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Rapid Prototyping with AI: From Idea to Demo in Hours

Rapid Prototyping with AI: From Idea to Demo in Hours

Too many founders get stuck in “idea land,” pitching decks instead of testing products. Traditional MVP building demands engineering muscle, capital, or painful upskilling. But we’re entering a new era. AI tools now let non-technical founders prototype, test, and gather user signal without ever writing a line of code. The bottleneck has shifted from talent to imagination. This workshop is for teams and founders tired of waiting — we’ll show them how to skip the line and start building today.

​In this interactive session, you’ll learn how to transform napkin sketches into working demos in a single afternoon using AI workflows. We’ll go through a product idea from fuzzy concept to working front-end, revealing how to use AI for scoping, design, and even coding. You’ll leave with your own AI toolkit and playbook of scrappy validation tactics — all geared toward turning your next product hunch into something clickable, testable, and fundable.

What you’ll learn

This is a hands-on, practical session designed to empower you with an AI-first product development framework. By the end of this workshop, you will be equipped to move from fuzzy concept to working interface with speed and confidence:

  • Watch a powerful, real-time demonstration showing you how to turn a napkin sketch into a functional front-end interface using AI workflows for scoping, design, and even code generation.

  • Master the prompt formulas and techniques for rapid product ideation and prototyping, allowing you to iterate faster than ever before.

  • Leave with a reusable, structured framework for AI-first product development, ensuring your processes are lean, repeatable, and scalable.

  • Understand how to strategically test your core value propositions and gather meaningful user data before committing resources to writing any actual code.

  • Receive a curated toolkit and a dedicated prompt library to accelerate your next product build, putting the power of an engineering team into your hands.

Who should attend

This workshop is specifically designed for:

  • Non-Technical Founders: You are rich in market insight and customer understanding but short on technical build power (the classic “no CTO” problem).

  • Early-Stage Teams: You need a quick, affordable way to build prototypes that can secure funding or acceptance into accelerator programs.

  • Solo Entrepreneurs: You are sick of spinning your wheels in generic tools like Notion and Figma and need a fast path to a functional demo.

No coding experience is needed. Just bring a bias to build and the hunger to transform your idea into reality.

Meet the speaker

Kyle Lubieniecki is the Founder and AI Product Leader at Fractions. Kyle is a hands-on expert in leveraging AI to compress the product development cycle. He understands the founder’s journey and is passionate about empowering non-technical leaders with the tools and strategies they need to bypass traditional development barriers and launch products faster than ever before.

Date
Feb 18 2026
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Time
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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