Vlad Solomakha
CEO and co-founder of Banani with a background as a product designer and years of experience leading design at startups, focused on building a canvas-first AI product designer.
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Apr 2, 2026 • 1h 10min
Building Banani: How a Canvas-First AI Designer Is Raising the Floor on Product Design
Vova Kovalchuk, CTO and co-founder of Banani, builds agent and tooling architecture. Vlad Solomakha, CEO and co-founder, is a product designer focused on canvas-first AI design. They discuss why Banani chose a canvas-first UI, how surgical edits replace full-screen regeneration, managing per-screen histories across large projects, and the agent approaches that bridge the gulf of specification.
