This Y Combinator startup raised $6.1 million to let product managers and designers ship code. See its pitch deck.

Lightsprint raised a $6.1 million seed round to build its coding product and hire more talent.

Lightsprint Lightsprint raised $6.1 million to empower non-engineers, such as designers, to edit codebases.

Lightsprint's product turns plain English into code and prototypes.

Check out the pitch deck that the Y Combinator startup used to secure the funding.

The way engineers, product managers, and designers work together is still slow and janky, says one Y Combinator-backed startup .

Now, it's raised $6.1 million to help non-engineers directly make changes to a company's existing codebase using AI agents.

San Francisco-based Lightsprint said its software can turn a plain English request into a reviewable pull request, which is a proposed code change that engineers inspect before merging it into production.

This allows non-technical staffers such as product managers (PMs), designers, and operations workers to get more directly involved in shipping software.

"We found that actually there were a lot of PMs like me as well as designers who actually really wanted to shift to production," Benjamin Ong, Lightsprint's cofounder and CEO, told Business Insider.

AI has changed the work of designers and product managers.

Designers increasingly use generative AI tools to make early concepts and prototypes faster, while product managers are using agents and vibe-coding tools.

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics projects a 5% growth in web and digital interface designer employment from 2025 to 2035.

Ong said software development has traditionally involved a long chain of handoffs: a product manager writes a requirements document, engineers assess technical feasibility, designers create mockups, and engineers ultimately rebuild the feature in code.

That could take up to two to three months.