Mohammad Owaiz Shaik
Mohammad Owaiz Shaik is an individual product designer, design leader, and creator—not an organization. He partners with founder-led software teams to decide what a product should be, then designs and builds it with their engineers; he also creates open-source tools for design-system work.
At a Glance
- Founder-led and early-stage software companies
- Accounting firms
- Bookkeeping practices
- Professional-service businesses
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AI Tools by Mohammad Owaiz Shaik
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Design System Loop
Design System Audit Agent Skill
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Design System Loop repository published a v0 milestone adding a ΔE sweep engine, CSS custom-properties adapter, Radix control fixture, provenance records, scan/sweep commands, and an uncalibrated configuration seam.
Owaiz published 'Navigating the AI paranoia in design and staying relevant amidst chaos,' arguing that designers should build judgment, curiosity, and broader capability rather than chase tools or fear replacement.
Design System Loop website and documentation launched an open-source, local, coding-agent workflow for building and maintaining LLM-ready design systems, including npm installation and Claude/Codex/Cursor setup.
A YesPress profile described Cone's proposal-to-payment workflow, Cone Propose and Cone Practice products, pricing, customer segment, and approximately $1.83M raised.
Products & Services
A co-founded AI-powered work operating system for professional-service businesses, especially accounting firms. It unifies proposals, e-signatures, projects/tasks, client engagement, billing, payments, and practice workflows; the proposal is carried through into delivery and invoicing.
An open-source npm toolkit and coding-agent skill that reads a codebase, audits design tokens and component usage, reports evidence, proposes an ordered plan, guides approved changes, and helps retain documentation and checks. It runs locally, supports Node.js 22.6+, and is MIT-licensed.
A companion repository of vetted design-system foundation options, templates, and a specimen page intended to pair with Design System Loop.
Fractional design leadership and hands-on product, systems, and brand work for founder-led software teams, from product definition through design and build.
Market Position
Owaiz positions his practice as a senior, hands-on alternative to hiring a full-time design leader or using a generalist agency: he combines product definition, design systems, storytelling, and implementation with early-stage teams. DS Loop is positioned against ad hoc DESIGN.md guidance and manual design-system audits by keeping evidence, decisions, checks, and agent workflows in the codebase. Cone competes in vertical practice-management and proposal-to-payment software; YesPress identifies Ignition, Karbon, Canopy, and TaxDome as adjacent competitors and says Cone's differentiators are proposal-as-source-of-truth workflow depth and lower entry pricing.
Leadership
Founders
Mohammad Owaiz Shaik
Computer-science graduate from BITS Pilani Hyderabad who chose design over software engineering in 2017. He worked as a software-engineering intern at Avaya, joined Appiness Interactive in 2017 and became a design manager leading a 12-person team, then joined Joveo in 2020 to build its design system. He co-founded Cone in 2022 and continues independent/fractional design work.
Executive Team
Mohammad Owaiz Shaik
Fractional design lead; Co-founder of Cone
Product designer and design leader with experience at Avaya, Appiness Interactive, and Joveo. His official biography says he leads design, product, strategy, storytelling, and implementation for early-stage teams and co-founded Cone in 2022.
Founding Story
Owaiz describes design as the place where his early interests in empathy, storytelling, calligraphy, mathematics, patterns, and technology came together. After seeing confusing interfaces such as a college timetable portal and the Indian income-tax site, he focused on human-computer interaction and product design; he later started working directly with early-stage founders to take products from zero to one.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Client engagements and fractional design-leadership work for founder-led software teams. Separately, Cone—the venture Owaiz co-founded—uses per-user-per-month SaaS subscriptions and payment-related transaction volume; DS Loop is open source under MIT.
Pricing Tiers
Open source under the MIT license; the engine runs locally.
Practice-management product for accounting firms; annual billing was reported as approximately 30% discounted.
Proposal, engagement-letter, e-signature, invoicing, and payment-collection product.
Target Markets
- Founder-led and early-stage software companies
- Accounting firms
- Bookkeeping practices
- Professional-service businesses
- Product and engineering teams maintaining shared design systems
- Designers seeking mentorship
- Founder-led software teams moving a product from zero to one
- Fractional design leadership for early-stage companies
- Accounting and bookkeeping firms managing proposals, engagements, projects, billing, and payments through Cone
- Teams whose coding agents rebuild components or bypass shared design tokens
- Design-system audits, migrations, documentation, governance, and maintenance
- Designers seeking mentoring and practical career guidance
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