Add a design agent to your product one part at a time: how your users reach it, where its designs live, which brand it follows, and how people finish its designs by hand.
Most products keep designs in their own storage, have a brand per customer, and embed an editor. For that product, read the guides in this order, and finish with the one for the way your users reach the agent. If you have not decided that yet, start with the first.
- Choose How Users Reach the Agent — a chat in your product, an API, an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that lets your customers’ own AI assistants use the design tools, or more than one.
- Connect Your Storage — keep designs and files in the database and bucket you already run.
- Bring Your Brand — the typefaces, colors, templates, and rules the agent designs with.
- Import and Export Files — which files come in and which go out.
- Your Editor — open the agent’s designs in CE.SDK, IMG.LY’s design editor for the browser, so people can finish them by hand.
- The guide for the way you picked:
- Add a Design Chat to Your Product — a chat in your product, for many customers, with your sign-in, storage, and brands.
- Generate Designs From Your Backend — a job or an API call that turns a brief or a design into finished files, with no chat.
- Serve the Design Tools as an MCP Server — the same tools for your customers’ own AI assistants.