for different canvas sizes if they are capturing very specific rules.
memi
AI design partner that actually respects your brand system and gives multiple slide options? This is what I’ve been waiting for. How well does it handle complex presentations with lots of data/visuals vs simple social posts?
Alai
thanks @sarveshsea !
the AI is able to do charts and visuals well. It just needs to be captured either in the design system or prompted when generating the asset directly.
Feel free to share a specific asset with me at krishna@getalai.com and I can show how to recreate it/improve it on Alai
Onpilot
This looks really polished. Quick Question.. when Alai learns a brand from a website, templates, and past decks, how does it handle cases where those assets are inconsistent or outdated?
Does it identify the strongest recurring design patterns automatically, or can teams explicitly approve and refine the design system before it is used for new presentations?
Alai
@nischaydhiman Design system is not a fixed document. We expect users to see the first version and then iterate on it.
If the initial creation is inconsistent/incomplete then the design system will reflect that and feel inconsistent or random at places. However, you can chat with the agent to refine it based on your preferences to make sure that it's close to what you want.
As you create more assets, you'll want to capture even more rules in your design system to make sure that future assets cover those.
Looks interesting, would love to try it. Is there a limit on the number of brand systems once account can hold?
Alai
@rishabh_jain68 nope, no limits. You can create as many brand systems as you'd like although they do require credits.
Congrats on the launch. Curious to know which AI model you guys offer?
Alai
@sedlak_garges Thanks!
You can generate design systems and decks with any of these models Claude Opus 4.8,Claude Sonnet 4.6
Claude Haiku 4.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Kimi K2.6 and GLM 5.2